Snow in Dudhope

Antiword

Antiword is a nice utility for converting
Word documents into more civilised formats.

Hierarchical SQL is an article on oreillynet.com explaining how to store tree structures in SQL. This is something I've been thinking about because I want to store SCOP in MySQL
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Daniel Dennett profile in the Guardian.

Irish Culture and Society

Guardian article on buzzwords says that chav is this year's buzzword.

Buzzwhack tracks buzzwords (American ones at least).

The Flash Mind Reader relies on the fact that the formula used to compute the number of which you're supposedly thinking always produces a multiple of 9. Multiples of 9 in the list of symbols all have the same symbol beside them and this is the symbol that appears when you click on the crystal ball.

An Fear Rua explains why Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh is regarded as a national treasure in Ireland, even by GAA apostates like me.

New Hiberno-English dictionary in the works.

Hiberno-English archive at UCD.