The Observer is running an article today, based on an interview with British Telecom’s Ian Pearson, head of their futurology unit, suggesting that by the middle of this century, the rich will be able to download their brains into super-computers to ensure their immortality (If you don’t have enough cash, wait another 25 – 30 [...]
Last Monday, I spent the day rebuilding my Mac’s software installation after Filevault (the Mac’s data encryption system) destroyed part of OS X, leaving the machine unbootable. I didn’t lose too much data, since I’d done a full backup two weeks earlier, (and if I’d thought more before I started, I could have probably [...]
The FBI appears to have al-Qa’ida and the Mafia sewn up and has reset it’s target on eco-terrorism, reports The Independent, quoting John Lewis, the agency’s deputy assistant director for counter-terrorism:“There is nothing else going on in this country over the past several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and [...]
At home we sort our rubbish into the recyclables (go into a yellow sack for collection every other week), paper (into a green bin, collected every two weeks) and the rest (grey bin, every two weeks). We also store our used batteries to drop off at the local supermarket, glass goes into the bottle bank [...]
Those of you who live in the UK don’t need to read any further. You already know what Sudoku is, since all the major newspapers have been publishing it for weeks now and a sizable proportion of the nation seems to be addicted to it. For the rest of us, Sudoku is a grid-based game, [...]
Los Angeles police fired 120 rounds at an unarmed driver of an SUV on Monday this week. Actually, it wasn’t the SUV that they were supposed to be stopping. Fortunately they didn’t manage to kill the driver.
Now I understand why US troops behave like Rambos on steroids in Iraq, if this how the police “protects” [...]
Arstechnica has an article summarising the development of the computer’s graphical user interface (GUI), which starts with the first demonstrations of the mouse and a graphical display back in 1968. The ideas that went into the demo are older than you might imagine, and were developed in the 1930’s by Vannevar Bush.
An interesting – if [...]
We used the public holiday last Thursday to make a long weekend and go back to the UK to visit my Mum and Ruth’s family in Tipton St. John and Brighton respectively. We flew with Lufthansa, getting back on Monday evening. Only 36 Euro return before airport taxes etc. and a horrifying 251 Euro afterwards [...]
Browse Kevin Cornell’s sketchbook (click on the image above) or visit his blog here!
The Brazilians have turned down $40m aid for fighting Aids from the USA, rather than have strings attached to it. the USA doesn’t want any of the money used to treat prostitutes, and had an appropriate clause in the fine print. Bush has approved $15bn for fighting Aids world-wide, but it come with conditions attached [...]
