ats: "People often find themselves with pockets full of heavy pound coins after getting change of a £20 note mainly due to the lack of £5 notes in circulation.We would like to see a £15 note introduced to help solve this problem."
David: Or we could have more £5 notes instead. We could even get ATMs to dispense them!
ats:
Awww.
When originally posted, this article had the title "Visit causes Obama-Lama ding-dong".
ats_:
Read the paper.
Just in case you thought it would ever be acceptable to type a password into a machine you don't own...
David: …because electronic pseudo-random numbers are insufficiently random for PBEM games
David:
"Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25."
"they have determined that the crash occurred when the plane struck the ground"
"Homicide victims rarely talk to police"
ats:
Exactly what it says. Highly recommended.
(I saw some of his colleagues in CS presenting a system for designing your own flags at CEC last year.)
"Apart from the colours, this is a nice design, pentagram is a bit adolescent though."
"Looks nice but too obviously inferior rip-off of Canada's flag."
"Spain had a civil war over whether to keep this flag. The wrong side won."
"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Good effort for a country whose name sounds like a 50s rock'n'roll group."
That's it, I'm going to start a band called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
I would like to add the advice to not put the name of your favourite text editor on your flag.
ats: "Russia routinely manipulates the weather to ensure important events, such as, public holidays are rain free. China, famously manipulated the weather to ensure another important event, the Olympic opening ceremony, was rain free. I hereby call on Gordon Brown to manipulate the weather, thus ensuring important British events, such as summer, are rain free."