A few weeks back I was worrying that there might be some kinds of actions to prevent people taking photographs in public places. Of course, I shouldn’t’ve worried …that could never happen here. Could it?
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
This article makes me feel quite righteous about getting a fairly steady 35mpg out of my gas guzzler, now admittedly I tend to do longer, out-of-town journeys which pushes that up a bit but still I have to try real hard to get down to 21mpg.
Any Cambridge-ish people up for visiting the sea-side tomorrow?
Linkblast
Picking up girls made easy (c)1975
I hadn’t realised that Burnout was based on a real film.
“Canadian salvage divers are searching for…a vast hunk of sunken cheddar cheese“
Who made you the president of the world? – in the style of Winonas Big Brown Beaver.
Another way of looking at the world, well 200-odd other ways…(image heavy)
XCP – because the world isn’t complicated enough already.
Linkblast
I’d forgotten just how interesting Cryptome can be sometimes (“Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, secret and classified documents — but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here — or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored.”)
“This real-size robotic hand can detect and catch objects. It is made of LEGO bricks. I’ ve worked one month on this project, I wanted to build a LEGO hand that looks real and works fine.” – Lego prosthetics, its only a matter of time.
Celebrating 60 years of Anthrax research … seems I was a bit of a latecomer only getting into them in the 80s. Lots of other interesing maps elsewhere on that site. Maps of all kinds of things.
“As if making space-noodles in standard ramen flavor wasn’t cool enough, Nissen is offering SpaceRam in four different flavors: soy sauce, miso, curry and pork broth.”