iPhoneModem

Unbelievable but true: Apple doesn’t offer any way for you to use your iphone as a modem for your computer. Fortunately, if you have a jailbroken iphone, this app alows you to tether your PC to your iphone and internet off a BIG screen!

Solar Power transmitted

20 Watts of power was transmitted wirelessley between 2 points 98 miles apart. The resultant power at the end station was only 1000th of what was sent, but this shows the feasability of the concept. The ultimate plan is to have satellites transmit the power to stations on earth.

Hit & Run > We’re the Government. We’d Rather Pay for It – Reason Magazine

This is one of the reasons why defence contracting costs can go through the roof. This man wants to donate a high grade piece of marble and the costs of transporting it to the US military graveyard to fix a break on the Tomb of Unkowns. The cost of the marble, selected from the same Read more about Hit & Run > We’re the Government. We’d Rather Pay for It – Reason Magazine[…]

Park attendants ordered to interrogate adults spotted without children | Mail Online

Earlier in the UK, they’ve decided that in order for you to be anywhere near a child, you need to be government vetted, a useless and innefective process that only shows security theatre. Now, park attendants have been ordered to interrogate adults spotted without children. Adults in the park must have a good explanation for Read more about Park attendants ordered to interrogate adults spotted without children | Mail Online[…]

French Education to include more English

France’s education minister yesterday admitted for the first time that the secret to success is speaking better English. Xavier Darcos claimed poor English is now a ‘handicap’ because all international business is conducted in the language, and said French schools would offer extra lessons during the holidays. He also admitted that, because of globalisation, very Read more about French Education to include more English[…]

Ubiquity for Firefox

Ubiquity adds a whole load of command line functionality to Mozilla Firefox – email content on the pages, look it up in wikipedia, loads and loads of commands, and you can teach it your own commands too. There are as many user programmed commands out there now as there are extensions!

Report on your neighbour

Spying on your neighbour and reporting them to the authorities. Not for profit, but for fun! If you’re lucky your local council will appoint you to be the volunteer, unpaid, neighbourhood spy! No, it’s not Nazi Germany, not Stalin’s USSR, not even Bush’s US of A. It’s the United Kingdom, birthplace of Churchill!