Archive for October, 2006

Game By The Brain

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

“… a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.”
A team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a way of controlling simplistic computer games via thought alone.
The teenager who [...]

Worthless

Friday, October 6th, 2006

In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00.
He ignored it and threw it away.
In April he received another and threw that one away too.
The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating [...]

Proposed Song Titles

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

I Can’t Get Over You, So I Get Up and Go Around to the Other Side
I Keep On Missing You Baby, But My Aim’s Gettin’ Better
If You Won’t Leave Me Alone, I’ll Find Someone Who Will

Before anyway tries to look them up, yes, it is a joke. Any other suggestions anyone?

2 Kilometre Wide Magnetic Ring to Launch Satellites

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

A new study, funded by the United States Air Force has concluded that a huge magnetic launch ring could be used to accelerate satellites to incredible velocities before ‘flinging them’ into space, at which point only minor adjustments would be needed to ensure the satellite stayed in orbit of Earth. The launch ring would be [...]