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 This is a cool link, about reinventing the wheel, although you wouldn't fancy riding a bike with these bad boys 

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Engadget Engadget Updated: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:10 PM

Reinventing the wheel (couldn't resist) By Simon Spagnoletti Apparently tired of the overtly flashy stuff, the latest robots out of Japan are simple wheels. Built by Shinichi Hirai and Yuuta Sugiyama, they are four cm in diameter and one cm thick and move by changing shape. The spokes of the wheel are made of a shape-memory alloy, a substance that shortens when heated, and the picture does a pretty good job of explaining the movement (so we don’t have to). They’re powered by copper wires right now, but a battery-powered version is planned, as well as a ball-shaped design using a bunch of the robots. The best part is that they weren’t made for any particular reason. These guys were probably sitting in a lab one day and one of them said something like “I like wheels. Let’s see what we can do with that.” And the rest was history. Tue, 6 Jul 2004 04:24 PM

Hotel calls disgruntled punter a 'tw*t' | The Register

Hotel calls disgruntled punter a 'tw*t' | The RegisterHahaha!!! brilliant this doesn't need any elaboration from me!!

Christian Exodus :: Come Out of Her, My People

Christian Exodus :: Come Out of Her, My PeopleAnd here it is folks following on from the last post is the official site of the christian nut jobs!!!! damn i bvet Jesue is well proud of these guys.....................

And you thought the Libertarians were bad || kuro5hin.org

And you thought the Libertarians were bad || kuro5hin.org this is very worrying but the author's reposte is very funny!! see not all americans are mental, just it seems the ones who vote..................

The 100 Worst Porn Movie Titles !

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The New York Times > Science > A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases

The New York Times > Science > A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against DiseasesGenetic mutation producing a superior human? surely this kid is the first x man??? quick get professoe x on the phone!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Virtual island way to green life

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Virtual island way to green life Its Rob's World...............the game!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Toshiba develops tiny fuel cell

BBC NEWS | Technology | Toshiba develops tiny fuel cell I like this. Fuel cell tech, just what the world needs to see, we need new tech that improves our lives and doesn't knacker the planet too much!!

Slashdot | U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011

Slashdot | U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 Like we didn't know this already!! the DDX destroyers can be seen on the department of defense's website!!! be nice to see a rail gun in action though, and portable versions thats where the trick is!!

Boing Boing: Successful test liftoff for John Carmack's XPrize contender craft

Boing Boing: Successful test liftoff for John Carmack's XPrize contender craftits DOOMed for sure!!!

see thru Khazi

Tagebuch eines Internetjunkies / Weblog Haha this is class an outside public toilet built entirely of two was glass!!! do you think you'd be able to relax enough to go????

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | The super-fast future of computing

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | The super-fast future of computingAnd just to carry on the theme with a bit more reading...................

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Teleportation breakthrough made

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Teleportation breakthrough madeTeleportation!!! nice!! this is the kind of science that makes you sit up and take notice!! massive application usage in computing, about time we had a quantum shift away from silicon to the next stage of processing power!!

Salon.com News | Man jumps from helicopter at Grand Canyon

Salon.com News | Man jumps from helicopter at Grand CanyonNow this is depressed!!!!

Wired News: The Son of Patriot Act Also Rises

Wired News: The Son of Patriot Act Also RisesIn the land of the free and the home of the brave!!! makes me want to move there right now!! The current administration have realised more constitutional change out of sept 11th than any other previous administration. The government is at its most powerful whilst also being at its most secretive. The Pres has gthe power now to make all kinds of decisions without oversight. Which is quite concerning, considering the general belief that he is controlled by a cabal of hawks that consist of most of his dads mates!!

Slashdot | Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles

Slashdot | Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored VehiclesElectric armour? surely this could also be described as a deflector shield? Not even the orginal enterprise the nc01-a had that. they had ablative armour!! come on you Brits!!

Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the most connected of them all?

UK Home - Mirror, mirror on the wall - Royal Philips Electronics. Look at this one - we live in the future.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam ahead

BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam aheadNice!!! Stealth warships!! Unlike the British Type 47 and the American DDX ships this Swedish number is made entirely of Carbon Fibre!!! Stealthy as a mo fo' however you wouldn't fancy your chances if you got hit with a surface to surface missile!!

