humour

Rob’s Noise to Signal is a laugh

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We all need a laugh sometimes. Rob Cottingham’s Noise to Signal cartoons supplies it.

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Futurama’s good news

Sci-fi TV show Futurama is to return.

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No entry – out of office

. New Zealand has 3 official languages: English, Māori and New Zealand Sign. While many institutions have dual language names, or at least make some efforts to recognising Māori (for example, Radio NZ), it’s not really common for street signs to carry more than one language. In Wales though, they’re more hard core, even if [...]

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VisualHub makes an impression

Heh. I’m just installing VisualHub as I want to suck in some movies from a DVD to watch on my iPod. I’ve used it before and it works well but somehow it wasn’t installed. You know how when you open a disk image they often have the application icon, and an icon for the Applications [...]

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Aussies look ahead – but would you believe them?

I’m not really a fan of April Fools, but Google are so often good for a laugh: gDay™ with MATE™: Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet [...]

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The imaginary kilobyte

Courtesy of Colin Jackson, a link to a hilarious xkcd comic: Kilobyte. Colin says: WHAT EXACTLY IS A KILOBYTE? (OR A MEGABYTE, OR A GIGABYTE) There is a lot of confusion about this out there – some of it deliberate – as I said on the radio last week, but the usual definition is 2^10 [...]

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