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I'm thinking thatcarolanne5 and yvi might find Wired's article on the rebranding of the Sci-Fi channel as SyFy interesting for the mention of Stargate Universe. Plus there's also Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica... could be interesting...
The Discovery Channel clearly feels it's missing out on the 'Fi' bit of Sci-Fi, so, to try and compensate, they've got this article about an inflatable space tower. *blinks* Not sure I'm sold on the concept, myself...
It doesn't apply so much to us over on the correct side of the pond, but Wired had an interesting article on how it's possible to predict a Social Security Number, based on publicly available data for a person, and then whittling away the options using online verification tools. They can't, as I read it, automatically generate your exact SSN in one step, yet, but it's technically possible to get there.
Teh Torygraph (which, in its real world incarnation is a paper so virulently right wing I literally cannot read it) had an interesting article about summer reads for kids here, where they asked various childrens' authors what they'd recommend.
I absolutely cannot fathom gun culture, but war and suffering seem a staple of the photojournalist's discipline. Those of you who've seen Lord of War will know about the AK-47 (and those of you who haven't seen Lord of War absolutely must, it's a brilliant, brilliant film), and Wired has a picture gallery of said weapon, which manages to awake in me conflicting feelings of admiration for the photography and discomfort over the subject matter. But good photos, nonetheless.
The Beeb has a fascinating video about a 'superpod' of dolphins swimming off the Welsh coast - the article describes 'a mile-long wall of dolphins', which must, absolutely, have been a sight to behold.
I read the BBC's story about how a holiday passenger fixed a faulty aeroplane with slight misgivings. Basically, rather than wait 8 hours on the tarmac for the operator's own engineer to be flown out to fix the broken beasty, one of the passengers piped up and offered to fix the plane himself. I particularly liked the quote It was reassuring to know the person who had fixed it was still on the aeroplane... Quite.
Engadget unearthed a wonderful spoof video of a USB Chainsaw - PC and Mac compatible! More seriously, Engadget, like the rest of World+Dog, has been covering Google's announcement of Chrome OS... I've been running Chrome (the browser) at work, and like it lots - a pared down, cloud-focused OS for a netbook could be a very interesting proposition (although I'd have a Linux dual boot as backup for when you're offline).
I don't use craig's list, but ItemNotAsDescribed.com is a site dedicated to, well, posting up listings where the attractions of said are somewhat less than immediately apparent. Could be something of a time suck...
The Times has an article on how Top Gear's production team started to think about making preparations for the 100th episode... just after ep 105 had been screened. Nice article, though, about the whole ethos/culture/style of TG, worth a read.
In Better Living Through Technology News, pre-hardboiled eggs sure seem to have generated a fair bit of comment, both at The Register and also at The Times. I just love the blurb: why wait for your hard boiled eggs to cook when you can have one now in the blink of an eye! (as an aside, it irks me that they use an exclamation mark at the end of their question)
Following up on last week's news of the successful conclusion to a bidding war over the rights to turn Asteroids, the coin-op console game, into a movie, Wired are here to paint the latest thinking on how this is going to make the transition to the big screen. I like it already :-)
A neat idea, taking old photos of places, holding them in situ in front of the camera, and snapping the modern scene around the photo as an integrated border. I'm not overly struck on the execution of some of the shots, but as a concept it's neat enough.
The Telegraph continues on its Crop Circles kick: Look! A Mayan crop circle on Silbury Hill. They redeem themselves slightly with their Digital Camera Photographer of the Year Gallery, which has some cool shots in it, but the gallery of the stilt fishermen of Sri Lanka completes their redemption, in my eyes, by possessing absolutely stunning images.
And finally, this made me weep (in a good way): Microsoft Office 2010: The Movie!
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carolanne5 and yvi might find Wired's article on the rebranding of the Sci-Fi channel as SyFy interesting for the mention of Stargate Universe. Plus there's also Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica... could be interesting...The Discovery Channel clearly feels it's missing out on the 'Fi' bit of Sci-Fi, so, to try and compensate, they've got this article about an inflatable space tower. *blinks* Not sure I'm sold on the concept, myself...