Amusing places close to you

Amusing places close to youSome light heartedness for a change on the bullet, just enter your postcode (have to use GU13 for fleet its old software!!) also try SA155YY (my old address in Wales for some comedy locations!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | BT transforms phone network

BBC NEWS | Technology | BT transforms phone network.

Apparently all of that dark fibre may one day be lit up and laid! At last Lewis may get his broadband access... but it's not all good news...

Mr Beal hinted, however, that the cheap broadband telephony deals available at the moment may not continue.

"The charging model of today may not be realistic in five years time," he said.

Wired News: Water to Boost Satellite Snooping

Wired News: Water to Boost Satellite SnoopingWater powered self sustaining sattellites?? fantastic idea, clode loop regenerative power cells, definetely the way forward!! good ol DARPA getting on with thye future again!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite images 'show Atlantis'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite images 'show Atlantis'Anybody remember 'Warlords of Atlantis' starring my hero Doug Mcclure??? Quality adventure movie!! And now some German guy reckons he's found the place off the coast of Spain!! Some things should remain mythical i think!! adds to the glamour and intrigue!!

Media Center Pc mmmm pretty!!!

Akihabara News : toutes les nouveaut�s High-Tech du pays des SushisCheck these shots of the Sony vaio media center pc!! got a liquid cooling system built in!!! nice!!

fight aging - extend your life

The Longevity Meme -- live healthily - fight aging - extend your lifeThis is a really interesting article, the author predicts using models that the average human life span could be extended (with you looking youthful the entire time) to around 1000 years. Would you choose to do this??? do you want to see the future? would we become more intelligent if we had the oppurtunity to learn more? Would this only be available to the rich Western societies? He's used death models to show how many people die in different countries every year from natural causes!! staggering number of people karking it every day!! His figures reckon that in the entire history of man around 34 billion of us have walked the planet of which 28 billion have already died!!

Hmm self healing self managing OS?

Run to the hills it sounds like bloody SkyNet to me!!

Bank of Ireland chief quits over PC porn

Bank of Ireland chief quits over PC porn | The RegisterFinally a blog thats close to my heart!!! i wonder whether Smithy sent him this???

Consumable Wireless Camera Capsule

Consumable Wireless Camera CapsuleHow mad is this? Its like Inner Space or Fantastic Voyage for the youth of today!!! a consumable camera?? i might buy one just for a laugh!!

TIA lives? Report lists US gov 'dataveillance' activities

TIA lives? Report lists US gov 'dataveillance' activities | The RegisterThis is a bit worrying, on the one hand do you want the government to be able to datamine for information that may protect you against terrorist attacks? that has to be a worthwhile goal, however the current administrations policy of preemptive control as opposed to the traditional American isolationist principles make it a much more worrying proposition. Information can be used badly and it can also be manipulated to prove the case for harming people and countries. Seems like we are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, here's hoping for regime change in Washington later on in the year. Principles shoule be an inherent trait of government not a 4 year term of office

CIA fears Iran duped U.S. into Iraq war

CIA fears Iran duped U.S. into Iraq war - (United Press International)This would be a major turn up for the books this is clandestine manipulation on a Mossad scale if the Iranian intelligence service have managed to trick the US and by proxy GB into ousting Saddam, although i'm not sure what their reasons would be, i suppose the country is now destabilised and they can send agitators in themselves......makes you wonder though

Wired News: Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores

Wired News: Virtual Dopers Crave High ScoresVirtual crack and people dying in online games, just shows how the digital world replicates the real world!! we constantly crave the next exciting thing, humans eh?? you gotta love us, this kind of demographic behaviour shoots Rob's communist commune theories right out of the water, as nice as we pretend to be we're basically still going to want more than the next guy!!

Cell processor in a tv?? mmmm technology

News for nerds writes "Sony Corp plans to offer a broadband television by 2006 that would incorporate the powerful new 'Cell' processor it is developing with IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp. The Cell processor is expected to power the upcoming PS3 console, a workstation, server, and other home appliances to form Cell-based P2P network. The sample production of the processor has already started. In PlayStation 3, TV props you!"

