I’m worryingly familiar with this:
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Waking the human
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Category Archives: Oddities
Links o' the day
How the Edwardians spoke. I don’t really care about Edwardians, I just like examining how language changes over the decades.
A sad day for internet freedoms in China. Traffic from search engines Yahoo!, Live.com and Google are being redirected to Chinese-owned Baidu.com. Bastards.
How to make a floating skull illusion. Don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to do this!
Why Facebook needs money: data centres. The snowballing social networing site has taken out a lease on a 10,000sq ft facility to house data servers.
Lessons learned from a near disaster. Please excuse me while I back up my hard drive…
Canadian paedophile suspect arrested in Thailand. Oh, they’re gonna love him in prison!
And last, but by no means least, 10 ways to geek out this Hallowe’en.
Why would you do this to your children?
Save your math for the war*
An absolute gem unearthed by Frank Little of The Cedar Lounge Revolution:
Patricia Sullivan, a professor at the University of Georgia in the US, has devised a mathematical equation to predict the outcome of conflicts based on a detailed analysis of 122 military interventions involving the US, Britain, China, Russia and France since 1945.
She claims the equation is accurate in 78% of cases.
The equation is posted on Cedar Lounge, which notes Sullivan’s argument that “key determinant in many conflicts has been the attitude of the civilian population”. Winning hearts and minds is as vital in the aftermath of upheaval — a patten that can be found throughout history — as it is in domestic politics.
*If you get this reference I will be so utterly impressed you’ll get a blog post dedicated to you. Can’t say I’m not generous!
Links o' the day
O’Dea denies offering to fight in pub row. Said offer was allegedly declined because of the minister’s short stature. The latest screw-up from Wonder Willie the Great Defence Minister, his most prominent being posing with a pistol. (Irish Examiner)
Toy manufacture in China. The hands that make the dolls you pay too much for. (Mazm, via Crooked Timber)
13 scifi mental illnesses. I think I suffer from vacuuphobia. I’m not the only one… am I? (SciFiChick.com)
Group renames asteroid for George Takei. Sulu is an asteroid! (MSNBC)
Mary-Kate Olsen is seven lattes tall. She does not look well. (UnaRocks)
Last survivor of the War of Independence dies at 105. I hope I don’t get fired for linking to this. (The Irish Times)
Single case could reignite ebola epidemic in DRCongo: WHO. We never seem to catch a break. (AFP)
Making the internet safer
Making the internet safer, originally uploaded by takete.
I don’t think I can write a caption that’s funnier than the pic itself.