by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Science
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island tells the hopefully true story of a massive treasure hoard. Brilliant that this sort of thing is still possible. Let’s hope there are some more undiscovered cities in South America as well as some undersea ones off the...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Reading
Vending taken to new heights – Catch your own dinner for $2 a try. Not as much fun as getting Christian to negotiate a serious platter.
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Science
Babble uses sound cancellation-like technology to cancel out voices in its range. The core application is for noisy offices / private phone calls. I wonder how far we can go with digital real-time processing of our environments (think Bond’s invisible Aston...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | Government
Religious Affairs Takes To E-Government. Nice that we don’t live in a religious state.
by Tom | Sep 28, 2005 | IT
The Power of Default Values is such that we’re more likely to click on the top link in Google even if a stealth program is swapping the top two links over without us knowing. So some of us read the results, and some of us don’t.