Rude Boy Computing

In the Max Power world, guys soup up Nova's and Clio's in our world we get Half Life 2 modded boxes with 7 yes count em' seven fans!!

Life, the Universe and why stats can make you feel better

Life eh?? whats the point of it all? We get up every day, shower, dress (iron a t shirt) leave the house and either get in our cars (or other peoples) and travel to a place of work. Sit there for 7.5 hours (maybe have some lunch) then turn around and head home. We relax, watch tv and sleep, then we do it all again. Its kinda depressing to think that in this week where Scientists (you go guys) have discovered that the UNIVERSE is actually a billion years older than they thought it was (14.3 instead of 13.3) that we spend so much of our infitisamal time on the planet in such mundane pursuits!!! Average life span of a western man in the UK, what is it now? 86 maybe? 90 possibily, so i'm sitting here at 28 (soon to be 29) that's a third of my time used up already (at the high end as well!!!) a third!!! thats ridiculous!! i haven't DONE ANYTHING YET!!! and i've used a third of the time up!! This of course is a failing in our species as our young are so crap they can't do anything on their own for the first 18 years (some parents may disagree with this low figure!!) So technically if you remove the first 18 years from the figure of 90 that leaves us with 72, and then technically i've only been independent for 10 years so really i'm only 1 seventh of the way thru my life!!!! Damn thats a relief i was starting to get depressed about that!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | EU 'confident' of star power site

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | EU 'confident' of star power site: "One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000 kg of fossil fuel" Thats a pretty amazing fact!!! look slike Fusion will become the norm in a few years time, at least in the West anyway, don't think this will transpose or filter to the poorer nations anymore easily than Nuclear power has. Looks like the gap is about to get bigger people!! Its a dog eat dog world, and we're a great big snarly mastiff

Christian Reconstructionism - The Foundation of Modern Conservativism || kuro5hin.org

Christian Reconstructionism - The Foundation of Modern Conservativism || kuro5hin.orgAnd in the right corner we have the Christian reconstructionists..............nutters all of them!!

UK's RAF planned WMD delivery via 'pigeons of death' | The Register

UK's RAF planned WMD delivery via 'pigeons of death' | The RegisterRule Britannia!!! We do things differently over here don't we, hard a snails but a little bit quaint!!!

Wired News: Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data

Wired News: Los Alamos Lab Loses More DataWhoops!!! wonder where this has gone then? lets hope some budding sci guy hasn't wiped it clean and used it to take a load of porn home!!!

Rob's going to love this..........

Make Some Useful ShitRun and hide quickly before Rob tries to get us all to install one of these bad boys!!

Sexiest Geek Alive - 2001 Hall Of Fame

Sexiest Geek Alive - 2001 Hall Of FameMust.......not.........take......piss...........
strength failing......must mock geeks........even though
may be one myself...(talk like william shatner in ST-TOS thats the original series for you none geeks!!!)

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth bomber detecting radar | The Register

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth bomber detecting radar | The RegisterWhat a good idea, develop a trechnology that counteracts an important American military product then threaten to sell it to foreign powers!! normally wouldn't you just end up floating face down in the Danube courtesy of Delta Force??? These guys must've been quaking in their boots before this sale went through!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmos 'a billion years older'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmos 'a billion years older'So the Universe is 14.7 billion years old not 13.7 billions years old, and our lifespan has just gone up to about 80 years since 1950.............does anybody in the Vatican read this stuff? How can rational people subscribe to a Deity GOD figure when we live in this digital age. the universe is 14.7 billions years old for god's sake!!! What do they think happened? God created that then went down the boozer for 14.699999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999 years and 30 mins then got back and thought 'bugger i better get on an create Earth' then he left that for a couple of million years snuffed out the Dinosaurs (big mistake...... he doesn't like talking about it!!) then he created Man in his image!!!! DO ME A FAVOUR!!!!!!

Sony Global - Sony Design

Sony Global - Sony DesignCool as a cool thing!!! bendable computing!!! i envisage a pen like communicator with a roll out tft like screen with full video communication, humans kick ass when it comes to inventing stuff!!!

