A Royal Bengal tiger escaped from a Bangladesh zoo after its keeper left its cage open, but snuck back an hour later after apparently being frightened by the crowds — or possibly knowing when it’s onto a good thing
One of the sillier, yet oddly hypnotic, online games is Stare Down Sally, where you can try not to blink before Sally does
Ismo Rakkolainen and Karri Palovuori, from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, have come up with the Walk-thru Fog Screen. The fog screen, consisting of fog
that is blown down from top, and the protective laminar airflow creates a thin and crisp surface, pretty undisturbed by the air in the rest of the room, making it ideal for projector usage. People can walk right through this screen of fog. Their next idea is to use the fog as a touch-screen, making it even more accessible
Every night, as darkness descends, countless street lamps and lights turn on to keep the darkness at bay, bathing countless square feet of the planet in light that sometimes rivals day time. But has anyone stopped to consider what effect all this light may have on people and animals that have evolved to fit an environment where a significant part of the 24 hour day is spent in lightless conditions? Some scientists have, and they are claiming that all this light is causing numerous problems
Once again Telstra have disconnected ADSL with no warning. Their faults page mentions a miscellaneous 40 minute disruption of service in the early hours of the yesterday morning, but is typically silent over the seven hour downtime inflicted on many users in the Sydney area today
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Victoria Police will raid trading markets in search of pirated video games next weekend as the industry gears up for a crackdown on mod chipping
The morale boosting purchase of a talking Bob the Builder toy inspired a team of geeks to perform some exploratory surgery and endow Bob with some enhanced equipment… meet Evil Bob
Electronic Frontiers Australia has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as ludicrous
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
From Randall Schwartz’s blog:
Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? Try to work out which of the photographs are of people who spent their time hacking computers and which preferred hacking away at corpses instead.
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
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