Interesting links for 10 May 2010 - 07 Jun 2010: • Physicist unmasks 99-year-old mistake in English dictionaries - Why hasn't this been picked up before? Simple. Because people aren't really too fussed about what exactly causes it, so long as it happens. • AFP: Polish bank claims Europe's first biometric cash point - Cool. I want these in the UK. •…
• Fix Farsightedness by Sleeping in Your Contacts | Popular Science - Coool. Give this a couple of years and you'll be able to get it from SpecSavers for some piddly amount per month. • Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart: Scientific American - …
• Fantastic Catch by AB de Villiers - How's this for a brilliant catch by AB de Villiers in a recent IPL match • Journey into space with a balloon and duct tape - This is amazing. Just a cheap camera, a GPS unit, a bit of duct tape and a …
• Oracle's 'Sun'day - NYPOST.com - Larry Ellison's Oracle won an all-clear from Europe's top antitrust official to proceed with its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems after reaching a verbal agreement to protect a piece of • Official: British telly really is almost all repeats - I knew I'd seen …
• Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower - Ooops. Looks like we may be turning to our bikes sooner than anticipated. • Police win war on crime as 10111 stops ringing - Hee hee hee. Only in South Africa. I suppose it's one way to keep the …
• Rental Goats Clear Brush Better - What a brilliant idea. I think I need to get myself a few goats and start renting them out to our local council. • Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto - Boing Boing - Hee hee hee. Co-incidence? Only Arnie knows. • Denying physics won’t…
This is a bit of a big one today as my automatic plugin stopped working a while ago and I only noticed yesterday :-) Everything should be back to normal after this links post.
Interesting links for 24 Sep 2009 - 28 Oct 2009:
• Using Waste To Recover Waste Uranium - Now this is a pretty amazing discovery. Who knows, …
• Pigeon beats ADSL handsdown .. classic. - What a brilliant way to kick Telkom (South Africa's largest telecoms company) into gear and make them catch a wake up about their high costs and bad service. • Pigeon beats Telkom - He did it. Winston proved that good old fashioned homing …
• Makeover for SA gender-row runner - See, told you she was a lady. Maybe she should have hit the track all tarted up to keep the IAAF happy. • Pigeon beats Telkom - He did it. Winston proved that good old fashioned homing pigeons are way quicker to send data …
• 'I would pay £3,000 for a big house' - A very funny article from the BBC where they posed several financially related questions to 6 9 year olds. • Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz - Now this is cool: a calendar that displays the date using capillary action to colour …