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You can't make it up LXXIX - refugee crisis caused by global warming
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07 sep 15 |
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Rammstein rewrites Marvell
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22 aug 15 |
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Deference to Islam in the UK media
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20 aug 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXVIII - Eisenhower warned about the corruption of science by government
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18 aug 15 |
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Natural selection cheated again
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09 aug 15 |
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Coffeescript testing with Mocha
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07 aug 15 |
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Microsoft translator competes with Google
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04 aug 15 |
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The curse of the bin Ladens
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01 aug 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXVII - the internet never forgets
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28 jul 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXVI - Naomi Klein plays the race card again on climate change
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29 jun 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXV - animals supposedly "adapt" to climate change
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15 jun 15 |
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A Rolf Harris song gets him into trouble again
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14 jun 15 |
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Guardian censors criticism of Tony Blair's new Tolerance and Reconciliation gig
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04 jun 15 |
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German woman crashes car into British tank
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03 jun 15 |
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The Royal Society - from 'nullius in verba' to diversity
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02 jun 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXIV - climate change blamed for Permian extinction and ISIS
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31 may 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXIII - if you believe in argument from authority, try this
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19 may 15 |
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Poetic justice
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13 may 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXII - Greenpeace supports freedom of speech - except for people who disagree
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22 apr 15 |
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There's more than one Toni Braxton
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19 apr 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXI - Québécois protest global warming in the snow
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17 apr 15 |
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Criticisms of George Galloway's attitude to forced marriage removed from the Guardian
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14 apr 15 |
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You can't make it up LXX - global warming is comparable to the Parmian extinction
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10 apr 15 |
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More inconsistent censorship in the Guardian about Islam
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05 apr 15 |
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Another comment deleted by the Guardian - are they afraid of Islamic extremists?
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29 mar 15 |
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You can't make it up LXIX - Naomi Oreskes' new movie and King Cnut
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15 mar 15 |
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You can't make it up LXVIII - "skepticism is not always beneficial to science"
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10 mar 15 |
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You can't make it up LXVII - "climate change deniers" are compared to ISIS
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08 mar 15 |
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The Guardian's inconsistent comments policy
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21 feb 15 |
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My most brilliant comment on reddit yet
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16 feb 15 |
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Monty Python underestimated Scottish tennis
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01 feb 15 |
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You can't make it up LXVI - scientists tamper with climate data...
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25 jan 15 |
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Yet another innocuous comment removed from the Guardian
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18 dec 14 |
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You can't make it up LXV - squirrels and beavers may be as evil as human beings
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18 dec 14 |
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A Tale of Two Cultures
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14 dec 14 |
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A comment censored on joannenova.com.au
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13 dec 14 |
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Orwell on the man in the white van
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06 dec 14 |
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You can't make it up LXIV - sun contributes to warming
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25 nov 14 |
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The genius of Robert Trivers
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18 oct 14 |
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Lingerie manufacturer dissociates itself from terrorism
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14 oct 14 |
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The last word on the concept of "general intelligence"
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24 sep 14 |
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You can't make it up LXIII - global warming causes sea ice to grow and shrink
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18 sep 14 |
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A comment on Rotherham allowed in the Guardian
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14 sep 14 |
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How to get the latest commit in Git
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30 aug 14 |
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Yet another comment removed from the Guardian
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30 aug 14 |
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How UKIP can win
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21 aug 14 |
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A St Louis woman's values
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14 aug 14 |
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A new phobia
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10 aug 14 |
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Mac everywhere
|
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10 aug 14 |
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You can't make it up LXII - government website shows no global warming this century
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26 jul 14 |
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Sol Campbell complains about people blackening his name
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24 jul 14 |
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You can't make it up LXI - global warming caused kidnapping of Nigerian girls
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06 jul 14 |
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You can't make it up LX - climate skeptics admit mistakes
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29 jun 14 |
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A comment critical of political correctness censored for political incorrectness
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27 jun 14 |
