2008

“Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists...”
— Magpie can ‘recognise...

“Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling...”
— Legal milestone for open...

“I am responsible for reading most of the help requests sent...”
— idle.slashdot.org

“Fifty people have been arrested during a day of action at...”
— Arrests in power station...

“A new class of cosmic object has been found by a Dutch...”
— Teacher finds new cosmic...

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop...”
— Petition to: Stop ISP’s...

indexed: Sickening.

“A “gravity tractor” could deflect an...”
— ‘Gravity tractor’...

A vision of the future from the past

Pro-tip: Don’t use a web-page to translate the name of...

“China’s rapid investment in low carbon technologies...”
— China’s ‘rapid...

“The UK has been living under a delusion over its claim to be...”
— UK in ‘delusion’...

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language -...

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language -...

“The developers of the popular Facebook application...”
— Scrabulous suspended on...

“Britain is trying to water down tough new European...”
— Britain tries to block green...

“A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom...”
— Climate documentary...

HP shatters excessive packaging world record...

“At first glance, Cesare Bonizzi looks like the archetypal...”
— Heavy metal monk in second...

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language -...

“Plans for an alternative tidal energy project to a £15bn...”
— Severn tidal...

“We extracted the colours from 3 million “interesting” Flickr...”
— Multicolr Search Lab - Idée...

“America’s teens, your First Life dream world awaits....”
— Get a First Life

“Water-efficient washing machines could be relics of the past...”
— New Washing Machine Cleans...

Coz they hate freedom (via crazy.codetroop.com)

“Oil supplies are under pressure from unrest on the ground in...”
— Oil Flows Beyond $145 -...

“Google will have to turn over every record of every video...”
— Judge Orders YouTube to Give...

“Researchers have hacked an Oyster card to get a day’s...”
— PC Pro: News: Oyster hackers...

“Our planet is not at risk from the world’s most...”
— Earth ‘not at...

“Bristol has become England’s first “cycling...”
— Bristol named first cycling...

Sweet plugin: Microsoft Cake 2.0 for Firefox 3

“Researchers at the University of Washington recently...”
— Virgin territory for ISPs -...

“The power generated by the proposed Severn Barrage could be...”
— Concern over tidal barrage...

via img.ffffound.com

“It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror...”
— Are mobile phones wiping out...

“I just proved that all positions of Rubik’s cube can...”
— Tom Rokicki’s Personal...

“Just in case you needed another reason to care about the...”
— EcoGeeks Get All the Girls

“The cost of cleaning up the UK’s ageing nuclear...”
— Nuclear clean-up costs...

“Adjusting meal times can help travellers recover from jet...”
— Avoiding food ‘may beat...

“Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has...”
— Vast cracks appear in Arctic...

“UK ministers have been urged to halt airport expansion until...”
— Aviation impacts ‘hotly...

“Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to...”
— Games consoles ‘not...

“A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a...”
— piercings, (via joey), on IRC

“Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife...”
— Wildlife populations...

Security Holes - xkcd

“DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror...”
— Ants swarm over Houston area,...

“An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex...”
— ‘Sex pest’ seal...

“The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to...”
— Nuclear’s CO2 cost...

“The Earth’s temperature may stay roughly the same for...”
— Next decade ‘may see no...

“Doctors in Afghanistan say rates of some health problems...”
— Afghan ‘health...

“Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first...”
— Hans Reiser Guilty of First...

“Wild bee populations around the UK are experiencing...”
— Wild bee decline...

One laptop per hamster - xkcd

“Clipper Wind is taking the plunge into a leadership position...”
— UK To Get World’s...

“According to the Zenn Cars website, the cityZENN is planned...”
— 250-Mile Range, 5-Minute...

“Datura stramonium, known by the common names jimson weed,...”
— Datura stramonium - Wikipedia,...

“Germany’s policy of blending fossil diesel with...”
— German soy fuel blend fails...

Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures

“TalkTalk, the internet service-provider owned by Carphone...”
— Internet provider fires shot...

Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a...

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first...”
— Brian W. Kernighan

“Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started...”
— Virgle: The Adventure of Many...

