Danny Rampling: Since I’ve become a property developer my life has changed for the better I suppose this was always on the cards. Kasimir Malevich: We are in a desert …. Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! Meanwhile, look who’s got a new album out; others agree. Northern Stomp…
Read More squareI got around to updating the Viktorfeed whitelist, and whilst I was at it, doing a clean-up of the database to remove all the known false positives by deleting all the movements that came from an airline that was on the list. Interestingly, this gave me an opportunity to calculate the false positive rate –…
Read More false positivesI was hoping we wouldn’t be seeing any more of these. 86.62.12.74, on a high latency satellite link, searching UAE Google for IraqLEStaffScheme. My original post on the official instructions for UK employees in Iraq is here. This is why I was keen to re-raise the issue before the final withdrawal, which is now looking…
Read More left behindThe remaining British training team in southern Iraq has been moved to Kuwait to await negotiations on their future status. A suggestion: couldn’t they perhaps wait in…Britain?
Read More outOver at CT, a link to two polls – here and here. The killer finding is that the same sort of percentage of the US population, and the same sort of people, deny that Barack Obama is a US citizen *and* that the American and African continents were once part of the same landmass. Specifically,…
Read More tectonic platesFrom the 14th to the 15th century, women became much taller. Around the same time, says Chris Dillow: In the 13th and 14th centuries, the richest people were overwhelming those whose names derived from places, whilst the poor tended to have names derived from crafts: Smith, Wright and suchlike. However, by the 16th century, this…
Read More mobilityWhat’s happening on the Viktorfeed? Something called “Skyway Ltd”, using the ICAO code DGD, is doing quite a few flights into Iraq and Afghanistan; so is “Transaviaservice” or FNV. This last is the current owner of Antonov 12 ER-AXE/7345201, which we’ve had here before, both with Aerocom and with a shortlived project involving routes from…
Read More it’s the new Middle East, or somethingWe’ve not had a good fake police story for a while. Here’s one, though; Californian driving a car kitted out as a police vehicle stops a real policeman and gets arrested. It’s not quite as good a story as all that – the real police car was an unmarked one, so the symmetry isn’t perfect.…
Read More fake private contractorsBruce Schneier and Jason Sigger, usually sensible sources, both mock a study by some thinktank or other which raises the supposed possibility of hackers “using the Internet to start a nuclear war”. As they both point out, the possibility of anyone getting access to the actual command and control firing chain with metasploit is so…
Read More police and thievesHere’s Henry from Crooked Timber not getting it. Here’s Randy McDonald not getting it. Look, the fact that neo-con wankers deal in baseless smears and mindlessly repeated talking points should neither be cause for surprise, nor should you hope to convince them of anything. I occasionally make the point that after the Left invented post-modernism,…
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