A sharp silhouette of spaceship Atlantis and the International Space Station, a mere spot against the mottled yellow mass of the Sun. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for 21 Sept. is somewhat surreal, and difficult to believe that it is a real photograph.
I’m not sure whether I am most amazed by the fact we [...]
Posted on Sunday 24th September 2006 in Science tagged ISS, Links, Photos, Science, shuttle, Sol, space, with no comments.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft’s so called “iPod Killer” is turning out to be rather suicidal:
Microsoft’s Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or “rented” from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That’s right—the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure™ [...]
Posted on Monday 18th September 2006 in Blog, Computers, Music tagged Computers, EFF, ipod, Links, microsoft, Music, technology, WMA, with no comments.
The Times Online reports that… “Cyclists who wear helmets are more likely to be knocked off their bicycles than those who do not”
Research by Ian Walker, a traffic psychologist, indicates that drivers give a wider margin to those cyclists they perceive to be less-able—those without helmets, or lycra. Whether this holds true across the country [...]
Posted on Tuesday 12th September 2006 in Engineering tagged cycling, Engineering, Links, with no comments.
“Mobile phone users in the UK sent a record 3.3 billion text messages in May, figures show.” BBC NEWS | Technology | Texting levels reach record high
That’s an average of over 100,000,000 text messages per day or about 1,200 per second! Or a lot of people with repetitive strain injury on their thumbs.
As for me, [...]
Posted on Monday 26th June 2006 in Blog tagged Links, mobile-phones, technology, with one comment.
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An amusing (although possibly true) post on Concurring Opinions puts forward the idea of template copywriting for news articles on the endless list of “anti-terrorism” government initiatives…
NSA warrantless wiretaps. NSA collection of phone records. CIA gathering of financial records.
The stories are endless. To help out reporters, I thought I’d just write [...]
Posted on Sunday 25th June 2006 in Blog, Politics tagged humour, Links, Politics, war-on-terror, with no comments.
