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A petition worthy of your signature.
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Yet another memcached replacement, but with lists and sets for values.
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Recommended by a visitor to my blog, this looks like it's well worth a try as a money management site.
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
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Fantastic portion control for cooking. Very smart.
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"We wish to prove that any social choice system respecting unrestricted domain, the Weak Pareto Principle (WP), and independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) is a dictatorship."
Nice to know that the obvious intuitive interpretation of democracy is correct theoretically too
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An obvious next step from teaching creationism in schools is to teach a deep understanding of tentacular monstrosities frombeyond time.
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Does what it says on the tin.
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Facebook is turning into Twitter, slowly.
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Really detailed article on sharding.
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About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It's clear now that even by using the word "convergence" we were giving TV too much credit.
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Excellent piece looking ath Microsofts patent strategy, specifically with regard to the FAT filesystem and the remarkable innovation they patented: "putting a computer in a car".
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According to a research psychologist from Stanford University, it’s because the people the media tends to hire as pundits are the sort of people who are psychologically predisposed to making predictions based more on their own beliefs than any rational assessment of the situation.
James Lovelock has obviously been reading my blog. Just a shame he didn’t link to it really. Anyway he answers the question I posed in a recent post: in a world where climate change is rapant, where do you go to live?
He suggests either Canada or the UK, or perhaps Siberia. From Futurismic:
Lovelock’s point seemed to be that we should give up on trying to save the planet and the entirety of the human species by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus instead on equipping “lifeboat nations” with the necessary infrastructure (schools, roads, houses) to support swarms of climate refugees.
The UK and Canada are lifeboat nations, in case you’re wondering. Probably Siberia too. Basically, anywhere that will be relatively cool and have water in a world that is on average 5°C warmer than it was 100 years ago.
I have to say, if he thinks the people of Britain are likely to welcome hordes of climate refugees, he’s not met many Brits. The average Brit’s fellow feeling barely extends to himself, let alone the poor and huddled masses of other countries.
In my mind I can see Sun readers, on the beaches, clubbing parched refugees to death like baby seals whilst humming WWII songs and claiming it’s all just like the blitz.
Anyway, now I know where to build my fortified survivalist camp. Thanks Mr Lovelock.
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search.twitter.com using ESI in varnish.
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An interview with Alissa Hamilton about her new book, Squeezed, reveals that that fresh orange juice you're buying might not be so fresh or even orange-y.
Can anyone confirm or deny? In the UK cartons of orange juice just say "100% orange juice" on them, and i'm sure if they had flavourings they'd be required to say so. Is this just typical US disregard for food, or does this apply in Europe too?
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How much water is really needed to cook pasta? Personally I have always favoured the "loads of salted water" approach, and anything else seems really weird to me. Some controlled experiments suggest you might be able to get away with less, but it could effect taste, texture and effort.
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