It doesn't apply so much to us over on the correct side of the pond, but Wired had an interesting article on how it's possible to predict a Social Security Number, based on publicly available data for a person, and then whittling away the options using online verification tools. They can't, as I read it, automatically generate your exact SSN in one step, yet, but it's technically possible to get there.
Teh Torygraph (which, in its real world incarnation is a paper so virulently right wing I literally cannot read it) had an interesting article about summer reads for kids here, where they asked various childrens' authors what they'd recommend.
I absolutely cannot fathom gun culture, but war and suffering seem a staple of the photojournalist's discipline. Those of you who've seen Lord of War will know about the AK-47 (and those of you who haven't seen Lord of War absolutely must, it's a brilliant, brilliant film), and Wired has a picture gallery of said weapon, which manages to awake in me conflicting feelings of admiration for the photography and discomfort over the subject matter. But good photos, nonetheless.
The Beeb has a fascinating video about a 'superpod' of dolphins swimming off the Welsh coast - the article describes 'a mile-long wall of dolphins', which must, absolutely, have been a sight to behold.
I read the BBC's story about how a holiday passenger fixed a faulty aeroplane with slight misgivings. Basically, rather than wait 8 hours on the tarmac for the operator's own engineer to be flown out to fix the broken beasty, one of the passengers piped up and offered to fix the plane himself. I particularly liked the quote It was reassuring to know the person who had fixed it was still on the aeroplane... Quite.
Engadget unearthed a wonderful spoof video of a USB Chainsaw - PC and Mac compatible! More seriously, Engadget, like the rest of World+Dog, has been covering Google's announcement of Chrome OS... I've been running Chrome (the browser) at work, and like it lots - a pared down, cloud-focused OS for a netbook could be a very interesting proposition (although I'd have a Linux dual boot as backup for when you're offline).
I don't use craig's list, but ItemNotAsDescribed.com is a site dedicated to, well, posting up listings where the attractions of said are somewhat less than immediately apparent. Could be something of a time suck...
The Times has an article on how Top Gear's production team started to think about making preparations for the 100th episode... just after ep 105 had been screened. Nice article, though, about the whole ethos/culture/style of TG, worth a read.
In Better Living Through Technology News, pre-hardboiled eggs sure seem to have generated a fair bit of comment, both at The Register and also at The Times. I just love the blurb: why wait for your hard boiled eggs to cook when you can have one now in the blink of an eye! (as an aside, it irks me that they use an exclamation mark at the end of their question)
Following up on last week's news of the successful conclusion to a bidding war over the rights to turn Asteroids, the coin-op console game, into a movie, Wired are here to paint the latest thinking on how this is going to make the transition to the big screen. I like it already :-)
A neat idea, taking old photos of places, holding them in situ in front of the camera, and snapping the modern scene around the photo as an integrated border. I'm not overly struck on the execution of some of the shots, but as a concept it's neat enough.
The Telegraph continues on its Crop Circles kick: Look! A Mayan crop circle on Silbury Hill. They redeem themselves slightly with their Digital Camera Photographer of the Year Gallery, which has some cool shots in it, but the gallery of the stilt fishermen of Sri Lanka completes their redemption, in my eyes, by possessing absolutely stunning images.
And finally, this made me weep (in a good way): Microsoft Office 2010: The Movie!
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Date: 2009-07-11 04:44 pm (UTC)W00t for Stargate Universe, Caprica and Sanctuary s2; bemused at SyFy, I think the killer reason is that they can trademark SyFy but not SciFi.
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Date: 2009-07-12 08:13 pm (UTC)I generally have a lie-in on Saturdays, and tend not to surface until about 6.30. Same for Sundays...
Mali and I were out and about for the day's first walk at 6.40 this morning and we didn't see a soul!
Sanctuary
Date: 2009-07-14 09:04 am (UTC)I got hooked back when it was an internet only thing (although I stopped when they started charging!). So I was pleased to see it get picked up by a TV channel and twice as pleased to get a s2.
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Date: 2009-07-14 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-13 11:30 pm (UTC)No kidding! :) (Thanks for the link!)
Lord of War was a really pleasant surprise when we watched it -- wasn't expecting it to be nearly as good as it was, to the point where Nicolas Cage and Jared Leto's total inability to pronounce Russian in any sort of believable way was not even distracting.
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Date: 2009-07-14 12:59 pm (UTC)