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I shouldn’t have expected better
As expected, the British Tabloid Press is all over the latest scandal to rock our unelected Prime Minister’s government. Mention the word “porn” and their reaction is utterly predictable. Le Sigh. Just...
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Headdesk of the month
You would think that the director of counter-terrorist operations at MI5 would know not to get out of a car in Downing Street with a top-secret document containing details of an ongoing investigation...
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The rotational velocity of E. A. Blair
This is just disgusting. Any UK people reading this, learn what TOR is and how to use it. As for me, I’ll just be sitting here and waiting for the one-eyed Scottish idiot to announce the establishment...
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Java stupidity
Warning: what follows is a rant about a very minor technical point of the Java programming language. Click through only if you really want to. So one of my tasks at work recently has been to write a...
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Amazon shenanigans
Want to know why a sixth of Amazon’s catalog vanished over the weekend? Scalzi Scott Westerfield TNH What an almighty clusterfuck. Scalzi, of course, has the best quote: Amazon apparently forgot that...
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In which PETA goes way too far
This made me want to vomit. Which, in all honesty, is probably what PETA intended; except I want to do it OVER them. Luckily, the ASA saw sense and banned it. Still, ughhhhh…. Bookmark:
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The clue is in the name
There is a reason why they’re called “killer” whales, you know. Bookmark:
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The Reeds of Runnymede
It always bothers me when I discover that I, a chemist with no legal training whatsoever, know more about the law than the people whose job it theoretically is to make it. Thursday night’s Adjournment...
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Regarding the latest kerfuffle
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. – Samuel Langhorne Clemens Those who cannot...
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Something that’s been bubbling up for a while that I haven’t had time to sit down and type up. Probably not if interest unless you’re in to weird laws. Despite what many “weird laws” websites claim, it...
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