Not that I know how to turn a black hole off, for best results, but if I can capture the emissions from a black hole, I should be able to know everything that ever went into it. So for my next trick: turn the globe inside out as my pinhole black hole computer project gets Read more about My Quantum computer is a black hole[…]
You ain’t nobody if you ain’t got a stalker. And Gawker helps you – the stalker! With a Google Maps interface, you can see where the celebrities are, as the reports are filed in – which they seem to be pretty quickly! A nice little story comes with each siting. Invasion of privacy? I thought Read more about Stalk the stars![…]
Nobody seems to believe me when I say it’s possible, but now it’s happened – in Greece unknown people have hacked into the cellular system and been tapping politicians and officers. Yup, the bad guys can get into your wonderful surveillance infrastructure too.
The following question is one I’ve had to struggle with as well: I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it? Schneier gets some good responses on his blog.
Don’t you love things quantum?
We make money not art has a great set of notes on a lecture by Tom Armitage about how the game controller is basically the same everywhere, and how they have evolved for specific platforms to the point where they are no longer intuitive to the new user of console games due to the plethora Read more about Is Controller design killing creativity in video games[…]
They had a competition to name the book about the US Army in 2015. Here are some of the names that came in: Asymmetrical Warriors Brave New War Future Knights of the Global Table The Iron Fist of Freedom Molded Children, Future Warriors There’s more at Harpers…
Well, we all know when it comes down to women and children it’s the woman who gets to say it all, and the man can just lump it and pay over the child support. Fortunately for us downtrodden men someone is starting a lawsuit to establish precedence much as there is precedence for women being Read more about Mens rights on child support[…]
OK finally the boffins have found a way to fund extra space exploration: yes, tourism is a (small) part of it, but 3554 Amun is a larger incentive: It’s a space rock about 2 kilometers in diameter that looks as if it might have fallen straight out of The Little Prince. There are three key Read more about Space exploration = money[…]
It turns out that there’s a whole controversy going on about wind farms, which deliver ‘green’ energy. The BBC has a story listing 10 objections to wind farms, more than half of which are bunkum, but it turns out that one of the major problems they produce is RADAR clutter, which creates false positives (aircraft Read more about Wind Farms block RADAR[…]
Published in Febuary it’s a little hard to find, but I’ve got it – staggering amounts of money in this!
Nerve.com has a very readable article on how the church made up it’s mind in the west to increase the goldflow in the coffers and thereby help end the arranged marriage in the west.
Because every so often it would be nice to just have Windows turn itself off. Or on. This is a lovely little scheduler for system tasks, not limited to powering up and down.
Nice article running through the features of Vista which make it a quantum leap away from Windows XP. It’s nice to see that the OS2 Warp desktop has FINALLY been incorporated into windows. And if you don’t know what that means, you’re a n00b.
Damn! It runs on soybean bio-diesel and was developed by 5 kids! So why don’t the big automakers have this?! Oh, and it runs more than 50 miles to the gallon! And it looks hella cool too…
Spirit makes RFID readers which can read a wide range of standards and come in USB or SDIO (Pocket PC / WinMobile) forms, and retail at only $99 – $199! Pretty soon they’re going to go nuts on the amount of data coming in.
Microsoft has been using those dance dance dance mats to (among other things) stamp out (literally) spam. Apparently stamping with two feet to delete that email is a satisfactory thing to do. Also healthy! They will present it sometime soon – give it to meeeeeeee! (Link = PDF file)
The Guardian has an odd article on how the Iranians think that anything and everything that happens in their country is due to the chicanery and sly dealings of the British. This apparently is the one thing that unites all Iranians.
BEIJING (AFP) – A team of Russian pilots will reportedly fly fighter jets through a narrow cave in central China in a tourist stunt that will cost people up to 840 dollars to watch. ADVERTISEMENT The Russian air force jets, including advanced Sukhoi Su-30s and Su-27s, will fly through the famed Tianmen Cave in central Read more about Russians to fly through cave in Su-27s and Su-30s[…]
It’s called the Cormorant and the initial development has been given to Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks. Because nuclear subs don’t have much to do in today’s environment they want to modify the launchers to eject these aircraft. This obviously comes with problems… The Skunk Works’s answer is a four-ton airplane with gull wings that hinge around Read more about USN developing plane that launches from submarines[…]
Yet again we see how deranged the whole situation with the cartoons is. Really sad that outside of Iraq the news is deliberately shifting the blame, whereas within Iraq people are shocked. But still no riots. Are the muslims trying to widen the gulf between our cultures?
On june 17th since 1976 this family has taken pictures of themselves and put them underneath each other. A nice display of ageing.
The Wall Street Journal letters editor has a lovely rant on how a six year old kid could possibly be ‘sexually harassing’ another six year old girl by placing two fingers inside a girl’s waistband. It ruminates on how ridiculous the situation is becoming in America – take heed Europe, we don’t want to go Read more about The 20th century sissy[…]
The tunbridge heist which netted the robbers GBP 50m – making it the biggest heist in the past 100 years – now has a reward offered by the security company on it for GBP 2m.
No, not really – wifely rules to be more exact. The Smoking Gun has the rules scanned on their site, and they are a true masterpiece of human endeavour. Or something. It’s not surprising that the wife turned the papers into the police: what is surprising is her having agreed to have ever married the Read more about Marriage contract?[…]