Dropsafe

Bill Gates drives a Porsche 959 and had to help change the law so that he could. Ingvar Kamprad drives a 1993 Volvo 240 GL. My oh my. [www.forbesautos.com]

(more…)

[news.independent.co.uk] In gently rolling countryside, not far from a tranquil lake, Chew Magna is the quintessential Somerset village. It has a well-kept cricket pitch, tidy gardens, three churches, two pubs and a row of quaint shops. A picturesque stream meanders by ancient houses – some of them mentioned in The Domesday Book – and a

(more…)

[news.independent.co.uk] Organisations opposed to animal experiments take the opposite view. They say that not only do alternatives to animals exist, but they are better. They also claim that relying on the results of animal research is dangerous. “Reliance on animal experimentation amounts to gambling with our children’s’ health,” says the antivivisection group Europeans for Medical

(more…)

[news.bbc.co.uk] Content from the BBC’s Natural History Unit has been made available free of charge over the internet. The Open Earth Archive will include previously unseen clips from new wildlife series Planet Earth. Footage can be viewed, downloaded and edited into personal projects as part of the Creative Archive Licence. The scheme, which released the

(more…)

[tinyurl.com]

(more…)

Check out todays (march 3rd) APOD: Shining brightly in the east at dawn, Venus dominates the sky in this view over a suburban landscape from Bursa, Turkey. An otherwise familiar scene for astronomer Tunc Tezel, his composite picture of the morning sky recorded on March 2nd also includes a surprise visitor to the inner solar

(more…)

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: “And that’s the way it is.” To me, that encapsulates the newsman’s highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. Sadly, that

(more…)

[news.bbc.co.uk] Online amateurs crack Nazi codes Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are finally being cracked, helped by thousands of home computers. The codes resisted the best efforts of the celebrated Allied cryptographers based at Bletchley Park during the war. Now one has been solved by running code-breaking software on a “grid” of

(more…)

[www.softworld.co.uk] Understanding the Impact of Blogs, Wikis and RSS Wednesday 17 May 2006, Hilton London Metropole The new Blogs & Social Media Forum is breaking away from the traditional conference format to help maximise interaction and networking. Conferences need to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience ” and the interaction with peers makes this

(more…)

[news.nationalgeographic.com] A Hubble Space Telescope image released yesterday confirms what a fuzzy shot taken last May only hinted at: Two more moons have been found orbiting Pluto, making a total of three. The new picture, captured on February 15, shows S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2-catchier names will come later-faintly glowing in the starlike

(more…)

Chris writes: Been writing some stuff in shell that needs to be able to ensure it doesn’t start itself twice, so a bit of Googling for exclusive locks in shell scripts brought me to this page on “advanced shell scripting” which had something that looked good. Problem is that when you put it into a

(more…)

When wildcat meets flatiron, you get Pallas’ Cats: [community.livejournal.com] [www.csew.com] Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…

(more…)