Archives

2009
Dec
21
Miniblog: Pretty poem
“"No man is an Iland" is a rather beautiful poem”
20
Running Stories Part One (of one, I promise)
“For the first ten months of this year I documented my marathon training in a ...”
2008
“So far so good!”
May
29
Head For Heights
“I just saw this video and my mind was completely blown, the only description on ...”
22
Miniblog: Fuckfuckfuck FUCK
“oh god why did I read this”
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Incredible Street Art
“This is really amazing, and also really creepy I can't even begin to imagine how long ...”
14
A Slow News Day...
“I read this article today, it's about how archaeology isn't actually as exciting as Indiana ...”
13
Miniblog: I never noticed this...
“...programmers really used to have to battle for every byte of memory”
12
Miniblog: Still my favourite science photo...
“...I recognise at least 13 names from my undergrad physics days”
HOWTO: Dress as a Robot
“Ok so this guide is perhaps the most important thing I have ever written, and ...”
11
[iwt] is back.
“I have been planing on doing this for quite some time now, but it has ...”
Miniblog: This is an excellent...
“photograph of a fountain”
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Delicious.
“Today I purchased a book on traditional Dutch cuisine, I really enjoyed reading through a ...”
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2007
Dec
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Miniblog: List of unusual...
“Wikipedia articles!”
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Fairtrade?
“Imagine for one second that you own a coffee shop (Not a Dutch coffee shop, ...”
15
Miniblog: Life on...
“...Daily Mail Island!”
08
The King is Dead. Long Live the King
“Today I stumbled over something absolutely, beautifully strange. It is the line of succession ...”
04
Miniblog: New Top 500 Supercomputer List...
“...I'm currently using a good fraction of #37”
Every Single Thing About This Video is Perfect
“Seriously I just want to know if he's hardcore enough to try Swamootra Neti”
02
Miniblog: This is sure to settle at least one pub argument...
“...what happens whaen a human is put in a vacuum”
01
Miniblog: DIY Gadgets...
“...are pretty cool”
Nov
30
Miniblog: If you spent a bit more money...
“...you could afford an anti-aliased one”
29
Why We Lie
“I have just read an awesome psychology paper, Cognitive Consequences Of Forced Compliance (Festinger & ...”
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On Advertising (2/3)
“You 'know' in your limbic brain. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. ...”
24
Miniblog: A Tour of Teller's House
“OK Teller is living the dream”
On Advertising (1/3)
“It's not often that I'm completely taken by an advertising campaign, but every single advert ...”
20
Miniblog: Holy crap!
“This is an unpleasant thing to have happen”
18
Miniblog: Portal, the Flash game
“Portal, the Flash game (is awesome)”
15
He Wasn't Even High
“When I'm reading news articles I'm always on the lookout for one phrase. Finding ...”
13
Miniblog: Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old Music Pirate
“Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old Music Pirate”
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09
Miniblog: Watch Wikipedia Updates in Real Time
“Watch Wikipedia Updates in Real Time”
08
Miniblog: How To Repair Household Items
“How To Repair Household Items”
06
Stupid Beyond All Belief
“Now I know that as a rule lottery scratchcards act as a quick way of ...”
Remember, remember...
“November 5th marks one of the UK's oddest celebrations, Guy Fawkes night, during which people ...”
Oct
31
It's PC Time... Again
“Yep, yet again I've beein thinking about political correctness. I'm currently reading Junk by ...”
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Miniblog: One Stroke of the Pen
“One Stroke of the Pen”
24
The First Ever Fictional movie
“I woke up this morning to a rather wonderful ready made blog post in my ...”
22
OK I need to build one of these...
“...so that I can become an international man of mystery (DIY laser listening system. Listen ...”
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Why Isn't Wikipedia Crap?
“Despite using Wikipedia on a pretty much daily basis I have never quite understood exactly ...”
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Miniblog: Ahahahahaha
“Ahahahaha”
15
Miniblog: All sorts of crazy university courses, like...
