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Last login: 14 days agoSlyguy135: Guy is a 25 year old guy from Leamington Spa, England, UK.; Likes 441 pages, 4 photos • 27 fans • Received 4 reviews; Member since Apr 04, 2004

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Grown-up politics goes&up&in&flames | spiked: Apr 7, 7:52am 1 review activism
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4956/; "[The "Free Tibet" protest at the Olympic procession in London was] cartoon politics; it was about avoiding serious debate and instead taking refuge in the warm and moist-feeling arena of super-simplistic moral condemnation." Yep, sounds right. When will people stop being so smug, please? It's getting boring.

BookFinder.com: Search for New & Used Books, Textbooks, Out-of-Print and Rare Bo…: Feb 17, 8:01am 45 reviews books
http://www.bookfinder.com/; Thank you, o merciful God, for creating this wonderful website. Now I can find the cheapest version of any book I care to desire! What a divine gift from you, o generous God.

What do you mean it was created by humans? It's not possible!

Pushin Daisies: a mortuary novelty shop - Pushin Daisies: a mortuary novelty sho…: Feb 15, 5:17am 3 reviews anatomy, ecommerce, heart, chocolate
http://www.pushindaisies.com/candypress/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=224; For next Valentine's Day, if you can't resist the commercial onslaught and simply must buy something to show your long-suffering amour that you do, indeed, love them, then get them a chocolate heart. An anatomically correct chocolate heart, obviously.

Deep inside the plucky country | The Australian: Jan 24, 4:21am 6 reviews middle-east, israel
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23072242-7583,00.html; A remarkably sensible, sensitive, and well-paced article about that place "alongside the [Palestinian] territories": Israel. I do wish I could read more such pieces in the media, about any topic: thoroughly researched, well-written, and thoughtful. Is that too much to ask for?

International Society for Bayesian Analysis: Nov 4, 2007 11:43pm 3 reviews mathematics, statistics, bayes
http://www.bayesian.org/; Wow, the ISBA has really spruced up its website. May the Bayes revolution continue! And its prospects updated rationally as new data comes in.

Fishing in the Bay & Blog Archive & More on Pearson and Eugenics: Oct 21, 2007 3:23pm 2 reviews stats, statistics, eugenics
http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay?p=174; Karl Pearson, one of those guilty of perpretrating the first "significance test", also had a penchant for eugenics, going so far as to set up a journal on the topic called "Annals of Eugenics". Here's a contemporary review of his first paper for the journal.

This should serve as a warning to all scientists: You could be wrong! Please don't jump to conclusions too quickly, or hindsight will one day laugh at you. That is, if your ideas have not led to the destruction of mankind.

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And welcome back.

Helvetica: Oct 21, 2007 3:04pm 10 reviews graphic-design
http://www.helveticafilm.com/; A film about a font: A tribute to capitalism! Not a haiku.

Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook: Oct 20, 2007 6:20am 224 reviews internet-tools
http://www.facebook.com/; I just came across this little site and I'd like to say it's not bad at all. Except... I didn't see no faces. No siree.

Translations of Its all Greek/Chinese/Hebrew/Arabic to me in many languages: Nov 9, 2006 7:00pm 3 reviews linguistics
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/incomprehensible.htm; When the English don't understand something with their verifiedly tiny little minds, they exclaim "It's all Greek to me!". If you're as curious and intelligent and handsome and funny as I am, you'll be wondering how other language-speaking groups express the same idea by implying that a tongue foreign to them is essentially gobbledegook. The linked site will tell you, which explains why I'm writing all this. I told you I was intelligent, but you didn't listen.

Chinese seems to be a popular language to indicate incomprehensibility, although the French, strangely, also choose Hebrew, apparently, as do Finnish-speakers. So what do the Chinese say? Ah, that's for you to find out... and I think I'm justified in saying that the answer is delightful.

And do Germans really say "Bohemian villages" to mean they don't understand something? Why?! Sehr merkw�rdiger.

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