Yes, I’m watching a documentary on wacking inventions. The documentary claims that the Davy Crockett nuclear rifle‘s effective range was smaller than it’s lethal range, but Wikipedia does not agree. Oh, and what about the nuclear demolition backpack that was place by a human who could swim real quick.
Nuclear car!
The Ford Nucleon. Rock on.
Is it good when the directors of your former employer start suing each other?
I’ve been trying very hard to not comment on the takeover attempt under way at my former employer, TOWER software. It’s getting kind of hard when the directors start suing each other in court and the case is reported. I guess this sort of behaviour explains why TOWER is still a 20 year old startup….
Collect the whole set
Andrew Morton has been hired by Google.
I don’t think of myself as photogenic
This is the least worst photo of me take recently. A free sample: Mikal at SciFoo
The unabomber
On my random surfing kick the Wikipedia page on the Unabomber is interesting too.
Starfish Prime
As for Starfish Prime, because there is almost no air at an altitude of 400 kilometres, no fireball formation occurred, although manifold other notable effects did occur. About 1500 kilometres (930 statute miles) away in Hawaii, the Electromagnetic pulse created by the explosion was felt as three hundred street lights failed, television sets and radios…
Nature’s write up of SciFoo day one
By the time I got to the SciFoo venue at the Googleplex yesterday evening, it was already swarming with other great people, most of whom I knew only by name and reputation. After some food, beer and chat in the evening sun, the event proper kicked off with a brief introduction by Tim O’Reilly and…
SciFoo 2006
The first Science Foo camp is being hosted by O’Reilly, Nature Magazine, and Google. I’m going and I am excited like other people.
The wreck of the dominator
Another old thing to visit when next I happen to be somewhere: the the wreck of the Dominator in LA. Via SJH who found it on Metafilter. Oh, and the the guide to forgotten LA places is cool too (via Dan Goods).