The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

So I'm back in The 'Hagen. Thoughts from last time are here . A surprisingly large effect of being on holiday is the impact of no ...

' Random Street View '. All these places I've never been and never will go. Also, it reminds you how despite the fact that if yo...

What happens when the whitest band in history covers the second whitest band in history? A whole metric buttload of awesome, that’s what. ...

-Things that make me want to learn computer science - a visual depiction of different sorting algorithms -Genius! -An awesome SMB...

You know how sometimes you just don't seem to have any anything to contribute? I mean, I'd seen these billboards about ' No Kill...

1.  Just $10? Why not $50? Now THAT'S a living wage! It's free, after all. 2. Physicists discover that nominal interest rates are...

And some fact to round it out:

-Apparently someone took the Simpsons marketing scheme as a literal suggestion . -So various IRS employees were apparently hassling cons...

-Mark Steyn gives a rousing defense of free speech following the scandalously underreported assassination attempt on Danish free speech adv...

-A thoroughly fascinating description of how to interact with corrupt police in third world countries from John McAfee, who's had to te...

- Incentives? Who gives a damn about incentives ? -Partly in regards to this , Obama was asked what Donald Trump has against him . Good q...

- Entirely Alive! defends giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union . I tend to agree. Let's put it this way - it's a hell...

Every now and again, I worry that this site may be at risk of being too self-serious. So with rectification in mind, I laughed hella hard ...

-It's very refreshing to see people smoking outdoors in restaurants. Not because I smoke. Nor because I like the smell of smoke while ea...

- It's always good when you're watching a group of runners lined up on the track without hearing the earlier announcements, and you ...

People focus on the salient risks. OMG, someone might steal my passport! Fair enough - they might. But truthfully, how high is the risk of...

-The Last Psychiatrist has a great essay about self-destructive behaviour . -I got 99 problems, but an incorrect understanding of criminal...

So today was one of those cases of getting unreasonably excited by something completely trivial and ridiculous. It's taken three years...

Apologies for the lack of updates, I've been travelling around a fair bit recently. Here's my sociological travelogue. Miami -To...