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Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data Read more about Oh dear – More Climategate![…]
Finally! In the right direction! Someone has changed email ‘n walk to type ‘n walk, which allows you to type whilst you walk, then copy the text and then paste it into your application. Which is not quite the same as answering your SMS messages directly, but is getting there… Home (Type n Walk).
It just looks amazing! JVC gets tubular with XS-SR3 iPod speaker dock — Engadget.
If your family is kidnapped and tied up in your own home and you manage to escape, would you beat the living shit out of the guy who did it? This guy did and he’s just been sentenced to 30 months jail time, whilst the kidnapper gets off completely free! The UK is going to Read more about UK – defend your home, get put in jail[…]
Not only do they indicate that as a government you think the punitive system you have in place (prison) doesn’t work as a reformation aid, it also says the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. Worst of all, there are allways borderline cases, such as this one, where a 17 year old got put on the Read more about Why sex offender lists are a bad idea[…]
This is a new two stroke engine with very low emissions. Lotus: Omnivore engine is 10% more efficient with more to come — Autoblog.
This app allows you to write your notes using your finger, instead of using the onscreen keyboard. Note Taker Turns Your iPhone into an Endless Notepad – Note Taking – Lifehacker.
NASA has dropped a small helicopter from a 240 ft high gantry, resulting in a 54mph crash at a 33 degree angle, a fairly hefty crash. Using a honeycomb structure that stays flat and tilts outwards when needed, the landing skids were bent outwards, but the crash test dummies inside did pretty good. NASA helicopter Read more about Airbags for helicopters[…]
So… you want to be immortal… you want a celestial body named after you. What next? Unfortunately, the one body that does officially name stars and galaxies – the IAU – won’t let you put your name on one (their regulations are here). Or on a comet or asteroid either. Fortunately there are plenty of Read more about Name a Star – Or a Galaxy![…]
A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8155
You’d have thought that Isreal of all countries would have learned of the problems involved in having too much useless information in a centralised database from the Dutch in WWII – which had ethnic information such as: “are you jewish?” in there, enabling the Germans to export the most jews per capita from the Netherlands. Read more about Israel’s biometric database – haven’t they learned anything?[…]
This map is updated frequently and shows you a live map of many many marine objects and their headings Live Ships Map – AIS – Vessel Traffic and Positions.
After taping a birthday party, a woman managed to get 3 whole minutes of Twiligh New Moon footage on her tape, was arrested and is now facing up to 3 years of jail time! Copyright cops going nuts… Woman arrested for trying to record ‘Twilight’ on digital camera :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State.
The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites has unveiled the Virgin Galactic sponsored Spaceship two, the ship that will bring commercial space travellers into space at reasonably affordable prices. News – Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first manned commercial spaceship | Virgin Galactic.
These goggles will have a heads up display in them where you can see call info, speed, hight, timing information, rate of descent, a moving map and be able to find friends. Hopefully out in 2010 and they’re going for reasonable prices too! Should be awesome for the gadget conscious snowboarder or skier! Recon Instruments Read more about Recon Instruments HUD Goggles[…]
The solar impulse is a completely solar powered aeroplane. The flight was a short one – 350m at an elevation of 1m, but it proved the concept! Solar Impulse Completes First Flight | Autopia | Wired.com.
Stonebridge engineering has found a way to capture lightning within 3D polymers. The’re fractals and they look awesome!
Prof Lajeunesse interviewed 20 heterosexual male university students who consumed pornography, and found on average, they first watched pornography when they were 10 years old. Around 90 per cent of consumption was on the internet, while 10 per cent of material came from video stores. Single men watched pornography for an average of 40 minutes, Read more about All men watch porn[…]
If you have a cellphone, it turns out that Sprint keeps 24 months of your location data and turns it over to law enforcement regularly. 8 million requests were made over the last year. Requests can be made every 3 minutes for up to 60 days. Sprint isn’t the only one who tracks this data: Read more about Sprint Makes Goverment Tracking of GPS Data Easy[…]
Using electromagnetic pulses, researchers have found a way to impact steel at around 3500 bar allowing holes to be cut in hard steel in 200ms, around 7 times faster than a laser can. Electromagnetic fields as cutting tools.
Using Titanium you can develop desktop, android or iphone applications using your favorite web technology, such as PHP, HTML or Javascript. Developing desktop applications by using web technologies – ThinkPHP /dev/blog.
This connects a number of USB drives to your network, basically turning them into a NAS. SHARKOON Technologies GmbH.
SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing Read more about The Future is Here! Vat-grown meat![…]