From the Orient

LugRadio Live: Don’t Listen Alone

Obviously, the guy tapping away at his (blank screened!) laptop wasn’t using Ubuntu.

If I go, does it make be a lug nut ?

1: Indian in the mountain
2: Nazi building
3: Hidden Donut store
4: Cat in a bottle
5: Google in a bathtub
6: Big Fuck
7: Crop circle
8: Dutch sunbather
9: Weird black line and a fire on ice
10: Giant Firefox symbol

My new toy :-

Loaded roughly 60 albums onto it and I’ve only got 31Gb free now.

I wonder if it time for NASA to implement the idea of “Crash only software”:http://www.stanford.edu/~candea/papers/crashonly/crashonly.html into their projects. Consider the Genesis space capsule. If they had designed it to crash into the desert, then they would have been able to recover all the data from it.

Meanwhile, reports of a crash-only version of Microsoft Windows have been denied.

bq.:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995005 An amateur rocket called GoFast has made history by becoming the first such rocket to reach 100 kilometres altitude - the official edge of space.

Note this isn’t the X-Prize for the first civilian flight to carry a crew into space (twice) which carries a prize of $10 million.

Vibrated shear thickening fluids [”via (Nelson’s Weblog)”:http://www.nelson.monkey.org/~nelson/weblog/tech/persistentHoles.html has a brilliant video showing how vibrating a liquid at a specific frequency can alter its behaviour, even forming solid-like structures.