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A particularly good example of the fallacy of argument from authority
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24 jun 14 |
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Analyzing a massacre
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07 jun 14 |
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A black day for Scotland and rally drivers everywhere
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01 jun 14 |
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Two articles on the rise of UKIP
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24 may 14 |
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You can't make it up LIX - a superb article on computability and climate
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22 may 14 |
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You can't make it up LVIII - wildfires are getting bigger, and man-made climate change is to blame
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19 may 14 |
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You can't make it up LVII - if you think CO2 is bad, check out the great oxygen catastrophe
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14 may 14 |
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The Karelia Suite - Keith Emerson
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25 apr 14 |
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iTunes sucks - Ecoute rocks
|
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25 apr 14 |
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The best novel about gambling since Dostoevsky
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22 apr 14 |
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It's not just me who finds Git obtuse
|
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13 apr 14 |
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You can't make it up LVI - the best parody of climate fearmongering ever
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12 apr 14 |
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You can't make it up LV - Joanne Nova summarizes the corruption of science
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10 apr 14 |
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You can't make it up LIV - the BBC is criticized for giving too much credit to scientific skepticism
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02 apr 14 |
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You can't make it up LIII - the Guardian deletes another skeptical comment about global warming
|
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31 mar 14 |
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You can't make it up LII - the Institute of Physics condemns "climate change" theory
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21 mar 14 |
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The Guardian chickens out
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17 mar 14 |
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You can't make it up LI - sometimes climate change is good, and sometimes it isn't
|
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11 mar 14 |
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You can't make it up L - just because global warming stopped doesn't mean it's not happening
|
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27 feb 14 |
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Correction - the Daily Mail, not the Guardian, has conquered America
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27 feb 14 |
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"Frank's good, but Beefheart's the real thing"
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25 feb 14 |
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A serious commentary on the current situation in the Ukraine
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25 feb 14 |
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The Stones, Hyde Park, 1969
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22 feb 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXIX - acidification moves seawater toward neutral pH
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18 feb 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXVIII - current UK floods are unprecedented: apart from 1362, 1607, and 1953
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14 feb 14 |
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Facebook restricts users' gender to a mere 50 values
|
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14 feb 14 |
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Dead giraffes, Dawkins and Darwin
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13 feb 14 |
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This wouldn't happen in America
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10 feb 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXVII - global warming allegedly one of the causes of war in Syria
|
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04 feb 14 |
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The dangerous life of American football players
|
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03 feb 14 |
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Is this another great country or WHAT??!!?
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31 jan 14 |
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Is this a great country or WHAT??!!?
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28 jan 14 |
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Is nature trying to tell us something?
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26 jan 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXVI - worldwide cold caused by global warming
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08 jan 14 |
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Silverlight for Linux
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08 jan 14 |
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Don't use agoda.com - they won't accept a complaint about a locked emergency exit at a hotel
|
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03 jan 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXV - the "Clitanic" disaster
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28 dec 13 |
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What to do when Git decapitates you
|
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28 dec 13 |
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More revisionism from Bletchley Park
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26 dec 13 |
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Gradually Getting Git
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25 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXIV - global warming skeptics banned
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19 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXIII - weather isn't climate, except when it is
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04 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXII - Greenpeace activists compared to Warsaw Ghetto insurgents of 1943
|
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24 nov 13 |
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More early Soft Machine
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17 nov 13 |
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A gift to Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorists
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13 nov 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXI - Philippines typhoon deaths blamed on - guess what?
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09 nov 13 |
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A final farewell to Microsoft
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02 nov 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXX - trust in science correlated with political opinion
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17 oct 13 |
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The Bonzos - look out there's a monster coming
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15 oct 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIX - Fox News defends the scientific method
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01 oct 13 |
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How close America has come to nuclear disaster
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21 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVIIII - global warming scaremongers right even if they're wrong
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18 sep 13 |
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Did Britain really invent EVERY sport?
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07 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVIII - deadly cold snap in Peru symptom of global warming...
