April 2009
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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The true cost of eating meat →
Although the article loses its direction a little, (although not as much as the fury in the comments), it is time to eat less, if not no, meat. I should stop myself from reading comments in blogs, as the majority miss the point completely, and are more often than not incredibly hypocritical and badly written. The point here is not that avoiding pork will reduce your risks of catching swine...
Apr 30th
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On Not Taking Shortcuts
“… And Churchill said ‘we don’t torture’, when all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat. And the reason was that Churchill understood you start taking shortcuts, and over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country.” The same is true on a personal level - shortcuts can...
Apr 30th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually...”
– Clement Freud
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Tea Round - Democra-tea at work →
A reason to get an iPhone?
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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This morning’s Unix love find ./path -name "*.html" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/regex1/replaceme/g' A.K.A. How to update an image server address in a 150-odd files.
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Tumblr + Ubiquity →
(Despite it saying it works without a group set, it doesn’t. You need to set one. A simple true will suffice.)
Apr 9th
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Baker Tweet →
[Geek] I could have done one of these this morning; arriving at the boulangerie before the croissants were cooked & the pain piping …
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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iambop.com | The official website of Bop →
Russian drum & bass producer, found via Hospital. Supercoolminimalistdrumandbass.
Apr 6th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Güten Touch (on Vimeo Video show-casing some of the work that went on at Multi-Touch Barcelona last year. It shows some of the stunning visualisations that were created, which are the result of both the creativity of the application programmers as well as the users which interact with it. I love the shots of the video where the light reflected off some of the creations illuminates the user...
Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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Le poisson d’avril (April Fools) le plus geek jamais, de Google …
Apr 1st
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The Ronin →
Showreel for Rob Chiu, beautifully set to Radiohead’s Videotape.
Apr 1st