Monthly Archives: October 2007

Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It From here.

Updates on the DARPA urban Grand Challenge, for autonomous vehicles in urban environments here, and the X Prize for lunar landers here.

There is a problem with this present Pope: Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists on Monday to use conscientious objection to avoid dispensing drugs with “immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia.” He really doesn’t get the separation … Continue reading →

This is quite funny:

At Sp!ked, a review of five books that have been pulped after libel action from a certain Saudi billionaire.

“If there was a minute’s silence for every Gurkha casualty from World War 2 alone, we would have to keep quiet for two weeks.” See here, a campaign (from a Lib Dem constituency) to grant Gurkhas proper entitlements.

I once met a young man who was awaiting trial on a charge of armed robbery. He had taken an air pistol into an off license, and demanded the cash from the till, four cans of super lager and ten … Continue reading →

Apple’s new version of OS X, Leopard, contains an icon for a “generic PC”. Heh.

Here is a very clear and detailed statement of the climate sceptic case, from Warren Meyer of Coyote Blog and www.climate-skeptic.com. Running time is just under one hour.

It is reported that organic food is more nutritious than conventionally produced food. I think that’s inaccurate. Instead, the report should say that conventionally (intensively) produced food is less nutritious than other food. My home-grown vegetables aren’t organic. I’ll bet … Continue reading →