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Reading by the phosphor glow
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No comments on Reading by the phosphor glowThere aren’t many authors left whose books I’d immediately buy, even if I didn’t know what they were about. I’d say that Neal Stephenson is up there, along with Vernor Vinge and precious few others. So yesterday, when I was browsing around at Fictionwise and saw that the October issue of Analog magazine had a…
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SPV vs. SE T616
There’s an interesting article been written comparing the Orange SPV Smartphone (running Microsoft Smartphone 2003) and the Sony Ericsson T616 (the US equivalent of the T610). The reason I found it interesting is because I’ll probably be upgrading my phone in a few months and I’m in a bit of a quandary as to which…
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Bowling in Cambridge
Cambridge Megabowl – likely to be of absolutely no interest to those who don’t live in Cambridge, but it seems like there’ll be a decent bowling alley there in the near future.
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Mu!
Mu – the correct answer to the trick question “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer “yes” is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but “no” is worse because it suggests that…
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Intelligence enhancing drugs
Creatine ‘boosts brain power’ perhaps by regulating brain energy levels. Since meat is a source of creatine, it’s not known whether meat-eaters could actually gain any intelligence advantage by taking supplementary creatine, but along with modafinil it’s yet another step along the road to the widespread use of intelligence enhancing drugs.
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Anti-webloggers
I’m continually amazed by the way in which some people harbour such a vitroil against weblogs; there aren’t many of them, but they seem to perceive weblogs as a personal affront towards their honour. Take Bill Thompson from the BBC, for example. He’s managed to stir up quite a bit of trouble by claiming that…
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Contestant Calls
Be on TV – contestant calls for UK gameshows. Most sound like the usual rubbish but the ‘Time Commanders’ show has some promise.
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Cheap Futurama
Futurama Season 1 for £15 – for those of you who haven’t seen Futurama yet or want to buy the DVDs, Play.com has just discounted the first box set to only £15. This, my friends, is nothing short of an excellent bargain. Season 1 may not have as many episodes as later ones, but it…
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Button cameras
Button cameras the size of a penny will soon be on the uniforms of Scottish police, recording with a 20 minute cache – a truly excellent idea that I feel will solve a lot of problems.
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Krait
In Wednesday night’s pub quiz, this question came up: What kind of animal is a krait? After a bit of silence and mulling, I volunteered, ‘You know, that’s the name of a ship class on Elite.’ Someone perked up. ‘Really? What were the other classes?’ ‘Well, there was the Cobra – that was the standard…
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