DL Method explained with worked examples

With the cricket World Cup only a couple of weeks away, I thought I would go through a few Duckworth Lewis scenarios for people wanting to use my calculator to follow the matches.

This page has the text for the worked examples but below are illustrations of what the calculator should look like for each one.
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Tags: cricket, World Cup, duckworth lewis, calculator

12 Books That Changed The World

Notable works from history have been featured in a very watchable series on TV recently. Surprising Ashley Cole's autobiography isn't one of the twelve. This TV series is based on Melvyn Bragg's book which can be found here.

Featuring:

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859
Marie Stopes, Married Love, 1918
William Wilberforce, Speech to the House of Commons, 1789
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
Magna Carta, 1215
The King James Bible, 1611
Michael Faraday, Experimental Research in Electricity, 1855
The First Rule Book of the Football Association, 1863
Patent Specification for Arkwright's Spinning Machine, 1769
William Shakespeare, First Folio, 1623
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Issac Newton, Principia Mathematica, 1687

***Discount books***
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Related: book, hack, history

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Australia lose by 10 wickets

Oh dear, that's not very good! Australia might get overtaken by South Africa in the world rankings for ODIs!

Ice Melting time lapse movie

I made this video a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps partly inspired by the Planet Earth series that's been on TV recently I thought it would be interesting to move the camera during the creation process. I did this by making a simple Lego Mindstorms robot and strapping the webcam to the back of it as it moved about a millimetre every fifteen seconds. By no means the most interesting vid but I think the result is all right...

Tags: lego, time lapse, video

Drinking tea is good for you

This really cheeses me off! For ages now I've made a conscious effort not to drink tea thinking water was better for me... I've been conned!

Related: health

Amazon allowing PS3 pre orders

Amazon have just started to take PlayStation 3 pre-orders!

(If you're unfortunately too late to place a pre-order, you can still sign up for email alerts for when it come in stock here.)

Where can I buy a Nintendo Wii?

Lots of people are still desperately looking for a Wii so if you're one of them, sign up to my stock alerts! Go here if you're in US and here if you're in UK.

Tags: Nintendo, Wii

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Another colleague plug

... well, ex-colleague. Dave and I used to work at Primary Image and his blog has links to interesting news, gadgets and other good stuff!

Related: blog

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