:: melifluous certitude ::

Has the mystery of sex been explained at last? - life - 15 June 2009 - New Scientist

2009-06-15T20:48:00.000+01:00

Has the mystery of sex been explained at last? - life - 15 June 2009 - New Scientist

Sex is the ultimate absurdity.

Many unfortunate enough to know me would agree.

Card fraud probe targets 300 detectives | Politics | The Observer

2009-06-14T18:35:00.000+01:00

Card fraud probe targets 300 detectives | Politics | The Observer

... gosh ...

This American Life

2009-06-14T18:12:00.000+01:00

This American Life: "Unconditional Love"

The Pale Blue Door « TONY HORNECKER

2009-06-14T18:10:00.000+01:00

The Pale Blue Door « TONY HORNECKER

Frightfully trendy art nosh

1-click Award by 株式会社リクルートメディアコミュニケーションズ

2009-06-13T02:04:00.000+01:00

1-click Award by 株式会社リクルートメディアコミュニケーションズ

Technical expose of how a WIMP interface works ...

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Video Blogs - Kudo Tsunoda Demos Project Natal - Jimmy Fallon's Video Blog | NBC Official Site

2009-06-12T02:46:00.001+01:00

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Video Blogs - Kudo Tsunoda Demos Project Natal - Jimmy Fallon's Video Blog | NBC Official Site

If it had true 3D and force-feedback, it would be just like something - I can't put my finger on it...

Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3 | Cracked.com

2009-06-12T01:35:00.000+01:00

Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3 | Cracked.com

The most thorough investigation into virtual ethics awaiting virtual peer-review from slashdot and digg.

Mail Order Chickens

2005-12-28T19:03:00.000+00:00

Mrs Yumbia grows them.

Truthdig - An Atheist Manifesto

2005-12-18T17:17:00.000+00:00

Truthdig - An Atheist Manifesto

Splendid.

Greetings from Idiot America, by Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine, Nov. '05

2005-12-18T16:23:00.000+00:00

Greetings from Idiot America, by Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine, Nov. '05

Superb.

Evolution

2005-12-10T14:00:00.000+00:00

Evolution: "The reptiles reached their peak with the rise of the dinosaurs (from the Greek dino, ugly + sauros, smells bad)."

Goodle Good News - Funny Stuff - David McCandless

2005-12-09T15:36:00.000+00:00

Goodle Good News - Funny Stuff - David McCandless: "Bush 'satisfactory' after swallowing glow-stick "

We can all go home now.

French Government: Information Society Bill (DADVSI) (n°1206)

2005-12-07T03:42:00.000+00:00

English readers - EUCD.INFO : sauvons le droit d'auteur !: "Creating your own compilations from a CD, extracting your favourite piece of music to listen to it on your computer, transfering it on a MP3 player, lending a CD to a friend, reading a DVD with free software or duplicating it to be able to enjoy it at home and in your country house : many common practices, perfectly legal, which the French government plans to forbid in fact. The copyright and neighbouring rights in the information society bill (DADVSI) (n°1206) which the French government will try to force through in the coming weeks by using an emergency procedure, actually legitimates the technical devices installed by CD and DVD editors and producers to control their use. And above all, the bill plans criminal penalty against people who would dare to remove those."

They just don't get it, do they? Absolutely, inexcusably disgraceful. And they're trying to force it through on December 22/23 - while everyone's distracted with Peace On Earth and Good Will To All Men.

Montague-Island_scale.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x531 pixels)

2005-11-23T20:45:00.000+00:00

Montague-Island_scale.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x531 pixels)

Beautiful and dramatic image of Antarctic volcano.

Living camera uses bacteria to capture image

2005-11-23T20:43:00.000+00:00

New Scientist Breaking News - Living camera uses bacteria to capture image: "The “living camera” uses light to switch on genes in a genetically modified bacterium that then cause an image-recording chemical to darken. The bacteria are tiny, allowing the sensor to deliver a resolution of 100 megapixels per square inch."

And an image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, no less.

Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts

2005-11-23T20:29:00.000+00:00

Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts: "One day Chuck Norris looked in the mirror and said 'No one outstares Chuck!' He is still there to this day."

Quotes about Operating Systems

2005-11-17T01:06:00.000+00:00

Quotes about Operating Systems

Spyware Sony seems to breach copyright

2005-11-15T22:21:00.000+00:00

De Winter Information Solutions - open solutions in an open world - Spyware Sony seems to breach copyright: "This discovery can have far-stretching consequences for the music giant, who claims only to protect copyrights. Previously, judges in Germany already forced various companies to release source code to the public and to deliver the goods necessary for compiling. It is also possible to demand financial compensation for damages."

More Sony, for which I apologise. It just bloody annoys me. I think I'll end (possibly?) all this by saying - 'No PSPs for Christmas!'

Sony accused of leading price-fix cartel to stop cheap deals on web

2005-11-15T19:48:00.000+00:00

Scotsman.com News - UK - Sony accused of leading price-fix cartel to stop cheap deals on web: "The 'dual pricing' move is being challenged by online discounters who have made a joint complaint to the Office of Fair Trading. If their action fails, dozens of other big-name makers of hi-fis, televisions, cameras and other electrical goods could adopt the pricing strategy."

Sony
like.no.other(tm)

Ellen Goodman

2005-11-14T19:09:00.000+00:00

Ellen Goodman Quotes - The Quotations Page: "Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

Well said. It also often involves sitting in a cubicle with no natural light, dealing with people you would never usually want to associate with, to make a boss who you despise richer.

Jeremy Clarkson

2005-11-14T18:59:00.000+00:00

Independent Online Edition > Profiles: "clearing the air of pomposity"

That's exactly the point. Now back to your bruschetta.

Rainbow warriors crack password hashes

2005-11-13T02:00:00.000+00:00

Rainbow warriors crack password hashes [printer-friendly] | The Register: "'Usually people think that a complex, but short, password is very secure, something like $FT%_3^,' said Travis, one of the founders of RainbowCrack Online, who asked that his last name not be used. 'However, you will find that our tables handle that password quite easily."

Sony Rootkits - Follow-up #3

2005-11-13T01:42:00.000+00:00

Anti-Malware Engineering Team : Sony DRM Rootkit: "We have analyzed this software, and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the rootkit component of the XCP software to the Windows AntiSpyware beta"

And I thought Sony was in bed with Microsoft over DRM.

Sony Rootkits - Follow-up #2

2005-11-10T15:50:00.000+00:00

This is what will happen if you play these cds in a Windows PC.

Now this is what California is doing to Sony BMG.

Bravo!

Shane McGowan eating a Magnum

2005-11-05T15:28:00.000+00:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Guts, glory and a bit of horror: "slobbering like Shane McGowan eating a Magnum"

A boring, run-of-the-mill article, save for that one simile. Hilarious.