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Trying to open this document for download I'm firmly (unusually firmly) warned off by my ISP. It really was a 'go ahead if you want to be scammed' sort of thing. Anybody have an op…

Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to tho…

A notorious philanderer, it is said, though I guess you may have to be nice to be one of those.

I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer…

This was a Time Team Special in 2005 [Series 18, Episode 138], unfortunately named the "King of Bling". The location was given as Prittlewell, Essex [on the outskirts of Southend].…

Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books. Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help …

As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally …

I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is no…

I guess she means he left communism. A belief in history, almost as a god, is inherent in communism as I understand it. The changes they believe in are pre-ordained, they need only…

In the Dark Universe novel by Daniel F Galouye, a section of humanity has hidden themselves for generations in lightless caverns below a poisoned Earth. They have become functional…

I'm with Buckminster on this: t-ewe-pl. I think it may be UK English 'dialect'.

Have to have a valid Gitbook account to access these works, which is a bit of a mission. I keep getting 401 despite careful, and seemingly error-free, sign-up process.

Uniquely, AFAIK, the Dynalist team make their Trello kanban available for us all to see. We can also subscribe to and vote for our wished-for developments.

As a writer of English I find a font without the letter Q to be distinctly lacking...

I remember reading that, even in the English countryside in the past, goitre was frequent among those who 'drank pond water' and thus missed out on any soluble naturally-occurring …

Beware also that Aspirin allergy is a thing and often accompanies a general allergy to NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen. In my own case the allergy results in a moving facial swelling (ang…

Perhaps it was everywhere: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/bindoon-...

The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had be…

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/Ms_fnd_in_a_Lbry.html

PC Outline (PCO) was very good in its day. I was using it under DOS in 1985 and some people are still using it today in a Windows DOS box. It gave me the opportunity to move over f…

along the same lines is how Stalin's executioners billed the family of those they had shot for the ammunition used. Often this was the only way they found out their loved-one had b…

Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.

For truly 'extensive bombing' the Germans would have required heavy bombers, which they did not possess. The Luftwaffe had been largely conceived of as a support to ground troops w…

Ah yes, 'falling short' on places such as the New Cross Woolworths, leading to deaths of 168 persons, and laying waste areas such as Peckham where the fall of ten or more V1s and V…

I think you'll find that the behaviour of the East German Authorities has more in common with the beliefs of Mr Trump than those of Mr Sanders, but either way that's a cheap shot n…