Daily archives: December 3, 2002
Help me, I’m trapped Scary recursion thing, don’t visit under the influence of drugs, or you may never come back.
Times Online- Last of the Cockleshell Heroes Dies It’s easy enough to sit here and type out stories of commando raids, quite something else to contemplate what they really involved. Of the ten men who set out up the Gironde Estuary in canoes, only two made it back to England. Two others drowned and the rest were captured and shot.
Raids such as this, and the destroying of the Normandie dry docks, denying an Atlantic port where Germany’s biggest battleships could put in for repair, were such great strategic and psychological victories that Hitler issued a ‘commando directive’ ordering the murder of any who took part.
TextArc is a graphical way of analysing documents, with the whole text mapped first in an arc around the outside and then again as a mist of words in the middle, with the more common words brighter and averaged toward the centre depending upon their spread throughout the document. Select a word and it will show you lines back to all its appearances in the outer arc. Of course, they started with Alice, but then, everyone does.
From BBC News
It’s quite lonely in a 15 room mansion, so the Lord is advertising for a new wife.
Salon- The decline and fall of the American empire An interview with the author of this book, which suggests that a vitalised European Union, (once British politicians get a clue and admit that we’re fully a part of Europe) would pose a greater threat to US dominance than any terrorism short of a nuclear attack.