Intellectual property rights in technology. Great, aren’t they? Consider Brio, the middle-class fave range of wooden toys, whose manufacturers have neatly locked out competitors who want to make toys that will go with theirs by using couplings and fasteners that are proprietary and non-standard.
Elsewhere, on the NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) list, they [...]

Der Standard reveals all you need to know about driving a stolen tank into the police lines. Apparently, the man who stole an ex-Soviet T34/85 from the 1956 revolution commemorations and used it on the Hungarian riot police has been arrested. He is reportedly a former soldier (no surprise, as Hungary either has or used [...]

Special report: ‘Myths of British ancestry’ by Stephen Oppenheimer | Prospect Magazine October 2006 issue 127
Never heard of this stuff. Wow.

BBC News explains

Remember this post, about Sweden’s new year’s resolution to give up oil by 2020?
According to Jeremy Faludi at Worldchanging.com, it might not be as difficult as you think.
For example, currently, 6% of Europe’s electricity generation is from renewable sources. If they wanted it to be 100% by 2025, they should expand renewable energy generation by [...]

Eddie Campbell interview in comics form.
He’s the greatest.

Do gyms breed terrorists?
The three cells appear to have had at least one thing in common, though—their members’ immersion in gym culture. Often, they met and bonded over a workout. If you’ll forgive the pun, they were fitness fanatics. Is there something about today’s preening and narcissistic gym culture that either nurtures terrorists or massages [...]

This is really too good to be true, but we got pictorial evidence.
IT WAS not until midway through the live television interview that the BBC interviewer started to grow suspicious. The man whom she believed to be an expert on internet music downloads seemed to know precious little about his subject.
Not only that, but the [...]

EU’s gender gap still wide open
An oldish but interesting (but depressing) little BBC News article. Via Michael.

nhw: Note from Bulgarian history
How a carefully designed consociational power-sharing arrangement was subverted by a young mathematical politician.