Living under restrictive Ministry of Defence rules, residents of Foulness feel increasingly cut off from the world…. The island is much the same as it was in 1915, when the MoD purchased the 6,300 acres. Whether by accident or by design, Foulness has been a unique social experiment for more than 90 years; arguably, it is the closest thing to a police state on British soil.
Monthly Archives: September 2002
Exit wound
Examine your left hand for a moment. You see where you’ve got a small amount of relatively loose flesh between where your third and fourth fingers join the hand? Yes? I have a splinter there. This splinter has an exit-wound—it has found its way into my palm and then come out the back. Annoyingly, it simply refuses to me moved.
Busy doing nothing
It’s simply astounding how many domain names have been registered but do nothing. At the present time, Google knows of over five thousand of them pointing to a single ISP.
Interestingly, Google also knows about over five thousand domains now owned by the seemingly ubiquitous Ultimate Search Inc.
Boom
I provide the link, you work out the context. Here’s the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998.
WebserviceX
provides programmable business logic components for all industry that serve as “black boxes” to provide access to functionality via web services
Orbit
Wow. Real-time satellite locations, on a rotating 3D map of the globe.
Who are you?
Do you know this girl?
Get out while you still can
Somewhere in darkest Chicago there is a man named Dave. His latest work of astounding genius is titled EscapeRail.