The truth is out there
1 Sep 2010
beschra writes “BBC writes of ‘terra-forming’ Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: ‘[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used Read the rest of this entry »
1 Sep 2010
Bolton terminate the contract of Nigeria international defender Danny Shittu.
31 Aug 2010
An anonymous reader writes “Engadget has photos of ‘Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War.’ It looks like they hired the same interior designer who decorated Batman’s lair.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
31 Aug 2010
Britain’s Andy Murray vows not to underestimate Lukas Lacko as he prepares to face the Slovakian in his US Open first-round match on Wednesday.
30 Aug 2010
coondoggie passes along this excerpt from Network World: “Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that’s revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots. It uses VoIP yet works with existing cell phones. It has pedigreed founders. Best of all, it is part of the sex, drugs and art collectively known as Burning Man. … The technology starts with the ‘they-said-it-couldn’t-be-done’ Read the rest of this entry »
30 Aug 2010
Birmingham are working to complete the signings of Armand Traore and Martin Jiranek on transfer-deadline day.
29 Aug 2010
KwahAG writes “Colin Watson, one of the Ubuntu developers, published in his blog information about Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable. Users of dual-boot Windows/Linux installations may face the problem, which boils down to particular Windows applications (Colin does not name them, but users point at least to HP ProtectTools, PC Angel, Adobe Flexnet) blindly overwriting hard disk content between the MBR and the first partition destroying Read the rest of this entry »
29 Aug 2010
Scotland’s Martin Laird loses out in a play-off to American Matt Kuchar after a disappointing finish to his final round at the Barclays FedEx Cup event in New Jersey.
29 Aug 2010
Former world champion Nicky Hayden signs a two-year deal to stay with Ducati and partner Valentino Rossi.
29 Aug 2010
An anonymous reader writes “Google is already experimenting with GPU acceleration in its latest Chrome developer builds. Chrome 7 can separate different layers of a webpage into CPU and GPU processes and combine those layers using the GPU as long as the browser is now launched with certain switches. Chromium 7 has also a new Labs feature that reveals that Google is thinking about moving tabs from the top of the browser to the left side. It seems that Read the rest of this entry »