Not so long ago I posted regarding the LEO computer and the question of what a British-dominated geek culture would look like. This post was picked up by a certain high-traffic blog, with the result that it saw shack rocking levels of page requests all week. Some answers from readers included a recommendation of Francis…
Read More More on alternate geek historyTYR, 15th of May 2005: South of Baghdad, they will find it harder to make progress, as they will be running up the demographic hillside and into both the Badr Corps and Sadrist heartlands. The Sunni insurgents are probably more militarily capable, but don’t have the numbers. Somewhere along the demographic transition line, the front…
Read More Quotes without commentThis is cool: blogger observes the cyclical growth and collapse of an Argentine glacier. Apparently ice cubes hacked from it have the property of making Argentine-produced whisky drinkable. I liked this bit: Someone has inevitably hung up a “LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS” banner on the side of the hill, but this just seems to provoke…
Read More Glaciology and WhiskyAnd, it would seem, phone tappers..After the Vodafone Greece hack of their Ericsson AXE switches led to the Greek elite’s phones being monitored by persons unknown, a new phobia has spread through the Greek meme-pool: surveillance phobia. The afflicted show all the signs of a classic phobia,’ said Dr Dimitris Souras, an Athenian psychotherapist. ‘I…
Read More Nothing to fear..but fear itself