Friday, August 7, 2009

07-Aug-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Twitter is not only suffering from a DDoS attack, but is under legal attack too. The grounds seem dubious:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/twitter_outage/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8187331.stm

The new KDE 4.3 desktop includes the ability to integrate web access with it to create a vendor-neutral "Social Desktop":
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/08/hands-on-kde-43-delivers-a-social-desktop.ars

Upgrade charts comparing the process of upgrading Windows with the process of upgrading OS X:
http://4.media.tumblr.com/hHF7RUMhjqs0v87s0D43K2SKo1_400.png http://www.joewilcox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/windows7-upgrade-chart.png

A process of growing carbon nanotubes a metre or more long is developed at Rice University:
http://www.gizmag.com/nanokites-nanotechnology-swnt/12434/

And finally. Budget airlines consider charging people to go to the toilet. Hmm, another use for those little zippy plastic bags...:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/2727889/We-won-t-pay-to-pee-Aussie-travellers-say

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