Daily Archives: January 8, 2006

A thread revisited

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Arthur

Reminder to self: don’t call the main thread without ‘synchronizing’ it. Earlier and much earlier.

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0 ≠ 1

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Arthur

It’s 27 years ago, Pol Pot’s Red Khmer’s grip on Cambodia ended with the fall of Phnom Phen. If you’re not familiar with the Red Khmer, you were probably born in the Eighties (or you weren’t watching the news): under … Continue reading →

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New Tricks

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Arthur

Last night, while mindlessly switching channels, I ended up at the PBS (the US Public Broadcasting channel). The channel was showing a British series called ‘New Tricks’. If I’m not wrong, what I was watching may have been the very … Continue reading →

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Fish!

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Arthur

The discussion on the blogosphere (‘do links subvert hierarchies’, summarized over at Burningbird) reminds me of the social behaviour of the African cichlid fish. These fish are particularly of interest for science because they are the most spectacular example of … Continue reading →

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