Liquid body armour
Shear Thickening Fluid has the property that when struck with force it turns into a rigid barrier. A while after impact it reverts to gel. As it’s light, it can be incorporated into clothing and make bullet proof vests lighter.
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A busy week for US military adventurism
The US is having a busy week! In Iraq they’ve stormed an Iranian consulalte They’re also sending in a ‘surge’ of troops – 21,500 – which is half the troops their generals think they need for the surge tactic to work. This will bring force levels to around 150,000. A reinforced squadron of F-117A’s (15-20 Read more about A busy week for US military adventurism[…]
Sex Movie Sites
Who knew – free sex on teh internets? Grayvee and Sexyclips for you instant sexual gratification!
Art or Porn?
This is a question that seemed to come up in the 70s a lot more than it does nowadays, but I guess what with people putting great white sharks in formaldehyde and chopping up cows and putting them in formaldehyde, the art world has other things to think about when it comes down to what Read more about Art or Porn?[…]
XLR to USB
XLR is something used by audio devices – microphones, keyboards, drum machines (and maybe even electric gituars… dunno, didn’t research it). Lightsnake has developed a little kit to just plug these machines into your PC without the need for drivers. The hardware is bundled with waveform and karaoke software, which is nice but not necessary. Read more about XLR to USB[…]
Razer desktop speakers
Razer has released the first set of desktop speakers to feature THX. The speakers are specially built to rest on tables and other surfaces, ensuring sound quality isn’t lost when the sound waves hit the surface to give you awesome THX sound. There’s a headphone slot in the system for when you need to tone Read more about Razer desktop speakers[…]
Linx Audio Clear Harmony
If you’re hearing impaired, this may be the thing for you – wireless stylish earbuds with award winning quality and noise cancelling technology so that voices come out crisp. clear and loudly without having to up the volume too much. You can switch between mono and stereo sound depending on the environment you’re in and Read more about Linx Audio Clear Harmony[…]
Invisible Material
A metamaterial with a negative refractive index for visible light has been developed. Welcome to the cloaking device – fer real this time.
Biggest diamond ever
And it’s huge – it’s 4,000 km across and 50 light years away from us. It’s the compressed heart of an old star.
Space dates
The celestial almanac has been published, with the dates of meteor showers and planetary viewing in it.
Sealand for sale
Sealand is the worlds smallest country, interesting mainly because it’s defeated several British attempts at invasion and hosts truly safe and anonymous servers. It’s now for sale, let’s hope the new owner keeps it as a safe place for the colocated servers.
Invisible Things
Invisible things is the website of Joanna Rutkowska, who is very interested in stealth malware insertion into kernels. She came up with the ‘blue pill’, which is a stealth VM in the kernel running side by side with the normal kernel and is pretty much undetectable. A whole load of different attack vectors are explored Read more about Invisible Things[…]
Hollywood OKs DRM solution
The Qflix system developed by Sonic Solutions Inc works by putting a content scrambling system lock on the burnt DVD. Each DVD player has a key to unencrypt the DVD. Or at least, they will have. Maybe. How you’re supposed to match your DVD player key to a DVD burnt in a kiosk is still Read more about Hollywood OKs DRM solution[…]
Blue Origin Spaceflight is Hiring
Following the succesfull first flight of their vertical liftoff and landing vehicle, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is looking for more people to help them go to space. The site has video from the launch on it – good to see more and more successes in private spaceflight, even if it is in the form of Read more about Blue Origin Spaceflight is Hiring[…]
Women stop women in the work force
In a study under around 700 participants in the South of Spain, it turns out that women discriminate most against women (as opposed to men) and display much more controlling leadership styles… This is called the ‘Queen Bee Syndrome”. Guess women will have to emancipate themselves!
Fixing Stuck LCD pixels
JscreenFix flashes red, green and blue over every pixel at more than 60 times per second, leading to stuck pixels becoming unstuck and dead pixels sometimes being reactivated. It requires java and runs from a browser – allways worth a try before RFMming a monitor!
GIGB lighting
These guys sell some unusual cool lighting, especially LED lighting which changes the entire look of your room using colour.
Russ Meyer: The king of sexploitation
A documentary on Russ Meyer has been released on YouTube in 6 parts. This page has all six of them lined up neatly.
Big databases open again
Yet again a big database has been compromised – the US Secure Flight Database was accedentally opened up to an organisation that wasn’t supposed to have acces. Why do people insist that this won’t happen or that it’s somehow safe to have huge amounts of personal data in one place?
Women are hypocrites!
All that talk about them being more moral and loyal and men having sex on the brain – it turns out that women cheat far more often (40% of them!) than men do (34%) as well as want more sex to be satisfied. Men still think about it more often though!
Britain finally pays of WWII loan
One of the reasons that Britain has been running behind the U.S. arse is that they owe the U.S. a huge amount of money for saving the rest of Europe from Hitler. Not that the rest of Europe is helping GB to pay it off. Now the interest on that loan is very very small Read more about Britain finally pays of WWII loan[…]
Global Warming takes first island
An inhabited island, which used to house 10,000 people, has sunk beneath the waves off the coast of India.
Saddam goes to his death
Weird one this – Saddam is now certain that he will be hung, so his prose is all martylike. Strangely enough Yahoo news is running 2 stories on this: BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Saddam Hussein, due to be hanged within 30 days, said his execution should be seen as a sacrifice for the nation and called Read more about Saddam goes to his death[…]
Misses going crazy
And the craziest of them all is… Ms. Nevada – who not only is smoking hot herself, but has 2 smoking hot friends who’s nipples she like to lick!
Sun Java Window Manager
Following Windows Aero, the Mac manager and the Compiz flying cubes, Sun has put out it’s own 3D Java desktop system for free, which means it’ll run on pretty much anything. Get it here.