“All sorts of crazy university courses, like...”
12
Miniblog: Holy Shit
“Holy Shit”
07
Miniblog: I am not ashamed of finding this interesting
“I am not ashamed of finding this interesting”
05
Welp
“It seems that my only neighbour with unsecured wireless internet has wised up so I'm ...”
Sep
30
28
Preliminary thoughts on the Dutch experience
“1. The Dutch are incredibly tall I'm about the same height as the average girl here. ...”
20
Miniblog: How ignorant can you be and still get on TV?
“How ignorant can you be and still get on TV?”
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15
Miniblog: 24th August, Saturday — killed a young girl.
“24th August, Saturday — killed a young girl.”
14
Minblog: Unsafe
“Unsafe”
13
My Favourite Newspaper: The Sun
“I noticed a Guardian blog post today about Jim Davidson getting kicked off some reality ...”
Miniblog: Fantastic Short (1 min) Movie
“Fantastic Short (1 min) Movie”
12
Miniblog: Self playing Mario level
“Self playing Mario level”
11
Miniblog: Evolve some wings
“Evolve some wings”
10
Miniblog: I know what I'm doing next time I want a job...
“I know what I'm doing next time I want a job...”
08
07
Miniblog: Who says man shouldn't play god?
“Who says man shouldn't play god? (thanks, Andy!)”
06
Men want hot women, study confirms
“NEWSFLASH! Men prefer attractive women! That, folks, is the sort of groundbreaking, cutting edge, novel, ...”
Miniblog: Back from Holland, I now have a house
“Back from Holland, I now have a house”
Sherlock Holmes Is In Da House!
“I have just read this article published on the BBC website. Here is a ...”
02
Miniblog: Off to Holland. Back on the 6th.
“Off to Holland. Back on the 6th.”
Aug
31
On the IQ of the average clairvoyant
“A few days ago the BBC held its annual televised IQ test, Test the Nation. ...”
Miniblog: This sent shivers down my spine
“This sent shivers down my spine”
29
Wikipedia Scanner
“A few weeks ago now, the Wikipedia scanner arrived on the scene. The scanner ...”
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Question Time
“Last night myself, Greg and Mark N ran a pub quiz for the new batch ...”
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NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE
“OK this is awesome, I think everybody by now has been exposed to the internet's ...”
19
Spam Poetry
“Whichever spambot is currently filling up my inbox has a fantastic taste in names, just ...”
18
Another two photorecipes!
“Managed to rescue Rob's beef wellington from the depths of my harddrive and additionally made ...”
17
Miniblog: 45 Freeware Design Programs
“45 Freeware Design Programs”
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*tut* young'uns today
“It seems to be something of a tradition for the elderly to decry the impertinence/lack ...”
15
Miniblog: I want one of these
“I want one of these”
14
Miniblog: Somebody didn't think this through...
“Somebody didn't think this through...”
Mystery Spam
“Browsing through the comment moderation queue I noticed this message had been tagged as spam: Name: ...”
12
New Photorecipe!
“It has been a long time in coming but I have finally bothered to do ...”
11
Lion vs. Buffalo vs. Crocodile
“OK I'm a bit late on the scene with this one, but it's awesome enough ...”
10
Miniblog: Images of Homelessness
“Images of Homelessness ”
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Miniblog: Holy crap!
“Holy crap! I used to play on the Bestwood estate when I was growing up...”
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A Fantastic Tour of UK Accents
“I found this video really enjoyable: "A typical day in the life of a brummie is ...”
01
Miniblog: History of the lobotomy
“History of the lobotomy”
Jul
31
A Challenge For You...
“...I have great faith that every single person who takes the time to read this ...”
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Miniblog: Warning: Harry Potter Death Shocker!
“Warning: Harry Potter Death Shocker!”
Internet Hacker Attack
“This is probably my favourite piece of sensationalised television trash journalism, ever: This report is every ...”
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Life on the Funny Farm
“For the past week a half dozen of us in the department have been playing ...”
