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.

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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?
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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!!!