Monthly Archives: March 2007

Single Speed

March 26, 2007 – 4:52 pm

I recently invested a whopping £13 British Pounds (approx. $26 US, or $4,000 Canadian) on eBay to download the following beauty: A rocking single speed conversion of a ‘Raleigh Marauder’. You might guess from the name that this isn’t a quality frame, but it’s got rear dropouts long enough to run a single speed, and [...]

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Mac crash

March 23, 2007 – 9:33 pm

My MacBook just crashed, as in turned itself off without any warning. This has never happened to me before, and I’m a little freaked. The fact that there’s a green light flashing on the battery is a source of concern too.

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McJob

March 22, 2007 – 6:17 am

It’s possible somebody missed the point of a dictionary: McDonald’s Corp. on Tuesday restarted its push to get the word “McJob” removed from dictionaries — and has set its sights on the gold standard of lexicons, the Oxford English Dictionary. From the point of view of the fast-food proletariat, the reason for the McLanguage offensive [...]

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This American Showtime

March 21, 2007 – 10:54 am

This American Life, a great radio documentary programme not bogged down by attempts at worthiness (though it often is more illuminating than standard documentaries) is now on Showtime, apparently. Here’s what it looks like.

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I’ll see your bacon number and raise you…

March 20, 2007 – 7:47 pm

..an Erdős–Bacon number. Paul Erdős was a mathematician who published some 1,500 papers with 509 different collaborators, in some way paralleling the prolific career of Kevin Bacon. As with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game that gives actors a Bacon number according to the number of co-stars required to link them to Mr Bacon, [...]

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