20
Fun Wikipedia Facts!
“Fact 1 'Little Women' is an 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. It is considered ...”
18
Free TV
“A few months ago I got into a rather heated discussion about the future of ...”
Miniblog: An awesome stencil
“An awesome stencil”
17
Dirty dot RU
“I looked at the web stats for this blog just now and noticed that the ...”
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Miniblog: How Barcodes Work
“How Barcodes Work”
09
Rock Hard
“For the past few weeks I have been listening to BBC Radio 4 at work. ...”
08
News Sniffer
“I probably have a new favourite websie, Revisionista. Revisionista tracks articles on BBC news ...”
01
Test your basic scientific knowledge
“Recently the Guardian asked three writers, three scientists and two broadcasters to answer six basic ...”
Miniblog: Brilliant Photoshop Colour Correction Tutorial
“Brilliant Photoshop Colour Correction Tutorial”
Jun
29
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Miniblog: Icestorm!
“Icestorm!”
It's TinTin Man
“It's not often that I find a straight re-dub of a cartoon hilarious, but this ...”
25
Miniblog: Charlie Brooker Goes To Glastonbury
“Charlie Brooker Goes To Glastonbury”
Miniblog: Class Divisions and Social Networking
“Class Divisions and Social Networking”
22
Haiku Generator: Continued
“Just thought I'd keep everybody up to date with progress on the twitter haiku generator. The ...”
21
www.threesigmaresult.com
“I now have a brand spanking new science related blog (written in collabaration with Mark ...”
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Miniblog: Another Creation Museum Flickr Set
“Another Creation Museum Flickr Set”
17
The Incredible Haiku Machine
“For the past couple of evenings I have been doing two things: Coding (for ...”
14
The Blind Cat Challenge: Continued
“Further to a suggestion recieved at coffee, I posted the following instructions in a thread ...”
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Miniblog: Bastard Clock
“I think this is one of the few clocks that could stop me from snoozing”
Flickrvision: Real Time Visualisation of Flickr Uploads
“Flickrvision is a brilliant mashup of data from the Flickr and Google Maps APIs. ...”
05
Advertising and Metaphysics
“I like it when I see bits of advertising that elucidate an otherwise hard to ...”
03
Miniblog: Creation Museum Flickr Set
“Creation Museum Flickr Set”
Top 5 Online Streaming TV Sites
“Here are five sites that stream TV shows directly to your computer. The range ...”
02
A Tale of Two Technologies
“Yesterday I saw this presentation on two amazing new technologies to come out of Microsoft ...”
May
30
Miniblog: Rabbit vs. Snake
“Rabbit vs. Snake”
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How to Import b2evolution Posts to Wordpress
“There already exist PHP scripts that can import b2evolution databases into a Wordpress blog, but ...”
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Miniblog: Google maps pedometer
“Google maps pedometer.My morning commute is 1.00 miles!”
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Blog Update
“I decided that the new blog now contains enough functionality to go live. It's ...”
Miniblog: Ipod licence insanity
“Ipod licence insanity”
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Science Quote
“Earlier this evening I was working on a set of science quotes for a new ...”
20
Miniblog: Nintendo collection
“I never thought I would refer to somebody else as a nerd...”
Miniblog: Massive collection of free, movie themed fonts
“Massive collection of free, movie themed fonts”
18
Miniblog: Puzzle
“Best puzzle game ever”
Miniblog: KID NATION
“Click the "KID NATION" link (it's nice to see that even though the bottom of ...”
17
Miniblog: Bucket death
“Window cleaner drowned in own bucket”
Miniblog: Kitchen
“That's it... I'm cleaning the kitchen right now”
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shopperdisc.co.uk WARNING
“I'm angry. I bought some flowers from interflora for my mum on the internet a ...”
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Miniblog: Patrick Moore
“I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making ...”
11
David Blaine's Street Magic
“It's not often I post links to random Youtube videos and say "OMG CHECK TIHS ...”
