Month: September 2006
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Make you shop
This is an interesting A – Z on how retail stores make you stay in their stores longer and buy more. It’s not complete (such as it not having anything about the most expensive goods being on the right of the isle and the cheapest being on the bottom left), but it has a whole…
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NAM critisices the US
Over 100 countries, mainly third world, but including some large first world ones such as Venezuela and Malaysia, make up the Non-Aligned Movement, who are neither pro the US or Russia. They have decided they don’t like the ‘Axis of Evil’ type sayings the US has been making, and that they see no problem with…
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Steve, don’t eat it!
.. and of course he does. http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php. Mold, fungus, silkworm pops, prison hooch, you name it. He eats it, describes it and has colourful photos to go with it.
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Our Lady of Discord makes the Solar Pantheon
The distant world whose discovery prompted leading astronomers to demote Pluto from the rank of “planet” has now been given its own official name. Having caused so much consternation in the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the object has been called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5344892.stm All hail Discordia!
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Fairuse4wm
If you want to piss of Microsoft, you endanger their DRM system, which protects its connections to content suppliers. FairUse4WM strips DRM off media files allowing you to do what you like with the files you paid for. It’s now at version 1.2 and looks like it’s going to keep ahead of Microsoft. You can…
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Security Engineering
This book was reccomended by Bruce Schneier and is now downloadable for free.
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Philip K Dick Android
Someone made an android of Philip K Dick, and left his head on the airoplane, so now it’s missing. The software has been released as freeware and was fed with all the information available on Philip so that the android could talk and answer using the correct voice, posture etc. Guardian Article Software
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Modern Day Jousting
A blow by blow account of jousting by people who joust today. Oddly enough they haven’t changed the armour technology at all – I guess they want to be true to the spirit, but lighter and heavier duty armour (maybe Kevlar) sounds like a plan to me.
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Rocket Jumping Zen
These guys have raised rocket jumping to a new art form – the blast of the rocket launcher in Quake 3 propels the avatar skywards. It’s a truly awesome display of the fundaments of snooker being used in a complex fashion in a computer game and seriosly worth a look for the effort these guys…
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Campaigning MMOs
A presidential hopeful, Dennis McCauley has had a campaign stop in Second Life, to talk to the citizens there. Apparently there is room for improvement, but considering this is the first time it’s been done, I’d say it was a bold move. The political commentary is all about whether this is genius or suicide, which…
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Self driving cars
China’s First Auto Works (FAW) has built a car that can drive itself up to 93mph. Damn, I was hoping that technology wouldn’t work – I like driving my car irresponsibly!
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Give up TV, watch the Web
Plenty of ways to watch television on the PC, and plenty of ways to watch the webcasts, but what to watch? Lifehacker has a nice list of links to visit.
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DIY Solar Cell
A nice aticle on how to build a solar cell which yeilds around 0.43V / 1mA/cm2
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Google Analytics
I didn’t know about this service – it’s a bit obscure like Google Sitemaps, but by entering a little code in your pages, Google tracks and analyses your referrers using pretty pictures and graphs. It integrates seamlessly with adwords, so you can track the succes of your campaigns easily. It also integrates with other such…
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Helicopter Public Transport
The Dutch Connexxion and Helinet companies are planning a helicopter public transport service between Amsterdam and Brussels, stopping in The Hague, Rotterdam and Antwerp on the way. They almost have all the necessary licences in, so it’s looking good.
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Top 100 selling games since 2000
This list is very exhaustive and well researched and contains a whole load of shockers!
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Low Cost Luxury Long Haul
Cheap flights to Hong Kong! GBP 75,- for starters, which means that a return including taxes and fees will start at GBP 261,- The carrier flies 747s and claims that it will run a luxury interior for everyone.
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Google News Archive
Google has just released around 200 years worth of news archives on their new page. They are not telling how many sources they have, but for some reason the OCR is mediocre and when I click on the pictures I keep ending up at newspaperarchive.com. Of course, I did go looking for current events in…
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Can you hear this?
Odds are if you’re not a teenager you won’t hear a thing. Your hearing degrades after a while. Dogs will go crazy with this sound on.
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Clean your own CD
By using cotton cloth and brasso you remove a layer of plastic (with the scratches) and it’ll work again long enough for you to copy the CD.
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Star Wars differences
Some psycho has run through the differences shot by shot of the 1977 and 2004 versions. There are 122 of them.
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How Big is the Universe and what does it look like?
There are loads of ways of visualising the universe – through radiation, dark matter, gravitational fields, distribution of visible light etc. And then there are the times as which the universe is visualised – at the beginning, as it grows, now and projected into the future. String theory makes for even more different ways of…
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Lockheed Martin to build landers
NASA has finally awarded the contract to build the new manned lander craft that will take people back to the moon in 2020 and hopefully to Mars. They are going back to the system that runs Arianne and Soyuz and the old NASA Apollo rockets: ie. a tiny capsule balanced on top of a huge…
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