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You certainly don’t expect to zoom in on a tabby cat, when you look up someone’s address in Google maps, but recently they have started adding street level photos of the addresses, and in this case, if you zoom in on the address, you can see the owner’s cat in the upstairs window! . . . → Read More: VERY detailed Google maps Remember the Club of Rome report Limits to Growth, published in 1972? There’s an interesting article and graphics (subscription required for full article) in the current New Scientist showing what the latest estimates are for how long precious and rare metals will last. Not just of interest if you are considering buying jewellery . . . → Read More: Club of Rome updated
It seems a US missile defence system similar to that intended for Poland that is upsetting Russia at the moment can only shoot down modern weapons: The Pentagon was forced to abort a bid to shoot down a long-range missile over the Pacific Friday when it failed to fly high enough to engage . . . → Read More: Proposed missile system can only shoot down modern rockets We have external roller shutters on all our outer windows (these are common on Germany, but quite rare in the UK so if you don’t know what I mean take a look here). They run in a slot which is part of the window frame, and at the top of the slot . . . → Read More: Super super-glue You might think that having lobbied successfully over the last 50 years to get the copyright period extended from 28 years in 1964 to up to 90 years today, that companies such as NBC, News Corp., Disney, Time Warner and Microsoft would be happy enough. But no. They have formed a new organisation this . . . → Read More: Do we need better copyright? A British publisher, Self Made Hero, has brought out a series of Shakespeare’s plays as manga comics with abridged texts in the original Shakesperian English. A second publisher, Classic Comics, has gone a step further, producing full colour comics in different versions. You can get them as abridged versions which use the original . . . → Read More: Manga Shakespeare The BBC reports: One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”. About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, . . . → Read More: One in 10 websites malicious Idstein this afternoon. |
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