The Null Device

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2001/2/7

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.

As this blog is produced in a facility that processes sarcasm, individual posts may contain traces of sarcasm.

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One year ago:

2011/2/11

Vanity Fair has a long but interesting article about the Irish financial crisis : reland’s financial disaster shared some things with Iceland’s. It was created by the sort of men who ignore their wives’ suggestions that

Two years ago:

2010/2/12

If former Microsoft executive Nathan Myrhvold (now involved in malaria-eradication programmes funded by Bill Gates) has his way, we may soon have miniature mosquito-killing laser turrets : Now the fun stuff: Shoot mosquitoes out of the

Five years ago:

2007/2/11

1 Hour Of Music In 20 is an irregular podcast presenting 20 minutes of excerpts of music along a theme, with insightful commentary by the curator, Hermione Gilchrist. The most recent one is quite good,