I came across a very amusing image the other day, dealing with the questions that various popular programming languages seek to answer. There is a nice thread on reddit with some extra suggestions to include in the list too.Here is a transcription.Python: What if everything was a dict?Java: …

I wrote a proper post about the recent London Riots on the New Internationalist blog. But I thought a Real …

Scientists have today claimed that there is no conclusive evidence that David Bellamy, the controversial botanist and TV personality, exists or was caused by human activity.Man or myth? Speaking from a windfarm in Northern Scotland a scientist from the Intergovernmental Panel on C …

I was at the Climate Camp, reading the Evening Standard's account of how militants intended to hijack the camp to eat babies or something when it occurred to me that Daily Mail, Express and Standard journos could be replaced by a relatively trivial perl script. So, may I present the Daily Mail …