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Optical camouflage was demonstrated last week at Nextfest, an exhibition of emerging technologies in San Francisco, where it was possible to see in a somewhat blurred manner through someone wearing a coat covered in beads which act as cameras and projection screens at the same time – the cameras transmit the view behind the . . . → Read More: Harry Potter’s invisible cloak becomes reality – almost The BBC reported in April, that oil prices were set to rise in the long term. The healthy American and Asian economies are giving us a taste of what is to come, the Guardian reports today: …While the current war in Iraq has undoubtedly affected the oil market, the level of petroleum prices . . . → Read More: Oil prices could remain permanently high Chris Duncan, at Liverpool University and Sue Scott, have published a theory in their new book, The Return of the Black Death, that the Black Death was not passed on by fleas on rats carrying bubonic plague, as was thought until now, but that the disease was haemorrhagic plague – an equally infectious disease, . . . → Read More: Black death spread by humans? Carthik has a useful collection of links on migrating from Movable Type to WordPress. (Via Burningbird) Here, in contrast to the Lamborghini from Friday’s posting is a slightly smaller variation. (Spotted in Girlscamp) I have spent some time trying to get the data transfer working between the Palm Desktop 4.2.1 on my Mac and my Sony Clie. After one of the latest OS X updates (I don’t know exactly which one), I started get the error message _Transport Monitor Could not complete your request (16)_ each time . . . → Read More: Palm Pilot / Mac OS X 10.3.3 error message To mark the 152nd annivesary of the existence of the Italian State Police, the House of Sant’Agata Bolognese has donated them a Lamborghini Gallardo police car complete with flashing lights and medical equipment including a special defibrillator which performs electrocardiograms and automatic diagnoses of arterial pressure and the presence of oxygen and carbon . . . → Read More: Nice birthday present There are some interesting articles about Toyota in this month’s press – unfortunately if you want to read them in full, you are going to have to buy the magazines or pay to download the article from the Internet. Toyota is an interesting company because it focuses on getting the best out of its staff and its suppliers. I’ve summarised some of the main points from both articles below. A big thanks to Ole Saalmann, who let me know a couple of days ago that the Diba’s internet banking now works with Apple’s Safari web browser! He’s right – I just tried it out. That’s a huge improvement as previously it didn’t work with any of the browsers I had on my Mac, . . . → Read More: DiBa internet banking works with Safari now |
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