Saturday, 31 December 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
I Demand That You Shoot Me Now! - YouTube

My Fave bit is when the duck says "Nugh!" - Cracks me up everytime

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

World Of Mysteries: Hilarious “I Have No Time to Explain” Posters (12 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/hilarious-i-have-no-time-to-explain.html

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

OK Go ft/ The Muppets: Muppet Show Theme Song | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/263724/detail/

Saturday, 20 August 2011

FARK.com: (6493818) Dear FBI super-spies: Do not name your FBI surveillance van's wifi network "FBI SURVEILLANCE VAN"

http://www.fark.com/comments/6493818/Dear-FBI-super-spies-Do-not-name-your-FBI-surveillance-vans-wifi-network-FBI-SURVEILLANCE-VAN?cpp=1

Bulletproof Skin Made From Spider Silk : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/tech/bullet-proof-skin-110820.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Thursday, 18 August 2011

BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747

As U.K. Releases UFO Files, Former UFO Project Chief Apologizes For 'Spin And Dirty Tricks' (Exclusive)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/uk-releases-ufo-files_n_927351.html
Coincident with yesterday's
Boing boing Paul Krugman: save the economy by staging an alien invasion hoax
and a film: Cowboys vs Aliens
A perfect BS storm

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

World Of Mysteries: Boost Your WiFi Signal With A Beer Can (7 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/boost-your-wifi-signal-with-beer-can-7.html

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Arduino device mutes uninteresting celebrities on TV – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/16/arduino-device-mutes-unintersting-celebrities-on-tv.html

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Fark: Garry Larsen is 61

http://www.fark.com/comments/6476202/Happy-61st-birthday-to-funniest-newspaper-cartoonist-of-all-time-Gary-Larson-From-talking-cows-to-chubby-women-in-beehives-he-brought-absurdity-into-our-homes-Share-your-favorite-cartoons-if-youve-got-em?cpp=1

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Dangerous Minds | CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/
Almost HB'd

Friday, 12 August 2011

Gelsight - Surface sensing

http://www.GelSight.com
http://www.gelsight.com/technology/

http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/surface_sensing_with_gelsight

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/10/researchers-demo-3d-face-scanning-breakthroughs-at-siggraph-kin/

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Hacking QR codes for fun and profit - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/08/09/hacking-qr-codes-for-fun-and-profit/

Phantom cam shoots 1 million frames per second – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/phantom-cam-shoots-1-million-frames-per-second.html

Bored by math class, student turns to squiggling – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/bored-by-math-class-student-turns-to-squiggling.html

Friday, 5 August 2011

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool

http://www.asciiflow.com/

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Trickle of Salt Water -- on Mars : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-salt-water-surface-110804.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/

http://www.fark.com/comments/6448709/NASA-find-running-water-on-surface-of-Mars-herd-of-buggalo-drinking-from-it-maybe-not-that-last-part?cpp=1

Hack the Vote 2011 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=6447109&l=https://www.eff.org/pages/hack-the-vote-2011

Saturday, 30 July 2011

Ted Talks: Julian Treasure: 5 Ways to Listen Better | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260980/detail/

Hydrogen and Chlorine Reaction | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260991/detail/

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Cat + chemistry + puns = awesome – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/cat-chemistry-puns-awesome.html
My niece showed me this link earlier

Saturday, 23 July 2011

I’ve got your missing links right here (23 July 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/07/23/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-july-2011/
Search Discover Mag for prev articles..

http://discovermagazine.com/search?SearchableText=I%27ve+got+your+missing+links+right+here+&Submit.x=14&Submit.y=4

Anatomy of Norbiton | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/105811/Anatomy-of-Norbiton

Friday, 22 July 2011

BBC Horizon: The Secret You | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260067/detail/

Fry on "Star Trek", 42 and Whatnot | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260077/detail/

Heli Test #1 | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259988/detail/

