From today’s Guardian: The British government never believed Saddam Hussein posed a threat to British interests and warned the US that toppling him would lead to “chaos”, according to a Foreign Office diplomat closely involved in negotiations in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq…
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An altogether more entertaining site (than Wordie, mentioned in the previous post) is Retrofuture, which, takes me back to my childhood, reading “Eagle” comics with series such as Dan Dare, set in the future, and articles on technology – such as the Concorde, refrigerated cargo ships and satellite launchers. Unfortunately, the predictions in . . . → Read More: Looking forwards looking back Wordie – Like Flickr, but without the photos. Well, it just goes to show that a picture is worth (at least) 1000 words, since Wordie seems pretty pointless to me. Mars fined for breaching rules on carbon trading, The Independent reports in a headline today. I thought for a moment that the American government was overreaching it’s imperial ambitions on a galactic scale, but it turns out that the reference is to a food processing company… America’s research arm for their armed forces, DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), has raised the bar – a lot – for next year’s Urban Challenge. The last Challenge issued by DARPA for 2005 was the Grand Challenge, which required competitors to build a vehicle capable of travelling completely autonomously 132 miles over desert . . . → Read More: Urban Challenge Today’s the first day of advent, so let’s have a couple of links to online advent calendars that you might not have seen before: German Embassy in London (music) Cat who laughed (a story in 4 languages) |
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