April 10, 2010

April 10, 2010 by yorksranter 0 comments

oh dear

The Tories’ iPhone app (‘cos they’re modern and stuff) works by sending a plaintext e-mail to callafriend@myconservatives.com, it turns out.

April 10, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

bubbles

Everyone’s reviewing Dean Baker’s False Profits. I contribute. I strongly recommend the book, agreeing with D^2 that it’s important that he names the guilty men, reminds you that they’re guilty, and keeps on naming them. (In fact, if anything, he drowns the fish – if you weren’t sure if there had been a housing bubble,…

April 10, 2010 by yorksranter 0 comments

Kursk

Kursk was a bit of a disappointment. A submarine control room as the setting of a play isn’t a bad idea – the movies worked that out many years ago – and putting it on as promenade theatre through the simulated sub is a cracking one. But, not quite. It did remind me to check…

April 10, 2010 by yorksranter 2 comments

better than it is

An interesting isotope is detected in the CRU report fall-out plume. Apart from the very high concentrations of concern-troll, tone-troll, and pure drivel, there is something worth learning from. For this reason, many software professionals encountering science software for the first time may be horrified. How, they ask, can we rely on this crude software,…

April 10, 2010 by yorksranter 0 comments

actual Iranian music news

I was needling Spencer Ackerman about this but didn’t get a rise. It’s applicable to Noel Maurer too. No-One Knows About Persian Cats is a cracking little film; it’s a pseudo-documentary about Iran’s music underground, by the Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi and a small who’s who of Iranian music. As a result, it could almost…

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