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Posted on September 17, 2015June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Corps as Polities… and Google’s Migrant Crisis Donation Drive

Today I launched google search and saw a tiny, self-effacing, non-intrusive little grey banner at the top of the search page. It was asking for donations to …

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Posted on February 9, 2015June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Gynnies and Andies – part deux

Blimey… You turn your back for a minute… and the gynnies have whizzed through the evolutionary equivalent of a few millenia! Witness:

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Posted on January 11, 2015July 29, 2019 by: Leona

The real lesson of Rapa Nui

So…. I just watched a documentary on Easter Island… and I want to grab its makers and shake them, vigorously. Less of that for the …

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Posted on January 3, 2015July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…

First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …

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Posted on September 3, 2014August 13, 2019 by: Leona

Holography Schmolography

[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …

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Posted on April 27, 2014July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Jodorowsky and his Dune

I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to …

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Posted on April 12, 2014June 16, 2019 by: Leona

heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us

It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …

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Posted on October 14, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

You want me to WHAT my phone?

So while our Microsoft Exchange Server has always been a tad pissy with my Android phone, my employer has reconfigured it recently to up the ante: …

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Posted on October 5, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Equipment for off-grid homes

It takes quite a bit of doing, all this off-grid home stuff! Worst of all, the only thing I could remember from high school electronics …

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Posted on September 27, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

TEDx talk on telling the African Story

Good journalism on Africa on journalism mashup talk: Bit of a sprig off the ‘ole HTWAA meme…. Update / sad post-scriptum: Komla Dumor is… dead. …

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