Here is a hilarious anecdote from The Inquirer.
TRAVELING back from Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco a few weeks back, we were reminded by a nice chap at the gate that it’s now illegal to carry matches and lighters not only on your person, but in your stow baggage back to Blighty.
So how come you’re [...]
(Anandtech) CNET has two top 10 lists of the Best and Worst products of the past 10 years. It’s pretty shallow and includes software but is nevertheless a fun read.
Top list includes iPod, TiVo, Google, Napster, Firefox, PalmPilot, Motorola Startac (?), Apple iMac (!?), Sony Digital Mavica and The Sims.
Bottom list in made up of [...]
Since I haven’t been following the development I have no idea what initiated the rift but the conspiratorial side of me of course suspects that the industry is somehow involved.
TorrentSpy - The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The [...]
The Guardian offers a rare and exclusive interview with Hayao Miyazaki, allegedly the first in ten years. Among other things he dwell on the quickly disappearing art of handcrafted animation and sees parallels in his early encounter with Welsh coal miners and the idea of a changing world in general.
He was first there in 1984, [...]
Medical News Today - An investigation led by Mauro Santos, from the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), alongside two Hungarian scientists, has shown that the error threshold, that is, the maximum number of errors that may occur during the replication process of ribozymes without this affecting its functioning, [...]
What is the matter? The bathrooms in the UN building not good enough for you? [image1] [image2] Or are you just really lousy at planning ahead? Most of the internet community seems amused and have started down the road of ridicule. But strangely enough I find this far from amusing and rather a sign of [...]
American dream? Not for all it seems. Here is one answer to the myth.
After being treated in a emergency room for an urgent condition, Americans with private health insurance are much more likely to secure a timely follow-up appointment with a community doctor than those with Medicaid or no health insurance, a study shows.
“This study, [...]
I remember reading about it in Nature last month but I must have dozed off and forgot all about it. At least until I had to go get a new pack of caffeine today. Nature noted that Alertness drug arouses fears about ‘lifestyle’ misuse but I am less sceptical. Considering the misuse of caffeine and [...]
You’d be hard pressed to come up with a more somber news item headline. Candidates include: “Homo sapiens extinct” and “Earth uninhabitable in two weeks.”
Internet2 announced Friday that both the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have joined the consortium as corporate members. The two groups plan [...]
Boing Boing …
Spanish copyfighting lawyer David Bravo has noticed that Unicef and Save The Children are co-signers on the “informative” pamphlet that Spanish organisation ACAM has published explaining to parents the dangers that p2p pose to their children.
ACAM is ostensibly the Association for Musical Authors and Composers, but in practice they act as shills for [...]
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