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05 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVII - the analogy between drug and climate hysteria
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25 aug 13 |
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How to install Rails 4 on a Celeron 4GB netbook
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21 aug 13 |
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Romanian princess charged in Central Oregon cockfighting racket
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17 aug 13 |
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Correction to "When Git lies to you"
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11 aug 13 |
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Soft Machine Live 1970 - complete concert
|
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29 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVI - a prediction so alarmist even climatologists hesitate to endorse it
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25 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXV - climate scientists predict the past
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23 jul 13 |
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A surprisingly coherent criticism of Edward Snowden from a 'terrorism analyst'
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21 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIV - we are going to die of NOT ENOUGH CO2
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03 jul 13 |
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Ruby Two's Day
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27 jun 13 |
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The Guardian conquers America
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24 jun 13 |
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Comment in Guardian deleted
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28 may 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIII - BBC admits there has been no warming for 15 years
|
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21 may 13 |
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I saw the 17-year cicadas in New York in 1996 - now they're back
|
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20 may 13 |
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Obama agrees - 97% of climate scientists believe in global warming
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18 may 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXII - science is a democracy after all
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17 may 13 |
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Once bitten, twice shy
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13 may 13 |
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The Guardian contradicts my article about bike riding in Cornwall
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07 may 13 |
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Why it's not always worth helping Google correct their bike map of the USA
|
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04 may 13 |
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Scientists say they didn't mention the Higgs particle, because its existence was 'obvious'
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28 apr 13 |
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"Calling out" - Obama supporters use Maoist techniques to stifle debate
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26 apr 13 |
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Darwin strikes again - this time in Wales
|
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23 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXI - sing for the climate
|
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19 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXX - another hockey stick bites the dust
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06 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXIX - cold weather linked to... guess what?
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25 mar 13 |
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Finally, a social media site I can see the point of
|
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24 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXVIII - campaign to reinstate 'debate' about climate change in schools
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20 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXVII - an article about hunting in the Guardian
|
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20 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXVI - "Geography showed me that climate change isn't fair"
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19 mar 13 |
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JavaScriptMVC
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11 mar 13 |
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The Daily Telegraph and cleavage
|
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10 mar 13 |
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Lego accused of promoting culturally-constructed gender differences
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10 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXV - head of IPCC admits to lack of global warming
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08 mar 13 |
|
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The best explanation I can find why ants and bees are altruistic
|
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07 mar 13 |
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Shock news - South African not charged with murder
|
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24 feb 13 |
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A simple example of a Rails 4 app
|
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24 feb 13 |
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You can't make it up XXIV - "chemicals" harm otters' todgers
|
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24 feb 13 |
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What to do if your Ubuntu desktop goes all black
|
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21 feb 13 |
|
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FactoryGirl and has_and_belongs_to_many
|
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20 feb 13 |
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What to do if one of your Rails migrations says 'unknown attribute'
|
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19 feb 13 |
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Why it's worth helping Google correct their bike map of the USA
|
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19 feb 13 |
|
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How Test-Driven Development can dig you out of a hole
|
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17 feb 13 |
|
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When Git lies to you - "everything up to date" - when it isn't
|
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17 feb 13 |
|
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If you get a usage printout when you are trying to run 'rails s'
|
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13 feb 13 |
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Issues with migrations in Ruby on Rails
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09 feb 13 |
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The difference a comma makes
|
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09 feb 13 |
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It's not just in Texas that idiots get hit by trains
|
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08 feb 13 |
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You can't make it up XXIII - 100-year record snow in Moscow caused by...?
|
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06 feb 13 |
|
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Back to Linux
|
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06 feb 13 |
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The difference between Microsoft and Google...
