nhw: Monday evening links

Nicholas (

nhw) wrote,
@ 2008-01-28 20:12:00

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2nd doctor, linguistics, mathematics

Monday evening links
Via a kind person in a friends-locked entry where he says very flattering things about me: Before You Know It: free downloads for first steps in dozens of languages. We've been playing with this at home for the last few days (me on Russian, F on French) and enjoying it. Takes a while to download and set up but great fun.

Patrick Troughton, the day before he died. Haven't yet watched all of this, but it seems both fun and poignant.

manjushra and nickbarnes exchange mathematical poetical riddles. (Answers here.)

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	marnanel 2008-01-28 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	(might be worth mentioning that they only support XPsp2, Vista, OS X, Pocket PC and Palm, and the last three not for all languages.) (Reply to this)

	nmg 2008-01-29 10:04 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the pointer to BYKI - should help me to learn a bit of Bulgarian (and improve my familiarity with Cyrillic) before my project meeting in May. (Reply to this)