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The Register

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The RegisterYes but would you seriously get into a submarine that had skin technology that was based upon the principle of flaking off every two hours??? call me a scaredy cat but that sounds a bit dodgy!!

Work induces catatonia: official | The Register

Work induces catatonia: official | The RegisterIts finally official, work can induce catatonic states, these are usually found to occur in the afternoon in management type meetings??? shock horror at this annoucment then!!

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The Register

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The RegisterWave of the future, its only a matter of time before technology such as this becomes the norm, it is already used in the pet passport scheme sub dermal chips that can be read by bar code scanners at ports allow your animals in and out without a quarantine period. Why bother with the national identity card scheme, lets all get chipped instead!!

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in Iraq

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in IraqIts a universal translator!!! just like in Star Trek!!! only a matter of miniturisation and we're away i'm sure loads of the world's problems would be resolved if people understood each other!! General Custer had that problem at little big horn, he was saying 'look lads we just want to talk' which translated into cherokee turned into 'oi red face i'm going to kill you and feed your children to the old women' and look what happened there!!!!

Optical Camouflage

Optical CamouflageGotta love the Japanese, ingenious little bunch!!! and this tech is still in its early days (in the public eye at least) who knows where other countries are with this? battalions of soldiers in this gear remaining virtually invisible in the jungle............cool and the gang

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project Check this out amigo, current thinking is that the military are always about 12 years ahead of current known technology, this pulse detonation engine is the engine meant to be powering the Aurora aircraft, consistently able to travel at plus Mach 6 effeciently and the main reason the SR71 was decommishioned

House Committee approves DOD budget

House Committee approves DOD budget
War Huh? What is it good for? absoute.......well its good for about 422.2 billion dollars in defence spending this fiscal year!!! not a bad little pay out for the army navy and airforce. Did you realise that they also compete technology wise against each other, each branch is developing its own UAV technology, madness!!! but strangely enough all this money is being spent, especially in the area of quick technology turnaround for the battlefield, and yet DARPA has had its money cut down by over a 100 million dollars, this to me is strange?? they are the cutting edge and if they aren't who is??

email posting

This is the first Magic Bullet posting to Blogger using the email facility.
This will make the placing of personal views and opinions really really
quick and easy, i'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad
thing.........................
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees 'planet' around star

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees 'planet' around starThis is pretty historic!!! this COULD be the first photo of a planet orbiting another star!!! we've discovered over a 100 thru indirect methods, i.e. light bending and warping cos of gravity, but this could be the real thing an actual planet orbiting a white dwarf star, and its 5 -10 times the mass of Jupiter!!! Tell you what we're living in the future

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Library of Alexandria discovered

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Library of Alexandria discovered The library of Alexandria has been found then? The original seat of human learning, the place was burnt to the ground but rumours persisted that the most precious items were smuggled out before the cataclysm, lost in the mists of time now though loads of work by Plato

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games giants in mobile battle

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games giants in mobile battleLook how fecking cool the PSP is and check out the DS from Nintendo, its going to revolutionise handheld gaming!!!

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Mexico pilots release 'UFO film'

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Mexico pilots release 'UFO film'Mexican ufo's eh???? living la vida loca!! the aliens are popping over the border for a spot of Tequila!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | X-Prize 'will be won this year'X prize stuff i love this!! private spaceflights within 20 years i reckon, suborbital travel to australia, you'll go up and glide round and down!! things are getting exciting!!

NTL to supercharge broadband speed

I can't help myself... the announcement's everywhere Lewis - unlike the cable provision in your area! Ha ha ha ha

What a surprise

[Via The Register]

NTL Cable broadband just got faster

NEVER MIND LEWIS!!!!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha.....

Telewest is to offer the UK's first 3Mbps cable broadband service, as rival NTL doubles the speed of its services.

[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mice created without fathersThis is a bit disturbing!!! mice eggs fertislised and grown into adults without any male chromosomes!!!! We are being made redundant, no longer will women have to endure the ignominy of going to a male 'sperm' bank to get knocked up they can just have an all 'girl' baby!!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband to reach million moreBroadband to reach a million more homes???? i bet they still can't connect 18 water rede though!!! the buggers!!! i'm living in the bermuda triangle!!

