The Null Device

Another alternative Tube map. Somehow I doubt there will be many reputable Mornington Crescent games played on this one...

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A blog item I feel compelled to steal in its entirety from Jim: Mark "Zompist" Rosenfelder's site, brimming with fascinating stuff about language and culture, including a piece comparing Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, how to write the numbers 1 to 10 in over 4,500 languages, how to tell if you're American, English, French or German (among other nationalities), and the marvellous Yingzi, a hypothetical ideographic script, modelled on Chinese, for the English language.

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And now, the Anti-Bloggies. Vote early, vote often!

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Kudos to Verio; the giant ISP has refused to remove a web site, Cryptome, which was allegedly hosting the DVD decrypting software DeCSS (ruled illegal under the DMCA; currently under appeal).

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