Category: Technology
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Living Symbolically | Turn Off Your Chargers
One of the podcasts I subscribe to is the BBC’s More or Less – a weekly look at the numbers behind the news. Teaching Mathematics one is always in need of some relevant applications, and this has it in spades. Their recent episode on sustainable energy was very interesting, but fell into the trap that…
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Good News, nearly: UK Government Gives Up Plans for Snooping Database
Mixed news today: the UK Home Secretary has given up plans to have a national database to store information on all phonecalls, emails and internet use of UK citizens. Instead, they are going to force communications companies to do that work for them. I’m pleased they’ve given up the plans, but skeptical about the reasoning.…
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Espresso Book Machine launches in London
This could change publishing – and book selling – for ever.
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Apple’s Genius? I don’t think so…
…simply because every time I put it on it circles inexorably towards The Shining by Badly Drawn Boy. WHY?! Perhaps because every other damn person out there loves it. I don’t. I want an ‘I hate this’ button on my iPod. This appears to be a fault of here-comes-everybody systems, ie democracies: they tend to…
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Twitter
Don’t get it. Don’t want to. Hope I never will. Ditto any other ‘microblogging’ nonsense. It’s ever-more candyfloss communication in an age of increasingly vacuous relationships. No content:No thanks. Technorati: Blogging | Blogs | microblogging | twitter