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A nice thought, but I think that, in reality, those counties' leaders' overriding loyalty will be to staying in the EU. Look at David Cameron's stance throughout the run-up to the …

Some pictures of London coal plates here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/opercula?src=hash They gained some brief national attention in Britain (at least among those who follow politi…

The other one I'm reminded of is Tic-tac, the bookmakers' sign language that John McCririck helped to bring to popular attention on Channel 4 Racing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia…

Exactly -- the latest major release is Darwin 15 (corresponding to OS X El Capitan / 10.11). I'd love to see this (or a similar) project succeed and remain relevant, but it just se…

Not quite. Comprehensive (non-selective) schools are the norm and have been for many years. Grammar schools only remain in very few areas, where the local authority has chosen to k…

'Remembering' as in 'bearing in mind' rather than 'looking back nostalgically' (i.e. as in 'remember to look both ways before you cross the road'). My first instinct on seeing the …

Serious options: Aeropress or Hario V60 drip filter (or similar -- Chemex, &c.), and a good hand-grinder. I use Hario's skeleton/skerton. Does anyone know of any services similar t…

Congratulations. From an idea to an App Store app in 2 weeks is very impressive, but it's 10x more impressive given that you were learning along the way. Simple question, though: w…

Here's a sound guide: http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

The analogy went some way to showing how the argument based on there being "no direct competition" is a fallacy. I find it very hard to believe that MS hasn't had a good look at Ap…

The whole app feels like an imitation of a Mac app. Most obviously on 10.7, the window chrome is wrong. Other small things like incorrect and wrongly sized fonts inside controls, o…

I wonder whether this latest proposed redesign will finally have Firefox behaving like, y'know, a native OS X app, or whether it'll be just as shallow as all previous efforts.

+1 Herzog. His latest 'documentary', Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is wonderful.

In this case, Australia is a common law country. Its legal heritage is English, not civil/Roman.

Pretty easy, and superficially appealing, but I find that there must surely be exceptions to a rule such as this. Nuclear weapons (and similarly, some chemical weapons) are the obv…

If you want to be pernickety, 'alternative vote' is also a misnomer: the word 'alternative' comes from the Latin 'alter', which means 'the other of two [options]'. There are more t…

The "constitutional" aspect (if there is one) isn't the issue, though. The issue is whether I, you, or anyone else, wants a web host that takes down web sites it disapproves of. A …

Indeed, and this trend also seems to prefer large-ish font sizes.

Don't make him self-conscious.

Sparkle (the update framework) uses WebKit, so everything that uses Sparkle links against it.

It seems to be. He has more photos of her on his blog, too: http://stellerphoto.com/blog/archives/207 And revenues of $200 million for the company who puts the pages up! http://art…

The most interesting part for me was the link to the stock photo of the girl on all the expired domains. I wonder if she knows that her photo is everywhere.

http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/treating_url_protocol_sche...

OmniWeb 5.10.2 sneaky peek (v622.11 r128512): 113 (not in the rakaz.nl list)