The BBC reports that at a competition in Indiana, an astonished crowd of more than 22,000 people cheered Sonya Thomas on as she ate a whopping 65 hard-boiled eggs in only six minutes and 40 seconds.
The International Federation of Competitive Eating
has many other records.
The BBC and the Open University have produced a series Hollywood Science in which Robert Llewellyn (Kryten in Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars) examines
the science behind Hollywood movies.
Can Jackie Chan really bend iron bars? Is Paul Newman's stomach capable of holding 50 eggs? Does that bus really have enough Speed to jump the gap?
Let's hope it does better than the
Salter's Duck.
The development project
was cancelled
in the
1980's after UK government departments grossly over-estimated
(by a factor of 10) the cost of the electricity it was going
to produce. Cock-up or conspiracy?
Two spammers, Alain Chalem and Mayir Lehmann, were found shot dead in New Jersey, USA on October 28th 1999.
It is reckoned that this was in revenge for a stock scam that the pair had been running.
The UK's largest personal injury claims firm, Accident Group, has sacked 2,400 people - many by text message - after its parent company Amulet Group announced on Friday that it would go into administration.
Staff with company mobile phones received a series of text messages, warning them that salaries would not be paid.
Accident group was a bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers - you know the adverts - "have you suffered an injury - contact us and we'll sue for you" (and take a massive cut from any compensation).
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but from the Rock Linux manual, it looks like installs work pretty much like they do for command line installs with ANY source based distribution, just that the installer script includes a small extra section to copy all the stuff to an ISO.
The power of Rock isn't in installing a single package, built from source, on your system, though it can do that.
Rock allows you to create your own bootable CD from which you can install your own custom Linux distribution.
1) download Rock (mostly shell scripts and configuration files, and a *very* small number of patches to packages)
2) unpack it
3) select your configuration options - choose from a range of targets - minimal LAMP server, desktop, or create your own list of packages - select your target processor, and any configuration options you want - e.g. build postfix with mysql support.
Some of these are available as tick boxes in the curses based configuration tool, if not you can easily edit a text file.
4) download the sources you need
5) start build
6) drink beer, sleep, whatever
7) create ISO image, burn to CD
8) boot from CD, use curses based installation and configuration tool to install new system.
When you building a large number of boxes to be shipped to customers, and over which you want total control, Rock is superb. I can strip my distribution down to the bare minumum, and easily apply only those security patches or upgrades to new releases of packages I have tested.
Many options are selected at compile time, rather than in configuration files, for instance processor selection. My php configuration includes "--with-mcrypt --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-freetype-dir". The number of different downloads for any pre-compiled distribution will be enormous.
Rock Linux isn't a Linux distribution: it's a distribution build kit, that allows you to build your own tailored distribution from sources, with your choice of configuration options.
Even if there aren't currently the options that you want, the simple text-mode configuration files allow you easily to add your own.
Tall girls given hormones to stunt their growth
on
Tall People Earn More
·
· Score: 1
New Scientist reports that "Between the 1950s and 1990s, thousands of girls worldwide who were predicted to grow to more than 177 centimetres (5 foot 10 inches) were given synthetic oestrogen - over four times the dose in the modern pill - for an average of two years" to stop them growing too tall.
Now they are having trouble conceiving children of their own.
Mark E. Felstein was denied admission to the New York state board on the grounds of "misconduct in college, history of substance abuse, criminal record and lack of candor since college concerning such matters"
I get about 1 SMS spam per month. I never give my
mobile number out, so they are all just being dialled randomly. We have several avenues of complaint:
ICSTIS, who regulate the premium rate telephone market - most of my SMS spams are shilling premium rate numbers, claiming that "I have won a prize" or that "someone likes me". ICSTIS have fined many spammers thousands of pounds.
You know, someone should create a company that could just come to your place of work, and create a map (using some already patented technology, no doubt), and scan in the faces of workmates, then email you the resulting deathmatch map/skins for UT or Quake.
Slashdot Mirror
See also the article by John Cisar (a sceptic) An alternative interpretation of nanobacteria-induced biomineralization
The International Federation of Competitive Eating has many other records.
