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{ Daily Archives } Monday, October 2004

How to Scare People with Statistics

In a similar vein to the below, and reading like an abridgement of one of my favourite books: [ironmonkey.blogspot.com] Step 1. Start with data that shows a positive trend, like this DOT highway fatality data that shows that the traffic fatality rate is at the lowest level ever recorded. This article states the correct conclusion [...]

America, Terrorism and the Power of Nightmares

I remember September 11th 2001 for a variety of reasons – it came towards the end of my first major motorcycle holiday, it was the last time I visited a particularly intelligent, gorgeous, and sport-crazed Cambridge PhD ex-girlfriend, and it was the time whilst walking back from a Cambridge bookshop to unchain my motorbike that [...]

First flush of “Designed for Firefox” pages appearing?

I barely know whether to giggle or cry – for many years I have been vexed by “This page best viewed using Internet Explorer at 800×600″ pages, and now in a fit of turnabout-is-fair-play Mike Werner writes: [blogs.motorbiker.org] As off this weekend, I’ll be viewing and testing all articles only using Mozilla’s FireFox web browser [...]

deconstrutionalist decomposing

detritus of derrida dispersing: [news.bbc.co.uk]

adminshop …

So this is how I am receiving all this referrerspam, both for pr0n and for Adminshop.com itself; the pity for them is that I don’t publish referrer data so it all goes down a black hole… [www.adminshop.com] Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload [...]

Isn’t it a small world?

It’s definitely a small world – at the weekend I scanned back through the postings listed on [www.planetsun.org] and found several, from various colleagues, praising a music video done by Sarah McLachan. On a whim – having time, energy, and DSL bandwidth to spare – I click the link and watch the video I think [...]

New Toy On Order …

…delivery TBD.