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I've learnt a lot from this thread, I'd not heard of Mozilla Persona before. Could it be The One Ring to rule them all? Charles Stross has his Rule34, I propose Rule 42 is that if something …

As a part time space geek I've always marvelled at the use of Technology Readiness Levels to work out the maturity of needed technology so that it is space worthy. The defence industry uses this,…

This a further video about the design and engineering of the hydraulics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1wZb_RKRQg …

Great write up. YouTubing for this I found this great video from 6 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWI2mI73vw It seems they invented this technology for wave power, some f…

With the hoped roll out of more electric cars charging them will place an undue load on the grid, if it isn't orchestrated. Tesla plan to be able to control when they discharge to the grid, so t…

Why do people feel like they can just edit Antarctica out?

I imagine April the first starts at noon on the 31st March. Those Pacific Islanders are the first into the future.

It looks like this project had funding for two developers for 6 months. They set up a web page http://www.stellarsupernova.com/ Which is still up, however the Twitter and Facebook pag…

This is a good article about the problems in developing the on of the first Smartphone OSes. I take it since it didn't get much traction in America, and the word Symbian isn't in the title p…

So how come the UK does so badly in the Song for Europe contest then?

Speaking of Empire I've always loved this article about someone who was addicted to playing Empire and developed coding skills to process the email reports to win out: http://www.the-s…

Am I the only one wants to access the BBC from my Apple TV?

I've followed this development, and I love the use of Vagrant. The use of iPython is good too, now it would be nifty to extend it to use StarCluster and spawn off a host of cloud servers for an h…