I’m quite lukewarm. There are far fewer links to stories, and the general division by region is gone, collected under a drop-down menu at the top. The background is similar to the colour of the print edition, but it’s a mistake to use grey text: it almost blends in to the background and is difficult to read. It needs a lot of work.
It seems Windows 7 is just as slow as Vista. Randall Kennedy subjected it to a battery of tests and has concluded it’s just a “minor tweak” of the software monstrosity that has frustrated me by chugging my memory, changing my DVD drive settings so region 2 no longer plays in WMP, cheerily announcing that I had no hard drive installed (I have two), and last night just plain breaking down and informing me that something had gone wrong, but it wasn’t quite sure what it was and so couldn’t fix it. It did, however, attempt a fix, before trying to connect to the internet to share the information with Microsoft. Only it couldn’t, because I had been unable to boot the computer properly and so it had not started Vista proper or connected to the wifi. But apart from that it’s a wonderful piece of software.
Microwave an instant chocolate cake in a mug. Tiny Planet accepts no responsibility for things going wrong or it tasting like crap, though.
People are giving up their pets because of the credit crunch.
Blogger gets 20 years for posting a picture of Burma’s military leader.
Dirt + manure = energy.
Meanwhile, the Maldives is trying to buy land in case the islands are swamped by rising sea levels.
Why would you shock yourself for the sake of good posture?
This is a very sad story but one that highlights, if highlighting were needed, the repercussions from the meltdown.
The global financial crisis is taking its toll in India’s cities as some despairing investors and stockbrokers seek refuge from their losses and debt in suicide.
A wave of financially related deaths over the past month has sparked concerns about the vulnerability of unsophisticated investors and borrowers encouraged by rising markets and easy credit in one of the world’s fastest growing economies.
Is faith in reincarnation playing a part in this? In another terrible statistic, the FT story says that about 1,000 farmers kill themselves every month because of crop failure and debt.
A German doctor has cured a HIV-positive patient with a bone marrow transplant.
Roald Dahl retold through surrealist photos.
Who says newspapers are dead? Turn your RSS feeds into a PDF paper.
Printers, scanners, fax machines, built-in optical drives and landline phones are junk sucking you down into hell and should be destroyed for the sake of your very soul. Or words to less than apocalyptic affect.
I know you didn’t think of this before: a weak sun may have brought down the Mayans as well as China’s Tang dynasty (Subscription required if you want to read the Science article linked to by the link).
Archaeologists shed new light on the witches of Cornwall.
A German lady has failed to set a record for carrying beer mugs. No puns on huge jugs, please.
Spiders are adept at the art of camouflage.