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Analyzing TV’s talking heads with Processing - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/07/19/analyzing-tvs-talking-heads-with-processing/

Monday, 18 July 2011

Curious Sounds: A Radiolab Concert - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jun/27/curious-sounds/
http://glennkotche.com/

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Terry Gilliam: Monty Python animations | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259413/detail/

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Ferromagnetic Objects Meet a 4 T Magnet | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259196/detail/

Sunday, 10 July 2011

The history of DOS | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/105367/The-history-of-DOS

Friday, 8 July 2011

Pinocchio's Real Roots Mapped : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/history/pinocchio-fictional-home-110708.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Harnessing the power of feedback loops - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/07/harnessing-the-power.html

BBC News - Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670
THIS!

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

A Clockwork Miracle - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jun/14/clockwork-miracle/

Referee Appears Out Of Thin Air. | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/258561/detail/
A hockey referee from the future emerges from a trans-dimensional portal in the middle of a Wings - Hawks game.

With the intergalactic cataclysm averted, the referee returns to the void.

Friday, 1 July 2011

St. Swithin's Day (St Swithun's Day) in England

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/stswithun.html

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
via http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/257984/detail/

Dramatic Diet 'Reverses' Type 2 Diabetes : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/human/type-2-diabetes-reversible.html

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_nicklen_tales_of_ice_bound_wonderlands.html
From around 11:00 - but worth watching it all
Terrible Title: Face-Off With a Deadly Predator ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg

The Writer Who Couldn't Read : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/01/127745750/the-writer-who-couldnt-read
A repository of handy radiolab links

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Nikon shows off concept cameras in France, says hello to tomorrow -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/nikon-shows-off-concept-cameras-in-france-says-hello-to-tomorro/

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Video: UFOs spotted over London? - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8599547/UFOs-spotted-over-London.html
Designed to coincide with China's visit?

Saturday, 25 June 2011

Solar powered 3D printer creates glass objects out of sand | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/104937/Solar-powered-3D-printer-creates-glass-objects-out-of-sand

Piano Extravaganza - Walkürenritt (Ride of the Valkyries)

Friday, 24 June 2011

Remember that bloke who said we're all gonna die? Yeah, well about that...

http://news.discovery.com/space/visualizing-asteroid-2011-md-zip-past-earth-animation-110624.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
When Asteroid '2011 MD' Zips Past Earth : Animation : Discovery News

Monday, 20 June 2011

Rube Goldberg machine parks a car! | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/256860/detail/

New rankings of world's fastest supercomputers released: Japan, China, US take top three spots - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/new-rankings-of-worl.html

Selective attention: More than just missing the man in the gorilla suit - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/selective-attention.html

How hangovers work - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/how-hangovers-work.html

Monday, 13 June 2011

BBC News - London Marathon snail crawl man Lloyd Scott sacked

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13751871
Now that's just pouring salt on his wounds

Friday, 10 June 2011

YouTube - ‪The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)‬‏ (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

Magnetism makes silly putty fun again - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/06/10/magnetism-makes-silly-putty-fun-again

Authorship - Webmaster Tools Help

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
via

Will Author Markup Help Google's Scraper Problem?

Friday, 3 June 2011

BBC News - Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9503255.stm

BBC News - Quantum mechanics rule 'bent' in classic experiment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13626587

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Exam board apologises over impossible maths AS-level question | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/02/exam-board-apologises-impossible-maths-question

Monday, 30 May 2011

NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El used to demo next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (video) -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/nvidias-quad-core-kal-el-used-to-demo-next-gen-mobile-graphics

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Mathematical Card Trick video clip - Cool videos - BoomClips.com

http://www.boomclips.com/videos.aspx/video~mathematical_card_trick/Mathematical_Card_Trick/Cool_videos/

Cool videos

Friday, 27 May 2011

64-bit OS written entirely in assembly - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/05/27/64-bit-os-written-entirely-in-assembly/

Thursday, 26 May 2011

OECD Better Life Initiative. Just sayin'

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/00000000000

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

1961, a bunch of guys dressed like accountants make some great music

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/253772/detail/
Dave Brubeck Take five in 1961

Monday, 23 May 2011

Microsoft Mathematics CAS | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103801/Microsoft-Mathematics-CAS
Something free from M$?
Perhaps the chap used it to estimate the Rapture date... or the world reallt is about to e...

