James Gosling over at [today.java.net] cites a WiReD article, essentially about apparently crazy science ideas. I have always enjoyed the crackpot wing of science – not the exploitative pseudoscience of the likes of Velikovsky, but instead the more dreamy, fits-the-facts stuff that is the fodder of good Sci-Fi. Creative, surprising, at least semi-plausible, the opposite [...]
Apparently I am not alone… [www.wired.com] TAIPEI — Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere. Want to monitor your house from the office? Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or [...]
…51 are now corporations and 49 are countries. [www.corporations.org] – interesting stuff…
…or something. For those who are interested and in the UK, the transit of Venus should begin at 0619BST tomorrow, and finish at 1224BST; midpoint is 0822BST-ish; times will vary across the british isles, but only to within a few secconds so it’s not worth documenting here. Some time ago, after a flight back from [...]
Uffington White Horse Hill, on a saturday evening’s sunset, is a marvellous place to be, relax and chill out. I know this because I’ve done it. Jon and Sarah Katz came to visit over the weekend, having toured London and Paris on an Americans-doing-Europe thing; I fielded them Chez Muffett on saturday morning, and decided [...]
my colleague simon – the one who is perpetually on his cellphone – was pouring concrete foundations for a stables this weekend, and found his phone missing after his partner had put it safely on the gravel heap… …said telephone is now believed to be buried under one foot of cement.
from [www.neilgaiman.com] comes a pointer to [www.guardian.co.uk] Welcome to America When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security … Saturday June 5, 2004 The Guardian Somewhere in central Los Angeles, about 20 miles from [...]
Courtesy of [www.oblomovka.com] In the mode of [www.stand.org.uk] and [www.faxyourmp.com] comes: [www.theyworkforyou.com] …which essentially appears to be a data-mining effort based around Hansard (the Journal of UK Parliamentary Proceedings) – which will not merely tell you who your MP is (in case you’ve forgotten, based on your postcode) – but also provides a commentary-forum AND [...]