I got around to rebuilding the Linux dualboot setup that was destroyed in this post. Today’s beautiful thought, then, is as follows. Apparently, as a matter of policy, suspend-to-disk or hibernation is not wanted in Ubuntu any more. As a result, Canonical removed the menu items and other stuff from 13.10 and beyond. You can…
Read More Fix Ubuntu 13.10 hibernation, don’t install hibernateI’ve just been to the Tate’s Richard Hamilton monster exhibition. A thought: here’s Hamilton’s 1984 installation Treatment Room. The Treatment Room has been re-installed at the Tate and you can walk around it, which is interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, photos usually centre on the TV with the Thatcher loop, putting…
Read More Pop-Up Treatment Room 2014So far, the most embarrassing effort by a journalist to fill space on the MH370 story was certainly the ITN correspondent who opened their piece-to-camera with the words “Tuesday. Kuala Lumpur. The rain still falling.” You might hope that this was a deliberate allusion to “Tuesday. Africa. The hour of the lion”, supposedly the worst…
Read More Experience the immense monotonySo Francis Irving wants to read blogs again: @yorksranter I never *completely* stopped! omg, yours is still a valid politics blog, partying like it was 2004! any other good ones? — Francis Irving (@frabcus) March 17, 2014 I was tempted to say that, hey, you hosted the blog all those years, but then the retort…
Read More Request for Blogs, AnsweredDavid Axe’s piece on the Brazilian air force did the rounds a while ago. The obvious points: they do their stuff, and for cheap! Less obvious: there’s something disturbing about a state that regularly puts 8x Mk82 Snake-eyes into targets on its own territory as a police measure, even if the Super Tucanos are an…
Read More Real air forces own boring stuffI am really impressed both by this OpenNews post about how to tackle a huge pile of documents, and also by the tools recommended. After all: What I received a month later from Nash County, N.C., were two boxes filled with thousands of printed pages of emails. Double-sided. One of the problems it solves is…
Read More OverviewYou think #MH370 is Ballardian? Kicking it up a notch: The tests showed that brands outperformed people where a person’s relationship to a product was tied to a story–such as the subject who loved his watch, which was handed down from his father, more than his girlfriend, or the man whose life-long love of the…
Read More Links1: Houses have got stupid expensive. You may have noticed Here’s a great chart from James Plunkett of the Resolution Foundation, making the point that it will take you your life to save for a deposit. Note that the curve takes off like a homesick angel in the mid-90s, when prices start back up again,…
Read More 12 links on Bob Crow, and how to get the lookA thing called “Refined Practice” has made some charts of the first eight months of the lobbying data, here. I have two points. Point the first, their charts are force-directed bubbles, but they don’t use any network analysis, so once the force-directed algo converges, you get a succession of bubbles of varying sizes in a…
Read More RefinedI would like to embed this, but anyway, watch it and feel the thrilling and controversial American razzamatazz, like. Yes, still bitter. This looks interesting, but apparently it’s a blog you have to read through facebook, which makes what kind of sense? And: Ian Roberts, Kangaroo legend, also the game’s first professional to come out…
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