July, 2009

A smorgasbord of Star Warsiness

Some I've seen, some I've not. Good for a coffee break.

Win7 - do I need Pro? Perhaps not.

Been thinking about PC upgrades and Win 7 is definitely the way to go. Home Premium is only £70 on Amazon.

[DIDO] Jousting (9th Aug 13:00-19:00)

Mrs and I fancy spending a short spell of Sunday afternoon seeing brave men in armour beat the shit out of each other. She's an angry pregnant lady, she likes violence. Against others.

More mid-week Racing

Last night was my third sprint triathlon of the year. For this one we decided to try a different organisational company called Human Race, who are doing a monthly series sponsored by 220 Triathlon Magazine. They have a good reputation (and also organise the big Windsor Triathlon).

Govern it? Why put it in there in the first place...

A book that really should not exist.

[YT] Ghostbusters - if it was made in the 1950s

Really well done.

LRO sees moon landing sites

Some great images of the Apollo moon landing sites. The Apollo 14 one is great as you can make out the footpath of the astronaut going to a scientific instruments.

[YT] Thunderf00t - Ray Comfort Debate

This is a facinating little debate between Ray Comfort (creationist christian, the guy who was in all those bananas are the atheist worst nightmares videos) and Thunderf00t (Physical Evidence and Reasoned Logic supporter (Pearlist)) who is responsible for the wonderful Why do people laugh at creationists youtube videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vid4GkEY&feature=PlayList&...

Komodo Dragons are Venomous

Yes, you read that right; in the second new lizardly discovery I’ve read about this week — this time at the excellent Not Exactly Rocket

Google forced to make latitude a web App on the iPhone

Latitude, on most mobile devices, is rather cool. It shows you where you and your friends are locally. On most devices, it's a native app and can run in the background. On the iPhone, Apple have demanded that it's a web app, meaning that it must be the primary running application, rather than a background app.