Sunday, June 30, 2002
Nexland router for dual broadband connections
Overclockers look at a new router for cables, DSL or T1 - NexLand ISB Pro800 Turbo router review
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Aqua makes a splash
Slashdot | P2P Streaming Radio
Minority Report Has Ad-ded Value
New film (Minority Report) has Speilberg trademark of messaes of built-in marketing - see this article - Minority Report Has Ad-ded Value
Saturday, June 29, 2002
Slashdot | Boeing Blended Wing Body Aircraft
Friday, June 28, 2002
Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator
Superb stuff - easy download and install - Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator
Mostly Harmless
A beta site for Elite-style game based on Celestia code - Mostly Harmless
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Slashdot | World's First Photo
Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Let's WARCHALK!
ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos
Slashdot | Amateur Lightwave Tricks
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Supercomputer eats more power than a small city
Supercomputer eats more power than a small city - a story in the Register
Slashdot | Just How Much Privacy Do We Have?
BBC News | EUROPE | Quiz reveals Europe's knowledge gap
Slashdot | Long-Term Effects of Weightlessness
Monday, June 24, 2002
Slashdot | Adding an LCD Status Screen to a PC
This is in addition to the main screen - to hold all that status info from various proglets like Winamp etc - Slashdot | Adding an LCD Status Screen to a PC
Friday, June 21, 2002
ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Supercomputers go even larger
Slashdot | 120,000 km Is Still Too Close
Another near miss by an asteroid - Slashdot | 120,000 km Is Still Too Close
Inside The World's Most Advanced Computer
The so-called 'Earth Simulator' - Slashdot | Inside The World's Most Advanced Computer
Slashdot | Handhelds for Students?
Androids take the field in Robo (World) Cup
Thursday, June 20, 2002
World Wide Words
Slashdot | The Wayback Machine, Friend or Foe?
Slashdot | "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot
Philips picks blue lasers for itty-bitty disc - Tech News - CNET.com
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Troops in virtual combat
Presenter-to-Go from MARGI
Complete solution to displaying presentations on the PocketPC and other platforms.
Margi homepage here
BBC search for this s/w here.
Margi homepage here
BBC search for this s/w here.
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
guimp: world's smallest website
Literally the smallest - about 1cm square pages - also great - and working - guimp: world's smallest website
ickle.org » it's the little things that count
Brilliant - little things count - yeah - ickle.org » it's the little things that count
Slashdot | Inside the Cult of TiVo
About hacking and networking TiVo's and other bits - Slashdot | Inside the Cult of TiVo
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Slashdot | Intrusion Detection For Your PC Case
Slashdot | UVA Computer Science Museum
Slashdot | The Boy and his Breeder Reactor
Sunday, June 16, 2002
ScienceDaily Magazine -- Single-Molecule Transistor Research
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics and Other Cliches
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
All sorts of cliches - The Movie Cliches List - including computers.
All sorts of cliches - The Movie Cliches List - including computers.
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Calculators - PDAs in the Classroom
Are they necessary? Are they becoming the same? Slashdot article, links and comments - Slashdot | Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom
Slashdot | Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer?
The Slashdot article and followups about counter offers - Slashdot | Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer?
10 reasons not to accept a counter-offer in a job
10 reasons why you should not get a new job then accept a better offer your current job.
10 reasons not to accept a counter-offer in a job
Also good reasons why it is risky anywhere!
10 reasons not to accept a counter-offer in a job
Also good reasons why it is risky anywhere!
Slashdot | NVIDIA's Pixel & Vertex Shading Language
And now high-level programming specifically for graphics chips - a new career path maybe - Slashdot | NVIDIA's Pixel & Vertex Shading Language
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Web design 'causes confusion'
Short article discussing how users think differently to designers about the way sites are ogranised.
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Web design 'causes confusion'
End with useful tip - basically - keep it simple.
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Web design 'causes confusion'
End with useful tip - basically - keep it simple.
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Slashdot | Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph
Slashdot | Making Users Back Up Important Data?
