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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-06
: Loose Connections – Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil http://t.co/ad1MawGw # : This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 1 http://t.co/dkIaUGiT # : This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 2 http://t.co/ClrSftW5 # : How the Chinese screwed up their 3G
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Put Roomba in Loft. Shut hatch. Sounds like a warzone up there.
Perfect solution for cleaning out the loft prior to re-org, though…
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Aberystwyth Jubilee Beacon burned a _little_ too fiercely… #jubilee #beacon #fail
Picture (c) Steph Reveley on Google+ …does what it says on the can.
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1970 Sesame Street: My Digital Re-creation | Jordan Orlando
Six years later, after many stops and starts and intervening books and other projects, the original “labor of love” is complete. Ultimately the task included steep learning curves in many aspects of digital modeling (including diving into the deep waters of “nCloth,” Maya’s system for controlling dynamics that allows the canvas awnings to droop and
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#RaspberryPi and Kirby cushion factory could be answer to UK tech sector boost – The Inquirer
More on this story… IT’S NOT OFTEN that I’m interested in documentaries about cushion making, but I made an exception for the recent BBC2 programme The Town Taking on China, which ended up having some interesting implications for the UK technology industry. The premise of the series was an experiment carried out by cushion manufacturer
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How the Chinese screwed up their 3G mobile phone networks | Samizdata / Michael Jennings #China #iPhone
A long and fascinating introduction to what happens when politics and national pride get mixed up with technology implementation that’s moving at the speed of Moore’s Law: This might help explain why [China Mobile] are unable to offer the iPhone. So, it appears that the largest Mobile carrier in the world, in a country perceived
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This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 2
From An update on the censorship in Ethiopia | The Tor Blog. A few days ago, we published a blog post exposing the use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to filter all Internet traffic in Ethiopia, including connections to the Tor network. We concluded that they are doing some sort of TLS fingerprinting, but had
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This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 1
Let’s ignore the illiberality and instead focus on the tying-yourself-up-in-knots game of whackamole which is necessary to prevent “symbolism”: Each year, the Communist Party’s censors go to remarkable lengths to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing, or spreading, their memories of what happened on June 4, 1989, when an unknown number of people were killed during
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Loose Connections – Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
So, if this is true, then why does Bombadil save and help the ringbearer and his companions? Because they can bring about the downfall of Sauron, the current Dark Lord of Middle Earth. When Sauron falls, the other rings will fail and the wizards and elves will leave Middle Earth and the only great power
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s a dead cat with propellers stuck on it! – in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Part of my finds this slightly distasteful but mostly I have known a few cats that would see opportunities in being helicopter cyborgs: After his cat Orville died, Dutch artist Bart Jansen decided to give him a new lease of life … by having him stuffed, attaching propellers to him and flying him around as a
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-05
: Costa Coffee in Hartley Wintney plans 33 seats in Cafe http://t.co/Tegv58GW #
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Costa Coffee in Hartley Wintney plans 35 seats in Cafe
Further to my previous posting, I extracted this from the planning documents: I would call that… a stretch goal. Perhaps even brave. UPDATE: In haste I missed two (see diagram) – that makes 35