izzy's pragmatic ramblings

first dracula, then a sith and wizard and now a real live knight

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone

ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions

CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind

They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.

The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead

And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

Large Hadron Rap (via alpinekat)

hehe MC Hawking and the Album “A brief History of Rhyme”

(from wikipedia)
As of 2006, The Daily Talk is an English-language news medium published daily on a blackboard on Tubman Boulevard in the center of the Liberian capital Monrovia. According to a New York Times report, it is “the most widely read report” in Monrovia, as many Monrovians lack the money or the electricity necessary for access to the conventional mass media.

The founder, managing editor and sole employee of the Daily Talk is Alfred J. Sirleaf, who is reported to have founded his blackboard newspaper because of his belief that a well-informed citizenry is the key to the rebirth of Liberia after years of civil war. He compiles his stories daily from newspaper reports and messages by volunteer correspondents. The Daily Talk is free to read, and is funded by occasional gifts of cash and pre-paid cellphone cards. It even has its own suggestion box for its readers and followers.

Sirleaf first built his shack, which serves as the news room for the blackboard installed outside, during the rule of Charles Taylor. It was destroyed by government soldiers after the Daily Talk published criticism of the Taylor regime, and Sirleaf was briefly jailed. With help from his fellow Monrovians, however, Sirleaf rebuilt it a week before the 2005 election of president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf(not a close relation) and resumed publication of the Daily Talk.

wizzy: @arfnz totally cool! oh and the link at the end points to how ibm roadrunner helped with simulating the big bang http://tinyurl.com/yfnfghd

wizzy: @jarred no kidding! live here in nz :) ive been using ur tumblr theme and subscribing 2 ur rss for yonks now! how brilliant :)

wizzy: geocities is closing down! Such history Such memories of yesteryears Help jason @textfiles & #archiveteam on EFnet to save. This IS web1.0

wizzy: @andypiper thanks for sharing that onlineDNA presso matey! from the collective tweets i gather bcl7 was a blast

geocities is closing down! Such history Such memories of yesteryears Help jason @textfiles & #archiveteam on EFnet to save. This IS web1.0

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WWW> Beverly Hills Internet

*** From Net-Happenings Moderator ***

Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 11:44:16 -0500
From: Christopher Filkins
Subject: Beverly Hills Internet

www.bhi90210.com

Beverly Hills Internet’s ‘Homesteading the Web’ beta program has ended and
we are now building and carrying FREE web pages for the internet community.

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BHI announcing GeoCities

wizzy: @mugginsm did you pull in an all nighter in the labs ?

wizzy: @mugginsm i should clarify to say the EEE dept didnt organise any, the CS dept however did. Ah engineerin students these days are spoilt :p

wizzy: @mugginsm oh cool! EEE didnt have prog comps back inthe day I took part in one via CS, truck loads of fun. Is there a website for this one?

wizzy: @DdotDallas awesome :) can manhattan handle you ?

“Currently it is still very difficult for consumers to see how much electricity they are using, but smart grid devices are quickly being developed. It is hoped that by being able to monitor how much electricity they are using, consumers will use less of it, subsequently cutting energy bills and, moreover, pinpointing off-peak hours to run their energy-intensive machines.”

wizzy: @KiWeets that would be 'kiwi' of the genus 'Apteryx' ... :p

wizzy: @KiWeets that would be ‘kiwi’ of the genus ‘Apteryx’ … :p