Monthly Archive: January 2003

So apparently Ganesh devotees keep dumping elephants as votive offerings at the door of this temple in India, which has already tried to ban the practice but lost a court battle. So now the...

These clever boffins in Japan have done a detailed analysis of the raw material inputs required to make a typical memory chip. It’s pretty ugly stuff. RAM chips’ eco footprints are horrendously large and...

David sent me this. Its from an ABC affiliate so I trust it a little, but then they GO AND USE ALL CAPS. Anyway, apparently this guy helped the US Army deploy Anthrax bioweapons...

So I was checking the Referer logs and noticed the location where these Segway Weenies were getting their spam instructions.

So unlike many of these compulsive logorrheac bloggers who crave personal validation, I don’t check this religiously. It’s more of a diary thing. “Random serialised mentatory excreta” is exactly what you get. Mostly this...

So Daphne Oram finally died. She pioneered electronic music in the 1950s at the BBC, and so made possible the amazingly spooky Tardis sound that terrified legions of your Doctor Who fans. Her Oramics...

Actually while reading the Segway story I noticed this Slashdot posting: i use a segway ht to go 7+ miles per day, i given up a car, saved over $10,000 and i’ve even lost...

Apparently, it’s to do with all those hills, and banning the Segway.

To be honest, the pay is lousy but I really wanted to have a try at getting into the Guinness Book of Records … My privates are weak and I feel pain easily. But...

A nice Australian article here that examines each of the “reasons” for a war against Iraq put forward by the Western Powers.