( Answering Mark's questions. )

( Answering Graham's questions. )

( Drunken ramblings )

Is it me, or is Microsoft's latest piece of marketing just plain creepy?

Apropos my last post, Tim was complaining that I've been reading interesting books lately, while he is doing a literature degree and therefore isn't allowed to. So I thought I'd post a couple of short reviews that might cheer him up a bit.

Perdido Street Station. Hackneyed plotting, inept characterisation, stupid metaphors, cod-philosophy and ( Read more... )

A Fistful of Euros offers some context on why the Austrian state still feels it needs to vigorously pursue holocaust deniers like David Irvine.

(I read afoe in lieu of being able to work out an easy way of keeping up with news from the continent - the British media not being much use on the this score.)

( Some books, what I have lately read. )

( Musikcube. )

Another installment of "Kurzweil-watch". http://theinquirer.net/?article=29595. It's like he's living in 1995 or something. A "map" of the brain in the sense of the genomic data that go into its development would be interesting, but it would not constitute anything like complete ( Read more... )

This is only in v0.1 preview release at the moment, and it doesn't work very well. But it's got to be worth keeping an eye on ( Read more... )