BBC NEWS | Technology | Tanzanian women get online bug
“The situation with wireless broadband in Tanzania is that you can get access as reliable as and as high speed as any connection you could get in Europe,” said John Tumelty, the general manager of Mobitel which provides businesses like Anna Mbattah’s with a wireless service.
“People in Tanzania have excellent access to the internet.”
This is going to be interesting
Terminator insects give wings to genome invaders
These ‘promiscuous’ transposons have found special favour with genetic engineers, whose goal is to create ‘universal’ systems for transferring genes into any and every species on earth. Almost none of the geneticists has considered the hazards involved.
Why are smart people capable of being so stupid?
Metafilter | Footage: LSD tested on British troops comments
Amazing and hilarious found footage of LSD being tested on British troops (mpg) “The men began to relax and to giggle…One hour and ten minutes after taking the drug, with one man climbing a tree to feed the birds, the troop commander gave up…He himself then relapsed into laughter. [via the great New World Disorder]
More good stuff from metafilter.
Metafilter | Pencil Lead Sculptor
Amazing Pencil Lead Sculptor Dante Ghetti carves intricate, tiny sculptures out of the lead of draftsman’s pencils, using the pencil stub as the mount for the finished piece; amazing. I realize this post doesn’t offer much in the way of vigorous debate (“I like tiny sculptures” “They suck. You suck!”), but what can I say, I think it’s pretty damn cool. (from BoingBoing via Metafilter)
Freaky looking guy. Amazing little sculptures. Check out the photo on the wall behind him.
Metafilter | Gone to Croatan — Hi, Iconomy! comments
In the late 18th or early 19th century a group of runaway slaves and serfs fled from Kentucky into the Ohio Territory, where they inter-married with Natives and formed a tribe – red, white & black – called the Ben Ishmael tribe. The Ishmaels (who seem to have been Islamically inclined) followed an annual nomadic route through the territory, hunting & fishing, and finding work as tinkers and minstrels. They were polygamists, and drank no alcohol. Every winter they returned to their original settlement, where a village had grown…
My wife insisted I look at metafiilter. Now I have lots to read.
Infocom Products – Cornerstone
Until now, unless you were trained in computer programming, you’ve been unable to realize the full potential of your personal computer.
That’s why we created Cornerstone, the first sophisticated database system designed specifically for the non-programmer.