from WikipediaLincoln was the first President of the United States to be assassinated, Kennedy was the last [so far - did anyone see Death of a President?]. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, Kennedy in 1946. Lincoln was elected President in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. Both of them were shot on a Friday, both men were shot in the head, and both of ( Read more... )

In case anyone on my flist is interested, RAL is hiring several Linux sysadmin, development, and support people. As well as the vacancies currently advertised, there should shortly be an advert for a Grid deployment person and hardware technician (maintaining large disk servers).

This would be running the large CPU/storage farm (an EGEE/LCH ( Read more... )

Cool optical illusion. Thanks to cleanskies for the link.

CERN have started digitising their tape library. By chance, I came across Feynman's talk immediately after a certain visit to Stockholm (free download as mp3 or ogg), which he mentions in Surely You are Joking...

Anyone interested in Feynman (hello narahttbbs!), should enjoy this. Perhaps the physics gets a little heavy at times, but much of it should be ( Read more... )

Really cool idea, snarfed from undyingking and jinty...

( My Interests Collage! )

colinbj pointed me at this zero-g flight. Even at £2700 (what I guess it would cost, including getting there and hotel bills), I'm tempted. Only a few minutes' weightlessness, but still 0g!

The last week has been quite hectic.

Wednesday to Friday I was in Zurich for a workshop for my new experiment (LHCb). I'm slowly picking up enough to understand what they discussed, and they seemed keen for me to take on what I'd volunteered for (tracking-code integration), as well as the thing I'd already started to implement (HyperNewsOn Friday ( Read more... )

Umm, I found this in my drafts folder from way back (April 2000). It was clearly a wicked attempt to restart Zool for a new generation. Fortunately for posterity, I must have run out of inspiration after this brief set-up, and the new generation became the old generation ( Read more... )

from badasstronaut

I died in the Dungeon of E Pepys

I was killed in a fire-ravaged library by Overconvergent the cockatrice, whilst carrying...

the Wand of Buffy, a Figurine of Applez, the Amulet of Politics and 60 gold pieces.

Score: 67
Explore the Dungeon of E Pepys and try to beat this score,
or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon...The ( Read more... )

For some reason my settings had been set to screen all comments. Why would they change that? I'm pretty sure I didn't do it.

Anyway, apologies if your words of wisdom were hidden from the world. I have unscreened all recent (not obviously private) comments on my (admittedly rare) posts and changed the default.

Another peculiarity is the setting ( Read more... )