Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Major Richard WInters interview
Fascinating interview with Major Richard Winters ,of Band Of Brothers fame, here on historynet , reflecting on the tv series , D-Day and leadership.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Linkdump
Google Pages
Create your own web pages via an easy to use interface.
Kottke reviews first year
Kottke looks back at his first year as a full time blogger
The centre of the Google Maps universe
Wired looks at the default centre of Google Maps - Coffeyville in Kansas.
Chuck Norris Facts - Web 2.0 version
Chuck Norris Facts t-shirts
Googlestore
The UK is missing
Monday, January 30, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Pintsearch
Pintsearch is a Google Maps powered site that plots around 2000 London pubs. Each pub is rated and colored accordingly.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Monday, January 16, 2006
Linkdump
Kottke on Digg versus Slashdot
Fill My Room
Real world version of MillionDollarHomePage.
"For every dollar you donate, I will add 1 block to the room! I will not stop until my room is full!"
A Map of Cultural Prejudices
Compiled by asking Google what a country 'is known for'.
FlickrMap
"It's as simple as tagging your photos with a city and country name"
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Stardust lands
Stardust probe lands
The Stardust space probe has landed sucessfully in the Utah desert after a seven year journey. The probe contains samples it collected from the coma of comet Wild 2. This marks the first time that scientists have had actual samples of a comet.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
El Reg gives thumbs down to Google Video
The Register's Ashlee Vance tears into Google video, calling it an "embarrassment".
"We've been waiting more than three hours for our purchase of a Charlie Rose show to go through. Had to boot up a Windows box just to wait. Great stuff."
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Sunday, January 08, 2006
safety dance
So bad, it's good...
The Men Without Hats 80s hit is here on Google Video
hat tip Google Video blog
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Urban dynamics video project
Google video here
"In an ever faster moving world cities have become somehow fascinating for us. They do not only respresent mankind's belief in technology but do also provide us with an endless variety of images and sounds.
urbanDynamics is an international video project designed to cover global urban dynamics. Its aim is to make a collage of urban environments around the world by assembling video footage from citizens. It's an experiment that totally depends on the participants, who rediscover their cities with a simple miniDV camcorder."
via Google Video of the Day
Texas constitution
Here's something I didnt know. You cannot hold public office in Texas if you are an atheist, or for that matter, Buddhist, as it clearly states that you "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being"
Article 1, Section 4 of the Texas constitution
I suppose you could get around it by joining the Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster
Google Rumours
Source: Google Blogoscoped
Google is expected to make an announcement at the CES later on today. Pay per view Google video, Google pack, Google thin client or Google Cube?
I'm still waiting for Google Calendar
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Hyperdrive engine a possibility?
In this this extraordinary article, The Scotsman reports that a hyperdrive engine could well be a possibility within 5 years. The engine is based on a fringe , untested area of physics, but the U.S. Airforce and NASA have expressed an interest.
"The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.
The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.
Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension"
The paper quoted in the article is here (Google Scholar, HTML version)
Full New Scientist article has been posted on LiveJournal here
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