San Francisco in jell(y|o)
Thanks Heather for a pointer to Liz Hickok's jelly model of San Francisco. Sadly the earthquake doesn't test it to distruction ...
View ArticleSchool or factory?
Who needs personal contact when we can monitor pupils using RFID tags (via Schneier on Security). *Shudder*.
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2000 Terrorists. Don't trust anyone!
Craig Murray in fine fettle:The truth is that since September 11 Islamic militants have killed about 70 people in the UK. That's 12 people a year in a country of 60 million. Every death is terrible,...
View ArticleSpectacular photographs of electrical storm in the dust cloud from Chaitén
Fotos Tormenta eléctrica en erupción del volcán Chaitén. linked to by Earl Mardle.
View ArticleMalevolent voices that despise our freedoms
Philip Pullman on the loss of liberty:Expressing an opinion is a dangerous activity Whatever your opinions are, we don't want to hear them So if you threaten us or our friends with your opinions we...
View ArticleBeware the OSX case insensitive filesystem (Zope/Plone, Ubuntu, OS X, and...
I've just lost a couple of hours trying to trace a problem I was experiencing installing some Zope/Plone software. This post is for the record, in case someone else (my future self included) tries to...
View ArticleFix for keyboard weirdness in VMWare Workstation linux
VMWare Workstation 6.5 (and Server, but I'm not running Server any more, so I haven't tried to port this fix) as installed by default on a Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 linux host, has some keyboard oddities with...
View ArticleCameron Neylon, Capturing process
Just been at a seminar organised by the Comp Sci people here in Newcastle. Cameron Neylon, currently of the Science and Technology Facilities Council on:Capturing process: The promise and challenges of...
View ArticleOS data to be made freely available?
Potentially big news, even if limited: some Ordnance Survey data (you know, the stuff the tax payer paid for, directly or indirectly) is to be made freely available. The free our data blog has some...
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