Am\xE9lie, aka Le Fabuleux destin d'Am\xE9lie Poulain An excellent film directed/written by Jean Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant who were also involved in The...
I received the following on 31 March 1999: : If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your har...
I quite liked this Modified Tory Poster, I actually found it through a search for "lies"! http://www.flickr.com/photos/billyniblick/6654694/in/photostream/ ht...
As We May Think by VannevarBush Below are a selection of quotes from the article. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making mor...
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Birmingham Council Elections 2007 The picture below shows the percentage of votes obtained by each party in each ward. Red indicates a low vote, green the highest...
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Brummies Build Boat in Bonn The Journey On Friday the 20th of July, members of BirminghamFOE travelled to Bonn for the COP6 climate negotiations. We caught the tr...
Cold Reading How to read someone's mind. Cold Reading Do you have the personality? Is this you? On a scale of 1 to 5, how well does this fit YOUR personality...
Overview * CERT if you want to stay up to date with security risks, read CERT http://www.cert.org/ * Video, audio and slides from the Black Hat Briefings co...
* Electronic ink Already piloted for in store advertising, now getting closer to use in consumer products http://www.eink.com/ Main.AndyPryke 24 Apr 2001
Cults, Brainwashing and Psychological Manipulation I'm interested in the way peoples beliefs are formed and changed. This includes the manipulation techniques use...
Dr Andy Pryke Data Mining Ph.D. and Consultant Andy Pryke is an expert in data mining, data visualisation and applied statistics, with more than 12 years #8217;...
DNS Troubleshooting * http://www.dnsreport.com/ Great checks for various DNS fields, with explainations and links to RFCs * http://www.samspade.org Onli...
Making Sense of Information I work to help people understand information which is too large or complex to make sense of using standard office software. Common are...
Quotes from DorothyParker... I wish I could drink like a lady I can take one or two at the most Three and I'm under the table Four and I'm under the host Dorothy...
From memory: Higgeldy Piggeldy Christopher Isherwood I've never heard of you, do you exist? My good friend Geraldine Says you wrote "Cabaret" Speaking quite candi...
I've been interested in the concept of memes since I read TheSelfishGene by RichardDawkin as a child. I'd also written on EmailVirusesAndChainLetters as an e...
This page was written in Spring 1999 as a rough and ready reference for local users when I worked at the DepartmentOfComputer Science, at TheUniversityOfBirmingha...
From: Andy N Pryke (A.N.Pryke #64;cs.bham.ac.uk) Subject: Re: herbs which repell ants? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs Date: 1996/07/04 On alt.folklore.herbs,...
What does FooBar mean to me? This is currently a nonsense page. AndyP Test edit with Opera Windows Mobile 5 Prev: BlogJune2006 1 Year Ago: BlogJuly2005 Next: Blo...
Comments and Discussion Name: Andy Pryke June 11, 2004 E mail: SomeEmail #64;SomeWhere.com URL: http://www.AndyPryke.com Comments: Testing 1 2 3 Name: Andy P...
* BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ * Independent Media Centre http://www.indymedia.org/ * What's on Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi perl/whatson/search/da...
It's just a phrase. I use "Giant Screaming Bats" when I'm testing things to do with search engines. It doesn't come up. Perhaps it should. Main.AndyPryke 04 O...
In this book, DouglasHoffstadter examines a whole host of topics around the subjects intelligence, consciousness, information, mathematics, recursion, symbolic s...
From: Andy N Pryke (anp #64;cs.bham.ac.uk) Subject: Re: Disprove Gravity??? Quantum Conspiracy Theory Newsgroups: sci.skeptic Date: 1999/03/03 In article ,...
Chain letters all have a similar pattern. From the older printed letters to the newer electronic kind, they all have three recognizable parts: * A hook * A thre...
More minimalist web design follows... * Did you know that shows like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Goodness Gracious Me" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You...
An Influenza Pandemic is probably the thing which will kill you. OK, I haven't done the full stats, but it's pretty likely... There's a Momus song called Mor...
My favourite insult at the moment is "There are web pages for people like you". Here's some of them * If you're a fan of dogs in sweaters (and let's face it, w...
Kent Beck, one of the founders of the PatternsMovement, and author of ExtremeProgrammingExplained. He also developed the JUnit Java unit testing framework wit...
Left handed people are Sinister What's wrong with left handers? 1 It's against God and against nature. 2 Their crappy "south paw" shops are taking over our hig...
Gig pub with nice looks in Digbeth, Birmingham. It's got excellent tiles and a red terracotta exterior, though the beer is nothing special : ) Junction of Mosele...
MelissaMicrosoftWordVirus Note: This document dates from March 1999. It was my response to concerns about the Melissa Microsoft Word Macro Virus. Summary There a...
Misty's Big Adventure are the best band I know. No arguments. So get yourself down to a gig, pronto : ) * Write ups of Misty's Past Gigs * How Misty's Big ...
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* Steven Carr's atheism pages, excellent articles on the origin of the new testament gospels etc. http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/ * Excellent site on Mormanism...
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You recently received a copy of a "Sign and Forward" email petition. This is the only correspondance you will receive from me on this subject I got your email...
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The Rosetta Stone is famous as the key used to decipher EgyptianHieroglyphics, as it contains an inscription in three languages AncientGreek, EgyptianDemotic an...
What is South Park? M'Kay, I know no one is ever going to ask that question, but here goes The "Concerned Women for America" (CWA) describes South Park so: "Sou...
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The Bus Station Loonies proclaimed themselves "Plymouth's Finest Cheesy Cabaret Punk Band" having never been to Plymouth, I'm sure they're right. They're also t...
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Bizare Swedish Duo. For a great video, see Ja Da on my WeirdInternetAnimations page. More songs of theirs at: http://www.algonet.se/~zyron/barn/t b.html Main.A...
WarOfTheWorlds by HerbertGeorgeWells The original Book The text of WOTW can be downloaded from ProjectGutenberg Study guide http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/s...
Ward Cunningham is the creator of the Wiki Wiki Concept, (to which you owe these webpages), a highly experienced programmer and one of the main contributors to th...
Who Am I? What a question! My name is AndyPryke, I live in Moseley in Birmingham , England ( see map ). Probably the most interesting thing on this site is...
Wiki Wiki means quick in Hawian (apparently). Wiki systems allow you to edit web pages in a browser. Pages are linked by the use of CapitalisedRunTogetherWords ...
The state of being obsessed with WikiWiki systems. Lets see, where should I start? Lets contrast it with WebFever... Have you ever seen one of those webpages whic...