The Null Device

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2000/6/16

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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• Meet the new boss 2
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One year ago:

2011/2/12

Proof that we're now almost* living in the future: the new mobile Google Translate app , which runs on your iPhone and does speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis (provided you have a data connection, of

Two years ago:

2010/2/12

Neologism of the day: " Crash blossoms " is apparently the word for amusingly ambiguous newspaper headlines (of the form of "British Left Waffles On Falklands", "Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans" or "Drunk Gets Nine

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,