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France’s education minister yesterday admitted for the first time that the secret to success is speaking better English. Xavier Darcos claimed poor English is now a ‘handicap’ because all international business is conducted in the language, and said French schools would offer extra lessons during the holidays. He also admitted that, because of globalisation, very Read more about French Education to include more English[…]
To check whether documents where what they purported to be. As there is no accuracy check to wikipedia, they sent a person home without it being clear that there were any grounds to do so.
Ubiquity adds a whole load of command line functionality to Mozilla Firefox – email content on the pages, look it up in wikipedia, loads and loads of commands, and you can teach it your own commands too. There are as many user programmed commands out there now as there are extensions!
Using ultrasound, the University of Tokyo has found a way to exert highly localised pressure in a single direction, allowing you to feel invisible objects in the air.
Spying on your neighbour and reporting them to the authorities. Not for profit, but for fun! If you’re lucky your local council will appoint you to be the volunteer, unpaid, neighbourhood spy! No, it’s not Nazi Germany, not Stalin’s USSR, not even Bush’s US of A. It’s the United Kingdom, birthplace of Churchill!
President Lula suspended his intelligence chiefs pending an investigation in illegal phonetapping and other spying on the supreme court chief and members of congress. Why didn’t the American gestappo get suspended like this after it turned out they’ve been doing it for years and on just about everyone there?
The X2 is a high speed helicopter, instead of a transport jet that can hover. They expect it to go around 260 kts, which is around 100 kts faster than current helicopters and 45 kts faster than the current world record.
This is a comprehensive howto outlining how to use the Wii stuff to control your PC using windows, Linux or Mac.
Turns out that solving the deconfliction problem in the air is quite simple, considering everything is armed with GPS nowadays. However, in order to pinpoint position you need 5 satellite signals. And what happens if the US uses their ‘off’ switch?
Well, due to the trusting relationship of BGP routing peers it turns out you can reroute a whole load of traffic fairly easily if you have a BGP router.
We have had in rapid succession a transparent water repellent coating and Golden Shellback which water and dustproofs. Now we have a British process to make any item ‘100% waterproof’ through ion masking. They can’t yet do electronics though they’re working on it.
This tree is unfortunately a design concept, but I want it: charge your gadgets with solar power…
Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you log in to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. Featured Windows Download: Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading
This thing flies your camera wherever you want it – fast! Very cool videos
Pyramids and ziggurats represent an oddly survivable form of architecture. Built by civilizations such as the Egyptians, Mayans and Babylonians, several of these testaments to ancient ingenuity are still standing after thousands of years. Timelinks, a design firm based in Dubai, has unveiled plans to make a pyramid of its own — one that could Read more about The Dubai Ziggurat: 1 million living souls in a pyramid, entirely self-contained[…]
Yes! This one hangs on the wall AND supports SD cards.
Most aggregators basically provide a shell for you to search individual sites on, but this one searches all the sites, filters out doubles and allows you to work with operators such as ‘-‘
This page links to a program that allows you to create subtitles for movies, but also to subloaddownloader, which finds them for you. Sublight also downloads and manages your subtitles
This phrase I’ve been seeing EVERYWHERE the past couple of months. No-one can really define what it is though. So here is the best explanation of it yet: It’s been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, Read more about Cloud computing – the best definition I’ve heard yet[…]
A great idea in the fight against cancer: make the cancerous cells light up in a fluorescent colour, so that the surgeon knows if he’s cut out enough the first time round. Saves a lot of extraenous flesh being cut away too.
Certified by the USB-IF, this unit enables any machine with a spare USB port to stream video to a TV or projector with resolutions as high as 720p. So long as your USB dongle is plugged into your machine and the VGA adapter is connected to a display, you’ll be good to go within a Read more about IOGEAR’s Wireless USB to VGA kit[…]
There are some big plans underway in Subiya, Kuwait in Madinat al-Hareer, the City of Silk. Not only are they planning to erect the world’s tallest tower, stealing the crown from Dubai, but they’re also planning on creating a hugely ambitious rail network that would link the Middle East with China. The railway will connect Read more about Kuwait building world’s tallest tower, huge rail network[…]
Known as the Nike 6.0 Ill Mobile, the monstrous fun wagon you see pictured above came from ad/design firm Hub Strategy, which the shoe company tasked with making something that would make people stop and say, “Holy crap!” The first thing Hub Strategy did? Repurpose an amphibious armor-plated war-truck from 1959 into a mobile extreme Read more about Nike’s armor-plated war truck comes in peace (and with its own skate ramp)[…]
Are you the type of gamer who needs to get every latest input device and display for your killer rig? If gaming peripherals are just piling up on the floor of your bachelor pad, perhaps this gaming table from Digital Edge can get things under control. I just wouldn’t put it anywhere a potential girlfriend Read more about Dedicated gaming table crowns you King of the geeks[…]
Turns out that the Christians have been performing same-sex marriages for ages and ages up to at least 1587.