Giant banana in space!

For a daily dose of simply crazy, Cesar Saez is planning on building a gigantic banana (300 meters in length), and putting it up into a geostationary space orbit, over the state of Texas.

This million dollar project is in the final phase of its Engineering stages, and is expected to launch in August 2008.

Software piracy in schools

There is some buzz in world news on the state of software piracy in schools. Specifically in Russia, where a highly controversial case emerged over the use of a certain Operating System for educational purposes. Considering that Russia has one of the highest piracy rates in the world, the entire situation seems kind of ludicrous.

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Firefox horror screenshot – crash errors

Last weekend, while visiting my parents, the Firefox web browser has crashed on me for trying to watch a video. Not the stopped working correctly type of crash, but the full out send Tony into a psychological shock over BSoD flashbacks type of crash. Complete with illigal operations, error reports, and faulty memory locations – [...]