It’s been a long while since I’ve last played X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Elite, Wing Commander, Privateer, Freespace et al. and I’ve missed the genre. After a little hunting around I’ve found two space sims which look very worth exploring (Allthough, unfortunately, none is multiplayer as far as I can see…): X3: Reunion is a huge, Read more about Space Sims[…]
Tom’s Hardware is running a great tutorial how to get a DLP projector, stereoscopic glasses and go all VR by turning your wall into a huge 3D display. They tell you what hardware to get and how to install it, and have reviews of several different types of games you can play.
Gary McKinnen, a Scot who’s exploits put Kevin Mitnick to shame, allegedly has hacked into 97 US military and NASA computers. He’s in England fighting extradition, probably because he quite sanely doesn’t want to be tried as a terrorist. The US is using threatening strong-arm tactics to get him to not fight the extradition to Read more about Hacker threatened to extradite[…]
Because being able to watch your citizens in an Orwellian way isn’t enough, Britain’s latest addition to the surveillance society is to make it interactive. Unknown people with their voices modified to sound freakily like schoolchildren will be able to shout directives at you from the camera’s all over the country now.
Hardly surprising, but putting points on a person’s licence isn’t going to stop them speeding. Or at least, not the 3.7 million motorists in this study. It increased the insurance company’s profits by around $36 million, as they charge more insurance fees if you get points. The way to stop drivers from repeat speeding offences, Read more about Driving Licence points have one winner: Insurance companies[…]
NYU School of Medicine researchers report in a new study that they have isolated a new version of a herpesvirus that kills cancer cells but spares normal tissue. … In animal studies, the new version dramatically reduced the size of human prostate cancer tumors grown in mice. Moreover, it completely eradicated the tumor mass in Read more about Cure for Cancer, Herpes[…]
This guy has built a 90 seat pub extension to his house, where his mates and family can come in, drink a pint and not worry about those anal retentive anti-smokers. Despite a ban on pub smoking in Wales, he gets away with it because it’s not really a pub. Everything in his place is Read more about Anti Anti Smoking Activism continues[…]
This guy is rocket crazy. He’s built a rocket belt, which looks like the James Bond jetpack (and actually works!) and is building rocket cars, bikes, whatever. He’s even built a machine to make Hydrogen Peroxide at home so you can build your own fuel. Viva Mexico!
VisionAccess has a 3D face regocnition unit which they claim will recognise your head from different angles, in different lighting and even with different hair styles. Put it in your car, and instead of them chopping of your hand to steal it, they’ll decapitate you.
Are CCD sensors now a thing of the past? The Samsung 8.4 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor uses only a tenth of the power of a CCD with the same fidelity and a high SNR.
China is currently building the world’s largest dragon. It will be 30 feet high at the head, and the metal structure will be 13 miles long.
The smoke Nazi’s are being thwarted much like the anti-tobacco czars during the prohibition in Philadelpia. Smoke easies refuse to enforce the anti-smoking laws in effect and allow people to act like people with free choice: they can smoke, drink and eat as they like inside. Let’s hope the rest of the free world follows Read more about Philadelphia Smoke-easies[…]
The weather patterns on one pole of Saturn make a huge hexagon fitting four earth sized planets.
This law firm in Amsterdam, Jeroen Zandt, insures you for unlimited judicial help, regardless of the amount of traffic violations you have, for around EUR. 200,- per month.
According to a study done by Symantec over the last 6 months of 2006, based on metrics such as amount of vulnerabilities and speed of patches. Red Hat came second, followed by Mac OS X. Then there are HP-UX and Sun Solaris!
Interestingly, slobs may look messy but their mess is organised. Neat freaks are so busy tidying up, that they lose productivity. The book “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,” by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman has studied the dynamics of neatness and come to this conclusion.
A novel way of dating, www.hotenough.com only allows hot people in. This is measured by submitting 3 pictures. The members of the site rate you, and if your average rating is higher than an 8, you get to join. If not, then tough.
The 2 stage rocket is designed to compete with all current operators of satellite launch platforms and be 10 times cheaper than them. There is not so much emphasis on bringing people into space, making this probably commercially more viable. Their first launch was a flop, so they were happy that this launch lasted untill Read more about SpaceX Falcon 1 liftoff[…]
Palm has finally got off their lazy asses and programmed push email into VersaMail 3.5. Unfortunately you do have to buy the update, but it’s not too expensive: VersaMail 3.5 ($9.99) ActiveSync Update ($2.99)
DEAF07 has as it’s title “Interact or Die!” It will be held between 10 – 29 April in Rotterdam and consists of workshops, seminars, presentations, exhibitions, etc. The program is impressive, this should be worth a visit. There is a secondary exhibition linked to it called unDEAF, which invites anyone to participate however they like, Read more about Dutch Electronic Art Festival 07[…]
Using Goops you can connect a GPS to Google Earth and map your trips, colour coded for speed. You can save and share your tracks with others. This works because Google Earth has a cache allowing you to download the area you’re going to drive in and view the areas offline.
The scientific community knew that scent is closely related to memory, as people can recall events / places with a certain smell when they smell the associated scent easily. Now, they’ve found out that if you have a task that requires studying, then associate that with a smell and then throw that smell at you Read more about Scents improve memory formation[…]
Zathur thought this one out for us: People will have to do their own research. I just googled to get some topics out. Not saying that I support any of the topics discussed, I’m PRO making people think about society and issues around them and not to take stuff for granted. IRS is illegal in Read more about Is the US IRS illegal?[…]
This site has a huge amount of links and resources to all kinds of activities the USAF is involved in.
There we go. Australia implements a compulsory ID Card Scheme, whilst promising that the data wouldn’t be stored in a central database or be easily accessible and as soon as it’s implemented… WHACK! The police are allowed to search the central database without a warrant! Who’d have thought you couldn’t trust the politicians?