Instant World Clock – Useful for settling those “did the Americans shift before us” arguments

Fortunately you don’t have to face stuff like this in the UK; but I vaguely remember having these thrown at me in Elementary school in the USA…

More logical amusements, this time in a Wiki

Sometime when I get to New Jersey, I need to go to Grover’s Mill to see where the aliens landed…

Yes I am a coffee nerd. Yes, one of these days I wanna overhaul and upgrade my espresso machine. Hence I must watch this.

First it goes into OLPC, now it is fully available… I forsee a Solaris port. 🙂

WTF? I always wanted a Geiger Counter, but now the NYPD want to license them “to prevent false alarms and unnecessary public concern by making sure that we know where these detectors are located and that they conform to standards of quality …”

This is just plain silly. And amusing. And scary. And if one of the Feds embezzles $25k whilst wiretapping, what will he do with the information he taps… ?

Via Adriana: IBM talks surprisingly well about VRM; click on the Digital Persona button and have a read. They’re barking up the correct tree.

Part of the “Aha!” process with mathematical series is in the visualisation …

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