Haddock, and related matters
I wrote the Captain Haddock Insult Generator way back in June of 2006 (it’s the Insult Generator’s fourth birthday today!). I just did a google search for Captain Haddock, out of interest… and it’s the second link after the Wikipedia entry! Not bad going for something left more or less untouched for four years. Someone [...]
U2
Jalopnik recently ran a couple of articles on the U2 spyplane which are worth reading. The first covered the U2 itself, a sublimely elegant aircraft that was concieved of in that strange time where jet power was becoming common but satellite surveillance still required a canister drop of film from orbit. There’s something ethereal about [...]
IC day
That little device which changed – and continues to change – everything was first introduced this day in 1952.
Agilent don’t like Canadians? – update, yes they do!
I was looking at IEEE Spectrum online earlier, as is my wont, when I noticed one of the adverts by Agilent for some new kind of oscilloscope. By entering an email address they’d enter you into a competition to win a Agilent ‘scope, so I did so, then checked out the Terms and Conditions. Should’ve [...]
HTC Hero Hacking
I recently got an unlocked HTC Hero intended for the South East Asian (SEA) market. The device was running on firmware 2.73.728.5. This firmware is crippled; it lacks the Market app which means the device cannot access the Android Marketplace. As this is a rather integral part of the Android “experience”, it renders the additional [...]
They know of the YouTube MySpaces
Yet again, the Intarwebs will let us print the monehs!
An ode to Airwolf
A surprisingly accurate Ode to Airwolf may be found here. Excerpt: And upon its completion, those present were unable to do anything but stand and marvel in wonder and in awe at the sleek, black aerodynamic perfection… that was Airwolf. Truly, truer words have not been… spaketh. I’ve been playing with Google maps, and some [...]
QEMU
There’s an awesome little Linux emulator for Windows that I haven’t heard about called QEMU. What’s particularly fun about this is that you can run Sugar on it – Sugar is the OS used by the hundred-dollar-laptop and is rather extraordinary. It’s a fantastic new take on a GUI, and I likee: Children can move [...]
Nonsense
My friend Omer put up a picture of some Nonsense that I got on my OLED whilst trying to do an RS232 recieve of an “A”… Original Flickr image (with note)
The Beeb Speaks
There’s a couple of good articles on the BBC News website at the moment regarding [tag]Islam[/tag]. First up is an interesting analysis of Islamic artwork, which says that Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples that use the concept of quasicrystalline geometry. This indicates intuitive understanding of complex mathematical formulae, even if the [...]
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