The Null Device

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2010/5/21

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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

Comic-book editor Steve Padnick argues that, more than other comic-book superheroes, Batman is an embodiment of plutocracy , with a good measure of Hobbesian authoritarianism thrown in: Batman isn’t just “the man,” Bruce Wayne is also

Two years ago:

2010/2/9

Pete Warden, a programmer and amateur researcher, has analysed the data from public Facebook profiles, including the relative locations of pairs of friends and people's names and fan pages, and used this to divide the US

Five years ago:

2007/2/9

Last night, I visited the local video library a rather good one in Stoke Newington Church St., which has a lot of art-house/foreign films) and rented a copy of C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America .