Blogging on and off since 2003
The Swift Report: Christian Gamers Resurrect Christ–and Profits–in Global Video Game Market : “…with expectations high for Gibson’s movie-to-game gamble on The Passion, the question on analysts’s minds: What Would Jesus Play?”
(Via Sully, who seems to have been taken in by it.)
Apparently my blogger code is B5 d+ t+ k+ s u- f+ i+ o x- e l c–. Is this the MBTI of the new millennium?
Israeli Woman Motorists Dance Nude in India?: “India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan has punished local officials after residents complained a group of Israeli women motorists had danced in the nude near a town revered by Hindus, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.”
Why punish the “local officials”, I wonder? /me shakes head
Here’s the latest twist in the saga of the seizure of Indymedia‘s web servers. This ought to be an urgent and compelling story of international law and data protection, but unfortunately everything seems to be covered by secrecy agreements, and so all we can do is speculate. However the bottom line seems to be that an Italian judge was able to persuade the FBI to seize computer systems in England, possibly violating several UK laws, without the involvement of UK law enforcement agencies. The way things are going, I’m probably breaking the law (somewhere – does that matter any more?) just by blogging about the affair. Paging George Orwell….
Computer technology is SO 20th century! It’s time for a career change – to antimatter weapons!! Consider the example of:
…Gerald Smith, former chairman of physics and Antimatter Project leader at Pennsylvania State University. Smith now operates a small firm, Positronics Research LLC, in Santa Fe, N.M. So far, the Air Force has given Smith and his colleagues $3.7 million for positron research, Smith told The Chronicle in August.
Smith is looking to store positrons in a quasi-stable form called positronium. A positronium “atom” (as physicists dub it) consists of an electron and antielectron, orbiting each other. Normally these two particles would quickly collide and self-annihilate within a fraction of a second — but by manipulating electrical and magnetic fields in their vicinity, Smith hopes to make positronium atoms last much longer.
Smith’s storage effort is the “world’s first attempt to store large quantities of positronium atoms in a laboratory experiment,” Edwards noted in his March speech. “If successful, this approach will open the door to storing militarily significant quantities of positronium atoms.”
It seems that Positronics Research is hiring. Woo-hoo! Move over, Edward Teller. You think your H-bomb was a big bang? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet….
Note for the humour-impaired: this is sarcasm. Frame your comments accordingly.
PS: Everyone has that dream. |
Which Trickster Are You?
Take the Trickster Test at www.isleofdreams.net.
Check out this picture. Click on “Section 3”. Mouse over the face in the top row, third from the left. Was that really me? I guess so…. over 36 years ago.
Is this the first blog devoted to a London Bus route?
There’s an account here of a delightful little experiment in electronic dumpster-diving. An enterprising hacker crawled all public Micro$oft web sites looking for Office documents that contained interesting data – specifically, text that had been “deleted”. The results are predictably entertaining….
