A free, experimental IPv6 migration broker has been announced, which will allow Australians on IPv4 internet connections to test out applications for the newer internet protocol
The disposable mobile seems like a nice alternative to being locked into a lengthy contract, or for people who only need a mobile for a short period of time. Plus the company offer a $5 rebate for you to bring it back and swap for the next one
I checked with a friend and they said there definitely is a rainbow effect in photoshop, why did you tell us there wasn’t one?
This gem along with a gazillion others can be read here. This truly is the holy grail of stupid client quotes guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and then feel depressed because I’m sure many designers have heard the same shit before.
Damn you stupid clients!!
At a juncture in history during which women are seeking equality with men, science arrives with a belated gift to the feminist movement. Male-biased evolutionary scenarios — Man the Hunter, Man the Toolmaker and so on — are being challenged by the discovery that females play a central, perhaps even dominant, role in the social life of one of our nearest relatives. In the past few years many strands of knowledge have come together concerning a relatively unknown ape with an unorthodox repertoire of behaviour: the Bonobo.
The species is best characterized as female-centred and egalitarian and as one that substitutes sex for aggression. Whereas in most other species sexual behaviour is a fairly distinct category, in the Bonobo it is part and parcel of social relations — and not just between males and females. Bonobos engage in sex in virtually every partner combination (although such contact among close family members may be suppressed). And sexual interactions occur more often among Bonobos than among other primates. Despite the frequency of sex, the Bonobo’s rate of reproduction in the wild is about the same as that of the chimpanzee. A female gives birth to a single infant at intervals of between five and six years. So Bonobos share at least one very important characteristic with our own species, namely, a partial separation between sex and reproduction.
Lest this all sound like a non-stop Caligulean orgy, Dr Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta who is the author of Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape, emphasises otherwise:
Sex is there, it’s pervasive, it’s critical, and Bonobo society would collapse without it. But it’s not what people think it is. It’s not driven by orgasm or seeking release. Nor is it often reproductively driven. Sex for a bonobo is casual, it’s quick and once you’re used to watching it, it begins to look like any other social interaction.
Cyberkinetics is about to ask federal regulators for permission to start testing a device that would enable paralyzed people to control computers directly with their brains or possibly help them move their limbs. Initially, the device, implanted into the brains of paralyzed people, will help them control a cursor on a screen or play video games. Researchers believe the technology could one day enable paralyzed people to type, control lights and heating controls, manoeuvre wheelchairs, or even manipulate robotic arms
Researchers at Harvard University have demonstrated for the first time that they can easily apply a film of tiny, high-performance silicon nanowires to glass and plastic, a development that could pave the way for the next generation of cheaper, lighter and more powerful consumer electronics. The development could lead to such futuristic products as disposable computers and optical displays that can be worn in your clothes or contact lenses
Sun is planning on creating Opteron-based servers. These are expected to include 2-processor and 4-processor models running either Solaris or Linux. This move isn’t surprising, given the performance and cost gaps between the Opteron and UltraSPARC processors. A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitive in cost and focus more on what they’re good at, designing systems, not processors
Tooling around with the Political Compass test today. Much like HogBlog, I guessed correctly that I would get lumped under the hard libertarian left box.
Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46
I figure it would probably have been more Libertarian if I wasn’t easily bored by surveys. Regardless of that, at the outcome of the test you will be prompted to check out the writings of people of the same political persuasion and I wasn’t at all surprised to find I already have half the books on the list.
