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Yearning for the season of mists
When I was in Peru I promised myself that I'd never again complain about the English weather, so I'll refrain from comments about Sebacean Heat Delirium and just say this is my least favorite season ( Read more... ) -
While thinking about electoral reform...
I just found an article on Demarchy - whereby public offices are filled by lottery. It has been used in some places and does get around the problem of always being represented by lawyers and political dynasts.
There is a fictional treatment of the idea in The Lottery of Babylon by Jose Luis Borges. -
Doing cold turkey on Google
If you consider Google too omnipresent or boring or not kind enough to the Chinese Government then Zenhabits posted an article on alternatives. Unfortunately a lot of them seem to not as good or Mac only.
Further to the subject of Google, I saw a report the other day that more Americans now visit FaceBook's home page than visit Google's. -
Long and informed rant on Japan.
The author lives in Japan and seems to have developed a dislike for the place. Anyway, it's one of the longest blog articles I've come across. Some of the comments are interesting too. -
If you're short of something to do this weekend....
I went to this place last year - it's greatTHE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING FINAL DAY ( Read more... ) -
Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
http://technoccult.net/archives/2010/02/12/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers/
Well, I hope they can find some way of fixing the economy.... -
Getting older
Had a lovely birthday out in town with HalcyonPoodle, FractalGeek, Phil, Zed, Debra and Alannah.
I spotted this piece of hacked advertising on the tube.
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Something worth knowing about the Oyster Card
If you go below into debit on it, you can't use it. That's fairly reasonable ( Read more... )