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Slashdot | IBM Reinvents Punch Cards
Massive amounts of storage in tiny space - so what's new??? - Slashdot | IBM Reinvents Punch Cards
Slashdot | UK Government Expands Spying Powers
Links to Guardian online articles and stuff - Slashdot | UK Government Expands Spying Powers
Yet more intrusion into our lives under the auspices of preventing terrorism.
Yet more intrusion into our lives under the auspices of preventing terrorism.
Slashdot | Countries Ponder: GNU/Linux vs. Microsoft
The debate over open-source gets wider - Slashdot | Countries Ponder: GNU/Linux vs. Microsoft
Slashdot | UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations
Nice article linking to more - student is only 15 years old - sigh - Slashdot | UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations
Monday, June 10, 2002
Slashdot | Living the Computer Geek Lifestyle w/ a Significant Other?
Slashdot goody - keep and remember - Slashdot | Living the Computer Geek Lifestyle w/ a Significant Other?
Java Powers of Ten
Java applet in a link from this page which demonstrates the powers of 10 - starts at 1022 and 10 million light years from Milky Way, moves in to 10-15 and face to face with proton.
Slashdot | Java Powers of Ten
Can stop and step through manually too - usual Slashdot follow ups too.
Slashdot | Java Powers of Ten
Can stop and step through manually too - usual Slashdot follow ups too.
Techno Teddy by flugeldufel
Another modified Teddybear - musical this time - Techno Teddy by flugeldufel - The Hardware
Sunday, June 09, 2002
Jacuzzi with big screens
Slashdot article, comments and links to Jacuzzi page - includes one with 42 inch screen - wow.
Flipster - Pocket MP4 player
Here's the website advertising this Flipster player.
Saturday, June 08, 2002
NASA's Kepler Mission Coming in 2006
Slashdot article leacing on to other stuff - about the NASA Keppler mission to discover new planets - Slashdot | NASA's Kepler Mission Coming in 2006
Ebone Live!
The KPNQwest NOC has been taken over by employees anxious to stop the European backbone (Ebone) from closing - this would affect perhaps 50% of connectivity in Europe.
Page with access to 2 webcams - Ebone Live!
Additional - a Register article saying that meltdown is not likely to happen - decide for yourself.
Page with access to 2 webcams - Ebone Live!
Additional - a Register article saying that meltdown is not likely to happen - decide for yourself.
Friday, June 07, 2002
iPAQ PocketPC Wireless Webserver
It has been Slash-dotted but may be worth a look back to later - iPAQ Webserver
Security Through Obsolescence
Slashdot links to same article about using old OSes to foil hackers - usual Slashdot follow-ups too - Security Through Obsolescence
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
BBC News - Confessions of a morris dancer
BBC article by a Morris Dancer about whether Morris dancing will survive into the future - follows their appearance in Jubilee procession yesterday - Confessions of a morris dancer
UN Atlas of the Oceans
UN site with an online (and continuously updated) Atlas of the Oceans.
An attempt to show the over-use and destruction of the seas of the world.
An attempt to show the over-use and destruction of the seas of the world.
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
RTFM = Read the Funny Manual?
A slashdot article and followup pointing to 'Wired' article about manuals - round the world, what they are like, are they read? - RTFM = Read the Funny Manual?
Monday, June 03, 2002
Slashdot | Is the Universe its own Largest Computer?
Slashdot article and musings about another article postulating the Unverse as a big computer - Is the Universe its own Largest Computer?
Lots of (expected) references to HHGTTG and 42 - other witty comments in similar vein and some sensible stuff too. Plus link to the article that started it all.
Lots of (expected) references to HHGTTG and 42 - other witty comments in similar vein and some sensible stuff too. Plus link to the article that started it all.
Sunday, June 02, 2002
MEMS - as display screens of all sizes
A Robert Cringely Pulpit article extolling the use of MEMS -- Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems -- tiny machines, for use in all sorts of display devices.
Project Eden in Cornwall
A link through 'architecture week' site to stuff about Project Eden.
Saturday, June 01, 2002
Slashdot | Rootin' Tootin' Case Mod Roundup
Small Slashdot article that collects a few case mod submissions together - some interesting - some not! - Slashdot | Rootin' Tootin' Case Mod Roundup
