Archive for August, 2006

Trojan Horse circa 2006

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I wonder what Homer would think if he knew that thousands of years after his death an Australian tv show would try sneaking a Trojan Horse (although really isn’t it a Greek Horse?) into various establishments, and succeed. History does repeat itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChBKqcRpmDs

Map of the solar system

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Think you know what the solar system looks like?

Think again: http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/

Rubber band massacre

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Rubber bands, I had thought, are most accurately and swiftly fired by skilled hand movements learned in some fairly critical years of childhood.  I have now changed my mind, having blundered across a rubber band gun designed like an old style Gatling machine gun, capable of firing 144 different rubber bands at its poor, pity worthy targets: http://www.backyardartillery.com/machinegun/