Bought DVDs drive me nuts already with the unskippable beginning where the film company warns you that copying or broadcasting the DVD is illegal. But things can get worse – IBM has patented a way to stop the films periodically and disable the DVD controls, forcing you to watch canned adverts: …15 minutes or . . . → Read More: What are they thinking of?
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It seems the Iraq war was started by two religous zealots, as some have suspected for several years: Tony Blair was reluctant to discuss his Christian faith during his time in Downing Street for fear of being seen as a ‘nutter’, the former Prime Minister reveals in a BBC interview. It strengthens my . . . → Read More: Blair afraid to be branded a “nutter” … support Amnesty International – unsubscribe yourself. I have to agree with Scott Hanson, Cem and everyone else who has picked up the Hema “web shop” – this is a great shopping site with a tremendous sense of fun, even if you don’t speak a word of Dutch! Looking back on this summer, I’d say that at least one person in the office has been suffering from a heavy cold at any moment in time. At least they don’t seem to have caught the mutation which has been discovered in the USA: A mutated version of an adenovirus, a common family of . . . → Read More: A “super cold” bug emerges in the USA View from the Pentagon behind the scenes: US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was claimed last night… …Brose, 30, who extracts information from detainees in Iraq, said: ‘They push a lot for us to establish a link with . . . → Read More: USA / Iran from two viewpoints I bought a couple of 12V LED lamps to replace conventional halogen spots this week. I have tried this before, but the last time I experimented, the light output of the LED units was pretty pathetic. These new lamps throw 450 Lux and use 60 LEDs drawing 2.1W – the result is acceptable – . . . → Read More: Becoming useful (Via Think or Thwim) PS – I should have noted the idea is to touch the blue square without touching the red spots… While the New Yorker pontificates on whether more fuel-efficient cars will ever happen, and the British government appears to be about to go back on recent commitments to increase the use of renewable energy, the European Commission has published several papers and maps on their website showing how they expect the average precipitation, average . . . → Read More: Heating up Europe |
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