Question Time is The Beeb's flagship political discussion programme, where the political issues of the day the week, actually, are debated round the table by MPs... and a cat (actually, I had to watch the clip twice before I spotted the cat, but he's definitely there).
Continuing the theme (Linkfests passim) of pictures constructed through Apple's smartphone, here's The Torygraph's collection of iPhone art. It's not all good news on the iPhone front, though - the recent jump to the 3GS has resulted in a number of reports that the device can overheat, with some people complaining that their shiny white 3GS now has hints of pink.
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yvi's hackles as much as mine, Turkey has a new gameshow where different religious types attempt to convert atheists.
Speaking of religion, many of you will recall Teh Neil's magnificent satanic tomato - well, the Grauniad has an article celebrating the EU's relaxation of fruit and vegetable appearances with this picture gallery - the teddy-bear potato is kinda cute :-)
Staying with photography, Wired has this series of photographs created through a high-voltage photogram (it says here) process. I have no clue how this works, but the results are pretty impressive.
I say impressive, but then read how a leopard fights crocodile and wins, and have to concede that, actually, that is impressive... quite why the leopard bothered with the hassle baffles me - a croc's hardly a trivial opponent... As always, The Guardian's Week in Wildlife gallery is worth a look - the opening image of the bird is awesome!
Shifting cultural gear somewhat, Chris McVeigh took a series of photos of a chipmunk and his Star Wars action figures: I'm linking to this with the caveat that whilst one image is pretty good, and funny, the whole series seems to end up detracting from the achievement, rather than making it more impressive.
You might have thought that there was relatively little narrative potential behind Asteroids, Atari's monochrome arcade classic, but that's not stopped the planned film, quoth The Register. I s'pose, what really sums up the madness of the concept for me is the quote mentioned at Topless Robot, where amazement is expressed that people got into a bidding war over this.
Speaking of Topless Robot, said site has two articles that manage to detailsuccintly rather at length exactly what was wrong with the travesty of a sequel that is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
A couple of weeks ago now, Steve Gibson mentioned on TWiT TV's Security Now podcast that the software for a series of ATMs had been hacked, such that the Bad Guys could then collect people's credit card and PIN numbers from compromised machines (and as an added bonus, empty the device of all cash). Wired also covered the story here, mentioning how an ATM vendor requested that a security analyst pull his proposed discussion of the vulnerability from a conference.
Talking of paranoia, ZD Net had this article about how all mobile phones from 2010 could come with RFID tags embedded. I love how the story opens with the positive spin that this would enable the phone to become the key to your house or car, whereas my first thought was 'right, that means they could track you anywhere, regardless of whether the phone was switched on or off'.
But who cares, when there's pictures of dogs surfing to look at?
Continuing the theme (Linkfests passim) of pictures constructed through Apple's smartphone, here's The Torygraph's collection of iPhone art. It's not all good news on the iPhone front, though - the recent jump to the 3GS has resulted in a number of reports that the device can overheat, with some people complaining that their shiny white 3GS now has hints of pink.
In a move that's bound to raise
yvi's hackles as much as mine, Turkey has a new gameshow where different religious types attempt to convert atheists.Speaking of religion, many of you will recall Teh Neil's magnificent satanic tomato - well, the Grauniad has an article celebrating the EU's relaxation of fruit and vegetable appearances with this picture gallery - the teddy-bear potato is kinda cute :-)
Staying with photography, Wired has this series of photographs created through a high-voltage photogram (it says here) process. I have no clue how this works, but the results are pretty impressive.
I say impressive, but then read how a leopard fights crocodile and wins, and have to concede that, actually, that is impressive... quite why the leopard bothered with the hassle baffles me - a croc's hardly a trivial opponent... As always, The Guardian's Week in Wildlife gallery is worth a look - the opening image of the bird is awesome!
Shifting cultural gear somewhat, Chris McVeigh took a series of photos of a chipmunk and his Star Wars action figures: I'm linking to this with the caveat that whilst one image is pretty good, and funny, the whole series seems to end up detracting from the achievement, rather than making it more impressive.
You might have thought that there was relatively little narrative potential behind Asteroids, Atari's monochrome arcade classic, but that's not stopped the planned film, quoth The Register. I s'pose, what really sums up the madness of the concept for me is the quote mentioned at Topless Robot, where amazement is expressed that people got into a bidding war over this.
Speaking of Topless Robot, said site has two articles that manage to detail
A couple of weeks ago now, Steve Gibson mentioned on TWiT TV's Security Now podcast that the software for a series of ATMs had been hacked, such that the Bad Guys could then collect people's credit card and PIN numbers from compromised machines (and as an added bonus, empty the device of all cash). Wired also covered the story here, mentioning how an ATM vendor requested that a security analyst pull his proposed discussion of the vulnerability from a conference.
Talking of paranoia, ZD Net had this article about how all mobile phones from 2010 could come with RFID tags embedded. I love how the story opens with the positive spin that this would enable the phone to become the key to your house or car, whereas my first thought was 'right, that means they could track you anywhere, regardless of whether the phone was switched on or off'.
But who cares, when there's pictures of dogs surfing to look at?
