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.

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(Thanks, Numlok!)

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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.

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(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.

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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..........