a blog, of sorts
I may have sent this link to a couple of you before but you should all observe this poor bastard’s ordeal.
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs…”
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Some guy has built a computer using lego – pure genius.
Best bit? The little blue doors you can open to cool the PSU…
In case you are currently living under a rock… http://discipline.nin.com/
w00t; some mad python hacker has created an iPlayer download script for XBMC!
BigDog is a (downright terrifying) robot designed by Boston Dynamics (funded by those doomsday loving scientists at DARPA). The following video demonstrates how it can keep its balance when on rough terrain, deliberately kicked and even on black ice (which most of us would have trouble walking on)!
Slashdot cites a story in the Observer about the Security Service seeking to trawl the database of 17 million Londoners’ travel records collected by the Oyster card system.
Boy, I never saw that one coming(!)
