Saturday, August 31, 2002
Slashdot | Another Look At High-Tech Fabrics
BBC NEWS | Technology | Classical musicians going digital
Slashdot | Most Beautiful Experiment in Physics
Slashdot | Air Bags for Planetary Defense
Slashdot | ARCADE: Blinkenlights with Tetris
Chaos Computer Club run their interactive festival - including use of building lights for video display.
Slashdot | ARCADE: Blinkenlights with Tetris
Slashdot | ARCADE: Blinkenlights with Tetris
Friday, August 30, 2002
Slashdot | Flash Games as Political Commentary
BBC NEWS | Technology | Tate tests wireless tour guides
BBC NEWS | Technology | Riding the internet's fast lane
Bill Thompson talks about broadband and what it means to have it - some followup letters too - BBC NEWS | Technology | Riding the internet's fast lane
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Slashdot | Students Outpacing Teachers With Online Skills
Game developers look beyond polygons
Kiwi wirless LAN
They are trying out a big wireless LAN in NZ. - Kiwi wirless LAN
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
OldVersion.com - old versions of your favorite software
Trinity Atomic Web Site
Nuclear weapons - history, technology and consequences.
Interesting site with a lot of pictures of test explosions etc. - Trinity Atomic Web Site
Interesting site with a lot of pictures of test explosions etc. - Trinity Atomic Web Site
Monday, August 26, 2002
Campaign for Digital Rights - UK Implementation of European Copyright Directive
Copyright protection - gone too far now perhaps. Try these -
Campaign for Digital Rights - UK Implementation of European Copyright Directive
Stand: 2002-08-21: EUCD in the UK
Campaign for Digital Rights - UK Implementation of European Copyright Directive
Stand: 2002-08-21: EUCD in the UK
A couple of odd links
Crazy link 1
Tesla in morse code from "Show and Tell Music" - it has excerpts - including this one - tesla in morse code
Crazy link 2
Brilliant - the link says it all - The Julie Burchill Random Recycler
Tesla in morse code from "Show and Tell Music" - it has excerpts - including this one - tesla in morse code
Crazy link 2
Brilliant - the link says it all - The Julie Burchill Random Recycler
When bright ideas bite back
The growth of a 'meme' may not be all good - especially for its 'creator'.
Some words of warning in this BBC article (from dot-life) about what happens when an 'idea' takes off on the Internet.
When bright ideas bite back
Some words of warning in this BBC article (from dot-life) about what happens when an 'idea' takes off on the Internet.
When bright ideas bite back
Slashdot | Voyagers Legacy in Pictures
Another set of pointers to info about Voyager craft - Slashdot | Voyagers Legacy in Pictures
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Slashdot | The Square Kilometer Array
Slashdot | The Square Kilometer Array
Massive radio-telescope planned - forward planning means it will need new technologies that are expected to become available in order to sustain the massive data rates expected - ie. terabytes per second with storage in order of petabytes.
Massive radio-telescope planned - forward planning means it will need new technologies that are expected to become available in order to sustain the massive data rates expected - ie. terabytes per second with storage in order of petabytes.
Raph's Page: Online World Timeline
Large page - lots of text - probably best for reference only - very US-biased at present - Raph's Page: Online World Timeline
TERRA
Part of EOS (Earth Observing System - TERRA (EOS AM-1)
NASA project to map in detail the Earth. Great pix and videos.
NASA project to map in detail the Earth. Great pix and videos.
Saturday, August 24, 2002
Slashdot | Marsoweb
Links etc to stuff about up-and-coming NASA Mars missions. - Slashdot | Marsoweb
Includes the Marsoweb site where there are 44+k photos for scientists to view and choose the best landing site. Interesting stuff.
Includes the Marsoweb site where there are 44+k photos for scientists to view and choose the best landing site. Interesting stuff.
Friday, August 23, 2002
Don't Link to Us!
A site that highlights those firms/sites that have regulations concerning linking to them. - Don't Link to Us!
Important because the power of the web is in the links.
Important because the power of the web is in the links.
All about the Voyager 1 and 2 craft
BBC - Great Britons
BBC site looking to identify the top 10 (from 100 shortlisted) - BBC - Great Britons
Some very odd choices though obvious due to cult of celebrity.
Some very odd choices though obvious due to cult of celebrity.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Losing touch with the past
Thoughts about problems associated with data storage and ever-changing technology -
BBC NEWS | Technology | Losing touch with the past
BBC NEWS | Technology | Losing touch with the past
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
BBC NEWS | Technology | Robots vies to be wedding snapper
A robot which can take photos - composes pictures using 'rule of thirds' after finding 'skin' to photograph - BBC NEWS | Technology | Robots vies to be wedding snapper
ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Gas-powered notebooks get lighter
Notebooks of the future - perhaps - ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Gas-powered notebooks get lighter
Slashdot | Watercooling Made Easy
More mods and bits - Slashdot | Watercooling Made Easy
Monday, August 19, 2002
Slashdot | PGP Acquired From NAI
Sunday, August 18, 2002
Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers
Slashdot | Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers
Almost any number when reversed and added to itself (repeat process as many times as neeeded) will eventually produce a palindrome.
