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The Cambridge Bubble
Didn't expect it to be as clear as the AV vote map...
Cambridge, Islington, Glasgow Kelvin, Southwark against the entire country! -
From another point of view
Yesterday, 99.6% of the UK population did not march around central London. -
The mathematics of protest
I'm willing to be corrected, but I believe the largest protest ever in the UK was over the Iraq war and had (it's claimed) 1 million people. Obviously the true figure is unknowable, and that's a psychologically significant point (Louis Farrakhan wanted a "Million Man March" on Washington, in a country with 4-5x the population, as that would be a ( Read more... ) -
Left-wing 'thought'
This provides a nice microcosm of left-wing 'thought'.
The world is divided into Victims and OppressorsOver-simplistic Manichean viewpoint, of course. Meant lots of doublethink, particularly in the '80s when it wasn't clear whether Isreal or Muslims were getting the worse deal - now we all know that the "Zionists" are Oppressors and not Victims ( Read more... ) -
AutoSummarize!
It's a little known fact, but Microsoft Word has a feature allowing it to generate a "summary" of a document by pulling out "relevant" sentences.
It has a fansite.
And here is the abridged version of Herbert West - Reanimator, by H. P. Lovecraft -
Old
Very very old. -
Iiiiiiiiiit's Christmaaas!
Merry Christmas, everyone! -
Careers Meme
Stolen from zebbiejohnson and pavanne.
A surprisingly accurate career path generator. What should *you* do today?
a. Go to http://www.careercruising.com
b. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
c. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
d. Post the top ten twenty results
( This meme feels like Astroturfing to me... ) -
ICFP 2007
ETA: This is what I'm doing.
So, I've spent most of the last 48 hours graduating and/or drunk, and haven't had a chance to start on this until today. Looks quite fun, but a bioinformatics and imaging slant rather than a virtual machine.
0850: Started coding
0955: Finished testing/debugging pattern parsing
1011: Registered for ICFP2007
1032: ( Read more... )