When 15 students from the University of Newcastle were caught plagiarising other people’s work, they not only passed — some even got credits and distinctions
Replacing the contents of the eye’s lens with a soft polymer gel could allow millions of people to throw away their reading glasses
While I was away recently, the malamute decided to excavate the top layer of one of the dog beds. Before I had a chance to replace the cover, my husky discovered the hole to be a great design improvement — he now has a cosy den-like structure in the lower reaches of the bed, while the taut upper layer serves nicely as a table.
The mouse’s feature animation unit, along with two other studios, are using Photoshop in Linux. They use the Wine emulator to run the software and the three studios, not known as team players, all agreed that a project that would benefit the entire open-source community while delivering a technology they needed was worth their co-operation
It may seem Orwellian to some, but the first major commercial service that traces people’s locations using their mobile phones — mapAmobile — is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying. While any new mobile purchased over the past 18 months in the US or is probably E911 capable, enabling law enforcement to home in on your phone in case of an emergency — like that isn’t going to be abused
The Indian units of rival soft drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi jointly denied yesterday an environmental group’s report that their beverages contained high levels of pesticides. The private Centre for Science and Environment said soft drinks sold by the firms in India contained high levels of pesticides such as DDT and malathion
After a period of neglect, the intellectual legacy of Seymour Cray, the father of the modern supercomputer, is being revived
Mobile phone users world-wide will soon be able to dial-a-dolphin if a scheme to record their underwater conversations proves a success
A couple of weeks back I got volunteered as shotgun on a two day flying visit to Inverell with my mother. She drives, I keep her awake with a scintillating selection of CDs ranging from spoken word to punk to swing to gospel. The Elvis gospel CD was Mum’s contribution to the mix, but a surprisingly good listen.
Dropped in to Gilgai to pay a visit to Kramut Kennels and got to meet my husky’s baby sister. The fence is in the way, but when it wasn’t, all the photos show is a blurry husky missile — she’s an adorable beastie, but her attention span is even shorter than mine, making it difficult to grab a good photo. This is where two of the dog scarves have found their new home.
Stayed the night at Inverell with a friend and got to see the feline beasties of the house investigating their new CatMax Pethouse where they can glare menacingly at all and sundry.
On the trip home I amused myself by taking photos from the car which came out better than I expected.
Feòrag, who scoffs at religious loonies, has illustrations and photos of plush Cthulhus up to no good
A power struggle erupts over a technology widely used to distribute weblogs, pitting blog pioneer Dave Winer against opponents at IBM, Google and others clamouring for a different format
A strange two-wheeled creature makes an appearance at the DefCon show in Las Vegas — a robot that’s designed to patrol around and sniff out security flaws in wireless networks
Via Warren Ellis‘ Bad Signal:
There’s a bit in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell where the fake psychic, Lees, says: ‘I made it all up, and it all came true anyway.’ That’s how I’m starting to feel about Transmetropolitan. ‘Feedsite listeners’ are multimedia bloggers. Girls with necrotising fasciitis scars from the streets of the City turn up in Marilyn Manson videos. Two-headed cats. Smiling politicians throwing advisors to the wolves following suspicious deaths. Glasses that take photos. We’re living in the future.
And God help you all, it’s my future we’re living in.
The new MiMail worm is technically of the garden variety, or no-frills, type it’s still managing to sucker in a lot of users through its use of social engineering
A man has been cleared of child porn charges, after investigators found that an Internet attacker was responsible for the presence of illicit images on his PC
The pioneering e-mail protocol is under intense scrutiny by its critics, one of its originators and standards bodies trying to rescue the Internet from overdosing on spam
Maria Viaznikova and her team, of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada, have developed a new way of gathering DNA evidence for analysis using fingerprints. The new test can extract DNA in 15 minutes — even from a print stored for many years and in varying conditions. The patented extraction technique consistently produces ~10 nanograms of DNA. Analysis generally requires 5-10 nanograms, although it is possible with as little as 0.1 nanogram
If you need a short term junk mail address or a very temporary e-mail address, Mailinator is right up your alley. When you’re suspicious of something, make up an address on the spot. The address will be instantly active at Mailinator for about 24 hours during which you can check for replies to see if your suspicions were grounded
By proceeding carefully, documenting everything, being persistent and keeping his cool, Steve Oualline was awarded a $199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP
In a delightful scam that should be a warning to editors everywhere, one Michael Burdick of Las Vegas created a web site, Hunting for Bambi, offering rich jerks the chance to hunt down naked women with paintball guns in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas, at four grand a time. The service did not, of course, exist. The only point of the exercise was to sit back and watch as the US media wallowed in an opportunity to present themselves as outraged crusaders for women’s rights, without bothering to check their facts
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