If you’re based in Denmark you can call TeleDanmark directory service on 118 and get them to do google queries for you. So now you can avoid harassing your friends in front of computers and pay your monopolistic telco $2 instead
The site rates a mention as an example of stylesheet switchers over on Joe Clark’s site
By 2020, we might actually have wireless Internet interfaces that ordinary people will feel comfortable having implanted in their heads, just as ordinary people are today comfortable with having laser eye surgery. All the signs — early experimental successes, societal demand for improved healthcare, and military research — point in that direction
The Kyoto protocol is dying a death of a thousand cuts. Last week, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, the US, reiterated that it wants nothing to do with the only international agreement designed to save the world from runaway global warming. The European Union, Kyoto’s main promoter, revealed that most of its members will miss their emissions targets. And Russia once again seemed to be on the point of wrecking the protocol completely. But there is a plan B, called contraction and convergence, which has been gaining ever more influential converts
Animals with neophobia die younger, suggesting that a lifetime of fearful stress can take an accumulated toll on health
Gary Price points out that in their quest to become the command line of the Internet, Google has added several new features: you can now enter UPS and FedEx, patent, aircraft registration, and FCC equipment ID/tracking numbers
The rain has set in for the day, which is nice. The pods would disagree, well Malamute would, Husky loves the rain. He especially loves to run about in and share its wonderful wetness with his humans.
The thunder has been a constant since the early hours of the morning and Malamute has been a bit distressed and refused to settle. But her non-settling antics were nothing compared to what I got after her favourite human left for work.
Malamute stole favourite human’s slipper, buried herself under the covers and squished the slipper as far under me as possible. She then snuggled into me, using the slipper as a pillow. Most adorable. Until Husky spotted her co-opting his favourite human. One Springbok-like leap onto the bed and a bit of head gnawing later and I decided that it was time to get up.
I now have two canine shadows. Malamute is here beside me because she’s scared of the thunder and Husky is crammed under the desk, doing a fine job as a foot warmer, to make sure Malamute does steal my affections.
The pods are amusing.
Sydney is regularly voted one of the world’s best cities to live in, but a new environment report has warned its affluent lifestyle is ecologically unsustainable. The 2003 environment report on New South Wales says Sydney residents are wasting millions of gallons of water, demanding ever more electricity and remain car obsessed, increasing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the best ways to help with sustainability is to sack all of the profiteering arsehole developers who, if not actually council members, have them well in their pockets
Wireless guru Rob Flickenger details the known records for Wi-Fi link distances, included is a new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah’s Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b
A research group at the Australian National University is getting symmetrical 250Kbps at 20km, using empty 7MHz-wide broadcast TV allocations in the 45MHz band. Story here, project homepage here. Aim is to put some bandwidth out beyond the reach of the wires, where users are few and far between
Almost half the Australian public agree with Mark Latham that the retarded monkey boy is incompetent and dangerous — via Southerly Buster
I’ve been after a 00ga double flared titanium eyelet for a while. Had a look around at the various items on offer with no luck. Some of the members of the BMEzine Live Journal community suggested Anatometal. Even though Anatometal only have a single flared eyelet listed in their range they were happy to machine an eyelet up to my specs, and even anodised it light purple for me. The price was reasonable, even with the obscene US international postage rates added in, it was still far less than I would have been forced to pay locally
Name Statistics is a site that checks your name against data from the US census. My first name was in the database, but my middle and last names weren’t even a blip
Cab Elvis lives! And so do any other Seattle cab drivers who want to trade their black slacks and crisp shirts for costumes. The Seattle City Council approved an ordinance allowing cabdrivers to hit the road dressed like Santa Claus, Superman or whatever strikes their fancy, as long the costume is approved by their cab companies
New Zealanders use the internet more than their neighbours across the Tasman as well as 30 other countries covered by a new international survey
Shalom Gelbman is in trouble with the local cops after making a few small errors in judgment — he was impersonating a police officer; pulling someone over for a traffic offence; the someone happened to be an off-duty state trooper
The Argonne National Laboratory have designed nanoparticles which identify, and then latch onto, target molecules. The nanoparticles are injected into the bloodstream, where they circulate through the body, picking up their target toxins as they go. Once they have made their rounds, all that’s needed to remove the particles from the body are a magnet housed in a handheld unit and a small, dual-channel shunt inserted into an arm or leg artery
Yahtzee has an amusing fusion of reality telly and fandom with Queer Eye for the Fandom Guy. While all are amusing her take on Angel rocks:
Kyan: It’s like he’s the One Straight Man foretold by prophecy.
The Pagan Prattle beat me to the punch this morning with Who Will Be Eaten First? A Jack Chick style comic explaining why you need to find Cthulhu
This year, Google started a widely used news service. Last week, it seemed to some users of the Google search engine that the site had started to editorialise. Anyone searching on Google for the phrase miserable failure was sent to the official White House biography of the retarded monkey boy. George Johnston, is the man who started this particular Google bomb
RSS – Posts