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Stalin had a point

Submitted by david on Mon, 03/01/2011 - 10:25am

This appeared in The Times, 3rd January 2011. I have added links to the (fascinating) sources.

With odds like these the money's in the bag

Submitted by david on Fri, 29/10/2010 - 9:02am

I wish it would rain, and then I could be rich. Well, not really rich, but at least win £10 in the rain-forecasting competition currently being run by a Walkers Crisps. For those not yet addicted, you enter a code found on each packet of crisps onto a website which allows you to choose one of 21,000 2km by 2km squares covering Great Britain and Ireland where you think it will rain over the next couple of days. If it rains in your square in your chosen 3-hour period then you get £10.

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