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Monday, July 21st, 2008
In a book review of three books (The Economist) each attempting to explore the cause of 2008's global "credit crunch" we are told that it's simply not fair to lay the blame at the door banks. In a telling section we are sternly lectured that "It was the Basel accords ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
It's an honour and a privilege to elevate two-fingers at the people trying to censor Dan - he of Dan's Data, one of the better (and more idiosyncratic) technology sites on the Internet. Go to his site and see the story posted today, 19th February 2008, about how Firepower are ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
A story tucked away on the BBC new website a couple of days ago is entitled "Medway luckiest for lotto wins."The story is about the "luckiest" place to buy a lotto ticket in the UK.
And how do they measure the value of "luck"?
Apparently the technique is, for a given town:
"based ...
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
I increasingly have found myself thinking naughty thoughts about the present US administration. I might read another piece on Salon.com, or stumble across the online edition of The Guardian. And while musing on their latest lefty criticism of George W and his cohorts the new F-word flits unbidden into my ...
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Perusing Scientific American, February 2002. Yes, I admit I'm a bit behind with my reading... But I do not suspect the information is invalid due to the passage of a few years. Before the neo-con equivalent of the mutawa have all back issues burned and all references made illegal it ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Today the UK parliament votes on the proposed Racial & Religious Hatred Bill (BBC story here). [EDIT: Since publishing, this link has changed to the BBC story reporting the defeat of the new law. Hooray!]
There is much opposition to this bill (and, I'm sure, much support too) from various quarters, ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
When the Independent on Sunday described him as "winsome", he canceled an interview with the paper, sending a postcard with the joyous missive: "Winsome, lose some."
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
There is something very sad and depressing about the story of Walter Wolfgang's ejection from this week's Labour Party Conference.
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Carl Sagan, after he saw an image of the Earth [planetary.org] taken by Voyager wrote:
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate ...
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