Is Liam Fox going to cut the Red Arrows?

A small piece in the Telegraph yesterday pointed out that when asked Liam Fox refused to guarantee the future of the pride of the Royal Air Force, the Red Arrows. When asked if their future was secure he replied that he was unable to give a guarantee as everything was up for review. Hopefully that [...]

Is linking from your Blog illegal

Picked up this titbit at Slate magazine, it all revolves around copyright, and of course took place in the mother of all litigious country’s the United States.  Apparently a real estate company was using  links to a very large law firm highlighting the biographies of various lawyers who worked for them.  These links were embedded [...]

Our foods carbon footprint

This really surprised me. 83% of our foods carbon footprint comes, according to a recent study, from it’s production. 11% from it’s transportation and 6% from storage, lighting of shops etc. Our household food carbon foot print is twice that produced by driving. So it’s all the faulty of fat people, that will let the [...]

Prohibited Items at Obama’s Presidential Inauguration

For those of you heading off to president elect Obama’s presidential inauguration here is a handy list of what you are not allowed to take with you Prohibited Items Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: Firearms and ammunition (either real or simulated) Explosives of any kind (including fireworks) Knives, blades, or sharp objects [...]

Moore’s Law and the Atoms

Moore’s Law sates states that transistor density on integrated circuits doubles about every two years. But here’s the rub, in about 2015, or sooner, the chips will be size of an atom so what then?     Well, apparently, we then move on to quantum mechanics, which has something to do with what happens when [...]