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There are 10 types of people in the world, Eagle Eye

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There are 10 types of people in the world

Those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t.
Yes, I read Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, by Alex Bellos, on holiday. That line isn’t in there, but a lot of other good things are. Bellos has a wonderful quotation on p324 from Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, about a change made to the shuffle function [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 8:31 am

Fit To Drop: Time for a healthy scientific approach, Notebook

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Fit To Drop: Time for a healthy scientific approach

When I’m especially self-deprecating, I just say I’m a “fat old bloke”. The last word I don’t want to do anything about, the middle word I can’t (better than the alternative), but the first niggles me.
When I’m not being quite so hard on myself, I say I’m not as fat as might be. You know, [...]

By Martin King | Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 7:44 am

Real history: Flight Lieutenant Czeslaw Tarkowski’s Remembrances, Notebook

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Real history: Flight Lieutenant Czeslaw Tarkowski’s Remembrances

Yesterday The Independent Online launched The Battle of Britain: an appeal for real history campaign – a bid to obtain a glimpse of real history from readers (or their relatives) who were there.
The grandson of Flight Lieutenant Czeslaw Tarkowski (pictured), a Polish pilot in the RAF, has provided us with some of his grandfather’s “Rememberences” [...]

By Matilda Battersby | Notebook | Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 4:03 pm

There’s treasure everywhere, Arts

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There’s treasure everywhere

Need proof? Try these two new musicians from different parts of the world who both restore your faith in what we’ve come to understand by the term “singer-songwriter”.

By Simmy Richman | Arts | Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 1:01 pm

Must Watch: Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer trailer, Games

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Must Watch: Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer trailer

A teaser trailer of what to expect from the multiplayer component of upcoming first-person shooter ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ has been made available by developer, Treyarch.

By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 11:26 am

Appeal for real history: ‘My grandma gave a German pilot the V sign’, Notebook

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Appeal for real history: ‘My grandma gave a German pilot the V sign’

It is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a lengthy air campaign between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe during World War II, at the height of which PM Winston Churchill made his famous speech, ‘Never was so much owed by so many to so few.’
Yesterday The Independent Online launched The Battle [...]

By Matilda Battersby | Notebook | Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 9:42 am

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Marc Jacobs Joins Fashion-Pack ‘Plus Size’ Bandwagon

Marc Jacobs is due to become the first high fashion label to produce a collection for women who are Size 14 and over.
While The Independent covered the story in four short paragraphs, The Guardian pushed the boat out with a full on article discussing everything we already know about Beth Ditto and plus size model [...]

By Catherine | Notebook | Monday, 9 August 2010 at 10:04 pm

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The price of passion hits the pocket in Argentina

The start of a new campaign sees even the most seasoned sceptics carrying the sparkle of optimism in their eyes. Memories of countless hopes shattered under the feet of pathetic players are temporarily expelled. Substituted in is a 36-year-old striker on a free transfer and the uneasy expectation that this really could be our year.
Romance [...]

By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Monday, 9 August 2010 at 9:55 pm

Janelle Monae falls off her tightrope, Arts

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Janelle Monae falls off her tightrope

Janelle Monae has received admiring glances from all sides for her boho-futurist sound, style and general outlook (listen to an example of such praise here). Basically, she seems like quite a cool person, and her music’s pretty good too. “Tightrope”, the opening single from her acclaimed new record The ArchAndroid has made a strong bid [...]

By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 9 August 2010 at 6:11 pm

Kashmir’s burning need for a non-lethal response, The Foreign Desk

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Kashmir’s burning need for a non-lethal response

It was always going to have required a miracle, but the family of Fidah Nabi prayed and hoped that one would be forthcoming. The 19-year-old Kashmiri was shot in the head last week by police who opened fire on demonstrators. Fidah’s family said the teenager had not been taking part in the demonstration – I [...]

By Andrew Buncombe | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 9 August 2010 at 4:44 pm

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