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  • The BA Festival of Science

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    Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.

  • 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…

  • Adverts

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    Lately I’ve been having a lot of fun (well, okay, some fun) going around the web with Mozilla 1.1 and BannerBlind making all the adverts disappear. Between them, they knock out all popups and most sizes of ad banners. For all the other ones that remain, I just block the images coming from the server…

  • TV

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    2–3 minutes

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    I was reading a thread on Metafilter about television when I realised that there are now two ways to look at it. You can watch television, or you can watch a programme. To me, ‘watching television’ treats television as an end in itself, whereas ‘watching a programme’ treats it as a means to an end.…

  • Precrime

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