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Category: Technology
SoundCloud is just wonderful.
If you are into music, and who isn’t, do hot foot it over to SoundCloud. It’s just an amazing reminder of the power of the web.
Essentially, it makes posting music onto a web site or Blog as easy as, well as easy as this …
Just click on the play button and drift away!
Very, very cool!
By Paul Handover
Is the mobile telephone industry being honest?
A report released by the International EMF Collaborative last week has some disturbing information in it; that cell phones (mobile phones in Europe) are more likely than not to be a causative factor in some cancers, most notably brain cancers.
That information will not come as a surprise to anyone as rumours have been circulating for many years. What is 
worse (if brain cancer wasn’t bad enough) is a growing view that the cell phone industry may have been trying to skew the results in favour of the industry. If proven, that sort of corporate behaviour underlines the value of integrous living as the only way of creating a society fit for all.
The International EMF Collaborative claims that the Interphone study, which begun in 1999, was “intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ’systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.”
Know of young people using cell phones? Then read more and pass this Post on to them.
World Aerobatic Championships, Silverstone, England
Yesterday was the last of the three days of the WAC, the World Aerobatic Championships, held, this time, in England. Had I known earlier then this Post would have been published before the event had finished.
Anyway, guess what has been found on the web? Airsports TV. So all those that hanker after this sort of thing, here is your very own TV station. Want to know more about Airsports TV? Watch the video below:
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Want more?
Now hang on to your seats!
Shuttle Discovery launches without a hitch.
At 23.59 EDT, Shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Centre.
America frequently gets a bad press around the world but events like this are a reminder of the pioneering spirit of the American people. Long may that continue.
By the way, ever wondered what it is like to be inside the Shuttle during a launch?
This always gives me a thrill.
Hopefully, by the time you read this Post, shuttle Discovery will have had a successful and fault-free launch.
Here was how it looked at the time of writing (13:30 MT/20:30 GMT on the 24th)
Awoke to find that poor weather has delayed the launch. Here’s a pic of the bird standing out in the rain last night.
By Paul Handover
Imaginative versions of the film Downfall
My son, who is a commercial pilot flying with a company that have a number of Boeing 787s on order, sent me a YouTube clip that is a re-subtitled version of the film Downfall. That film, by the way, is an excellent portrayal of the
last days of Hitler in 1945 and well recommended.
Anyway, it appears that the art of substitution is alive and well because a YouTube search reveals film clips of Hitler learning about Michael Jackson’s death, Hitler being banned from playing XBox Live, Hitler loves his waffles and more.
This particular clip is about Hitler learning of delays in the delivery of the Boeing 787. It’s funny (but does include some minor vulgarity).
The amino acid glycine is found on a comet.
There’s a fascinating article on Reuters, published on the 18th. It is that scientists have finally proved that an amino
acid found on a comet is extraterrestrial in origin and, therefore, supports the theory that life came to Planet Earth from the stars.
Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles retrieved from the tail of comet Wild 2 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust deep in the solar system some 242 million miles (390 million km) from Earth, in January 2004.
Samples of gas and dust collected on a small dish lined with a super-fluffy material called aerogel were returned to Earth two years later in a canister that detached from the spacecraft and landed by parachute in the Utah desert.
There’s a fuller and more scientific description of the NASA Stardust spacecraft mission here. That site is well worth a visit if you are in the slightest way interested in space.
Stardust completed its 2.88 billion mile round-trip journey to a comet and back, bringing comet and interstellar dust particles back to Earth on January 15, 2006.
So when you next look into the eyes of your loved one,
and see starlight there,
it may not be entirely a romantic notion!
By Paul Handover
Big brother may be watching
But in this case it is a mythical pizza house. (Includes sound as well)
Anyway, watch this futuristic scene courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union.
By Paul Handover
The amazing development of electronics over 50 years.
The calendar reliably informs me that this is my 65th year. My brain, of course, lags somewhat in accepting this!
My step-father during my early teenage years worked for Elliott Brothers (the link goes to an interesting history of the firm that started in 1804) in Borehamwood, just north of London. He encouraged me to fiddle with ‘steam’ radios and
try and understand how these basic circuits worked. It was then a small step to deciding to become a radio amateur, popularly known as a radio ham! In those days it was a case of some pretty intensive studying to pass a Theory exam as well as being able to pass an exam in sending and receiving Morse code.
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