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  • Precrime

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    Precrime – Starting point for a new AI-type mmoe game for the movie Minority Report?

  • Mars shooting

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    Shooting down a spacecraft from Mars – ‘Now, I don’t think that anyone, US included, has the capability to shoot down a spacecraft. But let’s imagine they do, they go and try to shoot down a human spacecraft returning from Mars…’

  • The Years of Rice and Salt

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    Finished The Years of Rice and Salt. As usual, it’s up to Kim Stanley Robinson’s high standards. I’m not going to review the book here, as Salon has already got an excellent review. What I want to do is to talk about my impressions of the book. Firstly, it’s not for everyone, and it is…

  • Rice and Salt

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    No updates today – still reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s one of those books that catches you off your guard every so often with a wonderful phrase that makes you beam in complete delight, with characters that you can really understand. I was having a conversation with my…

  • 24

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    Went to the nearby college TV room to get my weekly fix of 24. Got there five minutes early, so I could hijack the remote control if anyone wanted to watch something else, but there were already three other people there watching the golf before 24. As 24 started, yet more people trickled in. This…

  • Ironing

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    Extreme Ironing – ‘the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.’

  • Libertarian Thought Experiments

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    Libertarian Thought Experiments – highly amusing stuff.

  • X-Files xmas

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    An X-Files Christmas – silly humour.

  • Oxbridge admissions

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    While idly browsing through an Oxbridge admissions website, I came across a report of an interview written by someone who applied to the same course at the same college as I did, but a year later. Curious to see if they’d changed anything, I checked out the questions this person was asked at interview. Practically…

  • Introduction to the European Union

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    Introduction to the European Union – a good article from K5.