A handy reference site so you can answer the question: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?.
(At the moment, the answer is NO).
Wikipedia has a good selection of articles with detail on why some people are worried about micro black holes, Hawking radiation and strangelets.
I love NASA - check out the two videos taken from NASA’s Deep Impact probe showing Earth as an Alien World. The videos were taken at the end of May from 31 million miles away.
Drake Deming of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said:
A “sun glint’” can be seen in the movie, caused by light reflected from Earth’s oceans, and similar glints to be observed from extrasolar planets could indicate alien oceans.
Outstanding. I love that we (the human race) are doing this stuff.
Yes! A thousand times yes, Mitchell & Webb nail exactly why the whole idea of “Identity Theft” is a great scam for banks and bad news for unwitting consumers.
Oh, and it’s also very funny.
A list of Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers for your next dinner party.
Vegetarian friends? Try veggie rumaki: wrap a strip of imitation bacon around a water chestnut, spear with a toothpick, and broil—but instead of imitation bacon use real bacon, and instead of a water chestnut use veal.
What’s that? You thought there were only three laws? Well check out SomethingAwful.com’s excellent additions in their 30 Laws of Robotics list. I especially like:
23. A robot must shut up around girls and let me, Isaac Asimov, do the talking; however, a robot may bail me out if things start to go haywire.
I wonder if my Roomba is three laws safe?
Update 18th July 2008: I called Domotec today and the difference in response was like night and day. New component on it’s way to us now. Horrah!
If you’d spoken to me or Lindsay recently you might have thought we were on comission from iRobot, the manufacturers of the Roomba vacuum cleaner. We’ve been raving about how easy it is to keep the carpet clean when it can automatically trundle around the floor every day. Indeed in the past couple of weeks we’ve convinced two other households that the Roomba sounds like a good idea.
It’s a shame then, that we’ve discovered this weekend that the 500 series (we have the 560 UK model) has a glaring design flaw and is backed up by simply terrible customer service.
Continue reading ‘Poor Customer Service from iRobot UK (Roomba)’
A test of Flickr’s long photos (video) service, showing Gnarly’s many sleeping positions via timelapse. A frame taken every 30 seconds played back at 24fps. Note that Sparkle cleans him when he gets onto the bed. Cute! Oh, and they appear to fight at the end too. 
btw: how cool is Flickr video?
Most people who know me well were probably taking bets about how much time would elapse from Jobs’ unveiling of the MacBook Air and one ending up in the digital magpie like hands of a certain geek.
Well, there it is. Earlier than most and for good reason… Continue reading ‘My MacBook Air’
The Simpsons Movie site has a cool way to turn yourself into a Simpsons character. Here’s me and Lindsay (click to enlarge). It’s slightly worrying that I appear to be a cross between Millhouse and Professor Frink.
Check Richard’s blog for a Simpson-ised Richard and Beth.
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