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Which is more accurate? or sadly true? – Take a look at the two cartoons and decide for yourself....
Which is more accurate? or sadly true? – Take a look at the two cartoons and decide for yourself....
HP12C.jpg Originally uploaded by fernandogros. Some things are hard to improve upon and the HP 12c financial calculator is...
Slavoj Zizek has, for quite some time, been one of my favourite philosophers. So, I struggle when people claim...
A selection of the comments, ideas and insights that have got me thinking (and in one case salivating) this...
Three times this week I have lost blogposts! Earlier this week I hand drafted a blogpost on paper, took...
One of the most important ideas in Fooled By Randomness is the notion of survivorship bias. As Nassim Nicholas...
Time to clear out the backlog of film and DVD reviews (again). Here’s some brief comments on a few...
Some thoughtful ideas and comments from around the blogs this week… Volf Embraces Economic Freedom – Like Mike I...
Antony Beevor – The Battle For Spain – The first part of my Easter holiday reading, this is an...
Following on from my discovery that this blog’s technorati ranking was sinking like a mafia informant, I decided to...
Apparently it was the biggest movie opening ever in Hong Kong. Shame it wasn’t a better film. Up until...
A few days back I received an email asking a question that I’ve had a few times abut this...
The second quote from The Rebel Sell (as part of an ongoing series) – this time from page 20....
Here’s the latest, somewhat bizarre, twist in the Wolfowitz versus the World Bank fiasco. “World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz...
This blog’s ranking on technorati has been steadily dropping in the past few weeks. So, let’s raise a toast...