April 2009
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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...
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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...
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually...
– Clement Freud
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Tea Round - Democra-tea at work →
A reason to get an iPhone?
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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.
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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.)
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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 …
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iambop.com | The official website of Bop →
Russian drum & bass producer, found via Hospital.
Supercoolminimalistdrumandbass.
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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...
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Le poisson d’avril (April Fools) le plus geek jamais, de Google …
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The Ronin →
Showreel for Rob Chiu, beautifully set to Radiohead’s Videotape.