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Proof for posterity
Via warmbrain and Karlin Lillington I learn about a marvelous idea from supporters of Project Gutenberg: Distributed Proofreaders. It’s got to be worth a few minutes of your day to…
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Grocery heroes
The people at Ocado seem to have got it about right. With the help of a substantial investment from Waitrose, they’ve built a home delivery service that doesn’t require you…
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Better Booth
Thanks to Quinquireme, for a much better and more searchable Charles Booth site at the LSE (I mean better than the one I used the other day)
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The Economist on migration
I’ve just finished reading The Economist’s blockbuster survey on migration. More very good work developing the newspaper’s line on the liberalisation of migration as a benefit to both nations (receiving…
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Touring Machine
Via Matt, I learn that Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Dutch computer science pioneer, recently deceased, achieved in his lifetime two citations in the OED – for first use of the words…
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Architects and housing
The orthodoxy is that the last time professional architects were allowed to design housing on a large scale in Britain they did more damage than the blitz, snuffing out historic…
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Azeem Azhar is out of control
Azeem is developing his BBC GPL idea slightly more quickly than I can read all the words. For the time being I’ll just link and trackback to shut him up.…
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Break up BT?
Last night I spoke at the launch of Demos’ latest report ‘The Politics of Broadband’. The authors have been bold in their conclusions (and perhaps incautious in their choice of…
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Information about energy
Matt Jones has been worrying about information and energy lately. Here are some energy links for him. According to New Scientist (you can get a free 7 day trial for…