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 -> A theme park for poverty?
"Now we're entering our slum village" -- a theme park with a twist!
919 views | 09 Jun 2003
 -> Kiwi creates home-made cruise missile
In a New Zealand garage, Do-it-yourself handyman Bruce Simpson says he's constructing a missile in his shed near Auckland with parts bought over the Internet and shipped through New Zealand. He says anyone with half a brain could do the same.
710 views | 09 Jun 2003
 -> Oracle may gobble up Peoplesoft
Oracle Corp., the world's No. 2 software maker, on Friday launched a $5.1 billion hostile takeover bid for arch-rival PeopleSoft Inc. in a pitched battle for dominance among struggling software makers. Scary view of the consolidation still to come?
742 views | 07 Jun 2003
 -> Tony Blair's bookmarks
Nineteen labels visible in Tony Blair's portfolio yesterday provided a tantalising glimpse into the topics his staff expected would be asked at question time.
1,048 views | 05 Jun 2003
 -> A whole new reason NOT to go to war!
Protests of war in Iraq cost S.F. $3.5 million. Police overtime takes biggest chunk
1,095 views | 02 Jun 2003
 -> A second Honda ad
As fabulous as the first version.
4,646 views | 02 Jun 2003
 -> For sale: a cell phone plus wrist watch
Visions of the comic strip detective Dick Tracy talking into his wristwatch phone have titillated imaginations for decades. But now, Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo is selling the real thing.
938 views | 01 Jun 2003
 -> Astronomers discover color of universe
What is the color of the Universe? This seemingly simple question has never really been answered by astronomers. It is difficult to take an accurate and complete census of all the light in the Universe.
782 views | 01 Jun 2003
 -> Changes in Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003
Rob Franco and Brian Countryman (Microsoft)discuss changes in Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003.
545 views | 01 Jun 2003
 -> Forget Earthquake, Let's Gamble
A Vice Governor resigned Friday following revelations that he had continued to play pachinko even after a major quake struck his prefecture and other parts of northeastern Japan on Monday. (Typical "mature man" from Japan)
964 views | 31 May 2003
 -> Ebay to pay 35 million US$ in settlement
Will they be sending the money through PayPal?
711 views | 29 May 2003
 -> Want to write a virus?
Another Canadian quirk! While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum.
543 views | 29 May 2003
 -> Frog's Leap
Well done site from a Winery.
982 views | 29 May 2003
 -> Less Play, more Station
Sony Corp. unveiled a "crossover" PlayStation 2 video game console with a built-in DVD recorder and hard drive for storing data.
789 views | 29 May 2003
 -> As seen from Mars
The first images of Earth taken from another planet, with a digitally created reference to show the Earth's position.
199,440 views | 28 May 2003
 -> A "kilogram" by any other name..
The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding weight, at least in comparison with other reference weights, but the change has spurred search for a more stable definition.
675 views | 28 May 2003
 -> Supercomputers out of playstations?
Another use for gaming consoles? The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2's.
607 views | 28 May 2003
 -> Broadband through balloons?
A UK company called SkyLinc has found a happy medium in base stations, floating 1.5km above the surface of the Earth on balloons, or tethered aerostats as they are more technically known.
940 views | 28 May 2003
 -> The Semantic Web
Required Reading. "Properly designed, the Semantic Web can assist the evolution of human knowledge as a whole."
912 views | 28 May 2003
 -> Nice memorial page
Some of the best war-related quotes and pictures I've heard/seen of late. Including, "Leaders who make war should be required to have participated in one".
896 views | 28 May 2003
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