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"The Uncanny Algorithm is a trading algorithm. One that is currently in stage 1, which is the call..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:14:44 +0000

“The Uncanny Algorithm is a trading algorithm. One that is currently in stage 1, which is the call for investment and the creation of the actual algorithm. The algorithm will use a trading platform and buy and sell shares with the investors money. However, rather than using current rationale, the algorithm will use superstition as its principle logic. The rules or logic will be governed by collective beliefs such as the fear of the number 13.”

- Uncanny algorithms and superstitious bankers - we make money not art (via iamdanw)

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:12:28 +0000

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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:18:05 +0000

Local jesters have built a very large snowman in the road LOLOL

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:18 +0000

Local jesters have built a very large snowman in the road LOLOL

Going ASDA

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:21 +0000

Going ASDA

"If the grass is greener on the other side, then the guy with the greener grass doesn’t think..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:11:24 +0000

“If the grass is greener on the other side, then the guy with the greener grass doesn’t think your grass is greener now does he, asshole? The message that this proverb is trying to stumble through is that everything always looks more attractive when you don’t have it. I’m sure there are millionaires crying themselves to sleep every night because they don’t live in a trailer park. Just face it: sometimes nobody envies you. There has to be a bottom and that bottom is probably you.”

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:53:30 +0000

iamdanw: This is how they get trains in and out of the Waterloo...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:52:23 +0000

iamdanw:

This is how they get trains in and out of the Waterloo & City line (via Waterloo & City line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

iamdanw: Southern Electric - New rolling stock for the Waterloo...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:52:10 +0000

iamdanw:

Southern Electric - New rolling stock for the Waterloo & City (by SouthernRailwayFilms)

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:34:38 +0000

"I am sorry, I was told this train was going to Richmond and the signal men have changed their mind..."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:00:05 +0000

“I am sorry, I was told this train was going to Richmond and the signal men have changed their mind and this train is now going to Parsons Green”

- Going Underground

"In an interestingly archaeological story from the world of digital infrastructure, engineers who..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:39 +0000

“In an interestingly archaeological story from the world of digital infrastructure, engineers who discovered “an unused fibre optic cable in Mongolia” were able, after putting it back into service, to “shave milliseconds” from a British firm’s internet traffic between London and Hong Kong. After all, there is “unused cabling infrastructure around the world,” like forgotten limbs awaiting future reactivation.”

- BLDGBLOG: Remnant Infrastructure (via iamdanw)

"Now comes the bad bit. In a knee-jerk response, the Education Minister has today decreed that ICT is..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:49:18 +0000

“Now comes the bad bit. In a knee-jerk response, the Education Minister has today decreed that ICT is to be swept away and replaced by Computer Science in September. So we have eight months in which to retrain the 80% of ICT teachers who have no background in comp-sci, to write a new curriculum and devise new examinations – something that requires a lead time of at least two years.”

- Michael Gove and the computing curriculum: not thought-through « Yacapaca (via iamdanw)

"There’s one more change too, greeted with delirious cheers from the home fans. Yep, Thierry..."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:14:58 +0000

“There’s one more change too, greeted with delirious cheers from the home fans. Yep, Thierry Henry is on for Marouane Chamakh. To be fair, Chamakh has been so bad tonight that if I had come on for him, I would have probably got the same reaction.”

"Football’s governing body extends its influence with a successful nuclear test. The explosion takes..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:02 +0000

“Football’s governing body extends its influence with a successful nuclear test. The explosion takes place underground, in a secret location near Fifa’s Zurich headquarters, despite repeated objections from the Swiss government. President Sepp Blatter insists that Fifa’s nuclear capability will only be used for peaceful purposes, in order to further promote football worldwide. Critics say the organisation is looking to strengthen its position in the ongoing dispute over goal-line technology.”

- The 2012 news: read it here first | World news | The Guardian (via iamdanw)

News from the European Commission in the UK

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:17:00 +0000

News from the European Commission in the UK:

iamdanw:

“The European commission has a blog that corrects ‘mistakes’ made by British tabloids”

"Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to..."

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:13:28 +0000

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Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to vote.

What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate, instead of the fringe youth? What happens when they start getting elected to office? (Maybe “I downloaded but didn’t share” will be the new “I smoked, but didn’t inhale.”)

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- No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org (via iamdanw)

City of Victoria

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:01:00 +0000

City of Victoria:

Victoria City expanded over much of what is now Central, Sheung Wan, and Wan Chai. However, the city name Victoria has been eclipsed by Central in popular usage. It is nevertheless retained in the names of various organisations in reference to the Victoria City, such as the Victoria City District of the Hong Kong Scout, and the Victoria Junior Chamber. The name Victoria District Court had been in used at least way into the 1980s.

香港開埠至今，維多利亞城一直是香港政府所在地和金融中心。不少外地書籍，標示維多利亞城為香港的首府。隨着發展，此名今日已不多見，並已被中西區及中區取代，可是香港童軍、香港青年商會、扶輪社等組織仍然保留「維多利亞城分區」此名字，維多利亞城的界線仍記錄在香港法律之中，而於1903年設立的維多利亞城界碑亦仍然有6塊存在於城市界線上。

Steepest Street in the World

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Steepest Street in the World:

Baldwin Street in a suburban part of New Zealand’s southern city of Dunedin, is considered the world’s steepest residential street.

The street is the venue for an annual event in Dunedin, the Baldwin Street Gutbuster. Every summer since 1988 (usually in February), this exercise in fitness and balance involves athletes running from the base of the street to the top and back down again. The event attracts several hundred competitors annually, and as of 2008 the record is 1:56, set in 1998.

Since 2002, a further charity event has been held annually in July, which involves the rolling of over 30,000 Jaffas (spherical confectionery-coated chocolate sweets). Each Jaffa is sponsored by one person, with prizes to the winner and funds raised going to charity.

This event follows a tradition started in 1998, when 2,000 tennis balls were released in a sponsored event raising money for Habitat for Humanity.

Piracy Pays for Itself, Swiss Government Says

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:38:54 +0000

Piracy Pays for Itself, Swiss Government Says:

blackbutshining:

if you want to make money off of music (without actually making music), the implication of all these studies is that legislation will not help you, building a better mousetrap will.

Take all that money you’d spend on lawyers, and figure out what makes Spotify great, and figure out how to expand that success.

As someone who pirates a ton of music - nearly as much as I buy - I’ve nearly stopped, because it’s now more difficult than spotify.

I wonder how many corporations or companies will actually take heed of this advice? Probably close to none…