Tag: news
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Interview With Hayoa Miyazaki
The Guardian ran an interview with Hayao Miyazaki, director of such films as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Tonari no Totoro. My favourite bit of the interview:
Miyazaki taps a cigarette from a silver case. The Disney deal suits him, he explains, because he has stuck to his guns. His refusal to grant merchandising rights … -
Bush On ‘Intelligent Design’
Bush approves of 'Intelligent Design', we hear, a theory that's gaining popularity amongst some Christian groups as a competitive scientific approach to the theory of natural selection. It specifies that while evolution has occured, it was guided by an intelligent force.
But the thing that it's fans repeatedly fail to notice is that it isn't a … -
Sewage Leak Update
I see that the council are still recommending that people don't swim in the sea off Aberystwyth, with signs all along the promenade, after a pollution incident at the weekend, although they've allowed access to the beach again. I called the hotline number and determined that the sewage leak most likely occured at the pumping …
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Robotic Bins And Benches
Singing Benches Let Loose In City, writes the BBC. Just plain weird, say I.
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Lib Dems In Ceredigion
Lib Dems win in Ceredigion over Plaid Cymru, by 219 votes, after a recount. Our little election party just took off...
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Exploding Toads
Umm... yeah...
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Ricin In Wood Green… Well; Not Really…
The Register have got a well-written analysis of the people involved in the recent "ricin terror" case, with a look at how this relates to Al-Quaeda, ID cards, and politics. It's worth reading.
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Google Wants Your DIY Porn Videos
Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.
In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, … -
Black Holes “Almost Certainly Don’t Exist”
A brave physicist claims that black holes don't exist at all, but what we are interpreting as the existence of black holes - where stars have collapsed into tiny, superdense masses with an event horizon within which matter/energy escape is almost impossible - are actually... dark energy! (yes, yet another dark-matter/dark-energy claim)
It's a good one, … -
Ceefax On Scatmania
Do you remember Ceefax, that wonderful service from the BBC that seemed so cool until you discovered the internet? Well I do. And so does a Dutch consultant who set up a system, on the web, for searching Ceefax pages.
Well; in any case; I thought that his site was fun (in a nostalgic kind-of way) … -
Norfolk
Claire and I's grand tour of the United Kingdom brought us yesterday to Terrington St. Clement, near Kings' Lynn, in Norfolk, where Claire's dad lives.
As I anticipated, this has resulted in me here, too, helping to repair computers. Claire's dad's PC was a mess - Ad-Aware reported 183 malware/adware programs, Norton Anti-Virus reported 10 threats … -
The Starling
I have a hard time believing that this story is true: it's just too crazy - but the photos are good and hard to forge without more resources than your average internet prankster. So, here's the tale as it was told to me...
There's a company in the States that sells automatic car washers as a … -
Opera 8’s Solution To IDN Exploit
I'm sure you've all seen the recent Internationalized Domain Name exploit, which affects most web browsers (except for Internet Explorer - shocker! - because it doesn't yet have the power to support internationalized domain names): if you haven't, why not visit paypal.com - looks just like the real thing; doesn't it: the browser bar says …
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Rugby Fan Celebrates By Removing Balls
A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.
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Sell Your Body Or We’ll Cut Your Benefits
I'm not going to say anything: I'll leave that to the people who comment here...
...but here's a news story from The Telegraph: 'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'.