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04 feb 13 |
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No more attr_accessible in Ruby on Rails 4
|
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01 feb 13 |
|
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What is LinkedIn for, exactly?
|
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01 feb 13 |
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You can't make it up XXII - flooding in 1953 was caused by today's CO2 levels
|
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01 feb 13 |
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Problems with trying to add optional routes to the 'routesfordummies' gem
|
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28 jan 13 |
|
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How HTML5 has improved putting things in the middle of a page
|
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24 jan 13 |
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Precompile your assets, like your grandma told you
|
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23 jan 13 |
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Issue with controller calling delete_all using callbacks in Ruby on Rails
|
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20 jan 13 |
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So that's why journalists are called "hacks"
|
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18 jan 13 |
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CSS is the new XML
|
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16 jan 13 |
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Thank God for stackoverflow.com
|
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13 jan 13 |
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Rails security flaw
|
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11 jan 13 |
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Is Java the new COBOL?
|
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07 jan 13 |
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You can't make it up XXI - climate change may increase rainfall in India
|
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03 jan 13 |
|
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Have a safe and happy new year
|
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02 jan 13 |
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Kindly revert back
|
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27 dec 12 |
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You can't make it up XX - do climate scientists know what the word 'falsifiable' means?
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25 dec 12 |
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You can't make it up XIX - I'm "an environmental hero"
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22 dec 12 |
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You can't make it up XVIII - global warming, the Mayan apocalypse, and the Guardian
|
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17 dec 12 |
|
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Don't mindlessly copy regular expressions from websites
|
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15 dec 12 |
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Fast and furious - wasn't that a song on 'Trout Mask Replica'?
|
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15 dec 12 |
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The Ruby on Rails 'asset pipeline' makes your site behave differently on the WWW from locally
|
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13 dec 12 |
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Inaccurate account of Portland mall massacre
|
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12 dec 12 |
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Frisian is the easiest language to learn
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10 dec 12 |
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The shorter Dennett
|
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07 dec 12 |
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A minor improvement in Ruby on Rails Authlogic
|
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06 dec 12 |
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A new production of 'Julius Caesar'...
|
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06 dec 12 |
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You can't beat America for sentimental journalism
|
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03 dec 12 |
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You can't make it up XVII - rising sea levels confirm global warming - but...
|
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02 dec 12 |
|
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Genes bat last
|
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02 dec 12 |
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You can't make it up XVI - acid oceans dissolving sea life
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26 nov 12 |
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How to add a datepicker in Rails
|
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25 nov 12 |
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Converting movie files from a smartphone
|
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19 nov 12 |
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Texas and Darwin
|
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16 nov 12 |
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BIke store and pub in a hip area of Fresno
|
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13 nov 12 |
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You can't make it up XV - growth of Antarctic ice shows 'complexity' of global warming
|
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12 nov 12 |
|
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More difficulties with Github
|
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12 nov 12 |
|
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The most boring road in the world
|
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11 nov 12 |
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Issues with ImageMagick - 'unable to read font'
|
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11 nov 12 |
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How to use RVM
|
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10 nov 12 |
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The girl with faraway eyes
|
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09 nov 12 |
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Tehachapi via Oak Creek Pass (4600 ft)
|
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08 nov 12 |
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Yucca Valley to Adelanto, CA
|
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06 nov 12 |
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My first Ruby Gem - 'Routesfordummies'
|
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30 sep 12 |
|
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How many countries has Britain never invaded?
|
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04 nov 12 |
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Having problems with gem "active record deprecated finders"?
|
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03 nov 12 |
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Joshua Tree climbing pictures
|
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03 nov 12 |
|
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LinkedIn is just as useful as Facebook and Twitter
|
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30 oct 12 |
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You can't make it up XIV - a new book on Climategate
|
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30 oct 12 |
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The varied pursuits of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
|
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29 oct 12 |
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Joshua Tree again
|
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29 oct 12 |
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Lucerne Valley after night in desert
|
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27 oct 12 |
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Is being assassinated worse than being murdered?
|
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26 oct 12 |
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The bike route from Las Vegas to Twenty Nine Palms is not what Google says
|
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26 oct 12 |
|
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Darwin - Dawkins - Dennett
|
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24 oct 12 |
|
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Then you find you're back in Vegas...
