While the underseat storage is somewhat lacking on the Honda Lead 100, I did find out that I can stick a pide box into one of those green bags from Coles and attach it to the vindaloo hook in the footwell.
The handle length isn’t too long, so wild swinging is avoided in transit and the bag sits comfortably between my feet without becoming an annoyance.
The vindaloo hook is a good thing. It brings me delicious pide goodness.
LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal’s own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologised for the ad and slow response — via Slashdot
University of Helsinki chemist Anatoli Bogdan reports that cells, tissues, and perhaps the body, could be cryopreserved without suffering damage from ice crystals — via Boing Boing
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication. The technology, dubbed Embedded and Communicating Agents, has allowed researchers at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratory in France to add a new level of intelligence to the AIBO dog. The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it’s moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it
TorrentSpy named the hacker who it claims broke into its computer systems on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as part of a legal request that would force the MPAA to turn over documents stolen from the Internet file-searching company
Family First senator Steve Fielding made a string of nuisance
calls to journalists yesterday to expose politicians’ power to bombard the public after they were exempted from new do-not-call laws
Fourteen staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Wales have been sacked and 101 disciplined after they swapped so many pornographic e-mails that it affected the organisation’s mainframe computer
Hasbrouck Heights Library Director Michele Reutty is under fire for refusing to give police library circulation records without a subpoena. Her lawyer explained; Reutty did the right thing… At no time did Michele Reutty say to any police officer or anybody else that she would not give the information if it was properly requested.
However, borough labor lawyer, the exceedingly dim and clueless Ellen Horn, who also represented the library trustees, said Reutty was more interested in protecting
her library than helping the police
MacBook Pro batteries are apparently swelling, then failing. MacFixIt has pictures of their own swollen MacBook Pro battery, which looks like it has suffered an internal explosion. Apple is replacing batteries on a case-by-case basis, but hasn’t yet admitted any wide-scale issues
Giant superheated bubbles of gas are drifting towards Earth and popping as they encounter our planet’s magnetic field, new findings reveal. Researchers suspect the bubbles may actually feed the bow shock
that is created where the solar wind rams into our planet’s magnetic field
Scientists have used embryonic stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralysed rats walk
Monash University researchers are $100,000 richer after their technology, which enables speedier internet downloads, was named as an outstanding commercialisation opportunity
A 46-year-old man on a motorcycle was struck by lightning and killed Wednesday evening while riding in rush hour traffic on the Boulder Turnpike. Witnesses said they saw a flash of light just before the yellow motorcycle crashed into the center concrete divider. It is unknown if the man was killed by the lightning strike or by the crash that followed
Police are using a network of amateur investigators as bounty hunters to deal with online fraud
A new mobile phone scam is sending missed call messages to unsuspecting users, urging them to dial premium rate phone lines, an industry watchdog has warned
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position. The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders — via Boing Boing
The US Government is set to transition to IPv6 in June 2008. The CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee has provided a list of best practices and transition elements that agencies should use as they work to meet the deadline. The latest additions, released in May, are a compilation of existing recommendations and best practices gathered from the Defense Department, which has been testing and preparing for the transition for years, the private sector, and the Internet research and development community
A Florida-based company called Oragenics may have found a way to rid our mouths of a bacteria that thrives on sugars in the mouth, which it consumes while excreting lactic acid. On the surface it seems like an elegant solution, but clearly there is the potential to upset delicate systems in nature, resulting in possible larger-scale side effects — via digg
A major drug company, Genentech, is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive variant of the same product on the market
A form of solid carbon dioxide, named amorphous carbonia, that could be used to make ultra-hard glass or coatings for microelectronic devices has been discovered by scientists from the University of Florence in Italy. It was made by squeezing dry ice, a form of carbon dioxide used to create smoke in stage shows, at huge pressure
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