Popular Mechanics has a photo slide show of man-made islands. Some of the islands are most interesting, some are made out reeds, PET botttles or even an oil drilling island. Since the ancient Aztecs geoengineered the shoreline of Tenochtitlan, their…
Basics of missile control systems
This post is more of a book mark for me. It might grow to a bigger topic. I have always wondered about the control systems for missiles, the fins and strakes. What kind of design consideration they have to make to make…
Philippines tourist hostage crisis
This may be disconcerting for some people. Police storming a tour bus with 25 hostages. Note the light rain at the start and lack of rain rear the end of the video. According to press reports the whole raid took…
WordPress Theme
I have messed around with different themes for the blog, some successful, some turned out to be really bad for me. The magicblue look great with its snazzy banner of blue and white lines. Somehow I feel it can be…
Mozilla Firefox About commands
Mozilla Firefox about commands
Interesting Internet articles
Using a toy train to calibrate a nuclear reactor. First spotted on Slashdot. link God mode in Windows OS. link
Literal Music Video
Click on this link and check it out. This music video lyrics is literally what you see.
Credit Crunch, aka, Second Depression
Need a quick and simple way of learning about the current finance fiasco, check out this website. Does not name the guilty parties though. Investment Bank – Lehman Brothers Mortage lenders – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack “Credit Default Swap”…
Malaysian Election 2008
The results are in, Barisan Nasional got slapped on the head. They won 142 out of 222 seats. That works out to 63.96% majority. Much less than 1969 when it secured 69%. That time people died in riots that followed.