by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | Reading
Genius ads from yesteryear. Someone must have thought about rerunning this kind of thing, if only for shock value.
by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | Reading
Even better Mash. “the sort of thing they would probably have liked if they had ever got round to listening to it”
by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | Reading
Lovely Mash. There is a more interesting question here: if a “British” company that makes over half of its money abroad (GSK, BG, BP, HSBC, Tesco spring to mind) donates to a political party, is it a problem? With Ashcroft, it is the years of obfuscation...
by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | Science
Interesting to see that current research is suggesting that multitasking is harmful to performance. There’s even an expert lecturer who has banned note taking in his lectures. It seems that a large chunk of the research is on people who are learning something...
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | Personal
The only logical conclusion of this article on tastes is that a) our spag bol with anchovy slipped in is spot on and b) I should try Marmite with anchovy. Do you think it would taste like Marmite XO?
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | General
I am liking Wordbooker (at least the 1.7 beta 9 version; the release 1.6.1 didn’t work). I can now flow blog posts to Facebook and import comments from Facebook onto my blog. Given that the blog posts are mine and the comments are of interest to blog readers as...
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | Personal
Snigger. I have The Great Bear on my hall wall, but this might be worth adding. It would have been a nice easy trip to school on the reimagined Northern Line.
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | Reading
Fantastic chart and audio guide from NY Times showing quite how close the times were on the Winter Olympics skiing, sliding and skating events. I find it astonishing that there is so much consistency in who wins over the year given the minuscule gaps between athletes...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
…is very poor according to a new study, and the ones that preceded it. Summary: few claims in medical drug advertisements refer to high-quality studies that support the claims. This is not a good situation vis-a-vis homeopathy, for example.So my positive take...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
Apparently we’ve invented the mathematical techniques to recover high-resolution images from low-resolution samples. So all my harrumphing as CSI zooms in on CCTV images may be about to be invalidated. The technique uses the concept of sparsity (a friend’s...
