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Congestion charge causing two wheel accidents?
Just saw this. At first it looked like there might be some correlation between the Congestion Charge in London and the rise in accidents for two wheels vehicles.
The London congestion charge may be having an adverse effect on motorcyclist and cyclist casualties, according to research now published online in the journal Transportation.
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Robocop, that little bit closer to being on the streets
OK Anyone who wanted robocop in their burg? Now's your chance to lobby City Hall to allocate cash out of the budget for one.
Massachusetts State Police, SWAT teams in Houston, San Francisco, and Lubbock, TX all have the robots, according to Foster-Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black.
Story from Wired News
Link to my original post on this in cyberpunk
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Ahhhh
Saw this offered somewhere on the internet(I'm not posting the address I don't think the poster needs the abuse:P)
I had to post it here though...
"
OFFERED: Kama Sutra (SW2)
The love teachings of Kama Sutra....
Got left at my house ages ago and i have just found it and have no use
for it. If anyone wants it let me know
Dont be shy...
"
I found it ( Read more... ) -
Teeny Robocop
There's been lots of news on robots being developed for policing so this is hardly news but perhaps iRobot has come up with a taser model cheap enough for civilian police authorities & security companies to afford?
I find it amusing that on nearly every newsite covering this story is the insistence is on how safe and non-lethal this taser carrying ( Read more... ) -
Teddy to the Rescue :)
The early report of a bear like robot in 'New Scientist' struck me as hype typical to the magazine
One assumes that the journalist in question just 'Ctrl+C' & 'Ctrl+V' the main body of company promotional material. Lo & behold the following copy, which is absolutely typical of the sort of sub-standard journalism that one has come to expect nowadays ( Read more... ) -
Watery Grave:p
In so_very_doomed 'jezebel873' sez:
"Old graves sinking beneath rising Chesapeake Bay"
Couldn't get my head round the actual physical realities of this. Don't know Virginia. So I looked it up on 'googlemap'
Everything seemed OK there. Then I remembered the 'firetree' hack:
Whoops. There ya go!
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Brazil ethanol makes good. Oil punk, Bush goes to 'fix' it
Good old boys send their punk to let the new fish know who's running the joint
"Hi sweetcheeks.
Do we know each other? Sure we do;) You must know me!? I'm the texas oil bitch:D"
"The guys just want you to understand that they're happy for the 10% of you to scrape a few crumbs out of your ethanol development but as far as competing with US goes? ( Read more... ) -
Bathroom Playtime!
No apolgies for lifting this off the BoingBoing site.
Okaay.
I know this is for kids but I'm sure consenting adults can find a better use for this product
Mommi allaways said people used to entertain themselves ina the old days and it were better too :p Jeloo wrestling at home?!?
Hmm, definately making me think about getting a larger tub in. Probably ( Read more... ) -
US military has a new 'heater'
This is weird. Not the subject but two things in a space of 30 days that I have any opinion on.
To whit:
On the BBC site I discovered that the US military have just released news of their new riot control device. A heat gun! In fact it's just a big electrical wave emitter knocking out a focused beam of 'millimeter waves'. This beam will deliver an ( Read more... ) -
Fancy a rubber slapper?
Fancy a rubber slapper?
OK I lifted this from BoingBoing but it still makes me smile.
If english isn't your first language then you probably wouldn't know that a slapper is slang:
slapper Noun. 1. A sexually promiscuous woman. Derog.
2. A contemptible woman.
So when i saw the link in BoingBoing to the post in Modern Mechanics on the police use of ( Read more... )