Sexy Jihad

It seems that some Acorn freak who has too much free time has created his own RiscOS driven laptop:
This is my first attempt to a solution for the missing mobility issue in the Acorn Scene. Whether you like it or not, remains open. Believe me building a DIY Laptop was not my first intention. I […]

In a sad piece of news it seem that James Doohan (Scotty of Star Trek fame) has died today:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early […]

Finally, it has arrived. You can now check out your house on the euhm… moon:
In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about […]

Someone with a lot of imagination has made a cool hack in which he trained a Bayesian filter to analyze old chess games and from that play chess! An excerpt:
Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam. Unlike older technologies, these programs’ claim […]