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Naked sushi' restaurant finedThis is quite amusing, for a communist state the Chinese certainly are embracing all manner of curious Western practises. Eating sushi off naked women, what is a bizarre Japanese pasttime obviously doesn't go down that well in Bejing!! MInd you can you imagine it if they started in in the UK. Local variations include.... eating scampy and chips of a fat girl in the North, chicken tikka massalla off someone's thighs in Birmingham!!!! the list is endless (and to be honest quite grim!!!)

Hello and welcome to the first blog from the Emerald Isle, thought i might just jot down my thoughts while i'm over here, to remind myself as the days blur into one!! Staying at the Mont Clare which is ok, quite a nice hotel although the room's a little small. Have to run across the road to use the gym at the Davenport (and when i say gym i mean hotel bedroom with crap equipment in it!!) So far Dublin has been windy as hell, nearly got blown over walking to work this morning. Still its not all that bad at least Driver's here now!!!

gamesradar.com - Xbox2 to feature ipod beater?In another internet rumour, how cool would Microsoft be if they could pull this off??? smacks of their plan to intergrate the Media center into everything!!

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Turin Shroud 'shows second face'Scientists and the Curia were today shocked to discover a second face on the Turin shroud. Already a point of controversy due to carbon dating discrepancies, scientists were appalled to discover the second likeness bears a frightening resemblance to Jimmy Cranky..................

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Dark matter 'found within decade'BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Dark matter 'found within decade'Dark Matter found within the decade eh?? the thing that intrigues me is that scientists reckon that all the visible objects in the unverse only accounts for 0.5% of the total. This to me is exactly the case for an argument against an all powerful deity we are even more in significant than even we realise, we live for a cosmic fraction (even the planet's only been here for a cosmic second!!) How rational people can subscribe to theories of God's is farcical to me?? Religion should be banned outright globally!!! Even more worrying?? If we're such a minority in the universe (compared to all the particels we can't see) what if there's a whole flip universe that lives in the Dark Matter and we're the anomaly that lives in the light??

Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Military scientists to study regrowth of limbsLimb regeneration?? Quality its our good friends at DARPA again!!! i love these guys more money than sense and they back projects that might not see technology leaps for another 30 years!! now THATS science for me!!

Yahoo! News - Robotics' Research Gaining in PrestigeRobots of the future?? i predict we're about to see an explosion of these little buggers!! it was all prophesised in the Terminator and the Matrix, what good are Asimov's laws of robotics (i.e cannot harm or by inaction cause the harm of a human being) when all the robots are being developed by the military??

In flight flight-simulators?

Broadband prepares to take off... imagine - you'll be able to synchronise your Lotus notes, work over the VPN straight into the network at work. You'll be truly mobile... what joy, you can work eevrywhere now!

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Clever' car to solve congestionFinally a green motor that maybe even Rob could feel comfortable travelling in?? Mind you the thought of doing 50 mph in that thing that has a tilting suspension is well scary!!! imagine if you got twatted by some numpty driving a Sierra!!!

Get it out of me!

Oh my goodness! A woman in Mexico gives birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarean on herself with a kitchen knife. This is incredible, and makes you wonder about the primitive urges and instincts which drive us. May be she thought it was a parasitic alien.... Lewis - your views on pregnancy?
[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

USATODAY.com - First true robot warplane takes offRobot Warplanes!! quality!! the phantom works have flown the x45 successfully and the Skunk works are developing the x47!! bring on the documentary on the Discovery channel i say!! its like living in the future!!

The robots are coming!

After their successful Mars trip (documented only here on the Magic Bullet) it appears that these silicon superiors are taking a pot-shot at our cultural heritage. This one is successfully conducting an orchestra. There is no image of the orchestra itself, so I am assuming that the musicians are under the robot's spell and have probably been chained to their chairs.

Anyone seen the 'Day The Earth Stood Still?'

HELP....