BBC News - Is graphene a miracle material?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm

Saturday, 21 May 2011

WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts

http://weatherspark.com/
via
Boing Boing

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Android Adds USB Host + Audio, Open Hardware ADK with Arduino; Good News for Mobile Music

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/android-adds-usb-host-mode-open-hardware-development-with-arduino/

Bye Bye Comet! [HD Video] | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5715631317/in/photostream

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Reinventing Magnetic Core Memory | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103415/Reinventing-Magnetic-Core-Memory

Saturday, 7 May 2011

Why The New Guy Can’t Code

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

Hidden cognitive costs of doing stuff - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/06/hidden-cognitive-cos.html

Thursday, 5 May 2011

MetaFilter -The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://www.metafilter.com/103187/The-Discrete-Charm-of-the-1-1-2-3-5-8
The Discrete Charm of the 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... |

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Introducing Scanimate | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103161/Introducing-Scanimate

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Frostylock's Bakery

http://www.frostylocksbakery.blogspot.com/
This genius made my niece's 21st Birthday Cake. "Nom Skull" (My niece is reading Neuropsychology at Preston) [BEAM!]

It was not only did it look fantastic (pictured), it tasted amazing, too! A work of (very tasty) art :)

I'd recommend Frostylock's Bakery to anyone

Saturday, 30 April 2011

Robot Catches Two Baseballs With Amazing Precision : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robot-catches-baseballs-with-amazing-precision-110429.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Friday, 29 April 2011

BBC covers an old-school hacker - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/29/bbc-covers-an-old-school-hacker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions (Listed by Publication Date)

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp?BPDate1=1700&BPDate2=2020
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/26/timeline-of-science.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Monday, 25 April 2011

Innovation and the unexpected: an impassioned rant - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/25/innovation-and-the-u.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110414161404.htm

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Camera software learns to pick you out of a crowd - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/21/camera-software-learns-to-pick-you-out-of-a-crowd/

Monday, 18 April 2011

Isn't this the same "Moon" mentioned on QI, years ago?

http://www.arm.ac.uk/press/2011/aac_horseshoe_orbit.html

FARK.com: (6122164) UK posts info about US and UK nuclear submarines but redacts all sensitive information. And by 'redacts' I mean highlights the secret stuff in black, so you can just paste it into Word and read it

http://www.fark.com/comments/6122164
People aren't still doing this, are they?
(I could have sworn I'd posted something about this years ago)

Sunday, 17 April 2011

BBC News - Mind tricks may help arthritic pain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13068924
via
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/mind-tricks-arthritic-pain/

Saturday, 16 April 2011

The origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/15/the-origin-of-ctrl-alt-delete/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

A Letter to Chris - A book by a friend

http://www.ALetterToChris.com
A friend has written and self-published a book
(

)
This is his website:http://www.ALetterToChris.com

Magic goop scoop - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/11/magic-goop-scoop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Monday, 11 April 2011

How magnets affect the human brain - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/11/how-magnets-affect-t.html

Monday, 4 April 2011

Venice, how does it work? | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/102189/Venice-how-does-it-work

Where's the path ?

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Dog has the dye of the tiger | Orange UK

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Dog_has_dye_of_the_tiger
April fool?

