Monthly Archives: December 2004

How stuff gets popular

This article:The Long Tail in the October issue of wired is really interesting. It offers the idea that the sucess of the most popular media titles is actually less than the cumulative totals of the other titles. The article also … Continue reading

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Daily WTF!

The Daily WTF

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The Twelve Days of Crunch Time

The Twelve Days of Crunch Time Weird! (from Slashdot)

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PalmOS future?

Weird things seem to be happening in the Palm OS sector. PalmSource recently bought China MobileSoft which is a Chinese linux smartphone developer. This comes after spending about $11 million to buy BeOS from be back in 2001. One obvious … Continue reading

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Ethical Hacking: A BCS Talk

This evening I went along to the Edinburgh BCS talk on Ethical Hacking. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security. Peter Wood of First Base Technologies gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk … Continue reading

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Rabbit in Sauce Sublime

“Rabbit in Sauce Sublime, a recipe that sounds right out of a Warner Brothers cartoon” There are several really odd websites with recipes from a time when taste was lacking and people cooked the oddest things. Gallery of Regretable Foods … Continue reading

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