City Journal Spring 2004 | What We Don�t Know Can Hurt Us by Heather Mac DonaldThis is a really long article but makes great reading. About Darpa's TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS program that has recently been cancelled. In the wake of 9/11 and the USA's war on terror it makes a really good point that the average Senator and American, generally distrusts its own government. The need for increased security and the ability to allow the intelligence services access to information that they require to help prevent further attacks, seem to be diametrically opposed to what some senators believe is in the Constitution??? it really is a melting pot over there. A country technologically advanced with people as religiously extreme as any you will find in the middle east, yet with a shrunken view of the world outside their town/state. READ THE ARTICLE ITS EYE OPENING, but hey as the lone gunmen would say, take everything with a pinch of salt. One man's unequivocal truth is another man's lies!!..........posted by the Advocate

Arutz Sheva - Israel National NewsYou have to love this!!! where can i get some mp3's of the musical stylings of this nut job??? mind you he's got a point, if he ever released the track 'Ariel Sharon's a mincer' matbe MOSSAD would take him out!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite to test Einstein theoryBrilliant i love this!! science for science's sake!! trying to prove Einsteins theory of space time!! its the first step on the way to building gravity drives to power interstellar flight!!!

The Manila Times Internet Edition | TOP STORIES > US helped steal war loot I like this one, Yashamita's gold and the phillipines has been a great story fro years, and that many people includng Marcos have searched for it and not found anything, and with this you have to remember that the Japanese documented that by todays standards they secreted Trillions of dollars worth of gold on the islands!! Did the CIA use it and fund themselves?? If you believe in a high level cabal of people who run things behind the facade of an elected government then this is a great idea!! Not everything has to be funded by black money from congress then!!!

April Fools' Special: History's HoaxesOne for Mr Mark Drew himself!! The National Geographic article on hoaxes!!! Now as funny as they are to read and laugh at the expense of gullible people, i've always believed that Governments use hoaxes as a tool for misinformation, there's no smoke without fire, but the best place to hide a secret is in the open just get everybody else looking slightly to the left at something they perceive to be more sensational!!

One especially for Lewis... any comments Mr. Richards?

Brain surgery may cure Tourette's

Doctors in the US carry out brain surgery on a 31-year-old man in a bid to cure him of Tourette syndrome.

[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

BBC Science Nasa Stunned by latest discovery on MarsThis is unreal, just when you think the Mars expeditions couldn't get any cooler!!

Code & crumpets anyone?

April 1: ThinkGeek adds an EZ-Bake oven that fits into a standard 5.25" drive-bay on your tower PC.

Link

(via DiveIntoMark)

[Via Boing Boing]

Anatomical cake wastes time for talented individual who obviously has nothing better to do...

Makes me mad! Hang on though, that's quite educational... if a bit freaky - do you think it encourages cannibalism.

This Hallowe'en cake is a replica of a Gray's Anatomy illustration of a complete thoraxic cavity. Swoon.

The plan was for each organ to be made out of a different kind of cake and to secrete a different color of fluid when it was cut into. Previous heart cakes have bled fresh, homemade raspberry sauce. This year I made raspberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, and blueberry sauces. Sadly, the organs didn't bleed as well as I had hoped when I cut the cake, as each organ was relatively small and couldn't hold much sauce. Also all the moving around after filling the organs made it hard to keep the sauce contained in the little cavities I hollowed out. The heart bled pretty well, but the other organ fluids weren't very dramatic.

Link

(Thanks, Michael!)

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Batman vehicle models

A gas powered trip down memory lane...

This guy has gone through Batman comics from the 1940s on up, and has built scale models of the cars and planes Batman has used over the decades. Super cool. Link (Via The Cartoonist)

[Via Boing Boing]... of course in the future Batman goes off-road and becomes even meaner. Really though, he should have a Mitsubishi Warrior (black with all the trimmings)?

Gameplay � Singles - Flirt Up Your Life Now this is the ulitmate SIMS!!! perfeect for single girls and guys out there to practise the art of sweet love making!! plus has the added bonus of being part relocation relocation as you get to interior design your apartment!!! why have a real relationship when you can mess some virtual love birds up!!