|
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23 oct 12 |
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Las Vegas again
|
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21 oct 12 |
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How to get RSpec 2 to work with Rails 4 edge
|
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14 oct 12 |
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Trying to keep up with Rails 4 development
|
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14 oct 12 |
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Temple in Krabi, Thailand
|
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13 oct 12 |
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How to use 'routesfordummies'
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10 oct 12 |
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Difficulties with Github
|
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10 oct 12 |
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Climbing at Ton Sai, Thailand
|
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10 oct 12 |
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You can't make it up XIII - global warming "may" shrink fish by "up to" 24 percent
|
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01 oct 12 |
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Bangkok skyline
|
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20 sep 12 |
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Angkor What?
|
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20 sep 12 |
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Three men die trying to rescue dog
|
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16 sep 12 |
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A double convertee in Thailand
|
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06 sep 12 |
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Wat Rong Khun - the famous white temple of Chiang Rai
|
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05 sep 12 |
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Burmese Minutes
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05 sep 12 |
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You can't make it up XII - science is a democracy after all
|
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29 aug 12 |
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Prince Harry raises the air fares
|
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27 aug 12 |
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You can't make it up XI - spot the endangered species
|
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26 aug 12 |
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Katherine Jenkins denies affair with David Beckham; I deny affair with Victoria Beckham
|
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26 aug 12 |
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Alice's Restaurant
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17 aug 12 |
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Nietzsche makes me look elitist
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03 aug 12 |
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On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem
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31 jul 12 |
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Mother holds up crucifix to teeth-baring attacker with ice pick who had taken son, 9, hostage
|
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24 jul 12 |
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I'm not the only person in the world who doesn't see the point of Twitter
|
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20 jul 12 |
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Riding through record floods
|
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16 jul 12 |
|
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Stuck inside of Exeter with the Reading blues again
|
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10 jul 12 |
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Record rainfall in the UK
|
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07 jul 12 |
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My advice on cycling in Cornwall
|
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01 jul 12 |
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Land's End
|
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27 jun 12 |
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Git rocks
|
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27 jun 12 |
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Changing the name of a Rails 3+ app
|
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20 jun 12 |
|
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Mount Pleasant Eco-park, Porthtowan, Cornwall
|
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18 jun 12 |
|
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Topless Ukrainian feminists set to disrupt England-Sweden game
|
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15 jun 12 |
|
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Record storms in Britain
|
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14 jun 12 |
|
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You can't make it up X - weather isn't climate, except when it is
|
|
08 jun 12 |
|
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TextMate is worse than useless
|
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05 jun 12 |
|
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Stonehenge
|
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05 jun 12 |
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Avebury stone circle
|
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01 jun 12 |
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Face-eating attacks rare, say psychiatrists
|
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31 may 12 |
|
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Marlborough
|
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30 may 12 |
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You can't make it up IX - butterfly thrives on climate change
|
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27 may 12 |
|
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My first Rails 4 app
|
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23 may 12 |
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I'm in the UK
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22 may 12 |
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Vail Pass - 10,600 ft
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18 may 12 |
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Good news on unemployment
|
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18 may 12 |
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Frisco Colorado
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16 may 12 |
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Norman conquest
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14 may 12 |
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Thoughts for Mothers' Day
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13 may 12 |
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Recommending Steamboat Campground
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12 may 12 |
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The thermarest chronicles
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11 may 12 |
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Dinosaur
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07 may 12 |
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Dinosaurs
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06 may 12 |
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The Flaming Gorge
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04 may 12 |
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Wimping in Wyoming
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03 may 12 |
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Where the deer and the antelope play
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02 may 12 |
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The Lander Pass
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01 may 12 |
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Roaming in Wyoming
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29 apr 12 |
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Another night in Idaho Falls
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27 apr 12 |
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Missoula-Idaho Falls via two 7000 ft passes and several thunderstorms
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26 apr 12 |
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Waiting for Godot (and a break in the weather) in Missoula
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19 apr 12 |
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Bike tour Kalispell-Denver - days one and two
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16 apr 12 |
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You can't make it up VIII - Himalayan glaciers resist... guess what?
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16 apr 12 |
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