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Blind access
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No comments on Blind accessQuite a nice article from Wired about research being done to give blind people the same kind of access that sighted people have to maps.
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Dancing
In case you’re interested, it might be worth checking out the BBC2 documentary The Dancer’s Body, on Saturday nights; I’m told it’s pretty good. An added bonus is that you should see Prof. Ramachandran on it either this week or next week, since he was interviewed for the programme while I was in the US.…
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BBC News
I’ve gotten into a habit of synchronising my lunch with the 1’o’clock BBC News, and after a few weeks you can almost predict what they’ll be showing when. For example, at roughly 1:16pm you can be sure that they’ll begin some kind of lighthearted piece that is accompanied by suitably cheesy music, unlike all the…
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On Tea
While reading a book on synaesthesia (review to follow soon) I found an interesting quotation in it by Marlene Dietrich: The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently,…
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Pretty girls and hot stoves
Ever heard the famous Einstein quote, “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”? It was an abstract of a paper that’s now online, and if anything, the…
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Lessig at Trinity
I just found out that Lawrence Lessig, the champion of individual rights on the Internet, went to Trinity College at Cambridge (my college). The Wired article says: He went to Trinity College in Cambridge, England, for what he thought would be an extra year of coursework. He wound up spending three years there studying philosophy.…
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Salon
I just renewed my subscription to Salon.com. Salon is one of only three places on the web that I’m prepared to pay to read (the other two are Kuro5hin and Metafilter – both of which I’ve donated a few dollars to). I don’t visit Salon quite as much as I used to in the past,…
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Big Trouble in Little DDR
I went out with a few friends to go and see Signs last night. We got to the cinema a little late and had to get tickets for a later showing, so we went over to the nearby bowling alley and had a few drinks. One thing led to another and eventually I found myself…
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A potential problem averted
There’s been a bit of a disturbance on the New Mars forums I administrate. In the past two days someone has signed up and made 40 posts, all of which are hostile to space and Mars exploration. People got upset and complained (very politely though). I decided to do a bit of research. One peculiar…
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What’s the Point of Push?
I’m having a real problem with what ABC’s Push, Nevada programme is supposed to be about now. I recently read an article (I can’t remember where) which described how both ABC and Liveplanet are saying that the show will do badly, underplaying expectations. Apparently only a tiny audience is expected for the series, due to…
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