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November 27th, 2009
01:26 pm

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David McCandless on information graphics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8381597.stm

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November 25th, 2009
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...

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November 24th, 2009
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.

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November 21st, 2009
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.

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November 6th, 2009
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...

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November 5th, 2009
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.

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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

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November 2nd, 2009
09:13 pm

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Star Wars cantina band
http://occlupanid.livejournal.com/174499.html

Filmsy might appreciate...

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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.

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October 27th, 2009
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.

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October 26th, 2009
11:52 pm

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This is not the voltage you are looking for

http://shop.starwars.com/

The Darth Vader toaster

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October 20th, 2009
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.

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October 16th, 2009
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!

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October 14th, 2009
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/

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October 9th, 2009
01:28 am

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Statistical basis of astrology finally verified!

Beautiful. 8-)

From the OK Cupid data-mining blog

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October 8th, 2009
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.

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September 28th, 2009
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?

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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

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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.

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September 27th, 2009
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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