Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Brains and computers...

A cool application for human brain and computer interfaces. Hooking your brain to an EEG and Twitting messages. So long as there isn't anything coming back in to the head I'm all for this.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Argent Tournament


Behold! Sir Clucks'A'Lot!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

Ancient microbs that breath iron! They live under the glaciers in Antarctica.

Sing a little song...

So I was driving in to work today and the radio had this report of a woman named Susan Boyle who went on a talent show and surprised everyone on the show with how well she could sing. Take a look for yourself, awesome performance.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Easter Eggs!

A list from Computer World of neat Easter Eggs in software.

Some neat ones:

In Firefox type either "about:robots" or "about:mozilla" in the URL bar.

In Open Office Calc (the spread sheet program). Type =game() and then respond to it's question with =GAME("StarWars").

If you're running Ubuntu for your computers operating system. Hit ALT-F2 and type "free the fish".

Sunday, April 5, 2009

A nagging buzz.

So for a while now our horse hasn't liked being put out in the paddock. Found out why today. No wonder she was nagging us to stay in.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Great Red Shrinking Spot

Apparently Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" is shrinking. They say it'll be circular around 2040. Check out the details here!

*Cues the black obelisk* It'd be kinda funny if that spot was a lite fuse all along set to ignite Jupiter in to a new star.