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The significance of the CRU emails by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 21, 2009Whilst your humble Devil is waiting for the rest of the world to finish watching Strictly Come Dancing and the XFactor and catch up with the fact that something quite momentous has happened, I thought that I would point out the significance of the CR...

CRU Emails #8: an interesting conversation at random by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 21, 2009Looking through the CRU documents provides some enlightening conversations. Here's one that I'd particularly like to draw your attention to, since it illustrates a number of points worth considering.The relevant bit starts, on October 2nd 2009, with...

Were the CRU materials hacked—or leaked? by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 21, 2009Now the story about this CRU material is that a server was hacked: but what if that is not the case?Although he is careful to state that he knows "nothing of the provenance of the FOIA.zip that is not in the public domain", Steve McIntyre seems to be...

Those CRU emails #2 by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 20, 2009Shug Niggurath has put the emails onto a searchable database (with a few provisos that may be fixed). As we thought, there are lots of little gems in here.Wondering where to start, I entered "mcintyre" as a search term, which brings back a number of...

CRU Emails #6: follow the money by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 20, 2009Now that the general hilarity engendered by the email has simmered down a little, people are starting to look at the (vast numbers of) documents—many of which are very revealing.Your humble Devil has constantly pointed out that climate scientists m...

The fundamental problem with Open Source... by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 18, 2009... is that—all too often—you end up with multiple platforms, multiple versions of the code, etc., as Fake Steve points out.According to Gadget Lab, app writers have somehow just realized that the reason open source fails in customer-facing use c...

MPs should be paid less by Devil's Kitchen on Nov 4, 2009In an article about Professor Nutt (about which I shall write in due course), Dan Hannan says the following... [Emphasis mine.]He’s plainly right, this Nutt, when he says that the government’s attitude to cannabis is counter-productive, ill-infor...

Clueless, starring Kezia Dugdale by Devil's Kitchen on Oct 5, 2009Kezia Dugdale: not to be confused with Kezie Ostrich. The latter is very common roasting on a barbeque at the Edinburgh farmer's market (on Castle Terrace) of a Saturday morning; the former is just common and currently roasting in The Kitchen.A coupl...

Harriet Harperson—bigoted and wrong by Devil's Kitchen on Aug 4, 2009A few days ago, Harridan Harperson—the Worst Person on the Planet™—decided that the whole banking crisis had been caused by too many men in the banking system.Asked whether the financial crisis would have arisen if more women had been in se...