This experiment took the top science students of this year and gave them 1965 exams. They all failed miserably, showing the dumbing down of education quite graphically. An interesting side effect was that the girls did worse than the boys did, even though other research puts girls ahead in current exams. This clearly shows something Read more about Schools: more sexist and more stupid[…]
This thing is USB powered and fed, so you don’t need to add a graphics card. It runs at 800×600, so it has a good pixel density for a screen that size.
SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email
This article links to five in the appstore. They work by writing a message and then opening the email app and pasting the input into a new mail: Wide Email Lettera Sideways Touchtype Compose Firemail If you’re jailbroken you can type SMS messages in landscape mode using biteSMS or iRealSMS from Cydia.
Yes, these fantastic guys in the UK keep on building huge centralised databases: The NHS has had data of around 10,000 patients compromised in around 135 seperate incidents – last year alone! In the Netherlands, they’ll be starting a system like this in 2009. Fortunately you can opt out here If you live in NL, Read more about NHS loses patient data[…]