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Really Bad Science: BBC announces laws of physics no longer valid 11 Nov 2007 | 04:16 am
I’ve recently enriched my Google Reader subscription list with a bunch of feeds which I tag as “skeptical news”. The blog that introduced me to this was Bad Science by Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre....
Anti-spam services: Defensio vs Akismet 9 Nov 2007 | 01:28 am
I’ve decided to try out Defensio, to see if it beats Akismet as an anti-spam plugin for WordPress. Akismet is a nice simple “set and forget” solution but the odd false negative does slip through occas...
Facebook and the birthday paradox 28 Sep 2007 | 12:50 am
This is one for math geeks with a Facebook account. I recently heard of an interesting probability problem called the Birthday Paradox. I think it was on the excellent Five Numbers series on BBC Radio...
Attack of the d2e Zombie Copy 15 Mar 2007 | 10:20 pm
The title of this post was inspired by the excellent A List Apart article by Erin Kissane (published on October 24, 2005). As Erin puts it: “You’ve seen them around the web, these zombie sentences....
xkcd on random numbers 9 Feb 2007 | 11:04 pm
Another gem from xkcd today: If you haven’t subscribed to xkcd yet, do it now, damn it!
