One sided media - a material so thin, watch you don’t cut yourself on it! I remember reading something about a group of protesters who were lobbying against Al Jazeera opening up a channel in Canada. Well that’s just stupid. Apart from the fact that Al Jazeera is one of the best news networks out [...]
It suddenly struck me as I was lying on top of the bed and gazing out of the window, listening to the thunder in the distance, that both gambling and astrology are actually quite closely related. Memory is the thread that binds these two aspects of human culture together, or more precisely selective memory.
Let’s take [...]
Or why IE centric designers better learn to love the bombshell:
1 out of every 4 users use another browser
Most designers spend a lot of time getting their design right so that it works in all browsers (although getting it to look the exact same in all browsers may not be possible). If [...]
Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)
The original; Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul is worth checking out also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwK-3cQ6gE
This stuff is all awesome. 10/10 for both.
Images: created by Adrian Mann : Courtesy: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/
A British firm based in Oxford has released plans for a hypersonic passenger airplane that they claim will be able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5. The craft, called the A2, will have a range of 20,000 km (12427.42 miles). Reaction Engines told the press [...]
I don’t know why Microsoft hasn’t just renamed itself “Antitrust” because that word is never more than a dash away from its official name. This time Microsoft (backed into a corner for once) is dead set on buying Yahoo. If Microsoft bought Yahoo, then this is a bad thing which puts it in a dominant [...]
First everyone was rendered speechless by how shit Vista is, and now they’ve recovered their voices are are shouting from the rooftops that Vista is a pig in a poke.
100 things people are saying about Vista
Last year, literally on the 1st of January I binned Windows and switched to Linux. After 11 years of using Windows on my PCs I decided enough was enough! What could spark this drastic change in ideology you might wonder? Well as the three or so of you who read my blog should know - [...]
Freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Bear in mind that implementation remains lacking in many countries (not pointing any elbows). I start off with this paragraph because it seems [...]
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits — in less than 40 million years — it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
“The leading edge of this cloud is already interacting with gas [...]
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