It's incredible how stupid some people are.

Important but I don't agree with them all...

The pilot ace computer should be replaced by Colossus, which was the very first and extremely important. No-one had ever dreamed calculations could be performed by a machine like this.

They test the newest Xeon, with 6 cores, 16Mb of L3 and 1.6 billion transistors. Pricing starts at a mere $1100...

The only problem they have is getting their four socket system to load all 24 cores:

That's a lot of cores...

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Clever stuff.

It's about fucking time. Hopefully by 2012 the question "does anyone have a charger with them?" will be dead and buried. I had it easy with Nokia (as all the company phones are the same, and they generously gave a converter when they changed connector size), but generally it's all a bit shit right now.

Fantastically cool looking dashboard with loads of stuff you don't need to know. Even if you don't use Sprint, you have to appreciate this bit of Flash web fun.

Amino acids form the building blocks of cells, so it is possible that life on earth came from space. This does two things:

1. Means that life across the galaxy is more likely.
2. Means that life might have come from the explosion of some mega planet where an ancient civilisation ruled...

Looks very snacky but I'd need to see it and play with it. Never buy the first version of anything.

Specs:
phone is 4.6 x 2.16 x 0.63 inches,
weighs 5.6 ounces,
features a 480 x 320 HVGA display,
sports 3G (obviously),
GPS,
has a 3.1-megapixel camera,
supports up to 8GB of memory (though no format is mentioned),

Some cool piccies of the very first things to do with PC hardare, like the first portable computer etc.

Some are rather cool. Mostly mathematical based but I like them.

I don't use it at the moment but I will be when I get home!

A GA to evolve a car. Love it.

See, Flash is a proper programming language.

If you're not using GMail now, there's something wrong with you.

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.

Google Wave is a yet-to-be-released collaborative tool. It's so broad, it's difficult to describe but it's Google's vision to how email should be but it goes so much further than that. Four people editing a document concurrently and you see the edits. Emails that are really somewhere between and email and IM, with branching and joining new people in.

You know that good idea you've had? Perpetual motion machine or free energy source? Greenpeace are against it. They're against it because ... well, because they're Greenpeace. I think GP should stick to stopping whaleling and protecting the environment from industrial waste rather than chasing down science that hasn't come to fruition.

Did you ever set 3.1 to use it? I know I did. Brings back memories.

Tide is a really cool tool for editing/testing and running javascript on a browser. Easy to edit, to run, step and so on. Doesn't quite beat Firebug and the like but it a cool tool when your chips are down.

Need! Right up there with Simpson's head crab hat.

Some interesting stuff about how it is run, when it's coming out of beta and stuff.

For budding web developers out there, here's a superb list of fab CSS techniques.

At the Wharton Business Technology Conference yesterday, Microsoft's Business Division president Stephen Elop revealed Microsoft's Office Labs "2019" video.

Not actuall million dollar systems. Just look that way.

Not yet given it a big try but what they're trying to do it superb. Only does HTML/CSS/JS at the moment but who knows what comes next... It's Mozilla, so it's open source and plugin-able.

One to watch.

Missile interception has never looked so scarey. You could clear a room with it too.

Not a surprise for anyone who knows my family but here is my Dad's current project: a motor home/camper van. It'll be all mod cons and he's doing everything himself. He's taught himself XHTML/CSS and only had the minimal amount of help (use 34sp, use Filezilla is all I said) everything else is his and he's done jolly well!

nVidia have just released a "new" card, the GeForce 250.

Most people would expect this to be a slower/slightly cut down version of their current line (260, 280, 285, 295) but beware. Its not. It is simply a 9800GTX+ with a new name pasted to the side.

Picasa has a new feature that allows you to share an album with friends, so you can all upload to a single place. If you're going to Cons and the like, it might be cool to put all the photos in a single place. Nothing earth shattering but a cool feature nonetheless.

Very cool looking car. Anyone got £500,000 going spare?

A twitter phenomenon (#songsincode). Post your favourites. Here are some of my faves:

if( $you->cantTouchThis() ) { $hammer_time = TRUE; }

RT @sensatlandsend: (count($problems) == 99) && (!in_array('bitch', $problems))

I love this sort of stuff.

This rocks. They spend about 60 quid, and send a camera nearly into space. And they're all pre-uni science students.

Nice!

SFW thanks to blurring ;)

I want a sleeping bag like this.

Yes, its more than a year old, but this is an incredibly in depth look at some of the performace aspects of LCDs compared to others and to traditional CRT monitors, and what things are relevant given human Mk.1 eyeballs, including:

- Why very fast grey to grey response times have surprisingly little real world effect

An old mate of mine from Uni some of you might remember. He made this.

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

Just the title alone is great. Sadly, XP still doesn't (and won't ever) have DX10, so not great for gamers. :(

Seems like a good idea to me. I'd sleep there.

Looks like at least some of the problems I'm having with my internet connection aren't at my end...

Classic.

On a variety of topics from Carbon Emissions through to API design, these tech talks are really interesting. I like them. You might too.