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View Article  Lovely Food
There's loads of food. Loads. A lot of it is all right, but some of it....

View Article  Burglars
Interestingly, burglars are getting more creative. This is a nice list of tips of the latest burglar techniques they use.

View Article  Who can forget?
The heady days of the Sinclair Zx81? Tiny keys, 1k of memory. It was the first real home computer, and many times myself and my friends would pretend to be programmers, typing

10 PRINT "Ed Is A Twat"
20 GOTO 10

Ah. That's about all you could do on there without upgrading it to a mammoth 1Mb of computing power.

PHOTO smin via Flickr

Your kids may never know these and other joys.
View Article  Jupiter Spot
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23.

More here.
View Article  Unpopular Mechanics
Never read this magazine, Popular mechanics, because I have never met a popular mechanic. But there's their report on CSI (TV0 versus CSI (real life)
View Article  Galaxies
Fascinating albeit long drawn out article about the magnificence in the Universe.