It's going to be a bad couple of days for drinkers.

Steven Fielding thinks that nothing is being done to curb drinking especially that Alchopops tax thing. Even one of his staff got shitfaced. If I worked for Fielding I'd probably drink to excess too. He's so concerned, he's asked for ideas from the australian public. I've got some ideas Steve, ( Read more... )

There is a classic story about space exploration, I don't know if it is apocryphal or not, but it goes like this. NASA spent millions of dollars inventing a space age pen, one that could feed ink to the nib in a zero gravity environment. The Russians, they just used pencils.

strangedave has an article on e-books over at talking squid. Apparently it's a ( Read more... )