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An interesting site that's been floating around; it probes your browser history to guess what gender you are ( Read more... ) -
Experimenting with a narrow browser
Skipping the boring parts of this, I'm trying instead of my accustomed wide-as-possible browser (all the better to show lots of tabs in, m'dear) to go with a narrow browser window, with only a few tabs visible at once. Might help me make more use of this 30" lcd panel I have at work... this was brought in part because of how narrow the columns are ( Read more... ) -
Voting a pundit away
Sadly, no! poses an interesting question: "Survey time: if you could make one pundit who has a regular gig at a major newspaper or magazine stop writing forever, which one would it be ( Read more... ) -
Music and Lyrics
Ha. I totally thought the band in Music and Lyrics, the Drew Barrymore/Hugh Grant movie that was surprisingly enjoyable, was Wham. Apparently the movie's group was Pop! and Wham! was a real group. Who knew?
Lyric-wise, I've been listening to a lot of KOIT lately. One of the songs that they've been hitting in heavy rotation is Rihanna's Don't Stop ( Read more... ) -
Museums
Bletchley Park, the famed site of British cryptography efforts during WW2 and now a museum dedicated to same, may close due to lack of funds -- it's maintained by a private trust outside of the national museum system, so has to raise the money on its own. It needs to raise at least 1 million pounds to handle some roofing issues ( Read more... ) -
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Ani-nouto had an entry on conventions that I just have to echo: "Authors on the average conform to conventions, and it’s just the fact." There's not anything particularly wrong with this; it gives a measure of stability in this uncertain world (or, more prosaically, it gives consumers a reasonable heuristic to decide whether something is worth ( Read more... ) -
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Whee. I was catching up at http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/ [0] when I realized that I'm finally in some sense starting to be able to read haskell code. Yay! My usual way of learning a language is to read a lot of related concepts and eventually try to sink into a zen of the language; but ( Read more... ) -
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n+1 magazine has an interesting article on dating. I had to laugh, however, at one particular passage: "But her biographer puts the grand total of her conquests at fourteen, and some of these, according to a rival biographer, are questionable-and three were "well-known homosexuals." So ten. For the modern college senior, this is a busy but not ( Read more... ) -
The Democratic primaries
I really dislike some of what the Hillary campaign is doing: this claim that she's particularly experienced (she almost certainly is not), that she's met some mythical Commander-in-Chief threshold along with McCain, but which Obama has not; so on. Couple that with her vote on Iraq and I'm supporting Obama in the primaries ( Read more... )