→ WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available
This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access. – Tim Berners-Lee 1991 Source
→ Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results – ScienceInsider
This comment further to the LHC articlemade me laugh! OPERA: “Yes, hello? Tech support?” Tech: “Hello, and welcome to CERN Tech Support. Can I help you?” OPERA: “Yeah, we are getting anomalous results that, uh, would appear to upend the theory of relativity…” Tech: “That is a concern. Is your Large Hadron Collider plugged in?”…
→ RFC 1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. This and other truths like the following are found in the RFC 1925. No matter how…
→ Cars Kill Cities « Progressive Transit
Once all cars go electric, essentially eliminating inter-city air pollution, then there will be no more problems for pedestrians, right? Wrong!! Probably the biggest problem with cars in cities is that they require huge amounts of land for storage (a.k.a. parking). Source
→ The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
No matter how fast processors get, software consistently finds new ways to eat up the extra speed. Make a CPU ten times as fast, and software will usually find ten times as much to do (or, in some cases, will feel at liberty to do it ten times less efficiently). Source