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The Contents of the Nine-Foot Stairwell Bookcase
On the theory that sharing your taste in reading material can only be a good thing: I will post an annotated version of this sometime soonish. All the cookbooks, astronomy, maps and outsize are in the other bookcase, though. And then there are some boxes.
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Trumpeter Landfrey’s Charge of the Light Brigade : Recording of a veteran of the Charge of the Light Brigade
An 1890 wax-cylinder recording [MP3] of a trumpeter who was amongst the Charge of the Light Brigade, playing a Waterloo-era trumpet. Trumpeter Landfrey’s Charge of the Light Brigade : Trumpeter Landfrey : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
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I benefited today from a dose of #AwesomeScience; let me share it with you:
It’s very simple. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_return_trajectory Then read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_points Then read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_orbit Then read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_family Update: if you just want some pretty, try this video of this asteroid Orbital mechanics rocks!
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Macroblogging. Nearly a year’s worth of results of mostly-blogging-not-tweeting & readership growth
So in January I wrote this posting about what I was going to try doing in order to reboot my blogging career, leading to this technical manifesto. Today I decided the stats are interesting enough to be worth sharing on an entirely unscientific basis. The lines are arbitrary but just about “look right” and I…
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Paul Bernal: Internet Anonymity: A Very British Dilemma
Bertie Wooster as a British cultural shibboleth: A Very British Dilemma There are current politicians who are known for using ‘false’ names: Conservative Party Chairman Grant Schapps is believed to have used at least three in addition to his own (Michael Green, Sebastian Fox and Chuck Champion), and the revelations of his use of those…
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leftovers: celeriac and bean gratin
after last night: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/9248 Photo by alecmuffett • Instagram.
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We Take Security Seriously :: More VMware secret source splattered across internet • The Register
VMware has confirmed that the source code for old versions of its ESX technology was leaked by hackers over the weekend – but played down the significance of the spill. The virtualisation giant said on Sunday that the exposed portions of its hypervisor date back to 2004, and the leak follows the disclosure of VMware…
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#foodporn – Making Better Celeriac Mash
Celeriac makes a great mashed vegetable but it’s a sponge – boil it and it absorbs water until the resulting mash is a porridge. Solution? Cube the celeriac (medium/big chunks) and boil until tender / a skewer goes into it cleanly. Then strain it and put it through a potato ricer gently, starting off over…
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This Is Why Spelling Out Your Email Address On Twitter Is Pointless
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=email+at+%22dot+com%22 Anybody want to whack a parser on top of this? Solution: get a better spam filter. Evolve.
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Apple is *literally* – not just figuratively – taking the piss out of the UK judicial system #ViewTheSource #SoSuMi
Update @ 1325: It looks like the SoSuMi block is boilerplate for legal stuff on all parts of the Apple site, so therefore Apple are not using the tag to take the piss out of the UK legal system but instead are merely practically doing that by dynamically resizing their page to ensure that the…
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Guest Post: Internet Companies and the Balancing of Free Speech Interests | Harvard Law and Policy Review
There was well-founded outrage in the free-speech community when the government pressured Amazon, Visa and Mastercard, etc., to stop doing business with WikiLeaks. The State Department argued that WikiLeaks shouldn’t have published the documents in the name of another “vulnerable population”: the foreign sources named in the State Department cables, never meant to be public.…
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Deleting Online Content, China’s Get-Rich-Quick Business # one for the “Right To Be Forgotten” brigade
Deleting online posts has become China’s latest get-rich-quick opportunity. Some web portals have what they call in-house public relations companies, which charge clients to delete unflattering posts. A recent scandal involving Japanese porn stars has raised prices for deleting content. In May, after PetroChina’s Sichuan Petrochemical Company announced a 38 billion yuan (US$6.06 billion) project,…