by Tom | Jul 21, 2009 | Reading
Excellent. “Just saying…”.
by Tom | Jul 21, 2009 | Reading
I love the belly flop competition.
by Tom | Jul 17, 2009 | Reading
Nice to see Dom getting published, and it’s a good article, other than the editorial puff!
by Tom | Jul 16, 2009 | Science
Good to have a good chunk of the Feynman lectures on physics online: I read a book version of the lectures at the tender age of 16 and they were what kept me going through the slightly dull physics course we had at school. I was talking about this with my mum...
by Tom | Jul 14, 2009 | Reading
Still not sure of my feelings on bull fighting. Yes, it is pretty brutal and a very unpleasant and nasty way to kill the bulls, but do we need to legislate against it? Better to have few (and fewer every year) in public that underground stuff like dog fighting....
by Tom | Jul 12, 2009 | IT
I’ve been needing to print an A3 size PDF file as two or more A4 pages (all I have available at home) and have finally found a tool that pretty much does what I need: PDF Tiler.
by Tom | Jul 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
You have to love shots from above. I wasn´t sure whether I preferred the pyroclastic flows or the gibbous moon (yes, it is that way around).
by Tom | Jul 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Amazing that stem cells have been coaxed into becoming sperm. I´m not sure this is the end of the male human race; I mean, who´d replace all the light bulbs? And anyway, would women terminate male embryos? Secondly, I hadn´t come across memristors...
by Tom | Jul 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Summary: we have used increasing debt loads to cover the wealth redistribution post war which has seen earnings concentrated in a small group. How to measure wealth? The Walton family (WalMart) are richer than the bottom 1/3rd of the US (100m people). This...
by Tom | Jul 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I like the functionality of SoundCloud that allows you to comment on specific bits of a tune: I have been wanting to do this for ages. However, the site doesn´t quite do what I need. Take a 30s
