Sunday, November 30, 2003
Slashdot | Web 'Rules' Changing?
Slashdot | Computer Folklore, Circa 1984
About Atari computer archives - Slashdot | Computer Folklore, Circa 1984
From the thread, quite a nice site with a whole load of 'old' books archived - Atari centred of course - but includes some interesting, general-purpose ones too, like Digital Deli.
And here's another link to this book - The Digital Deli Golden Age Radio Home Page
From the thread, quite a nice site with a whole load of 'old' books archived - Atari centred of course - but includes some interesting, general-purpose ones too, like Digital Deli.
And here's another link to this book - The Digital Deli Golden Age Radio Home Page
Slashdot | Lost Disney Rides Recreated in CGI
Saturday, November 29, 2003
The Bad English League
Rather nice site with some good phrases - which often go bad in the wrong hands.
The Bad English League
The Bad English League
JavaScrypt Tutorial
JavaScrypt: Browser-Based Cryptography Tools
Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld - Thinking Putty defeats Fingerprint Scanners!
Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld - Thinking Putty defeats Fingerprint Scanners!
Side link to other 'crazy' ideas.
Side link to other 'crazy' ideas.
Slashdot | Need... More... Power...
All about modern students taking more electrical appliances with them and how colleges have to re-wire etc to cope.
Slashdot | Need... More... Power...
Slashdot | Need... More... Power...
Friday, November 28, 2003
Slashdot | Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Film and TV archives put on web
Some of the UK's best-loved and most influential films and TV shows are put on the internet.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Film and TV archives put on web
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Film and TV archives put on web
Via asked to liberate EPIA boards
BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Rugby World Cup | Team Pages | England | Woodward's all-American hero
A profile of Vince Lombardi, the NFL boss whose methods became the very essence of Clive Woodward's coaching manual.
BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Rugby World Cup | Team Pages | England | Woodward's all-American hero
BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Rugby World Cup | Team Pages | England | Woodward's all-American hero
QWERTY-RIP?
Aftershocks of undersea cable outage hit UK ISPs
Slashdot | 20 Years of Virii
DVD Forum backs Toshiba-NEC format
BBC NEWS | Technology | Plastic promises dense data store
Slashdot | Human Pac Man
Slashdot | If Microsoft Built Cars...
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Slashdot | Umberto Eco on Paper vs. Electronic Memory
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Slashdot | Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK
In amongst comments is a good story about the Great Eastern (famous Brunel ship) and here part in cable-laying.
Slashdot | Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK
Slashdot | Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK
Monday, November 24, 2003
Slashdot | The Amazing Shrinking Supercomputer
What WAN technology is right for your business?
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Slashdot | A Robot Carries Humans, Another One Plays Flute
Leet - Charge of the Light Brigade
openrbl.org
Friday, November 21, 2003
BBC NEWS | Technology | Radio tags spark privacy worries
BBC NEWS | Technology | Radio tags spark privacy worries
The Register | RFID chips - hold back a bit say some
The Register | RFID chips - hold back a bit say some
This little LED light of mine
Collected items on sunspots and activity lately
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sun 'sheds its skin like a snake'
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar flare confirmed as biggest
spacetoday.net: Giant solar flare observed
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sun produces monster solar flare
spacetoday.net: More solar flares spotted
Slashdot | Three More Solar Flares
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | What is happening to the Sun?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar flare confirmed as biggest
spacetoday.net: Giant solar flare observed
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sun produces monster solar flare
spacetoday.net: More solar flares spotted
Slashdot | Three More Solar Flares
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | What is happening to the Sun?
Cube to offer UI to kill for
Outpost Gallifrey
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Nehemiah boosts Epia powah
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Some articles about broadband around the world
First, here's an article that compares Japan and the UK in terms of ADSL take-up.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Full speed ahead for Japan's broadband
And now a look at the future plans of world-leader South Korea.
Slashdot | South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network
BBC NEWS | Technology | Full speed ahead for Japan's broadband
And now a look at the future plans of world-leader South Korea.
