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I’ve always considered circumcision to be an abomination – male, or most especially so-called female circumcision[1] – since it’s a non-elective procedure to no beneficial end, or at least no end that I would accept from the rationalisations given me, viz: “God told us to do it“. Someone at last has taken a Freakonomics/evolutionary approach…

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This is simply stupendous – the first 1m10 will be familiarly boring to anyone who used a Spectrum, but the rest is fantastic, with a “Look Around You”-chic video… (HT: Geoff) Big Ideas (Don’t get any) on Vimeo Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album – “In Rainbows” This was quite…

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TED | Talks | Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics (video) Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics — and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. (tags: legal video statistics)

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The thing about Laureen’s writing is how it can make you angry, then astonished, and then laugh, all in the space of a paragraph… ElementalMom Apparently, having a child in this culture means you are disabled. At least, that’s what HR thinks. […] I ask the HR person “so is that goofy rule about not…

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goodonpaper.org a fantastic approach to customer relationships (tags: timbuk2 bag)

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This is cool. Really cool. It should be permanent. Someone should set up an optical/semaphore telegraph in the background. Just because. Giant ‘telescope’ links London, New York – CNN.com LONDON, England (CNN) — As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear…

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Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images: Scientific American Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo: Scientific American This story is a supplement to…

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Pilot View FPV 2400 First Person Video from Hobby Lobby! Want. (tags: toys camera) Read at Work Wonderful, if rather windows-themed. (tags: books flash funny) Process bound …for when the process is more important than the communication.

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Warning: May Offend People Who Are Offended By This Sort Of Thing. Via Adriana’s Flickr.

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Via Geoff – fantastic: “The software is in the holes” (Update: and as ever, half of the enjoyment is in watching my peers nitpick the correctness of the story in the Comments section; alas for my demographic who will never simply let themselves have “fun”…)

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So the Twitter site says: Pagination and IM are currently disabled. They’ll be back. …and lo! hovering over the “Older” button pops up a message: Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled. Wanna make bets over how much of that stress is due to folks hitting “reload” repeatedly?…

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YouTube – Chinese Truck Crash Testing Don’t drive one of these

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