Yup, Japan is talking pre-emptive strike. Remember, this is because N Korea is testing long and medium range missles that are fallling into the sea short of Japan itself – even though once in 1998 a missle was launched that flew over Japan itself. The threats are where you see them.
Repliee Q2 is a real doll with sensors, microphones, camera’s, recognition software and facial expressions allowing it to talk quite convincingly. There are quicktime move links to show her speaking and interacting on the site.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has publicised a list of discoveries it has made that it considers most important. It’s quite a large list and has links to more information on the discovery.
Because the USA isn’t allowed by START treaties to build more nukes, they’ve taken to refurbishing old 1960s nukes. Why? North Korea maybe? Nuclear racing is back in town.
The North has been having a field day, launching seven missles after a moratorium starting from 1998, when they fired a medium range missle over Japan. The ranges they fired aren’t reported, but apparently the long range missle failed.
With enough magnets in it to float 900 kilograms it looks damn cool. For sale al EUR. 1.2 million (!). Has anyone thought what that kind of magnetic field does to your brain?
Don’t fuck with N Korea or they will launch “annhilating strikes” on the US. This in response to the calls to N Korea to not testdrive their shiny new superlongrange missle.
Now there is no tobacco smoke warding off the midges, pubs in Scotland are being infested with stinging insects.
Apparently it’s a very old symbol, used to signify the Earth Mother, female anatomy and reproductive potenency.
Japanese engineers have developed a machine that can capture and replay scents from foods or fragrances using an inventory of non toxic chemicals.
Canadian scientists have developed a low-intensity ultrasound based device that can regrow bones and teeth.
You submit your site and it puts the request into a queue. You can return to the site later to view the screenshots it makes of your URL using 30 different browsers.
Another new meme from Norway or Sweden (cant tell which): Boten Anna This is the original (with Dutch subtitles) These are some remixes.
Geoengineering involves changing our environment to suit human needs better. This article looks at ways geoengineers have thought about reducing global warming by not reducing greenhouse gasses, but by proactively doing something about it. Some pretty far out ideas, such as floating white plastic islands in oceans, space mirrors and lacing the atmosphere with sulphur Read more about Geoengineering[…]
This is a device you attach to your mp3 player, either through a port or via the headphone output, which then allows you to select a frequency and transmits the music on FM on that frequency. This allows you to tune your radio to your mp3 player. In the Netherlands they are finally legal (since Read more about Wireless FM transmitters[…]
Our faces express our emotions – apparently there are around 20 key facial movements expressed around 24 facial feature points, which betray our emotions. By scanning these points intelligently, and detecting things such as facial form, computers can read the emotions of those using them. Ideas posited in the article: websites advertising products directed at Read more about Computers reading emotions[…]
A tiny robot which smells like a cockroach can make them gather together allowing us to annhilate loads of them in one fell swoop. Now can we get human pheremones working please?
2 gravity wave detectors have been switched on, trying to prove and discover waves posited by Einstein as part of his theory of general relativity. The Americans have a huge isolated lab called LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) run by a few people from the LSU and California Institute of Technology in the middle of Read more about Measuring gravitational waves[…]
A 1990 Gulf War I home video made by RAF fighter boys flying Tornadoes. Tres inspirational. Apparently the full version is around 15 minutes long. On pprune a guy is offering that version for sale on E-Bay with the proceeds going towards the RAF Benevolent Fund.
An interesting way to organise your PC desktop more like a table top with paper documents floating around on it. Practical? dunno. Looks very cool though. NB. check out the ring on the guys hand in the first few frames 🙂
So they’re old and seem to have been manufactured in 1991, so no ongoing WMD programme can be proved by this, but it does prove that Saddam was lying about having WMDs. The finds started in 2003, but oddly enough the Bush administration has been sitting on this, probably in the hopes of proving an Read more about Hundreds of WMDs found in Iraq[…]
Crazy Japanese TV shows – part two is especially funny. I want a Japanese TV station! Jesus will survive
In The Endless Forest, a free MMORPG, you play a deer. You can sniff and snort, but not chat to others. You don’t have a name, but a pictogram. You can watch the deities (the programmers) do events in a glade. You can wander about and do deer stuff. There is no competition, no pain Read more about MMORPG with deer[…]
Not only that, they’re encouraging the practice. They perform PRK instead of Lasik, because they worry that the flap cut during lasik could come loose during high G combat.
Creating an XP CD with predefined answers to all those questions and drivers for printers, as well as applications fully automated without user intervention is not a quick chore, but will save time in the future. At least it is fairly trivial. This guide tells all. (NB. navigation on the left side, not in any Read more about Unattended Windows XP Installation[…]