it’s about time

A CRAFT enthusiast who posted knitting patterns inspired by Doctor Who characters on the internet has had them exterminated by the BBC’s own Daleks in the form of a copyright infringement notice.

The very first trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe has finally arrived! The buzz for this movie is definitely going to pick up with this trailer. It really doesn’t reveal much, but still the perfect amount to start up discussion….

The CSIRO and NASA are currently in talks to develop new exploration technologies for use on the Moon and Mars. wooty stuff:)

May 13, 2008: NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Sunday, May 25th.

1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It’s also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.

intruiging look at the philosophy of suicide…

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with “Friend Connect”. Friend Connect will be a set of “APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.”

a series of images digitally stacked so that all of the stars images coincide. Here, Mars appears to trace out a loop in the sky.

Very appropriate for me…

So, to give credit where it’s due, we have picked out five more sci-fi films that go against the grain, and contain some accurate, plausible science. They may not be completely realistic, but they get it right when it matters most.

This fall, astronomers will start a massive search for new planets by observing about 11,000 nearby stars over 6 years. This number dwarfs the roughly 3,000 stars that astronomers have searched to date for the presence of planets.

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods, fires & dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive from space shuttle Columbia

Now, the open-source office suite is back with a new 3.0 beta release, ushering in a handful of major enhancements, broader file format support, and a solid batch of evolutionary new features.

This summer seems to be shaping up as a key time for ultraportables with new powerful and power-optimized processors coming to market, the highest-profile of which is Intel’s Atom.

Nasa engineers have identified the 1.1m tonne asteroid, which in 2000 was given a significant chance of slamming into Earth, as a potential landing site for astronauts, ahead of plans to venture deeper into the solar system with a crewed voyage to Mars.

If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box.

Noting their shared heroism and universal appeal, British clergy think the Church of England should call on The Doctor to help Jesus — or at least Jesus’ church. Bah. The Doctor is way cooler than church. And more real.

P J O’Rourke. enough said. bliss!!

Actress Georgia Moffett, 23, has plumped for current Doctor David Tennant - over her famous father Peter Davison, 57 who played the Doctor in the eighties - calling him the sexiest ever Time Lord.

Raptor aims to deliver a new kind of launch menu system for KDE. It is designed with usability and beauty in mind.

NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,

Ask the average consumer on the street about Windows and many will insist XP is less annoying, more stable and works just fine, thanks. MY suggestion - design and release non beta software as fill release?

How-to site Tech-Recipes.com has been on a bit of a Linux streak lately and ferrets out a two-command, no-repository solution for installing DVD playback

While Microsoft Corp. chases Yahoo Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.’s CEO and chairman, is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano appears very interested in.

There are boatloads of kickass moons in the solar system. We break down ten contenders in a highly scientific chart to settle this debate, once and for all. Cool! Moon battles!!!

thanks to the efforts of dedicated, historically-minded engineers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, plus a generous donation of cash from genius Nathan Myhrvold, Babbage’s Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley. WANT!

Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.

To be single in Victorian times

some great stuff from claire lately:)

people dont want to hear reality?

opensolaris, looks great, the logo blows. bubbles????

hopefully come up with a classic unix desktop open source system.

A detailed look at the Ben Stein movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. We’ll show you why this movie is not a documentary at all, but anti-science propaganda aimed at creating the appearance of controversy where there is none.

for goodness sake, somebody get darl his medication!!!

It is quite a time consuming task to manually follow people so we have created a plugin for Mozilla Firefox that strictly sticks by twitters API so that the tool will not be used for spammers. i will stick with twitterfox but good idea to extend twitter.