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    Now that I’ve subscribed to the BBC RSS feeds, I’m automatically notified when new stories are added. I’m also told when old stories are updated, and while most of the time this is irritating, occasionally you see something interesting. Take this story entitled China grapples with net dilemma, for example. Over the course of a…

  • BA Festival

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    I’m off to the British Association Festival of Science in Leicester tomorrow, and will be back on Friday or Saturday, so updates will be less frequent than usual next week.

  • Orange

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    It seems there’s bad news for all Orange customers. According to their press release they’ll be scrapping all their old tarriffs at the start of October, and introducing a new set that on the face of it seem significantly more expensive. I believe the only good news is that current Orange customers can keep their…

  • First post

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    Our first entry for First Words is in, from David Brin! True, I know him probably the most out of everyone I’ve contacted, but small steps and all that, eh?

  • Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures

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    My next shopping list: 15 straws, 60 paper clips and 30 rubber bands. After all, who wouldn’t want to make a tensegrity dodecahedron?

  • Real or not?

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    Is this photo of the Capitol Building in DC real, or computer altered/generated? (those of you who know already aren’t allowed to say).

  • First Words

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    So here I am, emailing every single famous and semi-famous and should-be-famous person I know or have ever come into contact with* (or even less) about First Words, and also getting ready to send forth a huge wave of actual, physical letters. So far, the response has been of deafening silence. Not really a surprise,…

  • Email

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    It used to be that I’d reply to all personal email as soon as it arrived. Those days, alas, have been gone for some time now. While I do receive more personal emails, response time has not increased proportionally – more likely it’s increased logarithmically. I’m not entirely sure why this is so. It’s not…

  • Braille drive-through

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    Braille instructions on a drive-through ATM? Only in America (scroll down).

  • Turok Scam

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    Stephen Fulljames wrote to the Culture about a terrible scam being perpetrated by Acclaim (a computer games company). Basically, Acclaim ran a marketing promotion for their new game Turok Evolution, where volunteers would receive £500 and a free X-Box if they changed their name by deed poll to ‘Turok’. The winners have been announced, and…