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April 13, 2005
Token Election Post
Sorry, this is probably a one off. No more politics until May 5th, I promise.
Apparently there's some kind of election coming up. Inevitably, there are plenty of people out there trying to tell you who to vote for, from the parties themselves ("Are you thinking what we're thinking? Forward, not back!") to allegedly-independent advisory websites. If, like me, you feel you should be voting Labour but can't bring yourself to support Blair, I recommend So Now Who Do We Vote For?, by John Harris — it doesn't offer any conclusive answers, but it's a pretty good roundup of the current options available to the left wing voter.
And of course, if you're not sure if that applies to you or not, there's always Chris Lightfoot's political survey. My results from back in September are still here.
Posted by James at 11:32
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April 01, 2005
Glueless structures
Some quickfire content today, since I can't think of anything humourous to fool you all with.
- Bored engineers are very scary, but often entertaining. Mitch Fincher, for instance, built a bunch of glueless structures out of 1 cent coins.
- Scientific American have finally stopped being a partisan "science" publication, and given fair consideration to all points of view.
- The Open Guide to Nottingham has a new design, thanks in no small part to to Joe, part of the Nimoll conspiracy, and photos from Carl Ebrey and others.
- Readers in the Manchester area who've been jealous of people in Oxford, London and Nottingham can now rejoice, for they too have their own OpenGuide. It's very new, though, so needs contributors.
- Lancaster now has one too, but I don't think I have any readers there. Do I?
- In the land of Winer-watching, Dave no longer seems to claim to be the original blogger, just the inspiration for many of the mainstays of the blogging world — definite progress on getting in touch with reality, I feel. However, he still seems to think that the EFF opposes copyright altogether, and to completely misunderstand the Creative Commons licences, but he's definitely doing much better than he was.
- You'll either get this one or you won't.
Happy (mailman, white rabbits, April Fools, 1/4 of the year already gone) day, folks!
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