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Miniblog: Arts students
“I will resist passing comment on this... ”
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06
Miniblog: Physics toy
“Addictive little physics game ”
Miniblog: Invisitunnel
“Mathematician designs invisible tunnel”
05
Fighting with Google.
“After my last set of search engine 'optimizations' Google has pretty much stopped sending visitors ...”
01
Miniblog: rm -rf drm
“09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 ...”
Miniblog: Sex and Science
“And this is why I'm naming my first daughter 'Steve'...”
Apr
30
Brooker on Fashion
“Charlie Brooker's column this week is on fashion and, as per usual, it is pretty ...”
29
b2evolution optimization for Google
“Bit more housekeeping. Firstly author names are now displayed prominently at the top of ...”
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Miniblog: That time again...
“State of the blogosphere ”
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Grand Theft Bicycle
“Given that I'll be moving to the Netherlands in a few months I have been ...”
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I'm Taking a Break
“After writing on this blog almost every day for an entire year I'm feeling a ...”
10
Minblog: 'artists'
“Gallery of plagarised art ”
09
Home Now.
“Back home now. No time for a proper post, see miniblog for a few ...”
Miniblog: Next up: Terminator
“We are getting even closer to the future ”
Miniblog: 1337 haXX0r
“Flowchart describes how to attack any wireless network”
“Why we can not fly with mobile phones... -----”
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“AN evolutionary history of violence -----”
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“Excellent Lego creations -----”
justin.tv
“Just a quick one, meet Justin. Justin is a young man with a camera ...”
Mar
30
“Louis Theroux and the most hated family in the US -----”
Proprio-what?
“Over the past couple of days I have been reading about proprioception, one of the ...”
“Clever little language helper -----”
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“Where do words come from? -----”
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Minblog: Daily Mail
“Daily Mail in misogynist article shocker! (the comments are an absolute clusterfuck of stupidity)”
“200 lessons on how to draw the human figure -----”
“How to moonwalk -----”
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“Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) -----”
“Poor computer prediction, archived forever on Usenet -----”
“I will regret laughing when this is our overlord... -----”
Contemporaria Strikes Back
“I have just spent a little while hacking the blog software to behave in the ...”
“20 excellent bits of research -----”
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A Frontpage
“Gemma has been working hard today so I have had a whole load of free ...”
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Regular Features
“Just a short post for now. Last night I did a bit of housekeeping ...”
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Baby Boxen
“Finally we have a contender for the best news article of 2007: Drunken German Heinrich ...”
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We Are Still in the Future
“Now I really feel like we're just one step from being so futuristic that we ...”
15
Pi Day
“Thanks to DQ for reminding me that yesterday was Pi day (the date was "3/14", ...”
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Ironic Reinvention
“Oh Charlie Brooker I love you a little more every single week. Here are ...”
11
Wiiiiii
“Sorry for the lack of posts over the past couple of days but GEH and ...”
08
Thesis Status: Submitted.
“SUBMITTED. READ THAT AGAIN. SUB-FUCKING-MITTED and I can now be paid as a PDRA. ...”
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06
Mario! Nooooooo!
“Oh sweet Jesus I'm never going to get bored of posting links to the Perry ...”
05
Vitriolic!
“One of the highlights of my Monday morning is currently to go to the Guardian ...”
04
03
Autodynamics revisited
“My good friend Mark (the king of relentlessly attacking idiocy where he finds it) recently ...”
Downtime
“Sorry about the downtime for the past few hours. The machine the site is ...”
Feb
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Building Gods
“I recently stumbled over a rough cut of a documentary called Building Gods, which is ...”
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Yet More Perry Bible
“I know it is something of a staple of this blog to post links to ...”
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Wiki Whiteboard
“AS an experiemnt I decided to install a wiki on geometricrate and just let everybody ...”
20
Beermail
“A conversation in the pub earlier this evening reminded me about an email exchange that ...”
Scamming the Scammers
“Ever since reading about the scammers who were convinced to carve a Commodore 64 out ...”
