http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agony_Again
That one completely passed me by.

http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/watch-deeply-deeply-patriotic-song-featuring-chinas-president-debuts-during-new-year-gala"..The annual event, which organizers claim reaches 90 percent of Chinese families and more than 700 million viewers, is a collection of performances and skits that are tightly choreographed and vetted by the Communist Party. ( Read more... )

And its TV is very strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwjlcn4lmTM

As is often the case with these polls, when one sees the results one thinks of more questions. Mr zengineer may be disappointed that I don't have a profound point. I was just surprised that, once again, people at work looked at me as though I were mad when I said something about A[n] paper sizes ( Read more... )

Poll Paper View

Was temped to buy a paper today to read about the Rotherham stuff but got the feeling that the news can be divided pretty much into a Venn diagram with the two circles being 'incomprehensible' and 'bullshit', with the overlap being very large, so couldn't quite bring myself to ( Read more... )

There are a number of questions that tend to occur to me whilst driving but I never remember when I am near something I can search on. One of those questions, which I eventually remembered, was 'what was Jefferson Starship's hit?'. As opposed, obviously, to Jefferson Airplane's or Starship's ( Read more... )

I mentioned in passing to Mr Snips (whom God preserve) that I wondered whether it would be nice to be less cynical.
By way of calibration, consider the terms and conditions and FAQ for the 'thing' (I will say no more) that the Barclays in Little Trendy Street has been turned into.
https://www.3space.org/locations/hatch

Observe the T&Cs
https:// ( Read more... )

I usually avoid thinking about / commenting on Internet bollocks (TM) but I really don't understand the sea lion cartoon  / sea lioning at all http://wondermark.com/1k62/ Or rather, I see what it is supposed to mean but it seems vacuous in exactly the same way as the Pastor Niemöller quote ( Read more... )

Another book about machine learning, in Python this time, which was more a manual of using a particular bit of software rather than actually explaining very much, didn't get very far with it ( Read more... )