Archive for July, 2009
It’s always fun to listen to a poet reading their own poetry, so here is Felix Dennis at [ READ MORE ]
I can’t help but think that Shami Chakrabarti has a point. What sort of message does this send to children? A junior school head teacher has defended the use of CCTV in toilet blocks in an effort to deter vandals. Len Holman, from Angel Road Junior School in Norwich, said pupils had asked for the [ READ MORE ]
Geekgasm! To commemorate this event the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099) have been transcribed from scanned images to run on yaAGC (an open source AGC emulator) by the Virtual AGC and AGS project. via Google Code Blog: Apollo 11 mission’s 40th Anniversary: One large step for open source code&#[ READ MORE ]
The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back even further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment.The world’s largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. From [ READ MORE ]
Flavour of the moment in computing architecture is the notion of cloud computing. Whenever I see these new terms (well, newish in the case of cloud computing) being bandied about, particularly by the mainstream media, I immediately start to suspect that it’s largely hyperbole and marketing fluff. Cloud computing does not disappoint in this respect. [ READ MORE ]
Seriously, how annoying is blog comment spam? Well, admittedly, not very. But it is bloody irritating. No sooner is a new blog up and running than you can expect a torrent of blog comment spam. The sad thing is that most of this spam is identified immediately by automated spam filters (well, it is on [ READ MORE ]
Interesting and lucid as ever, Carl Sagan is interviewed by Charlie Rose[ READ MORE ]
Conservatives in the UK want government to further legislate on divorce by forcing a three month ‘cooling off’ period on couples. The declared intention is to save the ‘savable’ marriages. This strikes me as a preposterous proposition. What it will do is confirm for many couples that marriage is a crock. Marriage, is a nice [ READ MORE ]
Image by YankeeInCanada via Flickr The increased use of social networks is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, they open up a world of possibilities for meeting other people we may never have otherwise met, on the other they expose those who participate in a public way to a level of [ READ MORE ]
This shouldn’t be funny, but it is. A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman’s screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said. A 16-year-old girl who lives in the same home as the 34-year-old woman overheard her and the man on June 6 and [ READ MORE ]
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