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  • 12/04/2012 - Mathematician's lament - 25 page rant about the beauty of maths, and it's ruination by schooling. [pdf]
  • 10/04/2012 - The new Con/Lib NHS: 'an anachronistic insurance scheme, divorced from the actual delivery of any care'
  • 05/04/2012 - Google's Augmented Reality Glasses are creepy and annoying even as a fantasy.
  • 04/04/2012 - Felicia Day groks web films. The Washington Post interview her about her new youtube channel.
  • 04/04/2012 - Some neat analysis of the "13% increase in death" headline associated with red meat.
  • 03/04/2012 - Timelapse video of footage from Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' is three minutes of really well done stuff.
  • 19/03/2012 - A Ted talk on 'Copyright Maths' which humorously explores the meaning of reported piracy losses. :)
  • 19/03/2012 - While the UN is discussing prohibition without questioning it, Google and i^2 are having a real debate.
  • 19/03/2012 - Nice but too-long 'Agile Software' Development' rant saying much what I suspect about the 'methodology'
  • 19/03/2012 - Eternal Copyright - A modest Proposal. "But what about the great-great-great-grandchildren?". Nice one.
  • 12/02/2012 - Haha! Supply Side Jesus, a short comic strip about two different Jesuses and their political stances.
  • 10/02/2012 - How doctors choose to die: mostly not taking invasive medical care. Are some treatments worse than death?
  • 08/02/2012 - Good grief, Madonna's half time show at the superbowl was awesome then huh? Haven't watched one before.
  • 08/02/2012 - Congratulations to India on a Polio-Free year! Achieved vaccination and local ownership of education.
  • 03/02/2012 - Ben Goldacre's prediction on how the current NHS bill will proceed: GPs set up to fail, then privatized.
  • 01/02/2012 - 'the publishing industry has lost all credibility as the keeper of culture it imagines itself to be.'
  • 01/02/2012 - Even left wing politicians don't seem to want to talk about raising taxes. 'Why?' asks The Guardian.
  • 31/01/2012 - Ah, the Olympics WILL have a lasting legacy in London. A legacy of pointless bureaucratic fascist rules. Nice one.
  • 23/01/2012 - The Guardian talk to the Pirate Party founder about the fastest growing political movement in Europe. Yay!
  • 20/01/2012 - The difference between a reader's taste and a publishers taste and why publishers get it so oft wrong.
  • 16/01/2012 - A lovely little tool for making CSS3 style sheets with fancy pants rules.
  • 15/01/2012 - Ten years before the end of the world in 1998, the band CUD sang about slack on the BBC.
  • 15/01/2012 - The NY Times has an author on the problems with teamwork and how working alone fosters creativity.
  • 12/01/2012 - The UK Pirate Party leader on the BPI sales figures this year showing the media just follow their spin.
  • 05/01/2012 - Cla Shirky writes on the future of newspapers with so-called 'leaky' pay-walls as they become popular.