The Internet began as the ARPANET on October 29, 1969 at 10:30 pm in room 3420, Boelter Hall UCLA.
Brad Fidler tracks down the spot that changed the world in this cool vid.
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This is the biggest flip out in the workplace that I have ever seen.
Hard to believe that a group of the cowards in the office didn’t jump on this guy and subdue him instead of cowering in the corners and recording him on their phones.
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breathingearth.net is a fascinating real time display of the birth rate, death rate and carbon dioxide emissions for countries all over the world. It’s mesmerizing to watch and interesting to compare the stats for various nations.
e.g. In Greenland, 1 person is born on average every 9.8 hours compared with 1 every 1.3 seconds in […]
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A Jedi Church has been created in North Wales by brothers Barney and Daniel Jones. The church is one of a handful in existence with apparently 400,000 members around the world.
“We will have teachings based on Yoda - the 900-year-old grand master - as well as readings, essays submitted, meditation and relaxation, visualisation and discuss […]
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Internet group Anonymous has declared war on The Church on Scientology via messages posted on their websites and with a YouTube vid released earlier this week.
This announcement came as a response to attempts by the Church to keep secret an internal video meant to be viewed only by Scientologists, featuring actor Tom Cruise. Despite […]
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The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it…
The 2007 Darwin Awards have been finalised and the winner is:
THE ENEMA WITHIN
May 2004, Texas | Michael was an alcoholic. And not an ordinary alcoholic, but an alcoholic who liked to take his liquor… well, rectally. His […]
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The 2007 Darwin Award winners are being finalised at the moment and it seems like these bright “sparks” are getting in early to be in contention for 2008.
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“w00t,” an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading US dictionary.
Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said “w00t”, typically spelled with two zeros, reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It is like […]
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This week marked the 25th birthday of the smiley face emoticon. It was first used by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman in a bulletin board post at 11:44 am on Sept 19, 1982 where he proposed it’s use to mark a joke.
Here is a copy of Fahlman’s famous post:
19-Sep-82 11:44 […]
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The Bradshaw Foundation have a fantastic animation which depicts the migration of humans over the past 160,000 years.
It is the result of work by scientist Stephen Oppenheimer and is based on mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome evidence, archaeology, climatology, and fossil study and tracks the routes and timing of our migration out of Africa and around […]
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In response to a petition from the Science, Just Science campaign (good job guys!), the British Government have announced that religious garbage such as creationism and intelligent design are bullshit have no place on the science curriculum in schools.
“The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and […]
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It’s no secret I am a huge Star Wars fan, the original film 30 years ago captured my imagination and the imagination of millions around the globe.
Reader John Booth from fieldsedge.com has written a series of essays about his memories of the whole Star Wars saga. He was six and a bit when A New […]
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