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Short Fiction
“I love short fiction. Here are a few stories that have stuck with me ...”
Plummeting from outer space
“Last night I got interested in the idea of making news-style continuous zooming animations from ...”
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The Art of Screwing Things Up
“It has struck me now a few times when I have been coding and visualising ...”
Blog Housekeeping 2
“The great spam battle continues, today I have: Disabled trackbacks since a spambot sent a trackback ...”
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Two Bodies Revisited
“A while ago I talked about the two-body problem in academia; otherwise known as the ...”
12
Poo Doctor - A Menace to Science
“Today the Guardian has a wonderfully blistering editorial piece on TV poo-sniffer Gillian McKeith. ...”
11
Science News from Around the Web 2
“Time for another set of interesting science stories. Somewhat unsurprisingly there is currently dominated by two ...”
First post on the new site
“Only took a few hours to get this whole thing set up, I'm sure I ...”
09
No Fly Zone
“Jim2 pointed out to me the list of what items you may and may not ...”
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06
On the Futility of Betting Systems
“(Thanks to RKM for the idea!) It sometimes seems that you can't move online for flashing ...”
Sorry.
“I know this is going to be unpopular with a couple of people but I ...”
05
*sigh*
“It looks like the spammers have finally found this blog (it was a good run ...”
04
Science News from Around the Web
“News happens faster than any one organization can keep up with it, this post is ...”
More Web 2.0 Gubbins
“This video does a really nice job of encapsulating the evolution of the web over ...”
The Construction of a Home Defence System
“The future will be a turbulent place, just make sure you are prepared: The Ultimate Home ...”
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A magical boat!
“A little tinfoil boat floats on sulphur hexafluoride, a gas that is significantly more dense ...”
Jan
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HOWTO: How to add buttons for del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Blinklist and Furl to Each Blogger Post
“Note! The import from blogger to b2evolution messed up some of the formatting on this ...”
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Blog Housekeeping
“Have a bit of spare time so have decided to give the blog a bit ...”
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Meet Donald Crowdis
“Don to Earth is the journal of a 93 year old blogger. Don writes ...”
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Letters from the Future
“I found a time machine today, it contained an article from some sort of future ...”
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Battle of the Giants
“(this post in collabaration with NPR) Over the past few days a couple of us have ...”
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Two minutes Hate
“I hate lots of things. This includes anybody that makes a living by ...”
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Do You ChaCha?
“I heard about chacha.com today, which is supposedly a search engine where your queries are ...”
2006
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Wikipedia Donations Drive
“If you have visited wikipedia in the past few days you'll probably have noticed the ...”
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Oh god! My sense of moral certainty!
“I was reading the other day about the following criminal case (link) IN THE late 1990s ...”
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What should I blog about today?
“I sat down just now to write a little bit for the internet and realised ...”
25
Happy Birthday, Mithras!
“ Merry Christmas everybody!”
24
Link Farm #4
“The dregs of the bookmark folder... http://netninja.com/files/robotfindskitten/ robotfindskitten. A zen simulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheidae A shrimp that is like Ryu ...”
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The Christmas Spirit #2
“OK so that last post wasn't really heartwarming at all. I promise this one ...”
The Christmas Spirit
“Let's all get into the spirit of christmas with this heartwarming story Children watched in horror ...”
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Goodbye Work!
“Alright I've been at work long enough and am going home for Christmas now. I'll ...”
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Link Farm #3
“http://www.2loop.com/snowflakemag.html Magnifying a snowflake. Really quite beautiful http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar&oldid=47971689 Wikipedia vandalism. This is an old version of ...”
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Some Work Related Gubbins
“I'm finding it really hard to concentrate on work at the moment, I guess with ...”
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My favourite essay
“The last post was a lie. My favourite ever essay is actually this: Tom ...”
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Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the blah blah blah
“I have a favourite essay. I'm always a bit uncomfortable sharing this sort of thing because ...”
Link Farm #2
“More clearing out of the bookmark folder http://webplaza.pt.lu/laurent3/romantic.html How to make 100% sure you sleep alone this ...”
