Dropsafe

Go see [www.top500.org] ; I am quite pleased to see a number of grids with which I am familiar (viz: my colleagues built them, designed their network fabric, had me help debug, etc) down in the 300..500 region — as-is the system which my mate Chris runs for VPAC down at number 444. I am…

Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong [www.boingboing.net] Mind-blowing article about the European and Chinese challenges to the received wisdom on traffic planning and calming, arguing that the separation of peds and cars leads to less-safe streets… HeInventedTheTerm [c2.com] A collection of some of those old <X> presents in front of <AUDIENCE>; <X> makes an…

This one takes a small amount of thinkage, but I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my stool. from www.b3ta.com

Sheesh – I can’t help but wonder if this drip-by-drip expansion is a good thing, or a bad thing? That it keeps a headline something like “All New-Style iBooks Ever Made Are Recalled” out of the press, is probably a good thing – but I cannot but help wonder if that’s the point. Do you…

The new King of the British bike industry is also the largest production motorcycle in the world – the 2.3ltr Triumph Rocket III. There’s not much point in me reviewing what is comprehensively written-up (or pointed-at) elsewhere [www.motorcycle-blog.com] but I will note that: it is smaller/shorter than I expected most of the chassis, is engine…

In searching for a sample of Chris Langham’s voice ([www.castaway.org.uk] – a tour-de-force of his style) I took a look at the larger website. http://www.castaway.org.uk Castaway can provide any voice you want. We have the widest range of carefully selected professional voice talent. Our traditional voices have got all the awards. Our young voices aren’t…

I was always vexed by these being in birdbooks of British Birds but actually being extinct; it was not until I read Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book back in 1979-ish (yes, he really is a bona-fide birder, as-am I but less so nowadays) that I understood the motivation for putting them in books howeverso…

In the UK, we have a quango which receives complaints about advertising and issues judgements upon those complaints, with some powers of censure to boot. Apple got done-over regarding their G5 World’s Fastest PC claim a few months ago, but won two out of three… [www.asa.org.uk] ( link c/o [www.csamuel.org] )

Some superb stuff at [science.nasa.gov] including the one showing both Venus and the International Space Station in transit.

I almost wish I had a Microsoft Windows system, so that I could try this out: [privacybird.com] AT&T invites you to download the new AT&T Privacy Bird software for free. This software will help Internet users stay informed about how information they provide to Web sites could be used. The AT&T Privacy Bird automatically searches…

I have absolutely no idea how this stayed under my radar for so long – in retrospect I may have read it somewhere and missed it, mashing it all in with the new film production – however on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm London time, there is a strong chance that the BBC’s streaming…

No, honestly, I mean it. Really. The apparent physiological differences between her and SMG number in the low, possibly single-digit, percentages. Yes indeed, to come up with an observation like that, I have been down the pub. Two of them in fact, one local, and the other almost-as-local. A short step from each other. A…