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    Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards: Foursquare means business. The 1-year-old startup no... http://bit.ly/aRC251

    Thursday 17:22

    RT @DaBeathead: RT @MayerHawthorne: Christopher Walken pancake! http://twitpic.com/17y7l3 <<< gotta gets me one of dem templates ! < WTF!

    Thursday 16:50

    RT @web_buzz: SEO: Study: Twitter Users 3 Times More Active than Average Social Media Users: The Community Participation Pyra... http://bit.ly/9DZyrb

    Thursday 16:51

    RT @jaamit: getting excited bout #thinkvis tomorrow < have a good one. We'll be listening :)

    Thursday 16:46

    RT @serafinowicz: I imagine Superman must have some kind of reinforced toilet.

    Thursday 16:44

    RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @timoreilly Obama Appoints Edward Tufte to Recovery Advisory Panel--Big Victory for Data Vis & Open Govt http://bit.ly/9IIWNh #gov20

    Thursday 16:41

    I'm seeing Fresh Egg 5th for SEO tonight! We rock :) http://bit.ly/c4sDh9

    Thursday 15:48

    4 Fun and Crazy Chatroulette Videos: Random video chat site Chatroulette is a pop culture smash right now, and w... http://bit.ly/cCQWtm

    Thursday 14:57

Massive bosons blew my unit

I’d forgotten about this article until I saw a photo of Chris Morris in front of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and thought I’d dig the hole article out as a tribute to the madness of what has just happened in the media with the arrest of an alleged Al Qaeda member actually working [...]

Al Qaeda’s latest weapon of mass destruction – black holes

OK, so it’s rediculous, but nevertheless predictable to the paranoid west. Here’s what the Times had to say today
Al-Qaeda – in a bit of a hole again
I’m greatly relieved at the news from the Cern institute in Switzerland, where it emerges that their Large Hadron Collider is being run by Al-Qaeda. When the thing broke [...]

CERN, the Large Hadron Collider and the fibre optic web #2

I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages. Having done my research i am actually quite happy just to post what others have written. I wouldn’t have been able to give you the facts any better, and the whole idea of what theses scientists are trying to do , the cost, scale and implications [...]