Category Archives: Technology

French and Germans agree: IE6 Blows.

When the French agree with the Germans it can only be on the most serious matters.  Recently Germany warned about the dangers of Internet Explorer 6 and all of it’s flaws. Breaking with historical precedence France has thrown in it’s lot with the Germans and is also warning against the impending doom that is IE 6.

The vulnerability of IE 6 of course is the stuff of legends.  France agreeing with Germany not so much.  Of course this is all about China’s recent attack on Google utilizing one of the many flaws in IE 6.

But nonetheless the French are seeing eye to eye with the Germans.

The end is nigh.

First Non-Polish Vampire Discovered.

Dr. Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth and now he’s acting like he found the first ever vampire.  There’s so much going on here I don’t really know where to begin.  First there’s the evidence of Vampirism… a brick in the mouth of a skeleton.  Of course the logic behind this was that the vampires by eating theirs shirts were spreading the plague across Europe.  Being as it was the vampires had to be stopped and the only way was to shove a brick in a dead vampires mouth which would prevent them from ever eating another shirt.  Makes sense to me.

So back to Dr. Borrini, he claims that he found the first ever vampire corpse in Venice while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages.  His evidence of course is the brick in the mouth you see in the photo above.  Not so fast Dr. Borrini,  Professor Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University calls bullshit.  Not on the fact that this skull that just so happens to have a brick in it’s mouth thereby proving the deceased is a vampire.  No Professor Moore-Jansen claims claims he’s been finding vampires in Poland for years.

“While Borrini’s finding is exciting, claiming it as the first vampire is a little ridiculous.”

– Professor Peer Moore-Jansen

I tend to agree with Professor Moore-Jansen because I like my archaeologists without ponytails:

Star Wars: Russia 1, USA 0

The good ol’ days are back again… about 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft occurred.  One way to look at this is the collision, between a spacecraft operated by U.S. communications group Iridium Satellite LLC and a Russian Cosmos-2251 military satellite, was the opening salvo in a space war that will only end in the destruction of civilization as we know it. Or it was just another blunder in the long history of flawed space technology.

Of course the usual suspects are out in full force explaining this away:

 

NASA:  

“We knew this was going to happen eventually,” said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.  NASA believes any risk to the international space station and its three astronauts is low. It orbits about 270 miles below the collision course.

 

Roscosmos:

A spokesman for the Russian civilian space agency, Alexander Vorobyev, said on state-controlled Channel I television that “for the international space station, at this time and in the near future, there’s no threat.”

Thanks guys.  I feel confident in your professional opinion.  Now lets go to an independent source University College London’s Francisco Diego:

“This is an event that really makes us realize that things are not so straightforward as we originally thought,” said Francisco Diego, a senior research fellow in physics and astronomy.  “I couldn’t put a number on the probability of this happening again, but now that it has happened, it changes things a lot and it becomes a concern.  The problem with collisions like this is that they don’t destroy satellites, they just create smaller ones, like fast moving shotguns, that are potentially much more damaging.”

Space is now full of fast moving shotguns… awesome.