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Ha ha ha ha ha. This is my favourite site of the minute!

Holy crap, where is the year going? Fav story this week is the supercomputer that has mimicked a mouse brain. Well actually half a mouse brain. For 10 seconds. But actually it turns out that it was running 10 times slower than a real mouse brain, so it was equivalent to one second. Still, that’s great progress.

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five has died. Water has been detected in the atmosphere of the giant planet HD 209458b.

The Hokitika Wild Foods Festival was great fun. It seemed so short, being over before I’d even been sample such delights as the “mountain oysters” (read sheep testicles) or the huhu grubs. One highlight was the possum, it tasted OK and I think deep fried with some herbs and spices someone could make a million dollars. However, the highlight of the trip was watching Tash the Tank Girl at Tanks for everything:

Yep, that really is Tash in the driver’s seat of that 52 ton Centurion!

Off to the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival tomorrow.

I have a new (old an un-digital) camera, an EOS 500N snapped up on Trade Me for a song. Yay for Trade Me! Yay for 35mm film!

Word Source is a social network for dictionary junkies…. just type word.sc/discombobulate (or whatever word it is you’re after) and it will give you the definition. And you can do social networkie things too. w00t! Well, you’ll be able to when registration is working again. There was a parse error on line 27 of activate.php when I tried.

It’s not all jumping around and screaming. Disappointed. But here’s a day in the life of Steeeeve Ballmer.

From the people that brought you wikipedia, there are now three wiki-magazines. I of course went straight to the politics site to get my daily conspiracy theory fix. I can’t see the politics site working that well, already there seems to be a large proportion of emotionally charged name calling….

Ha ha! Check out the phallic logo awards! Soooperb!