The BBC has a good overview taken by satellite of the damage the tsunami caused to the tourist reort town of Kalutara, Sri Lanka. Before and after pictures that really show the damage. For some even more impressive pictures check out digitalglobe.
Entries from December 31st, 2004
Exeem “Successor” to Suprnova Announced
December 31st, 2004 · No Comments · Bittorrent
It looks like suprnova is going to get a successor. The following was announced by Sloncek on irc.suprnova.org: First, Exeem really isn’t an extension of Suprnova as the hype might have you believe: the connection between the two seems more marketing than anything else. Sloncek has been hired to promote their product as the heir [...]
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Tallest building in the world opened
December 31st, 2004 · No Comments · Business
Seems that the tallest building in the world has opened it’s doors in Taiwan. At 101 floors and 508 meters the ‘Taipei 101′, as it’s known pushes the boundaries of what can be achieved even more. At 1.3 billion euro’s I hope they get their moneys worth.
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100 years after Einstein
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Math & Science
Seeing that it’s 100 years now since Einsteins “miracle year” The Economist has written a piece outlining some of his theories and what he accomplished. An excerpt: IN THE span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, [...]
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You have the right to unpimp your ride
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Cars & Tuning
Seems like the fellas from West Coast Customs (pimp my ride) got fined $16.000 by the goverment for safety violations. I wonder however the goverment found out…. More info here. For those of you who don’t like registering, here is the full article: ========= Custom Rims, Yes; TV in Steering Wheel, No By DANNY HAKIM [...]
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The kings salary open for all to see
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Middle East
The BBC reports that in an unprecedented move the king of Morocco’s salary has been published. It seems that the guy earns a modest $45.000 / month. That’s less than a typical Fortune 500 CEO earns and certainly less than some other Arab kings & sheikhs earn. This is a very bold move for an [...]
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Put Firefox on speed
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Seems that the fellows at forevergeek.com have written a little tutorial to make Firefox faster. It basically comes down to setting it to pre-emptively cache more data while you’re surfing: 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make [...]
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The BitTorrent Effect
December 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Bittorrent
Wired has written an interesting piece on Bram Cohen and his baby (for those who don’t know, it’s bittorrent). An excerpt: “That was a bad move,” Bram Cohen tells me. We’re huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has [...]
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Apple to release El Cheapo PC
December 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
Looks like apple is about to announce a new bare bones G4-based iMac at Macworld Expo on January 11. The thing is expected to retail for $499 and is expected to include the following: 1.25 GHz G4 processor DvI / VGA Output 40 – 80 GB hard drive 256MB of RAM USB 2.0 FireWire 400 [...]
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Air CIA
December 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy
Seems that the CIA is using a special plane to move “special” suspects to human rights loving countries all over the world. Seeing as the Washington Post has an annoying registration process and not all of you have bugmenot, here follows the article: Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War By Dana Priest Washington [...]
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