My Eyes Are Burning (Part 3)
“Warning! The following post may cause any and all monocles you are wearing to be ...”
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Talk:Banana
“Sometimes Wikipedia really freaks me out. Earlier today I was looking for information on bananas ...”
10
A two person axis-of-evil
“"Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher is "greatly saddened" by the death of Augusto Pinochet" (here) late edit: ...”
Photorecipe #5: Chicken and Winter Vegetable Soup
“After hosting a dinner party for a few friends I was left with the remains ...”
07
Link Farm #1
“When I'm wandering around the internet I'm often met by interesting sites and think "Hey! ...”
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Obituary
“A couple of days ago I learnt that an acquaintance of mine had passed away. ...”
03
Googlism Redux
“There are a couple of old posts on this blog that pull in 5-6 people ...”
02
Nov
30
Photorecipe #4: Beef Wellington
“Rob has been generous enough to allow me to rehost his recent photorecipe on geometricrate.com ...”
I don't want to ruin the surprise for you...
“...so just click this link Highlight the text below if you don't trust me enough to ...”
Things I Hope Never Happen to Me #42
“"Setting fire to a post box only to later learn that a child had just ...”
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Things I Hope Never Happen to Me #28
“"Driving down the motorway at well over 70mph and then noticing my friend's brand new ...”
computers r hard 2 understand
“Considering that a ridiculously high fraction of my waking life that is spent in front ...”
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Crimes People Deserve to Get Away With Part ?
“A while back I had a whole bunch of blog posts on crimes I thought ...”
Free TV
“I have recieved a whole bunch of complaints (mainly from Gemma!) that the TV Links ...”
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On Copyright
“Warning! serious post ahead, if you're here for pictures of puppies or stupid stories then ...”
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Wake up.
“I was woken early this morning because Gem got up before her alarm went off ...”
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In the beginning...
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. ...”
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BOOYA!
“Got the referee's report on my paper today, all the recommended changes seem pretty minor ...”
Fun With Non-Newtonian Fluids
“I like non-newtonian fluids, they're pretty cool things. To understand what a non newtonian fluid is ...”
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That Old N-Body Problem
“Despite being an n-Body simulator for a living, I still struggle with the 2-body problem. ...”
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Notes on a Disorganized Mind: Part 1
“Sometimes it turns out that our blogs are useful little things. Recently Rob has ...”
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Lord of the Rings
“In honour of the LOTR trilogy being shown on telly I thought I'd make a ...”
GUEST POST: Women in Maths and Science
“As part of an effort to get a few other voices and opinions on this ...”
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“01001001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 ...”
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Super Team!
“It has always been a dream of mine to be a superhero, sadly I have ...”
09
On the trip so far
“Note - I will be following this up with a more lighthearted travelblog on room311 It ...”
Comics? On My Internet?
“One of my guilty pleasures is to spend a bit of time once a week ...”
08
My names **** and I'm a snoop.
“Once in a while, I'll be sitting at the bus stop, or on the bus/train, ...”
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The State of the Blogosphere
“I was looking just now at how has grown over the past few months. ...”
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One Life is not Enough Part 5: Money, money, money
“After stagnating on my harddrive for the best part of a fortnight I finally got ...”
02
A variation on a variation on a theme, or: Hyperfiction
“Loking around the short-fiction website linked below I found a request for the submission of ...”
A variation on a theme.
“This was originally written as a comment to the last post, but it started to ...”
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Short, Short Stories
“Some Combination of JEG asking about books and L>T suggesting short stories bought to the ...”
On the historical origins of the exclamation "Awooga"
“Trawling the Internet tonight has got me all nostalgic about old TV shows I liked. ...”
Book Club
“I'm leaving on a jet plane for a long haul flight to Hawaii for an ...”
Oct
31
Meet the Miger
“A while back I talked about a freaky mechanical walking device, called BigDog. This ...”
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How To Wake Up
“I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning... ...especially when it's cold outside. All ...”
