Tag: politics
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DEBATE NIGHT! - A Bad Lip Reading of the first 2016 Presidential Debate
Bad Lip Reading -
buried_treasure calculates the maximum number of votes a UK political party can get and still lose the election
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Looking for Wikipedia?
Dan explains how to get around the Wikipedia anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout, should you need to.
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Apples To Alternative Vote
The Earthlings invent a new and topical variant on board game Apples To Apples, to commemorate the upcoming Alternative Vote referendum.
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Democracy At Work
Earlier this week, I had a strange experience, but it requires a little bit of back story.
Spend enough time with me, and you'll hear me gripe about the problems of our democracy: the faults of the plurality voting system, gerrymandering and it's long-term ripple effects, party politics, the motivations of politicians, and much more, even … -
Interview Sarah Palin
Remember about four-and-a-bit years ago, I downloaded Dadadodo, which I described at the time as a "word disassociator?" The program itself is a Markov chain generator/randomiser that works on sentence structures: in other words, given some text (speeches, poetry, blog posts, whatever - other kinds have been demonstrated to work on things like music) it …
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Six Pounds And Eighteen Pence
That's how much better off I am per month than I was previously. Or, as I see it, three pints.
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The Aber Masterplan
Have you seen the Aber Masterplan yet? The Welsh Development Agency/Welsh Assembly Government/Ceredigion County Council document that takes a SimCity-like approach to planning the future development of Aberystwyth.
No? You oughta. Here: download a copy [PDF].
It's got some good bits. Re-routing some of the trunk roads to improve traffic … -
No Right To Complain
There are lots of good arguments as to why an individual should vote: perhaps I'll write about some of those later, and talk about my own personal experience of the system. In this blog post, instead, I'm going to talk about a very bed argument for voting. It's a very popular argument I've heard used …
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Lib Dems In Ceredigion
Lib Dems win in Ceredigion over Plaid Cymru, by 219 votes, after a recount. Our little election party just took off...
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A Diversion From The Election
Looking for a diversion from the fun of tonight's vote-counting? Here's Wikipedia's "List Of Frivolous Political Parties.
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More Flash: “Second Term”
Jon has posted to his blog about "Second Term", JibJab's most recent parody of the American policial system (you'll remember It's Good To Be In D.C. and This Land, which I blogged about earlier). In any case, the versions you'll find on JibJab and Yahoo are surrounded by advertisements and can't easily be resized (hey; …
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Good To Be In D.C.
The guys behind "This Land" have done it again - this time with "It's Good To Be In D.C.". Requires Shockwave Flash - click here to watch!
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This Land Will Surely Vote For Me!
This is hilariously good, and it's kicking up a bit of a fuss. So, in case it gets taken down, I'll be hosting a copy of it here, too... Click here to watch "My Land", starring Bush & Kerry. I can't help but sing along...
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CV Of George Bush
[this post was damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has not been possible to recover it]
[it was partially recovered on 13 October 2018]
This one's doing the rounds of the internet, but it made me smile so I'm posting it here...
RESUME - GEORGE W. BUSH
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT:
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