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Arrested for poppy burning? Beware the tyranny of decency | Ally Fogg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
At 9pm last night, with a knock on the door of a 19-year-old man, Kent police hammered another nail into the coffin of free expression in the UK.Earlier in the day the unnamed man from Aylesham had allegedly posted a photo of a poppy being burned, with a crudely worded and crudely spelled caption. He
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today has been mired in unicode…
…you would think someone would have a simple copy-pasteable table of UTF-8 hex strings versus their (potential) HTML 4.0 entity encoding, but no. everyone and their dog has a queryable lookup script. bastards.
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Up @ 0530? Make a basic pancake batter and…
…set aside to improve; have a small snack, go back to bed. Then make pancakes when you get up. Recipe. No excuses.
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Thought For Today
All we need is a picture of Chris (Lord) Patten & Jimmy Savile together earlier in their careers, and the BBC will eat itself.
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Perspectives: I’ve always said that Anti-Malware is a weird industry and that …
…and that the best way to make platforms proof against malware is to engineer them so that malware has an impossible task. Anti-Malware staffers hate that perspective; they would prefer that we consider computer viruses to be as inevitable as human ones – or, rather, they would prefer that nobody remind the public that computers,
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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