Come, fly with me.
“There are many things that slightly scare me when I think about their scale. ...”
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How Many Sunsets? Or, Quantifying Life In Terms Of Pleasurable Experiences
“My apologies, the blog has taken a path down some dark, morose avenues of late. ...”
Fundamentalist Movie Reviews? Yes Please!
“Looking for a couple of movie reviews the other day I found this site. ...”
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One Thousand and Six Words
“I decided to spend a little time putting images to a few of the stories ...”
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Just Six Words
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." ...”
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Scientific Pedigree: A Project
“The world of academia is knit together much like a family, although the 'generations' are ...”
geometricrate.com
“I finally got around to registering the domain name for permanant hosting of the unwieldy ...”
Why There is Almost Certainly No God
“I chose a while back not to rant about religion and politics on this blog. ...”
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Blog Expansion Part 2
“One of the main complaints I get about the blog is that it is so ...”
One Life is not Enough Part 4: The Continuing (mis)Adventures of Beauregard Batz
“The contents of this post have been moved offsite to here, or visit the main ...”
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One Life is not Enough Part 3: The Scale of Things
“The contents of this post have been moved offsite to here, or visit the main ...”
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One Life is not Enough Part 2: Help Island
“The contents of this post have been moved offsite to here!, or visit the main ...”
Tangible Value but Negligible Reality
“Further to a conversation at lunch where a lot of people expressed incredulity that such ...”
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One Life is Not Enough Part 1: Orientation Island
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Retail 2.0
“craig's edit: this is actually the first post by one of the guys (the ...”
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The Incredible Mouth Band
“I happened to visit youtube this morning and was presented by this work of genius ...”
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Blog Expansion
“I'd really like to see this blog grow even more. Right now I'm averaging ...”
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The Stuff of Nightmares
“It has been a really long time since a piece of technology has freaked me ...”
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The Best Historical Happening, Ever!
“I have recently been listening to the Mark Steel lectures (a curious mix of historical ...”
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Googlism
“Just looked over the site statistics for google keywords that lead to me, the results ...”
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Data Density
“I was talking to Jim(2) and JCH just now and, inspired by my most recent ...”
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Stunning Sociopathic Stunt
“Today most of the mega-blogs (Slashdot, Boingboing, Wired, to name but a few) are carrying ...”
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An easy looking questi- Nononono! DO NOT SAY B. OH GOD WHY DID YOU SAY B
“This clip just made my inner nerd-rage burn as bright as the sun. Question: What orbits ...”
A Real Legal Conundrum
“Chattering with everybody in the pub last night we hit upon a real legal conundrum. Imagine, ...”
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The Joys of Statcounter.
“Further to yesterday's semi-incoherent rant about David Copperfield I was looking through the statcounter logs ...”
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A Little Known Fact About David Copperfield
“When David Copperfield was little he swallowed a hovercraft fan. Always one to make ...”
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This Just Made My Day!
“A while ago I blogged about a strange thing in Edinburgh, the outlandish encounter with ...”
Terrifying.
“I have recently been reading the book "How the Mind Works" by Stephen Pinker. ...”
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Dissecting crank science emails on a Friday night
“Beware, I'm talking about work in this post We recieve (or seek out) a pretty steady ...”
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Invasion of Privacy
“AOL Research Labs decided it would be an excellent idea to release the search logs ...”
Where Is Everybody?
“Room 311 Status: Empty except for George Room 320 Status: Empty except for Violetta Where ...”
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Just when you thought it was safe for physicists to walk the streets
“A couple of days ago John hit the motherlode of so called "free thinkers" websites ...”
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Pow! Wap! Bang!
“I just read the following news article in the NY Times: By DAN BILEFSKY BATMAN, Turkey — ...”
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Crimes That People Should (Not) Have Got Away With #5
“Sometimes I hear about crimes that I wish people had got away with and post ...”
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It has been a long time...
“Sorry it has been so long since I last posted, normal service will be resumed ...”
