Historians working in America and Germany have found a document they believe shows how close the Germans were to having a nuclear weapon by the end of the Second World War. One of those involved claimed earlier this year that the Nazis had tested a primitive nuclear device in 1945 and asserts that though they couldn’t have built a “classic” nuke they were close to having a mini bomb.

via Slashdot

Technorati tag: Nazis, Nuclear bomb

The National Physics Laboratory in London has come up with a scheme to make satellite observations of the Earth’s surface more accurate and silence the naysayers who use discrepancies to argue against human involvement in global warming. The Truths satellite has a 99.999% perfect radiometer. Readings taken using this device can then be used to calibrate devices on other satellites when they pass over the same area. The sensitivity and resolution of the device also means that pollution can be tracked with pin point (well, tennis court, but that’s not bad from orbit) accuracy.

Technorati tag: Satellite, Global Warming, Pollution

Quake IV is due in December, and it looks awesome. I’ll need to have a new computer to even think about running it, and an uber-mega-super graphics card to boot.

Watch the trailer and find out more here. Pre-order it using the link to the left.

via Boingboing

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Nolan sister and ex-wife of Shane Ritchie is defending her decision to pay for her son to go to Amsterdam and get laid if he passes his GCSEs.

“I didn’t say, ‘If you get five GCSEs, I’ll send you to Amsterdam to sleep with a prostitute’.”

She said her son wanted to go to Amsterdam because it was “every teenager�s fantasy”.

She added: “I’d be very naive to think, ‘Oh isn’t it lovely that he wants to go to Amsterdam and see the sights’ � I know exactly what sights he wants to see.

“He’s started revising three hours every night. This child has gone from getting no GCSEs to eight A*s.”

Technorati tag: Amsterdam, Prostitute

I promise this is not how I ride my bike. Cycle into the poor defencless target at speed and choose the angle and power you want to punt him with, using the mouse, then watch as he flies over by-standers. Different characters affect him differently when he hits them- slowing him down, dropping dead, kicking him on for further punishment etc. After five goes my best so far is 681.45 metres.

thanks to Penny for the link.

Technorati tag: Flash, Manga

I was refused service in a pub last night for being too well dressed.

Admittedly it was a student pub and I was still wearing my work shirt, but I was in there with students celebrating the end of their exams and I should have been served, dammit.