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That's really rather neat -- thanks!

Derived from "golliwog", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog

Ouch, I guess that "wog" does not have the same racist meaning in the US as it does in the UK :-(

This is such an American comment to make

Java: write once, run away.

Breaking news: putting locks on your doors leads to 'unethical' practices by burglars ...

true that, best coffee in the world [jealous]

I don't want to type faster than I can think.

This is so true, I've tried Word/LaTeX collaboration twice, each time I spend more time cleaning up the conversion mess than writing the sodding paper; learn from my fail.

"we have a right to not be tortured" is synonymous for "torture practices are wrong", rights do not exist in any other sense (ask yourself, where are they located?) unless you are …

Philosophy, rest quiet for a moment -- http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/dec/22/monkey-sa... …

or, http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

The same as that for the Evil Iraqis and their WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, I would imagine.

All those seem to be at apostrophes -- possibly a "smart quote" cut & paste issue?

> I'd love a boiled egg > Me too, I could murder some soldiers

A festival for the rest of us!

Thanks for the recommendation, on my list!

Modiano is a genius, one of several fantastic writers coming from France in the last 20 years -- see also Marie Darrieussecq, Sylvie Germain, Camille Laurens, ...

Usually so libertarian here, so where did that go?

What a great idea, give violent and dangerous people a pecuniary interest in gaining control of a piece of your body.

The referenced paper, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf is well worth a read.

If spreadsheets are your thing, by all means use Windows (I understand it is rather user friendly), but don't for heaven's sake use Excel -- it cannot accurately calculate a standard deviati…

Deleuze is incisive, an unexpectedly readable

A Flew, "An Introduction to Western Philosophy"

I clicked on the careers link and would seriously consider working for a company with such an enlightened attitude to open source, chill! (In fact in the wrong country, but nevertheless...)