Random Stuff
Saw this over at Lifehacker this morning from xkcd. I read this as “this is why geeks are more dangerous than terrorists.”
Author: Wade
News, Science
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers. Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new … Read More “Peeling Scotch Tape Emits X-Rays” »
Software
It occured to me when I posted about Peerblock that I neglected to post about a very useful site in regards to it’s use; that site is I-BlockList. It’s a really simple site with some of the most popular services IP ranges there so you can be sure you’re blocking (or allowing) specific things through. … Read More “Peerblock (or Peerguardian) – Block Lists” »
Software
One of those little things that help make Windows 7 one of the most user oriented OS’s to come out of Redmond yet – the logon screen can be changed without any 3rd party software allowing more customisation straight out of the box. It’s small, but it’s nice to know Microsoft added it in. 1. … Read More “Windows 7 Allows Changing on Logon UI Background” »
News, Random Stuff
Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya from the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto are both in agreement that one possible explanation for the constant failings of the large hadron collider (LHC) is that it is being intentionally sabotaged by people from the future. Sound weird? Well … Read More “Is the Large Hadron Colllider (LHC) being sabotaged from the future?” »
Random Stuff
Volkswagen have decided to give the world of viral video a go and have pretty much nailed it. These two video’s are spreading over the internet like wildfire. The first is a “deep bin,” a trash can that when you throw rubbish in, sounds like it’s dropping for a long distance. The second is about … Read More “Volkswagen – The Fun Theory” »
News
After last year’s Back To Earth mini-series, is Red Dwarf coming back for good? The series’ Robert Llewellyn told fans this weekend that scripts for a tenth season of the SF comedy have already been commissioned. Series 10 of Red Dwarf announcement just been made at DJ 09. To clarify the scripts have been commissioned, … Read More “Red Dwarf Season 10 – Possible?” »
News
As of yet, the cause of death has not been mentioned, but Stephen Gately of Boyzone fame has died at the age of 33 while on holiday in Menorca. The Irish pop star and actor was on holiday with his civil partner, Andrew Cowles, when he died yesterday, according to the bands website. It said … Read More “Stephen Gately Dead at 33 – died on holiday” »
Programming
So lunch was ‘so-so’ – the dauphinoise were undercooked, the duck sauce was too strong and overpowered the duck (probably good as they were rather cheap legs.) “Optimising your front end performance” was a very mixed talk. There were some generalisations that were seriously poor such as “80% of access to sites by end users … Read More “PHPNW 09 – Food and Optimising front end performance” »
Programming
Just started in the 3rd talk today by a guy called Rowan Merewood (twitter link). I had no idea he worked at Plus.net – for those of you who don’t know me, just take a look on Google for wade womersley plus.net. Unfortunately that means I’m biased to this talk as he’s talking about a … Read More “PHPNW09 – PHP North-West 09 Conference” »