Let's hope it does better than the Salter's Duck. The development project was cancelled in the 1980's after UK government departments grossly over-estimated (by a factor of 10) the cost of the electricity it was going to produce. Cock-up or conspiracy?
Two spammers, Alain Chalem and Mayir Lehmann, were found shot dead in New Jersey, USA on October 28th 1999.
It is reckoned that this was in revenge for a stock scam that the pair had been running.
And then you'd have to get Thunderbirds to come and rescue you.
and not forgetting Usenet hamster fetish
Oops - those links are both the same - the second one should have been to this posting
Accident group was a bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers - you know the adverts - "have you suffered an injury - contact us and we'll sue for you" (and take a massive cut from any compensation).
The power of Rock isn't in installing a single package, built from source, on your system, though it can do that.
Rock allows you to create your own bootable CD from which you can install your own custom Linux distribution.
1) download Rock (mostly shell scripts and configuration files, and a *very* small number of patches to packages)
2) unpack it
3) select your configuration options - choose from a range of targets - minimal LAMP server, desktop, or create your own list of packages - select your target processor, and any configuration options you want - e.g. build postfix with mysql support.
Some of these are available as tick boxes in the curses based configuration tool, if not you can easily edit a text file.
4) download the sources you need
5) start build
6) drink beer, sleep, whatever
7) create ISO image, burn to CD
8) boot from CD, use curses based installation and configuration tool to install new system.
When you building a large number of boxes to be shipped to customers, and over which you want total control, Rock is superb. I can strip my distribution down to the bare minumum, and easily apply only those security patches or upgrades to new releases of packages I have tested.
Many options are selected at compile time, rather than in configuration files, for instance processor selection. My php configuration includes "--with-mcrypt --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-freetype-dir". The number of different downloads for any pre-compiled distribution will be enormous.
Rock Linux isn't a Linux distribution: it's a distribution build kit, that allows you to build your own tailored distribution from sources, with your choice of configuration options.
Even if there aren't currently the options that you want, the simple text-mode configuration files allow you easily to add your own.
Several architectures (sparc, sparc64, alpha, hppa, m88k) have had per-page execute permissons for years.
See This BugTraq posting by Theo de Raadt
In the final of Scrapheap Challenge series 6 - "Cat-alysts" vs. "Megalomaniacs" http://jyw.tacorp.net/specials/jousting/joust.html
e /season_07_07.html
p heap2001/text/12/
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/junkyard/episod
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/scra
New Scientist reports that "Between the 1950s and 1990s, thousands of girls worldwide who were predicted to grow to more than 177 centimetres (5 foot 10 inches) were given synthetic oestrogen - over four times the dose in the modern pill - for an average of two years" to stop them growing too tall.
Now they are having trouble conceiving children of their own.
Mark E. Felstein was denied admission to the New York state board on the grounds of "misconduct in college, history of substance abuse, criminal record and lack of candor since college concerning such matters"
Here are two very pretty photographs of the analemma - composite photographs of the sun taken at the same time and place every few days for a year, and a simulated martian analemma
Sundials tend not to gain/lose up to 30 seconds a month
No - but they can be out by as much as 16 minutes.
Google for "sundial" and "analemma" or "equation of time"
I am a sundial
and I make a botch
of what is done far
better by a watch!
ICSTIS, who regulate the premium rate telephone market - most of my SMS spams are shilling premium rate numbers, claiming that "I have won a prize" or that "someone likes me". ICSTIS have fined many spammers thousands of pounds.
There is also the Advertising Standards Authority who are now accepting complaints.
It is also illegal to use an automated dialler, but the bunch of lazy jobsworths at the Data Protection Agency can't be bothered to prosecute.
Google and google-groups for Listbuilder and Bcentral.
Microsoft send spam and then lie about it.
and here is the jargon file entry.
http://www.avatar-me.com/
Harrier Jump Jet - 1965 - current
Land Rover - 1948 - current: I/II/IIa/III/Defender - basically the same design since 1948