Champion the Wonder HorseI know i've blogged a lot this morning but i'm suffering from post Wednesday not quite Friday angst!!! and the cure.....................ladies and gentlemen click the link and be transported thru time as we sing along to the theme tune of 'Champion the Wonder Horse'

Tony BlairAnd cos i'm the devil's advocate, here's the reposte from Tony Blair's a hero MSN group

We Hate Blair One for Rob!!! pass it on to your buddies amigo!!! FIGHT THE POWER (he could be the new anti christ you know!!!)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Credit cards tap into radio tags i like the idea of RFID as i can see the possibilities of radio tagging, however having to be stuck behind some doddery old git in a queue at safeways while she tries to wave her arms around like she's casting a protection spell in Hogwart's academy is not my idea of fun!!! it'kk make us look like a nation with cerebral palsy everybody will be waving their arms around paying for stuff!!! its madness i tell ya!! madness!! you'll have pissed blokes attempting to pay for rounds at the bar and their party piece will be signing their credit receipt using a totally different appendage!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge waves on Titan move slowly Oily seas on Titan??? Surf's up dude!! i love the fact that the Huygens probe is going to attempt a splashdown next year!! bring it on!! however i hate the fact it takes us so long to get probes up there in the first place!!! more robots and faster probes are called for, step one what about the little dancing buggers Sony have just released??? send them up there that'd be cool!!!

The National Archives | What's New? In the event of Nuclear Holocaust its easy to survive a nuclear winter with these easy to remember guidelines....stout shoes, whitwash the windows........travel back to the glory days when Britain's V force ruled the skies and it all nearly kicked off!! marvel at the thought of regional command centres that would've had absolute power of over life and death of every human in Britain who survived 'THE BOMB' it doesn't get much better than this!!

BBC NEWS | UK | Cold war bomb warmed by chickens This i absolutely love!!! Nuclear Chicken Landmine!!! The civil service doesn't play practical jokes my arse!!! you can just imagine the russkies storming across checkpoint charlie, stopping for a fag and a quick shot of vodka, when Vassilili turns to Mikhail and says 'can you hear pecking mate???' hahahah!!!!

Batmobile built like a tank

The Batmobile for the next Batman movie has monster-truck wheels and looks like a fighter-tank from the Car Wars universe.

Link

(Thanks, Numlok!)

[Via Boing Boing]

Emergency! The laws of robotics need to be put into legislation before it's too late.

Asimov's laws of robotics were fictional rules governing the behaviour of autonomous robots. Now, Sony have created robots that can dance in such a convincing manner that I thought this was either an April fools joke or little men dressed in robot costumes.

I wonder if they recognise the phrase, "Can you get me another beer please?"

I love diving - but imagine traversing those peaceful dive sites on a motorbike?!

This HAS to be an April Fool's joke come early, surely?

The Scubadoo is an AUS$17,500 "underwater motorcycle" that looks like something off of Space: 1999's aquatic habitat ship, shipping soon. It does 2.5 knots and carries an hour's worth of air.

Link

(via Gizmodo)

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Action Comics #1 scanned and posted

Lewis - who was the 1950's Superman?

Someone's posted the whole of June, 1938's Action Comics #1 (including the first funnybook appearance of Superman) to the web as a series of medium-resolution scans.

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(Thanks, Eyes Spies and Lies!))

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Updated rants!!!!! going mad i tell ya!! they are all out to get me!!

UK complaint on Falklands breach

Britain makes a formal complaint to Argentina over a naval vessel sailing in Falkland Islands waters.

Come on.... kick it off - we've got some technology we want to try out! Lewis - any rants relating to this?


I love a good war me!!! nothing like watching BBC news 24 to help stem off the insomnia, however kicking off with the Argies again seems rather limited to me in terms of good tv??? There'll never be a land war and most of their heavy cruisers are crap these days have a look at their military spending here

Whats the Argies spend their cash on

Be good to get our nuclear subs out though, it'd be a watery theatre so we'd have some great footage i'll be expecting carmeras mounted on torpedos!! that'd be class!!!

NI set for 100% broadband... Don't tell Lewis... he'll have to add another one of those dramatic rants to the bullet

Full broadband access is expected to be available throughout Northern Ireland by the end of next year.