Gertrude Jones didn’t want flowers or cards when she died. She wanted to get rid of the retarded monkey boy. The 81-year-old woman’s obituary asked that memorial donations be given to any organisation that seeks the removal of President Bush from office
. And people across the country are following her wishes
McDonald’s misunderstands the nature of dictionaries: that is, to observe the language as it is spoken and to document it. McDonald’s is up in arms over Merriam-Webster’s inclusion of ‘McJob‘ — a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement — in its current edition and has, naturally, trumped up a completely groundless trademark claim to back this up. Trademarks don’t let you control how people speak — they only allow you to stop other commercial outfits from confusing your customers; certainly, they don’t give you the power to stop the reporting of the fact that English speakers use ‘McJob’ to describe a crappy job. Interesting to note that Merriam-Webster later caved in to the bully boys and pulled ‘McJobs’ from the list of examples of new words added to the dictionary
Weeks after a groundbreaking scientific study said naval sonar appears to be killing marine mammals, the Bush administration yesterday won House approval to use sonar wherever Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sees fit. Passage next week by the Senate is virtually assured
Ran across an interesting software program this week. Boolean Dream‘s Hotmail Popper is a small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client, such as Thunderbird or Eudora.
Interestingly enough, it also works for Netscape Webmail, which pleased a friend of mine no end. At least they now have the option of installing their own spam filters and escaping the avalanche of spam that is attracted to their Netscape Webmail account.
YahooPOPs provides the same service for Yahoo webmail accounts. Although it’s worth noting that if you run both, you’ll have to change the incoming mail server port for one program.
When Varg the police dog was sent into a Norwegian confectionery factory to track down two intruders, his sense of taste got the better of his sense of duty. The German Shepherd nearly ate himself sick
Microsoft forgot to renew their hotmail.co.uk domain. A Good Samaritan renewed it for them, but was unable to get a response from anyone at Microsoft. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
Internet search engine Google has unveiled free software that lets people search the web quickly — without launching a web browser
The FTC has shut down D Squared, a company that’s been spamming via the Windows Messenger Pop-Up Service. In some cases, ads would pop-up every 10 minutes, and only advertised a $30 product that disabled similar pop-up ads. The FTC is slamming the extortion gauntlet on them. Interestingly, the FTC only caught onto all this because one of their own commissioners was among those getting spammed
Way back before he became editor of Doing Freedom! Magazine, Carl Bussjaeger wrote a short story for the publication: Postage Due…
Dear Postal Customer:
The United States Postal Service is chartered by the federal government as the sole carrier of routine correspondence within the United States. This position has been uniformly upheld by the Courts, ruling that private carriers may not offer general correspondence service. Accordingly, we at the USPS have recognized our responsibility for all such correspondence carried by various providers utilizing the Internet. We have determined that it is within the scope of our charter to regulate messaging via electronic mail; the Postal Service has primary authority over correspondence, regardless of the medium, whether paper or electronic.
Therefore, we have reviewed your electronic postal usage for the past year and have billed you accordingly for the postage due.
While it was intended as humour, enough people took it seriously that he may have inadvertently triggered one iteration of the email postage urban legend.
Joshua Lane of Animated Bliss has personally verified the info with John Sirabella, President of Media Blasters:
AnimeWorks is ready to rain down Zim’s doom upon the heads of animation fans everywhere with its release of Jhonen Vasquez’s Invader Zim. Anime fans have been screaming for this DVD release since Zim first aired on Nickelodeon in 2001 and now it’s finally here. Coming Spring 2004 will be the first of three double disc sets and a limited edition boxed set which promises to send fans’ blood racing through their veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command them!
Experts at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth have worked out for the first time the true extent of the damage Guy Fawkes would have caused if his daring deed had not been foiled on 5 November 1605. They found that within a radius of about 40m, everything would have been razed to the ground. Within 110m, buildings would have been at least partially destroyed. And some windows would have been blown out even as far as 900m away
Law enforcement officers currently search for prints by dusting a crime scene with fluorescent powder. This sticks to the oily residue left by the fingertip, showing up the whorls and ridges. But sometimes the prints are not clear enough to finger a suspect. A new dust being developed at the University of Sunderland is made of sticky nanoparticles could help. The nanoparticles are tiny glass spheres between 200 and 600nm in diameter. As well as being speckled with a fluorescent dye, they are coated with hydrophobic molecules, which are repelled by water and attracted to oil. So they fix tightly to the fingerprint
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