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UK Office of Government Commerce cracks one off.

Hint: turn the logo clockwise 90 degrees.

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Craptacular. Microsoft said it is a spoof. This proves yet again that the Borg has no style whatsoever, even when it is spoofing itself.

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While the HKSAR Govt is still p*ssing about with the language of instructions, we really should be reviewing the whole of education. Excellent talk. Take education of your children, back into your hands.

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Link. RIP.

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In Jared Diamond’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, on the subject of human drug abuse,

However, archaeologists were long puzzled by slender tubes of unknown purpose that they kept finding in Mayan excavations.

The tubes’ function finally became clear with the discovery of painted vases showing scenes of the tubes’ use: to administer intoxicating [...]

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Link.

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Via 小影, 十年一覺程設夢

我只聽過玩 Online Game 玩到暴斃, 還沒看過寫程式寫到暴斃的案例.

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Air Guitar.

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The Edge Annual Question 2008: What have you changed your mind about? Why? Lots of good stuff. It was Slashdot that bought this to my attention, and quoting Sam Harris :-
Mother Nature is not our friend.
So Sam finally agrees with Laozi. In Tao Te Ching, paragraph 5:-
天地不仁，以萬物為芻狗
(which I roughly translate to “Mother Nature is [...]

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Excellent WordPress plug-in. This closes commenting for older posts, so spammers would have a smaller number of posts to inject their crap. I’ll see how it works out.
Update (3/1): Seems to work very well.

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Prof Faure’s book on the sinofication of the Guangdong province since the Ming Dynasty. All the big Guangdong clans claim that they were originally of the gentry class from the North, which of course is a load of bull. Via 船山筆記.
Update (31/12): I ordered from Amazon on 13/12 (US time), and received it on 28/12. [...]

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The looks of Helsinki: link. Via reddit with very negative comments from US-centric conformists I gather.

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Odd story. Even more odd is this doesn’t seem to be in the local press.

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Freddie Mercury. 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991. We still love you.

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From the Guardian, yet reads like from the Onion.

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Via reality.

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I thought the little backpack on their backs may contain a parachute, but then I realized that a parachute wouldn’t save your when you are so close to the ground/rock.

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As reported by the BBC. Let the World Factory flood the world w/ this gadget! Move over Eee PC. I want two.

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Read about this special offer in the paper. B/W laser printer, B/W photocopier, B/W/colour fax and colour scanner all-in-one. Special price at HK$2,499. My employer uses Ricoh fax and photocopiers and they have been solid. I personally would prefer something with Postscript or PS emulation and duplex printing, but this looks like a reasonable deal.
Link.

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