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I’m now in SF, having a whale of a time but with little freedom to write. Here’s a load of junk trawled from my bookmarks and google reader. You’re welcome, internet. Via Tam we see that American...
View ArticleThey’ve spoken, you haven’t listened
Following the shootings in Colorado, Gary Younge has written a Guardian article titled “America needs to talk about gun control in the wake of the Colorado shooting“. It’s part of the usual litany...
View ArticleTyranny from whom?
(this is not intended to be conclusive. The point is kind of that it isn’t conclusive.) Robert Parry, who I’ll admit to never having heard of before, has an article up on Alternet titled The Real...
View ArticleDon’t Bind Don’t Tell
The announcement by Panetta that women will be able to serve in combat units has been met with a counter-argument that unit cohesion will be disrupted if people find out that everyone poops. (Okay, so...
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Lydia’s Community at Scale talk is well worth flipping through. As is this set of slides on the MySQL EXPLAIN function. Ever gone “I really like ggplot2, but I can’t work out how to make it export...
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