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Occupy Psycho-Sociology

January 30, 2012
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From the thrumming intellectual engine at the heart of the Occupy movement, earlier this month: (Davane) I just wanted to point out that I found the Sack Boris Campaign website the other day, and took the opportunity to donate some cash to get some Sack Boris Oyster card wallets. A friend of mine works in [...]

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Polymathematics

November 16, 2011
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I’ve always enjoyed the links between maths, physics and music, even though I stopped at Grade 4 Trumpet and have been strictly a ‘chorus’ member. This is a brilliant video illustrating the relationships. It is fairly long, at 12 minutes. Now we need one about the Fourier Transform.  

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Occupy the Motor Trade!

October 30, 2011

Irresistable. Source.

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Jackie Ashley on Twitter

September 16, 2011
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The beauty of Google, here demonstrating the flawless ability of our favourite pundit to predict the future. For the record, Jacks has 3000 or so followers, and last Tweeted on September 5th. The article highlighted has some interesting bits, and was written in August 2009, but also some marvellous semi-polemic: The proportion of 15 to [...]

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Somebody’s Cup of Tea

September 15, 2011
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Having been … er … encouraged by a certain landlady to write what is normally called a ‘boast post’, I thought I’d post this picture which crashed my mail program when it arrived. I only received the top half and it looked like Ken Dodd in a manic moment. Anyhow, the news is that we [...]

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Blogger’s Handbags at Dawn: The *More Popcorn* Sagas.

September 5, 2011
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One of the defining features of the comments section of political blogs is the propensity for reasoned debate to slide into hysterical abuse. Frequently the comments can be better than the original blog posts as commentators relieve their frustration that other commentators hold views equally as virulent as their own, just as entrenched, and flatly [...]

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Anna Raccoon the Mug

August 27, 2011
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Would anyone like to buy an Anna Raccoon mug to support the site? There’s a bit of a story here – the first experiment in an idle moment was with a mug using the slogan “Phil Woolarse MP”, after an article published here late last year. [Update: I have been summarily corrected in the comments, [...]

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