The IPCC Report
The IPCC seems to be clueless about running a website, so here’s a direct link to the Stockwell I report (PDF, 1.35MB): link. Much more later.
Read More The IPCC ReportNovember 2007
Public Service Announcement (Without Guitars)
Readers are strongly requested to read this, as well as explanations here, and then vote for Sadly No here. That is all.
Read More Public Service Announcement (Without Guitars)Some data points
OK, so by chance we have some real data to put into the sums in this post. The head of MI5 has just announced that we should all be very scared, because he reckons there may be 2,000 people in Britain who pose a threat to national security because of their support for terrorism. So…
Read More Some data pointsWell, it went through!
In Texas, a man suspected of homicide has escaped from prison. How he did it tells us something about the inevitable failure of ID cards, and the importance of false positives. Via Bruce Schneier. What happened? Well, the suspected killer was in a cell with another remand prisoner, a car thief named Garcia. He memorised…
Read More Well, it went through!Blogging Rugby League; GB 44 NZ 0
Kiri Te Kanawa, Alan Deere, Keith Park, Gary Freeman, Kurt Sorensen, Bernard Freyberg, Vik Olliver, Kotare, Phil Blake, Graham Lowe, your boys took a hell of a beating! Since when did Leon Pryce become a world-class stand-off? What happened to Gareth Raynor? I remember when he was intensely average; suddenly he’s become a cracker. And…
Read More Blogging Rugby League; GB 44 NZ 0Mind my fortified data centre pod!
I haz been in yr thread, commenting on yr arcologies. I am fascinated to see that in a sense, one is under construction right now, in the fine city of Baghdad. William Langewiesche reports; read the whole damn thing, as it’s one of the best things about architecture, politics, diplomacy, and Iraq you’ll ever see.…
Read More Mind my fortified data centre pod!Martin Kettle Is a Worthless Old Hack
It used to be reasonably commonplace that bloggers, especially American ones, would say that at least in Britain there was enough diversity in the press that no equivalent to the classic US pundit wanker existed – no-one like David Brooks or David Broder, essentially content-free and heavily invested in the self-regard of the political class.…
Read More Martin Kettle Is a Worthless Old HackGoogle: the world’s favourite command line
Google is, essentially, a honking great unix system whose command line interface is addressed through URLs. This came to mind preparing the embedded map for the G3 Systems post; Google Maps autogenned a slightly different location than the view I wanted every time, although I could link directly to the right view. So, of course,…
Read More Google: the world’s favourite command lineThe Failings of Social Network Analysis
If you watched Britz this week you’ll have seen the MI5 chaps and chappesses poring over really complicated social-network diagrams of the jihadi menace. And this has indeed been a boom academic industry since 2001; after Valdis Krebs’s seminal paper in which he mapped the relationships of the September 11 plotters, there were all kinds…
Read More The Failings of Social Network AnalysisG3 Systems and Fraser-Brook
G3 Systems Ltd must have been very proud when Tony Blair visited the logistics base it built in Afghanistan for the British Army a few months ago, and again when Defence Secretary Des Browne came calling. Their website boasts of offering a wide range of services to the armed forces, especially the supply of various…
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