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Perry Bible Fellowship Again
“Just a quick post to say that after a couple of weaker strips, the Perry ...”
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Yet Another Redesign
“I put my graphic design hat on today and made the site beautiful again. ...”
Thanks Google
“After getting back from Nottingham (a great time was had by all. Thanks in ...”
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Captain Grose et al.
“Project Gutenberg has a dictionary (published 1811) designed to allow the middle and upper classes ...”
See You Soon Durham
“I'm off to Nottingham until Friday evening so updates will be nonexistent until then. By the ...”
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Real Science
“ This is all kinds of awesome. I mean it. All. Kinds. Of. Awesome. It ...”
This is Real Art
“I really can't believe what I just found... R&B 'superstar' R Kelly has made an ...”
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Whisky Map Delay
“OK so I haven't quite got around to updating the whisky map with glorious photography ...”
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Crimes the People Deserve to Get Away With vol. 3
“I'm not really sure if this one even counts as a crime but it is ...”
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Wiki Wild West
“I love Wikipedia. The only problem I have is that it's utterly addictive. ...”
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Blog Beautification: Part 3
“I can't resist tinkering with things like the blog layout. The last one was ...”
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My Mind is Bleeding Again
“I love finding odd mind tricks and have put them in the blog pretty extensively ...”
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Doomsday and Other Thought Adventures
“Well I've finally finished the text in the latest iteration of the galaxy formation paper ...”
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Project Hobowine: Part 1.5
“If the following post makes no sense then read Project Hobowine: Part 1 People keep asking ...”
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Blog Beautification: Part 2
“I spent bloody ages giving the blog a new and exciting three column layout but ...”
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When is it Right to Murder a Fat Man?
“I recently read a rather excellent article on thought experiments in ethics on the BBC ...”
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The Money Masters
“"The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; ...”
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Cops and Robbers
“Sometimes I hear about a crime so audacious (or retarded) that deep down I really ...”
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Contemporaria
“Added a new feature to the blog today, the Contemporaria (look to the right of ...”
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Bits of BLIT
“That last post just reminded me of a really good science fiction short story on ...”
Pain Inducing Patterns
“A while ago I got interested in the question: 'do there exist patterns or pictures ...”
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Animal Mixup Nightmares
“After reading through the bee-spider nightmares at Room 311 I got reminded about a similar ...”
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Uncomfortable Meetings with Semi-Strangers
“This scenario must be played out many thousands of times every single day between two ...”
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Where Am I?
“Making that last post just reminded me of an essay I read a short while ...”
Books and Lists
“Lots of time to kill at the moment so I'm catching up on a lot ...”
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Fear and Loathing Down South
“So I have a couple of days to kill here in Brighton and I decided ...”
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Let's start a war, start a nuclear war
“I'm travelling down to Brighton today to work for a week with the guys down ...”
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National Stereotypes
“I know that it is grossly unfair to stereotype entire countries based on clips found ...”
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Googlism
“Q: How does Google index the web? A: Basically Google will follow every single link on ...”
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Die, Einstein, Die!
“Yet another 'all-of-atomic-physics-is-wrong-and-only-I-know-the-truth' email. This one arrived from one Mr. Gabor Fekete and stated ...”
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30 Hornets vs. 30,000 Bees
“This post is dedicated to jim2 who is on a quest to learn about the ...”
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Blog Beautification
“I decided today to make an effort to move away from the standard blogger designs. ...”
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Yet More Weird Science
“Further to a chat we had at coffee today about nutters who think they are ...”
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Wasting Time with Google Video
“I happened across a few Brass Eye clips on Google videos: Pistol Apostles Is this what we ...”
Weirder Science
“So I have finally managed to work some science into this blog, it's not exactly ...”
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LSD! LSD! LSD!
“Found the link I was talking about in the last post, here are nine self ...”
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Weird Science
“ all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently ...”
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First Post, Nothing to Say
“I can't help but notice that everybody else is getting one of these new fangled ...”
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