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01:26 pm
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David McCandless on information graphics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8381597.stm
Tags: tufte club
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11:57 pm
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Just because you're a paranoid schizophrenic, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record.
Mind you, if it does turn out to be Mike Corley, they're welcome...
Tags: all-seeing eye of david blunkett, ripa
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10:37 am
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Semantic Web actually works?
DBpedia
Example search
Well that took its own sweet time, but it's getting there. Thanks to those parts of the fl who built some of the chunks! 8-)
In other news, Wackypedia's reaction was of course to try and delete the article, then to topic ban anyone who worked on SemWeb stuff from ever contributing to articles on it ever again. Bless.
Tags: semweb, wikibollocks, wikipedia
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11:35 pm
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Marmon-Herrington Rhino
Floods? What floods?
This was not the (crazy '50s off-road monster) Rhino I was looking for, but it probably has a better soundtrack.
Tags: rhino
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12:56 pm
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Electric Trabant
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/09/18/frankfurt-2009-electric-trabant-nt-concept/
You don't even have to build it yourself
(You just have to resurrect the East German car industry, sort out the battery pricing issues, etc. etc.)
Now if only there was someone who had all the money in Ireland, owed a few favours to Trabbies, and appreciated things with a slightly bug-eyed look to the headlights...
Tags: ev, trabant
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07:17 pm
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Bono rebuilds Berlin Wall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8344776.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225486/Fury-U2-fans-view-Berlin-Wall-concert-blocked-wall.html
Personally. Out of kittens and puppies.
Tags: bonio
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01:09 pm
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Forkbeard at the Tobacco Factory next week
http://tobaccofactorytheatre.com/shows/detail/the_colour_of_nonsense
Tags: bristol, forkbeard, theatre
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09:13 pm
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Star Wars cantina band
http://occlupanid.livejournal.com/174499.html
Filmsy might appreciate...
Tags: halloween, star wars
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12:50 pm
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The Lost Trousers of London
Old Town Clothing, who have an interesting attitude to fashion design and are clearly Very Sound on, "the lovely welfare state consensus style of The Festival Of Britain."
Lots of potentially St**mp*nk retro and neo-Victoriana for you urchin types (and Fabians).
An Urchin
A Fabian
Make sure to read the Old Town Evening Star news as well.
Tags: chap, clothing, steampunk
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04:32 pm
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The self-labelling clueiron
Fifteen Exeter university students have been permanently scarred after branding themselves with heated coat hangers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8327978.stm
A reshaped metal coat hanger was heated on a stove before being pressed against the participants' flesh for 10 seconds.
In other university research news, water is wet and fire is hot.
Tags: branding exercise, clueiron
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11:52 pm
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This is not the voltage you are looking for
http://shop.starwars.com/
The Darth Vader toaster
Tags: star wars, toaster
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06:36 pm
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Lies and tigers, oh my!
It seems that our tiger burying friends at Noah's Ark "zoo" are not only Creationists, they're also breeding tigers for life in a circus.
Tags: circus, creationism, tiger, zoo
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05:26 pm
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Wikipedia URL of Doom!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed_of_light/Evidence#Technical_issue
Don't read the page itself, it's nightmarish, but doesn't that URL alone just encapsulate the whole mess.
What's next, the great π = 3 controversy, and whether ArbCom can resolve it? Joy!
Tags: wikipedia
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10:25 am
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Charlie Stross reverses the bogon flux polarity
Stross:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html
in reference to:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/10/ron-moore-calls-star-trek.php
which all begat
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/10/13/teching-the-tech/
Tags: star trek, steam grommet factory
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01:28 am
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Statistical basis of astrology finally verified!
Beautiful. 8-)
From the OK Cupid data-mining blog
Tags: astrology, data-mining for fun and profit
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11:29 am
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Java tools of The Revolution
There ought to be some sort of Java library manager called "Class War".
No idea what it would do, but the name is too good to waste.
Plugins for it would be called "Bones", just because.
Tags: geek
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04:23 pm
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WikiWTF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph
"Dolph (the Fascist Hippo) is a large, Fascist, baby-blue hippopotamus usually appearing armed with a baseball bat."
From Danmark, land of Andersen and Toksvig?
Tags: danmark, inflammatory cartoons
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11:18 am
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Foodstuffs of the Apocalypse
Vegemite unscrews lid on iSnack2.0
Kraft aims to become more evil than Nestle and picks a productname to match
Tags: el reg
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11:13 am
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Pirattitude!
A week late for the Day Of Talking As We Already Do In Bristol, but a tip o' the tricorn all the same:
Blind one-legged man wins arse-kicking contest, Rum-fuelled piratical rampage quelled by Taser.
Tags: pirates
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02:45 pm
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You're not coming in here, that policy record is laughable
Peter fnord M666andelson's next parliamentary role to be as Black Rod?
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