The Null Device
The Null Device, being a stream of links and commentary on culture, technology, current events and whatever the author finds interesting.
The Null Device is maintained by acb, in his copious spare time.
This site makes no pretense of being objective and no guarantees of accuracy, reliability or posting frequency.
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One year ago:
2018/7/8
So yesterday, England beat Sweden in the world cup, securing their first place in a final in decades, and setting off riotous celebrations. Some football fans, filled with the euphoria of the moment, trashed an IKEATwo years ago:
2017/6/9
Well, that was interesting. It was an unnecessary election, called by a brittle authoritarian Prime Minister, hoping to take advantage of an unpopular and discombobulated opposition to get a sweeping mandate to remake the country. AwareFive years ago:
2014/6/30
In January 2012, Facebook conducted a psychology experiment on 689,003 unknowing users , modifying the stories they saw in their news feeds to see whether this affected their emotional state. The experiment was automatically performed overYou have been reading The Null Device.