Animation of how the LHC creates black holes and destroys the Earth. Just kidding. Good animation though.

Cork lads putting the flooding to good use. We used to use skimmer boards on Durban beach, great fun.

Digital Natives. Universities as oases, not places to learn to live with the inefficiency of the outside world.

Just unlocked and jailbreaked my old iPhone 3G with 3.1.2. using Blackra1n. Amazingly easy and straightforward bit of software that. Now have my O2 iPhone 3G working with a free Meteor SIM.

The web needs more serendipity engines, not more recommendation engines. Recommendations are creating a monoculture and reducing choice, not increasing.

Better late than never; Amazon RDS is a MySQL instance managed by Amazon. Backups, logs, tuning etc. is done transparently for you. It isn’t magic scalability, you can’t dump 50 billion rows into an RDS table and expect your badly designed SQL query to magically work.

A font-face grown with E-Coli.

Science is interesting. If you don’t agree, you can fuck off.

YouTube introducing automatic video captioning using voice recognition tech. Nice that they have the capacity to do this, very useful.

No Schalk Burger, no Bismarck du Plessis, no Tendai Mtawarira and no Victor Matfield. Wonderful, watching another World Champions defeat to a Northern Hemisphere team.