Qantas bans Dell batteries from flights unless the contacts are taped over?
Month: August 2006
Creepy
mary had a little Lamb Its fleece was white as snow; And as red as blood, and as black as the night, with the Corps Program, is for students. who have a disability or medical- condition is required to be submitted to the Storting. in the spring of the year. in the Shadows of Motown…
Mountain View WiFi
I’m sitting in a park in Mountain View at the moment, and the Mountain View Google WiFi works just fine. That’s totally cool. It makes me think about all those random crazy projects I can now implement where a computer in my car needs an internet connection to work right. Hmmmmmm… I guess that’s another…
The dangers of bad automated translation
Translation error confuses Welsh cyclists. I’d be confused by a sign that said “bladder inflammation overturn” too.
Nuclear rifle and almost-suitcase nuke
Yes, I’m watching a documentary on wacking inventions. The documentary claims that the Davy Crockett nuclear rifle‘s effective range was smaller than it’s lethal range, but Wikipedia does not agree. Oh, and what about the nuclear demolition backpack that was place by a human who could swim real quick.
Nuclear car!
The Ford Nucleon. Rock on.
Is it good when the directors of your former employer start suing each other?
I’ve been trying very hard to not comment on the takeover attempt under way at my former employer, TOWER software. It’s getting kind of hard when the directors start suing each other in court and the case is reported. I guess this sort of behaviour explains why TOWER is still a 20 year old startup….
Collect the whole set
Andrew Morton has been hired by Google.
I don’t think of myself as photogenic
This is the least worst photo of me take recently. A free sample: Mikal at SciFoo
The unabomber
On my random surfing kick the Wikipedia page on the Unabomber is interesting too.