Slashdot | South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Nothing to tell the grandchildren about
Jack Schofield at Comdex - writes about a Totally Noiseless PC.
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Nothing to tell the grandchildren about
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Nothing to tell the grandchildren about
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Slashdot | Whistle While You Work
An interesting thread that starts with link to a "whistling" language and has some useful/odd links elsewhere too.
Slashdot | Whistle While You Work
Slashdot | Whistle While You Work
Calendars and their History
Slashdot | Technological Flights Of Fancy That Fizzled
Intel Busters poster revealed, by popular demand
The End of the World
Flash movie with some strong language about nuclear destruction of the world - slightly amusing.
The End of the World
The End of the World
Epson invents tiny flying micro-robot
Sunday, November 16, 2003
BBC NEWS | Technology | Parents 'confident' in net safety
Slashdot | Bicycle Tech Drivetrain Advances Showcased
Slashdot | Rules for Teenage Internet Access?
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK
Some posting for 14th November about Blunkett's ID Card bill.
The site does not have formal archive that I can see, so may need searching for this date.
Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK
The site does not have formal archive that I can see, so may need searching for this date.
Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK
Slashdot | Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube
Links to Qube mod pages too - Slashdot | Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube
Friday, November 14, 2003
bluejackQ - The original bluejacking site
The Register | click here if you love sheds
Slashdot | 1.6 Megahertz per Pixel: TMDC6
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Slashdot | Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Document deluge threatens firms
The Register | Can't get a shag?
Electronic Voting
Slashdot | Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting
plus ... the campaign to ensure e-voting systems are brought in that are secure and verifiable - to avoid the rush to market that seems currently underway - free project/fipr resolution on voter verifiable e-voting
plus ... the campaign to ensure e-voting systems are brought in that are secure and verifiable - to avoid the rush to market that seems currently underway - free project/fipr resolution on voter verifiable e-voting
List of almost all processors (in solar system) up on web
Slashdot | Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked
Slashdot | Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked
Google Search: dakota disposable camera
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Disposable digital, one for the bin?
Google Search: dakota disposable camera
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Disposable digital, one for the bin?
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Slashdot | CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame
Several items about ID cards
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Blunkett launches defence of ID cards
BBC NEWS | Politics | Blunkett outlines ID card plans
Mission impossible? Blunkett's big biometric ID adventure
BBC NEWS | Politics | Blunkett outlines ID card plans
Mission impossible? Blunkett's big biometric ID adventure
Slashdot | Building a Budget Storage Server
Slashdot | Nokia N-Gage Cracked
Monday, November 10, 2003
LINX traffic tops 30Gbps
Slashdot | Video Card History
BBC NEWS | Technology | Computer viruses now 20 years old
Slashdot | IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The story of the Beagle 2 Mars probe
Slashdot | Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?
One man band with 7 robotic companions.
Slashdot | Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?
Slashdot | Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?
Sunday, November 09, 2003
Slashdot | The Worst Jobs in Science
Slashdot | Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code
Links to Guardian article by psychologist. Argues in favour of all folk learning to code in computer language(s) - for example HTML.
Slashdot | Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code
Slashdot | Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code
Saturday, November 08, 2003
Slashdot | Rubik's Cube Comeback
AskOxford: Is there an apostrophe in the plural of pizza?
Friday, November 07, 2003
Weird flash move - about cows
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
The Register | Sony Cell CPU to deliver two teraflops in 64-core config
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Slashdot | Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth
Shuttle, VIA in small boxing brawl
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nearest Milky Way companion found
Monday, November 03, 2003
Register | A dossier on every UK citizen?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Decoded DNA would 'reach to Moon'
BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | Beer mat flipping 'perfected'
Sunday, November 02, 2003
Your life cannot be downloaded
Odd little INQ article - points to www.beer.org and has some amusing msgs - Your life cannot be downloaded
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Decision time at beard Olympics
Saturday, November 01, 2003
The INQUIRER guide to protecting your PC's butt
BBC NEWS | Technology | Laptop bags go from geek to chic
Post Mortem - looking at the Alien films - business style
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | British Library archives websites
