Neil Hopcroft

“Censored 2006 from Seven Stories Press features the 25 most important news stories not covered by the corporate media in 2004-05. Government Secrecy, Media Failures in Iraq, National Voter Fraud, Citizen Surveillance, and Environmental disasters are just some of this year’s topics.”

“Visitor can interupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a number, displayed next to the sculptures. The living statue then ‘writes’ the text of the message, before carrying on as before”

“Brain-computer interfaces (BCI), like the one developed at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, places electrodes in key locations on the user’s scalp to detect nerve activity which is then translated to walking or movement of the virtual character’s hands. The team at the Graz University of Technology have incorporated a fully immersive Virtual Cave for a mind bending walk by thinking”

A keyboard for those who can’t face turning off capslock.

None more black

Who is up for the Drainage Museum run day on Sunday?

“We got a letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer’s death and looked into it seriously”

“This project page was created as an adjunct to the following article by Louis LaPointe, which we recommend as an introduction to the subject.

* Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage (http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/) – Up to 35% increase reported. Acetone said to improve the fuel’s ability to vaporize completely by eliminating the surface tension that causes an increase in particulate vaporization temperature. (PESN; March 18, 2005)

A growing number of people are reporting their results, as tabulated here. Most have noted increased mileage, more power, more stable idle, faster start-up, cleaner emmissions. Part of that is likely to be from the cleaning of the engine that the acetone accomplishes. A few have not seen an increase in mileage at the concentration of acetone they tried. Too much acetone decreases mileage. Alcohol in the fuel tends to negate the positive effects of acetone. No one has yet reported damage to their engine from acetone being added to the fuel. Several have soaked fuel components in pure acetone for extended periods and have not seen substantial effect other than some minor swelling.”

Looks interesting, with significant improvements shown from Ford and Honda engines, among others. Not sure how well these kinds of results will translate to UK vehicles, where we’re getting far higher octaine petrol and compression ratios to match. I’d be interested, for instance, in results for using higher octaine petrol in the same engines, instead of acetone. Any ideas what this’ll do to your engine or fuel delivery system?

Todays boot fair acquisitions were Lords of the New Church “Dance with me” 7 inch, an electronic keyboard (bought with the intention of circuit bending, cheap shoddy plastic, probably a single chip implementation not good for bending, but not yet cracked open, update later), 33k6 USR modem and a Teleton external Dolby noise reduction unit. All for a grand total of 2.50.

…and a couple of Katrina cars:

Beetle
Saab

…notice the waterlines on them, especially the Beetle, so sad that they probably won’t be restored because it doesn’t make economic sense.

Also see the ‘X’ on the wall behind the Beetle, the 6 at the bottom supposedly shows six bodies were found in that house, which is somewhat sobering….

Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?

“Berger connected her 50 baby subjects to a ‘geodesic-net’ sensor cap, that measures the electrical activity produced by the brain”

Canada gets biodiesel

Bribe people to join your DNA database with cool wall art

I’m tempted by the Scumball Rally (1000 miles in 1000 minutes for less than 1000 pounds[0]), were it not for the Germans having lost patience with the whole thing. Dates tbc, but is anyone interested – I can take a couple of passengers or join in in your own vehicle?

[0] assuming they count current value not purchase cost, a two year newer, better condition and lower milage version of my car is listed at 1200UKP, so I figure I’m way under the mark by now.

And I thought 1600×1200 was a decent resolution

Mr Bunny takes over the mountainside.

More Elvises than you can shake a stick at.

BBC’s Katrina reports ‘full of hate for America’ – which seems like an odd thing for him to say.