Haydon Berrow

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Mathematicians claim it was by Pascal https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/...
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Bus passes are issued by local councils with photo id you provide. Railcards are issued by National Rail with photo id you provide. My bus pass has a photo taken at a government office by an employee with her...
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in the UK, New voter ID laws discriminate against young people (old peoples' bus passes are acceptable at polling stations, but young persons' railcards are not) To be fair, bus passes are photo-ids issued by government, rail-passes are non-photo...
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OK. Hoyle's statement was gross hyperbole but if we take 'the world' as a metonym for modern humans how should we measure the importance of an event and what are everyone's top 10 candidates? I ran out of imagination after...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)