Those which do not - eg. 1st such appears to be 196 - are called Lychrel Numbers.
Almost any number when reversed and added to itself (repeat process as many times as neeeded) will eventually produce a palindrome.
Those which do not - eg. 1st such appears to be 196 - are called Lychrel Numbers.
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Bill Thompson answers critics
Register article that follows up article and letters generated by "Damn the Constitution: Europe must take back the Web".
Linux on Xbox
Friday, August 16, 2002
BBC NEWS | Technology | Britons go gadget crazy
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The Technology Behind ID's Games
Slashdot article leading to links and comments about ID software leader/programmer John Carmack. - The Technology Behind ID's Games
Bit of history too.
Bit of history too.
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
The Coming of Serial ATA
Slashdot | The Coming of Serial ATA
A serial interface to replace the parallel ATA currently in use - faster and cheaper too - read on.
A serial interface to replace the parallel ATA currently in use - faster and cheaper too - read on.
Monday, August 12, 2002
21st birthday - PC comes of age
BBC article showing PC - as in IBM PC - has 21st birthday on 12 August (1981) - PC comes of age
Edited on 18th August but posted back to this date for 'completeness'
Edited on 18th August but posted back to this date for 'completeness'
Build A Custom-Fit One-hand Keyboard
Slashdot article about one-naded (ie.portable) keyboards - Build A Custom-Fit One-hand Keyboard
Arctic people seek common alphabet
BBC story about Arctic aborigine people looking to find a common alphabet and the problems they currently face - Inuit people
PCs are going to disappear forever
Inquirer article discussing that the Cell (cpu) will change the way we use IT - PCs are going to disappear forever
Toilet Paper algorithms ( jnd.org )
How to decide when to replace the roll - examples for more than one roll on a holder - Toilet Paper algorithms ( jnd.org )
You have to ask - am I strange?
You have to ask - am I strange?
Lasers for Fun and Profit
Slashdot - directed energy devices - links to site with its own list of links to various articles/sites - Lasers for Fun and Profit
Saturday, August 10, 2002
VirtualStapler.com : Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation
Weird - weird - weird.
A site all about staplers - choose a stapler and press it on the screen - satisfying noises included.
Madness - VirtualStapler.com : Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation
A site all about staplers - choose a stapler and press it on the screen - satisfying noises included.
Madness - VirtualStapler.com : Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation
Franklin's Glass Armonica
An odd Slashdot linker - even has links to a page where you can try a virtual glass armonica - ethereal sounding thing - Franklin's Glass Armonica
PC Mag - The Future in Gear
A Slashdot link to a PC Mag (US version) article looking at new products that are 'almost' here now. Interesting - article dated September 3rd even though it is only 10th August as I post this - The Future in Gear
Friday, August 09, 2002
Damn the Constitution: Europe must take back the Web
Comment article from the Register, by Bill Thompson - Damn the Constitution: Europe must take back the Web
Slashdot | Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players?
Thursday, August 08, 2002
ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002
Slashdot - noting death of E W D from cancer - comments etc - Slashdot | Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002
EWD Archive: Home
Edsger W. Dijkstra document archive - EWD Archive: Home
Dijkstra follow-up and poems
Dijkstra follow-up and poems
Actually added 12th August but moved here for simplicity in later searches.
Actually added 12th August but moved here for simplicity in later searches.
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
Slashdot | Fallout from the Internet Debacle
Links to an article by Janis Ian (songwriter and performer indeed) discussing the RIAA and other efforts to curtail user fair use of content - ie. CDs, copying, downloads, the whole lot - Slashdot | Fallout from the Internet Debacle
Slashdot | Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House
Slashdot | Autonomous Robots' Desert Race
BBC NEWS | Talking Point | What would you like played at your funeral?
Monday, August 05, 2002
Slashdot | Autonomous Race Cars
Google Art Creator
Oh no - Oh yes - yet more ASCII Art stuff from Slashdot - follow da links and spot the one to a text Quake - crazy - Google Art Creator
Sunday, August 04, 2002
TechTV | Yoshi's Mods: Project Endoworth
From 'the screen savers' site - a mod to put your PDA cradle into a drive bay of the PC - TechTV | Yoshi's Mods: Project Endoworth
Slashdot | Reclaiming the Commons
Good links to articles about shared (common) resources as well as discussion of traditional 'commons' as in green spaces - Slashdot | Reclaiming the Commons
Slashdot | The Bulova Accutron
Links etc to stuff about the first true electronic watch - Slashdot | The Bulova Accutron
Friday, August 02, 2002
Odd links from Register
Register page with a number of odd and interesting links - some already covered in the Sarevian archives too - Odd links
Flagship Case Worklog
Another case modification - in this case (yeek!) a see-through one - can't recall the link to previous see-through case - it is in the archives somewhere though - Extreme Mhz :: View topic - Flagship Case Worklog
Thursday, August 01, 2002
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Leads to some pretty good interactive maps - biodiversity, population, lots of other factors - UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Slashdot | Narrative and Weblogs: the Blognovel
A look at how (or if) blogs can be used with the narrative form - Narrative and Weblogs: the Blognovel