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Short_ST_WarpDrive_screen[1].mov

"Star Trek
Hot Chick
Condom
Nerd"

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/29/warp-drive-in-real-l.html

How a differential gear works - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/30/how-a-differential-g.html

Monday, 28 March 2011

The Brain Our Universe Within::Evolution | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/246877/detail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+milkandcookieslatest+%28MilkandCookies.com%3A+Latest+Links%29

Why pubs are on track to open in 'ghost stations' - Home News, UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/why-pubs-are-on-track-to-open-in-ghost-stations-2252465.html

Universal property of music discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Cell phone recycling

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Cell_phone_recycling?topic=49558
I'd been chatting to a friend about the value of the materials in old cell phones - he doug this article up

Friday, 25 March 2011

Video Experimenter Shield - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/03/24/video-experimenter-shield/

now for the science bit

http://www.nowforthesciencebit.com/
via
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/25/now-for-the-science.html

Thursday, 24 March 2011

World Science Festival Video : Spotlight: Do Not Touch the Frog

http://wsf.tv/videos/spotlight_do_not_touch_the_frog
Reminds me of Bill Bryson

via http://www.metafilter.com/101853/This-frog-knows-no-fear

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Terapixel images and see-through cameras: Real or Fake? - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/03/22/terapixel-images-and-see-through-cameras-real-or-fake/

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Want to explaind the Solar System to someone? | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/101769/Want-to-explaind-the-Solar-System-to-someone

Friday, 18 March 2011

Anaconda - http://127.0.0.1:8080

http://127.0.0.1:8080

10 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon | Moon Photos, Moon Facts | Space & Solar System Facts & Information | Space.com

http://www.space.com/11162-10-surprising-moon-facts-full-moons.html

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

From: Ghost Busters

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!

It's Not Your Imagination: The Number Of Disasters Just Keeps Rising

Sperm Whales Found to Announce Themselves by a Personal Identifer (or Name!)

Barbary macaques recognise photos of their friends

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Roboroaches: Students Prepare to Control Roaches With Remote-Control Brains

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/15/roboroaches-students-prepare-to-control-roaches-with-remote-con/

MIT Researcher records 90,000 hours of home video, analyzes the hell out of it - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/16/mit-researcher-recor.html

FARK.com: (6037294) Causality-Violating Higgs singlets discovered tomorrow at the LHC

http://www.fark.com/comments/6037294/Causality-Violating-Higgs-singlets-discovered-tomorrow-at-LHC?cpp=1
One day, all new papers will look like Fark
{I love the Geordi LaForge anno}

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

London's Unfinished Ringways | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/101530/Londons-Unfinished-Ringways

Thursday, 10 March 2011

WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts

http://weatherspark.com/
via
http://www.metafilter.com/101412/Weather-Visualization-better-than-the-window

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Violin Virtuoso | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/244769/detail/

Sunday, 6 March 2011

An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/marine-rhythms/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/06/an-eclipse-from-space-with-a-two-way-moon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29

http://www.universetoday.com/83653/video-whats-up-for-march/

Stars, Planets, satellites, Circles, rotation, cycles, beats,

Friday, 4 March 2011

Amateur snaps astronaut on spacewalk | Skymania News and Guide

http://skymania.com/wp/2011/03/amateur-snaps-astronaut-on-spacewalk.html

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

I wonder if there's anything linking these 2 stories

Forensics 'safe in private hands'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12627754

New post-mortem method developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12616550

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

A Flock of Two - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/feb/22/flock-two/

static void wake_up_dreamer(struct dreamer_attr *dattr, int level) | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100841/static-void-wakeupdreamerstruct-dreamerattr-dattr-int-level

YouTube - Road Runner 3D: Coyote Falls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbvTxJEiKU
Oh please let it be true!

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

At last! Someone to take up the mantle from Sir David Attenborough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=GEokQpZLgZ8
YouTube The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger

I'd watch more nature programmes if the narration was more like this (strong language in places, but funny!)

Saturday, 19 February 2011

Which A-Levels should you study if you want to get into a top university? - Tom Hartley

http://tomhartley.posterous.com/which-a-levels-should-you-study-if-you-want-t

Brain Car Interface - Hack a Day - TopGear?

