November 2007
38 posts
Kindle can light up your life →
I was very uninterested in ever getting a $400 Kindle (even assuming I could in this part of the world) until I read this article. Suddenly, I am. This makes far more sense than the way Amazon is marketing it - as a replacement for my trusty paperback, it sucks. Read the article to see how it doesn’t.
Rowling gives OK for online Potter sequels →
All write! ;-)
Doctors untangle the strange case of the giant... →
My cat had hairballs once, which were cured with a laxative paste. I somehow think that wouldn’t have worked in this case!
An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep →
The difference between being a manager and being a programmer, very nicely put.
Scientist Claims Humans Can Live to 1,000 →
Humans could regrow arms and legs! Frogs are the... →
Scientists build robotic bugs that infiltrate,... →
Booing as woman dies in queue | The Courier-Mail →
New Zealand Denies Immigration to U.K. Wife... →
Interesting policy.
Scientific American chronicles DARPA's quest to... →
Got Smarts? Mother's Milk May Pump Up Baby's IQ:... →
“To be clear, the “horse[poo]” I’ve been speaking of is not Christianity, it’s...”
– from Your Creation Museum Report
I agree. I’m a Christian, but six-day creationism just DOESN’T MAKE SENSE to me!
"stupid filter" →
Maybe we can still save the internet, and therefore the human race! ;-)
Election lost by 1 vote. Candidate's wife didn't... →
Every vote counts!
Stacks Overlays
I love Apple. I’ve been a proponent of them for years, but I’m also not blind to their faults.
It’s very, very sad when the customers of a company have to resort to extraordinary workarounds to fix up really obvious mistakes. The way the icons work (or rather, don’t work) in Stacks, a feature introduced in the very recent release on Mac OS X Leopard, is an example of...
Daylight-Saving Causes Twin Arrival Pickle →
Twin A was born at 1:32am. Twin B was born 34 minutes later - which was 1:06am, because Daylight savings ended. So the older one has the later birth time!
Eat more chocolate and help the environment →
Hooray! (via News of the Wierd.)
Recall ordered for toy that turns into drug →
Yipes! My daughter has some of these!
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not
believed but...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Microsoft sack exec for rules violation | Business... →
I wonder what he did?
Agile government | NPSC Blog →
Wikipedia cleared in French defamation case | Tech... →
Common sense prevails :-)
N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam |... →
Jail for spammers! YES!
Simplest Turing machine proof takes a... →
The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time |... →
Scientists create speedy 'supermouse' →
We're twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the... →
How to destroy the Earth →
“You will never drive this way again in your life”
– - South African driving instructor, on the crazy way you need to drive to get a licence in SA. And the test is just one part of it.
Read about it here: The Road to a South African Driver’s License - New York Times
Teen's Rift With His Mother Leads To Sting and... →
October 2007
50 posts
WatchFlying saucers from only $90,000! Get yours now! (via Google Video)
Laser Blasts Viruses In Blood →
Woman Views Own Heart at Museum Exhibit →
Make My Logo Bigger Cream →
This is just beautiful.
(Caution: not suitable for the irony impaired)