One of the most famous planes in aviation’s short history has been restored and will be displayed in the Smithsonian. The Enola Gay, a modified B-29 Superfortress, dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first and only Uranium ‘gun type’ device.
I know I’ve officially stopped the song titles thing, but this was too tempting and obvious- OMD, Enola Gay
I’ve tended to treat Ian’s tales of motorists trying to kill him as exaggerations. After reading this, I’m not so sure.
That is so f’d up. The man’s arrogance is totally unbelievable. I’m tempted to think he’s not right in the head but I think that’s just being kind.
Here’s an idea. Every new build house should have a subsidised solar cell built into its roof, maybe with UPS style backup batteries built in, so that if our electric grid ever gets as Third World as America’s, houseowners can sell power back to the suppliers.
via Micheal Moore
25 things we now know as the second anniversary of September 11th rolls around.
Woo Hoo! Well, I’ve been offered (written confirmation should arrive soon) a place on the graphic design course I wanted. It was a sort of Positive Mental Attitude thing- they were willing to offer me the place because I’d shown such enthusiasm for a life change.
Only one day a week. I need to be doing it full time really, but that just isn’t going to happen barring a lottery win.
And tomorrow I have to tell work. Considering I was threatened with the sack a fortnight ago if I didn’t start doing 40 hours a week, I don’t think it’s going to go down too well.
I’m going to have to start reading books like this and this (you know they’re on my wish list, don’t you?) to get a grounding in the subject.
I don’t think this is going to be easy, but at least it’ll be interesting.
Supposedly we’re all geeks now. If that’s the case then why do so many arseholes keep asking me to help fix their computers?
via Wired
A hacker has created an odd new variant of the MSBlast worm. Instead of trying to launch a DoS attack on the update site and then crashing the computer it removes the orginal worm and downloads and installs the security patch. It will also delete itself the first time the machine is started in 2004. Meanwhile people are already worried about another MS security hole.