Archive for 2006

Does a ‘proper’ dictionary really cost that much?

Posted at 11:16am on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

UK users to pay 70% more for office than those in the US. Nice. Really nice.

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5,000 years and still ticking

Posted at 11:15am on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The Stonehenge Watch.

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More Dawkins

Posted at 1:30pm on Monday, December 4th, 2006

I know he’s on a book run at the moment and so his current high visibility is a function of marketing rather than public interest it is still very soothing to a rabid atheist like myself to see such positive coverage of Richard Dawkins’ position on God.

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I’m not bored yet - hope you’re not

Posted at 6:05pm on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

I have a thing for subverted tube maps. So does Geoff.

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Unlikely hero

Posted at 11:10am on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

There has been a good minority of England fans who have always felt that Paul Collingwood deserved to be found a test place somehow. The fact that it’s Michael Vaughan’s injury that has got him it is unfortunate, but at least he has taken his chance with both hands. Still - he really is an unlikely hero, however you look at it.

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Spray on?

Posted at 12:43pm on Friday, December 1st, 2006

Spray on condoms. Surely the use of the word ’spray’ in this context is a little unfortunate?

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del.icio.us will eat itself

Posted at 8:31pm on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

At this point, the del.icio.us web server started singing “Daisy, Daisy” and soon after, Skynet achieved consciousness.

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Hope you like our new direction

Posted at 9:32am on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

The Most Disastrous Albums of All Time

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RateYourMusic.com

Posted at 10:04pm on Monday, November 27th, 2006

Paul LaMere got in touch with us when he saw Sleevenotez because of the similarities with his SnappRadio service. Since meeting him I’ve started tracking his blog and it’s a wealth of music related information. Today’s hot pick is RateYourMusic - made all the better by the comments pointing out how to use their RSS feeds as a rather hacky API. I can feel another Sleevenotez integration coming on…

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Gah!

Posted at 9:57pm on Monday, November 27th, 2006

This is the sort of thing that makes my blood boil. Intelligent Design information pack sent to schools and 53% of all heads of science (that’s 59% of 90% for those of you that missed maths, by the way) think “it would make a useful teaching aid”. One hopes in the sense of useful in helping children identify nutters but I get the feeling that’s not the one meant.

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