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Strawmen to the left of me... strawmen to the right
Gillard is apparently going with the filter plan. Dumb dumb dumb dumb fucking dumb.
And we're back to "its for child porn" - I am sure that Conroy will be back on television LYING to us some more soon.http://www.theage.com.au/ -
Point out the problems
"The Warrington Cycle Campaign in the UK produced "Crap Cycle Lanes: 50 Worst Cycle Lanes in Britain" (Eye Books, 2007). It documents how transport infrastructure planning often fails, or actually endangers, cyclists. This blog site provides some similar examples of misplaced investment, shoddy planning, and neglect from around Melbourne, VIC, ( Read more... ) -
Month 21 addendum
goldengrove just reminded me that I forgot to mention Hamish "helping ( Read more... ) -
geek rant - Oracle, 1981 called, they want their query language back
So, say you have a database that records the foo for bar. In mysql if you want to get the second top 5 foos, you would do this:
select foo from bar order by foo desc limit 5,5
Pretty straight forward, order by foo going down, start at 5, give me the next 5 ( Read more... ) -
Neanderthal genetic legacy
I love human evolution :) And the results that have come out recently about common genes between out-of-African humans and neanderthals has been pretty awesome (summary: 1% - 4% of non-African humans carry some genes that neanderthals also carried, which might suggest interbreeding around the Levant). This article tries to suggest a less ( Read more... ) -
Zombie shuffle photos
Some photos from this year's zombie shuffle - well, before and after it. I opted to leave the camera at home and not get goo on it.
There's also this youtube video which is a pretty good scan over the 4400 estimated zombies. I'm in it! woo, internet famous @ 2m43s for about 3 seconds :) -
dear melbourne car drivers
Just some information that some of you seem unaware of.
- Indicators, once installed on your vehicle, are not optional
- Indicators do not place such a drain upon the resources of your car that you must only leave them on for .2seconds
- Indicators are for informing other traffic what you are about to do. Not to let them know what you just did.
anyone who ( Read more... )