“A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint...”
— Get your German interior...

Sexy Photos of a Solar Furnace in Uzbekistan - EcoGeek

I can totally see your stamen - Sinfest

“Dammit, Harding, it’s not worth your neck! Get...

“A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to...”
— Antarctic shelf ‘hangs...

Life’s Too Short for the Wrong Job - Funtasticus.com

Did you see the Higgs-Boson? - xkcd

“The government is appealing against a High Court decision...”
— Call for clarity on code...

“OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It...”
— OpenStreetMap

“In the end, though, I was pleased to see that careful...”
— Lithoguru » In Defense of...

“((19*t+u-w-(u-(u+8)\25)+1)\3)+15)mod30)+(32+2*x+2*y-(19*t+u-w...”
— God Plays Dice: Easter’s...

“Europe’s environment chief Stavros Dimas says the...”
— EU ‘committed’ to...

“the Iraqi civilian death toll since our invasion is now...”
— Robert Fisk: The only lesson...

“What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin...”
— For Scientists, a Beer Test...

indexed: He knew science fiction didn’t have to be an...

“Like biofuels and micro wind turbines, carbon capture and...”
— Burnt Out - Monbiot.com

A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had...

“Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA...”
— Put young children on DNA...

“The rate at which some of the world’s glaciers are...”
— Glaciers suffer record...

“Britain’s biggest teachers’ union has accused...”
— Teachers told to rewrite...

Being a geek means...

…optimising the position at which you stand on the platform, so that the button to open the...

“US authorities are trying to work out why a Kansas woman...”
— US woman spends two years on...

“Hundreds of people near the Kenyan port of Mombasa say they...”
— Kenyans ill in ‘toxic...

“Suspending the promised increase in fuel duty has fatally...”
— The green reaction: ‘a...

“a team of computer security researchers plans to report...”
— A Heart Device Is Found...

“I can’t decide if he has a problem or the answer to...”
— Sinfest

Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope for sale on eBay (end time...

“Most kids dream of having a superpower, but Register...”
— ‘Magnet boy’...

Image:Splode.jpg - Uncyclopedia, the content-free...

Oh, FFS! How come I never thought of...

module Univ : Univ = struct type t = { id : unit ref; store : unit -> unit; }  let...

“Whether it’s a frisky kitten or a tubby tabby, a cat...”
— Cats Help Shield Owners From...

“In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on...”
— Home Secretary in ID card...

“Carbon dioxide emissions have risen under Labour. ...”
— MPs call for rise in green...

Leg on fire

eth01: oh noes
eth01: i think my prosthetic leg is on fire
eth01: :S
jynxzero: :O
jynxzero: Got a fire extinguisher?
eth01: no
eth01: need a man hose right now
* JonathanD shoves eth01 in the swimming pool
* eth01 gets soaked in water
tunk: please join ##flammable-prosthetics eth01, such flippency is not approved of in here.
jynxzero: Dude, the guy was on fire. You can't stop to think which channel you're talking in when that shit happens.
jynxzero: You just find the first available window and type.
tunk: jynxzero, idiots like you are killing freenode
jynxzero: NO U R!
tunk: even if you are on fire, it's imperative to rejoin the appropriate channels
tunk: right, you're now on ignore.
jynxzero: Good.
tunk: i didnt hear that btw

“There are more solar panels in the German city of Freiburg...”
— Government backflip on solar...

“A nuclear plant built at a cost of £470m to provide atomic...”
— Minister admits nuclear fuel...

“My name is Rachel and my (now ex) boyfriend, Wikipedia...”
— Jimbo Wales dumps lover on...

(via heather-rivers)

“The International Earth Destruction Advisory Board (IEDAB)...”
— International...

“Ministers are under increasing pressure today to rethink...”
— Ministers pressed to backtrack...

Climate change threatens existence, Eskimo...

Gaffes Keeping Geeks Out of the Board Room I think I...

As the banner on top of this London - Manchester flight...

xkcd - Fuck grapefruit

Some photos of India! This is mostly those that didn’t require a lot of editing or work...