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Next Big Brother....
... so here's the idea. Take a dozen or so of the usual misfits, chuck them in a house for 10 weeks or whatever it is. Usual production team making up pointless and barbaric rules as they go along ( Read more... ) -
Quick trip to London
then back from Paddington. Bloke sitting opposite me was in a wheelchair, bald with a scar over one eye. As we passed through Reading station, he looks up and says, "curses! I was meant to go to Brighton!" "Don't worry, Blofeld," says I, and pull the emergency cord. "Your train of error stops here." -
semiotic pudding
These unmarried lesbians lost their bid to get their marriage legally recognised in the UK. The government's defence was that, since the rights due to a married couple are identical to those of a civil partnership (which, note, Ruth and I cannot enter into - unless, possibly, we both claim to be gay) there can be no discrimination. Why, then, ( Read more... ) -
Someone doesn't get it: object orientation.
The register is a rag, let's face it. Here's an example: Code inheritance and reuse: a delicate balancing act. Read down the first page ( Read more... ) -
BBC online needs more computational power
Each person in the world with a handheld calculator would still take decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second.Rather ambiguous, that. But I can understand how an innumerate "journalist" might think it would take "decades" for a single person to perform 40-50,000 floating-point additions or multiplications with ( Read more... ) -
I cannot trype tdoay.
Or spell either. Something's wrong.
For what it's worth, I don't think I had any hallucinations last night after all, so maybe Sudaca food wasn't responsible for my previous trippy night. -
ticks are arthropods, not insects
BBC "news": Greatest maths problem 'solved' on dBdB's latest crack at the problem scores twice as highly on the "BBC news is shit"ometer than usual ( Read more... ) -
manly bruising
Well, as stag events go this one was remarkably free from cocks. People took their hits, tempers didn't fray, and we had a whale of a time. Most people even managed to get their head around the "surrender" rule (you demand a surrender rather than shooting someone at point-blank range, Simon ( Read more... ) -
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zen in a nutshell ( Read more... )