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/18/brain-car-interface/
Don't let the TopGear boys find out

Measure earth’s rotation with PlayStation Move - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/19/measure-earths-rotation-with-playstation-move/

Free (…as in ‘free beer’) ARM kit - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/19/free-as-in-free-beer-arm-kit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Trompe L'oeil | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/242387/detail/

Friday, 18 February 2011

Learning the Alien Language of Dolphins | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/02/18/learning-the-alien-language-of-dolphins/
Pha loves Pa!

Saturday, 12 February 2011

DIY PIC development board and web server - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/12/diy-pic-development-board-and-web-server/

IBM’s Watson Trivia Challenge - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/16/magazine/watson-trivia-game.html
http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Watson-Jeopardy-Computer-021011.html

Ooze around the maze | Science | Fortean Times

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/5122/ooze_around_the_maze.html
I was always confused by a couple of sections of Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Where he mentions slime moulds. The stuff he'd said about them surprised me, and I wondered why I'd not heard more about them... till now, that is

Friday, 11 February 2011

ba dum ba dom ba doom BOOM BAM BAM | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100458/ba-dum-ba-dom-ba-doom-BOOM-BAM-BAM
Personally, I prefer these tracks (Not that I think he's a particularly talented drummer)

I don't care anymore -

Take me home -

{Not that it contains a lot of real I can never help myself from singing along, and mean stuff to me.}

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain --The ultimate hack: Reverse engineering the human brain By Larry Greenemeier in 60-Second Science Blog-- credits to Scientific American - TechDIMWIT

http://www.techdimwit.com/1/post/2009/09/reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-the-ultimate-hack-reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-by-larry-greenemeier-in-60-second-science-blog-credits-to-scientific-american.html

Lab3 - Laboratory for Experimental Computer Science

http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/experiments/arduino-dds-sinewave-generator/
I wonder if Bresenham's circle algo would be faster/more efficient?

This week, I have been mostly working on… — Laser Harps, Tesla Coils, and Killer Space Robots

http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Causal vs. Effectual Thinkers in Business | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100426/Causal-vs-Effectual-Thinkers-in-Business

Steven Pinker: Language as a Window into Human Nature | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/241154/detail/

Language of Numbers in Nicaraguan Sign Language | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100431/Language-of-Numbers-in-Nicaraguan-Sign-Language

Slashdot: Mars Zap-and-sniff

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/0345253/NASA-Invents-New-Technique-For-Finding-Alien-Life
NASA Invents New Technique For Finding Alien Life - Slashdot

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Nokia's chief executive to staff: 'we are standing on a burning platform' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/feb/09/nokia-burning-platform-memo-elop
FYI Juce - by Rawmaterial Software ( C++, Cross platform:Linux, Win, OSX, iOS) is adding Android to its number

WWF launches PDF-like file format that can't be printed | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/feb/09/wwf-pdf-file-format-printed
WOM

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

BBC News - Bloodhound car 'to inspire engineers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12388170
What. A. Guy!

Sunday, 6 February 2011

ZigBee dominoes all fall down (Gadget Master)

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/2011/02/zigbee-dominoes-all-fall-down.html

ZigBee dominoes all fall down (Gadget Master)

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/2011/02/zigbee-dominoes-all-fall-down.html

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Metropolitan Police Service - Fraud Alert

http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/

Monday, 31 January 2011

Not NSFW if you don't play the Dusk Till Dawn Vid

Winepeg Midnight Cat Madness

Dusk Till Dawn - Full Pussy Scene

Saturday, 29 January 2011

BBC News - DreamWorks CEO denies 3D TV safety risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9379675.stm
The Closing sentences of this interview... erm, what abount when the thing gets released to DVD (DDDVD?) and kinds are plonked infront of 3DTVs for hours on end to keep'em quiet (which, my view, seems to happen a lot in)