2009-06-12 (Friday)
Links
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Systemic - Too cheap to meter
Trying to calculate the monetary value of distant planets. I’d like to see calculations with a different example at the start, and different measures of inflation.
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Welcome To The North » A whole lot of nothing
A transcript of an interview with Doncaster’s new mayor, whose election manifesto might as well have been written by people who post the BBC’s Have Your Say comments. (via Haddock)
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Cambridge University - CamTV - Video and Audio - The Phillips Machine with Allan McRobie
Video of the machine that simulates the economy using water. A few years back I couldn’t even find a picture of this thing. The internet’s getting better.
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Trundling north on the train, squinting at an incredible biblical sunset over Newcastle.
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Cannibalism "at least provides a reasonable motive for killing a man, which is more than you can say for civilised warfare." Colonel Fawcett
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Good lord, these pretend jobs take it out of one. Thank heavens it's nearly the pretend weekend.
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Rescheduling a dentist appointment in July as it would have clashed with breakfast. Priorities.
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@muteboy Stewart White is still on Look East!