Archive for August, 2006
Smallest man-made thing?
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen yet — a tungsten nanotip (a needle, in other words) that is only a single atom wide. The imaging is incredible as well, showing individual atoms and the blurs they make as they shifted during the 1-second exposure. From the article abstract:
“Confining this field-assisted [...]
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Tags: Technology
The state of air travel
With the brouhaha about the grand terrorist plot to blow up airliners in-air traveling to the USA, British officials seem to be taking the easy route and having a knee-jerk reaction to the whole situation.
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Tags: air travel, injustice, Politics
Rails is so cool…
Things have been so busy, its insane! Hence my silence for over a month now…
I’ve been employed as a Rails developer at Glasshouse Multimedia here in Cape Town, so I’m actually earning an income from writing for one of the greatest web frameworks out there at the moment.
Granted, Rails has been having an insane [...]
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Tags: Ruby on Rails, Technology
President Bush is attempting to get Republicans to end their objections and put into effect the Convention on Cybercrime. It would require the FBI to aid oppressive foreign regimes in enforcing their internet laws, including ones where free expression of political opposition is a crime. In effect, it would end freedom of speech on the [...]
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Tags: internet, Politics, Technology
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