Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.1 This week: 86.7
Wednesday 11 October: A very kind friend reminded me of the need to drink more water, and it is true that with the onset of cooler weather I might not have been drinking as much as before. That and the lack of water hidden in food surely contribute to...

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Rebecca has turned up another great find: Visualizing Meaning at Cornell University. The entire faculty was asked: “Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and other) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable”. The results are wonderf...

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It was very smart of Netflix to offer a $1 million prize to anyone who could substantially increase the accuracy of its recommendations software. Smart, and good business too. There’s already been some improvement, after only about a month. But, purely selfishly, there’s somewhere else I wish...

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Lost. Abandoned. Forgotten. Discarded. All tell a different story. But left behind? I find that a lot more poignant somehow.

An odd week, to say the least, in which one sees Sin City one night and Water a day later. It’d be easy to do the trite thing and say that Sin City was very violent while Water was very moving. But it works the other way too. The violence of Water is unspoken and largely unseen; but without the...

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