UPDATE (2008-06): a new version is available (v1.2): http://www.rufuspollock.org/2008/06/23/markdown2latex-mkdn2latex-12/
Over the last year I’ve written quite a few papers using markdown plus asciimathml. While this is great for web publication (and editing) and gives me lots of styling freedom via css it doesn’t produce output that’s as nice as that produced by latex [...]
7/10. Interesting, its prime feature is an exuberant richness of language that for the whole delights — though perhaps this over-ripeness becomes a little tiring as the tales wends to its close.
Back in July the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) published, as part of the their series on IP and the Public Sphere, my paper entitled The Value of the Public Domain. This essay was’t intended to be original research but rather to provide an overview of the social and commercial benefits to be [...]
7/10. Dark and harsh this film was strongest when at its most horror-ific whether in the sections of fantasy or reality. Well above average but no masterpiece and let down by a plot that never really surprised and several holes.
5.5/10. Too much of a cheap trick with the twist in the tail not worth the wait.
Whenever I’ve had a few spare minutes over the last couple of months I’ve been hacking away on svnrepo, a pythonic API to local subversion repositories and it is now robust enough to warrant a 0.1 release. svnrepo is (and was intended to be) very small, just a single module, that wrapped the [...]
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965, by Taylor Branch, the second volume of the trilogy (finished last week).
6.5/10. An interesting debut, gritty and uncompromising but lacking the brilliance of the same film-makers oscar-winning short, Wasps.
Wrongness of Chomsky’s (and Pinker’s) arguments for Linguistic nativism. See: http://www.grsampson.net/REmpNat.html
Interesting example of how popular science can be very misleading. Pinker (and Chomsky) write very well (and have big impressive sounding titles) yet are purveying a viewpoint that is controversial (or worse: already discredited) in proper scientific circles.
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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