Toblog

Snowflakes promise faster chips

Imagine London, 1843

Government canceled e-vote schemes amid security fears

Pilot denies ‘rape by deception’
… ‘…by saying intercourse could cure an infection…’

‘Illegal Number’ Triggers Flood of MPAA Cease-and Desist Letters

Charlie Stross puts ‘Missile Gap’ Novella online
… in honour of International pixel-stained technopeasant day

A Large Xsan installtation

Government breaks its own ID Law

Watch a cheese mature

…plus ça change.

A quote found whilst reading the excellent Language Log. Charles Babbage, referring to his conversations with MPs:

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Our current government clearly still thinks that technology has all the answers no matter the quality of information introduced to it. It is our duty as technologists to inform and educate those that we pay to rule us. Whether they listen or not is another matter.

[09:18] Updated to fix some grammar issues.

The first one was taken on bank holiday Thursday and the other two last night; all on the k800 camera phone.

Neuroimaging Britishness

The Vacuum Tube iPod Dock

Arresting a six year old for throwing tantrum

Only 244 copies of Genuine Vista sold in China
… being slashdotted at the moment.

Canberra row over UK envoy remark
… ‘“We have never seen Iraq as part of the war on terrorism,” she said.’

Thunderbird 2 is out

Pictures and rumoured details of new SE P700i smartphone

UK crematoria eye heavyweight incinerators

Contributors to today’s TCSOTD: Ben

A rather wonderful letter about the US DST change

That Bank of England Inflation letter in full

600 space hoppers on the Millennium Bridge

Pound touches 14-year dollar high

Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox

The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

UK inflation hits 3.1% in March

‘Action needed’ on NHS computers

City of London prepares for blanket Wi-Fi

All about the US watchlists

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers
… ‘Geeks have seen all the porn you can imagine and then some’

US sex-abstinence classes queried
… ‘no more likely to abstain from sex’

Ebay PS3 Suicide Watch

Government predicts one third of people will resist ID checks

Public private partnerships no panacea, report says

Amazon pushes sex toys to random punters
… hmm, the tags for this one should get my hits up :/.

comp.risks 24.63

Photosynthesis may rely on Quantum Effect

Sony’s new DVD copy protection apparently doesn’t work on many players

Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image

Talking CCTV cameras accuse wrong person

Canada drops licences and adopts free model for map data

Megan’s Law: the videogame

Web party family ‘may move home’

Net reaches out to final frontier

Using a roller coaster to visualize data

Web revellers wreck family home

Funky google world stats analysis tool

Article on the Open Font Library

Ben and Jerry’s Free Cone Day

[NSFW] Bizarre collection of toilet photos
… or ‘bog blog’ as it was sent to me…

Contributors: Ben, Edward