[Via BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Its a fecking piss take!!! i live in the SURREY/HAMPSHIRE equivalent of Silicon Valley and every other house around mine can get Broadband, and what do the Goverment and BT do?? Do they try they're best to improve the quality of my life (by providing access to top quality porn???) NO they decide to provide full broadband to the entire population of Northern Ireland!!! (at least 50% of they're population don't even want to be part of the UK!!!) plus the other mob (loyalists) led by the (hell fire spouting, white haired maniac) Preacher Paisley will just bang on for months that its part of Mi5's plan to bug the entire nation!! how many IRA boys do you thnk are going to subscribe and stay online all bloody day eh??? practise their first person shooter games in case of a return to the troubles??? Bollox to it i say!!! nobody's going to swallow our governments good work!!! Has noone heard of ECHELON!!!!

The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 29-Mar-04 - Defense wants charges against Gillespie droppedDr James Adams of the New Hampshire State Prison’s Psychiatric Unit gets a nutter off a death sentence!!! More good work not only has he got the defendant (accused of shooting his wife 3 times before xmas) off the charges but the defendant is now back home living with his wife!! Good Work Fella!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa's Mach 7 technologyHmmmm Scramjets!!! The future of air transport!! Hypersonic aircraft will be cool, if they can work out a way of making sure we don't all turn to jelly inside the damn thing!! didn't realise they only start to work after Mach 6!!! have to be propelled to that speed before the scramjet kicks in and fires it up to Mach 8!!!

Maryland man lured area boy, police sayPolice Chief James Adams, snares sexual predator!! another bad man off the streets thanks to the unending tireless work performed by James Adams' around the world

The Globe and MailIs there no end to his talent??? Product Manager adn all round good guy by day................moonlighting as art critic and journo by night!! Ladies and Gentleman its todays James Adam's around the world

The Texas City Sun James Adams's around the Globe!! Todays James is apparently a star hitter for the Hitchcock Bulldogs!!! you go James!!

Well good old Ariel Sharon and the Israeli military appear to be doing their bit for middle east security again!! Taking out the spiritual leader of Hamas, come on lads thats not likely to provoke a response now is it??? And the method they choose to assassinate the good Sheik? Do they send in a stealthy hit squad of Mossad agents in a convoluted execution involving bluff, double bluff and Olga Kleb style poisoned daggers coming out of the front of the boots scenario...........................??? No......................Do they attempt to send the Sheik explosive cigars like the ill fated CIA plan to get rid of Castro...............??? No the Israeli's (who lets face have got the biggest poor me complex in the history of the world (which can be justified admittidely)) decide to take the sheik out as he's being pushed (yes thats right folks he's in a wheelchair) out of a Mosque, and do threy take him out clean with a single shot to the head???? NOPE in one of the grandest shows of over the top extremism they take him (literally) out of his wheelchair with a missile strike!!!!!! I mean for god's sake can anyone over there spell overkill (no pun intended!!) The bit that cracks me up is most of these smart missile type things are spotted on the ground by teams of agenrts who light the target up with infra red beams!! The Sheik was probably wheeling along thinking what the hell's up with all these red dots??? who's playing funny buggers??? next thing they're cleaning him off the road using a bucket and spade, and Hamas are banging on about the Israeli's opening the gates of hell!! Anybody have any ideas how to resolve this conflict??? Answers on a postcard to MAGIC BULLET

MSN Hotmail - More Useful Everyday Haha the irreverence in this piece is quality!! i like the idea that conspiracy theories are predominantly subscribed to by guys!! We have a deep rooted flaw in that we like to be regarded as experts on all subjects (and yet masters of none!!) and thats a FACT.......

MSN Hotmail - More Useful Everydayoh dear oh dear oh dear!! another one in the eye for the american intelligence service!! mind you benefit of hindsight and all that even though they apparently knew where bin laden was in 2002, they probably figured that by keeping him under surveillance was a long term better prospect, hard to predict the kind of scale of attack that Al-qaeda unleashed against the states a year later!!! mind you losing him after that hasn't exactly helped matters!!

BBC NEWS | UK | Al-Qaeda 'warns of attack on UK'Ever get the sinking feeling of inevitability??? Terrorist options suspended in Spain as a result of Zapotera withdrawing troops from Iraq, its carrot or stick diplomacy from the terrorists!!! probably a good option to stay out of London at the moment!! still thats a prime target, so why not blow up trains in Birmingham??? we live in dangerous times..........