31 October 2003

Desktop Subversibles A collection of background subversions and awareness applications for the desktop. [greenfairy] 9:34:09 PM    comment()

The cool black and white photographs of Michal Skwierczynski [Pixelsurgeon] 9:15:02 PM    comment()

Nokia's sideways phone makes people feel silly  Sidetalkin' is a photoblog devoted to pix of people demonstrating how ridiculous they feel talking into the new "sideways" Nokia N-Gage phone, which requires that you hold it at a right-angle to your head and talk into the thin edge.[Boing Boing < The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century] 7:39:19 PM    comment()

Plankton may protect planet from icy fate [New Scientist] Go plankton! 4:58:55 PM    comment()

Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Apple's Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] Yoiks! 2:20:09 PM    comment()

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A scan experiment by maaike 9:21:15 AM    comment()

World drowning in oceans of data. About 800Mb of information is produced for every person on the planet annually, say US researchers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] I seem to have produced more than 3.5GB just with my digital camera so far this year. Sorry. 9:08:59 AM    comment()

Trinity [Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests] Also, Operation Plumbbob was not nice. Not nice at all. Plumbbob released some 58,300 kilocuries of radioiodine (I-131) into the atmosphere. This was more than twice as much as any other continental test series. This produced total civilian radiation exposures amounting to 120 million person-rads of thyroid tissue exposure (about 32% of all exposure due to continental nuclear tests). This can be expected to eventually cause about 38,000 cases of thyroid cancer, leading to some 1900 deaths. Chart of fallout exposures from Plumbbob (59 K, 539x577). From National Cancer Institute Study Estimating Thyroid Doses of I-131 Received by Americans From Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Test, 1997. To go to the National Cancer Institute and get the full report, click here. If those figures are correct, atom bomb tests in the USA caused about 115,000 cases of thyroid cancer and these killed about 6,000 people. (I don't have figures for other types of cancer). Presumably this was considered acceptable, or perhaps the likely health effects were simply not known at the time. Insert swearword here. 9:02:43 AM    comment()

... (there was once a rusty old clamshell iBook available for this purpose, but one day fate put it in the same room as the little red-haired kid, a glass of lemonade, and gravity). [Textism] 12:30:24 AM    comment()

Photography quotations at BlotzBlog 12:10:32 AM    comment()