Not something mystical, but a genuinely excellent reworking of mattress inflation technology. Worth following the link for the video. I love simple, elegant, unexpected inventions. Don't get me started on iOS7…
Basically Pitcairn means the sun still doesn’t set on the British Empire. Great What If.
“Sunset on the British Empire” – http://what-if.xkcd.com/48/
Just do good and we’ll find a meeting point
One of the first sensible statements I’ve heard from a Pope in a long time. I hope he isn’t softening us up before a hammer blow on something else.
via Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good.
Interesting perspective on HK racing. We were away this weekend so didn’t see any racing news, but I don’t think much was made of the HK wins in Singapore here. http://racingbitch.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/the-role-of-racing-in-the-marketing-of-hong-kong/
I love that the Oldest European Medieval Cookbook has been found dating back to 1140. Even more so that its recipes seem to have lasted the test of time.
Not so much the news that a 1999 McDonalds burger has not changed. Shudder.
Two slightly different approaches to horror for today’s reading.
List of “haunted” houses in Hong Kong (based on suicides and unnatural deaths in apartments: prices can be significantly lower as it is bad feng shui to buy a hung1 zaak6 凶宅 ”calamity house”). Slightly scary to see the list tick up by one a day, but that is well under what is expected given our suicide rate of 13.8 per 100,000 or three a day. I hadn’t read charcoal burning described as such, either.
Mapping the Horrors of Hong Kong’s ‘Lawless’ Walled City has some fascinating images of what Kowloon Walled City looked like. There’s more (including a German film) on the Walled City if you are interested.
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A quite marvellous speech to close SXSW. Worth reading, even if you don’t get the geek humour bits.
If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression.
Shocking that the New York Post has been so catastrophically wrong and misguided in its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Delightful that Gawker has made such a stand against it.
Sadly the result will no doubt be law suits, where it should merely be laughter.
Crikey, I’m glad Wiffy was in the air before I read this. No wonder plane manufacturers are so dodgy about wireless devices, and I’m glad they are.
Summary: you can misuse some on-plane systems to install an attack framework and then, so long as AutoPilot is on, use an Android app (PlaneSploit) to control many critical aspects of the plane.
Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone and more from The Register. (Why the mention of Android in both? He could have written for jailbroken iOS, I’d have thought, so it isn’t relevant to the story).
This looks like an excellent idea: save proper amounts of money on transfers. Now if only they did HK$.
Send Money Abroad | Cheap Money Transfers From TransferWise.