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I, for one, would not have predicted that in a million years, but then I know absolutely nothing about eddy currents…

Sweet! I bet you could have all kinds of fun w/ enough of those fans and a little brainstorming…

Prince Rupert’s Drops are just molten glass dropped into a bucket of ice water, where they form tadpole like shapes. Nothing too exciting so far…

But, as they cool so rapidly, the external area in contact with the icy water goes under super-high compression, which makes ‘em tough. And what happens when you break that tension? Find out!

There’s a video showing the fun part in more detail here.

Thank you, StumbleUpon! =D

British mathematician, crypto-analyst and founder of computer science Alan Turing (he of Turing Test fame) has been given an official apology by the British Government for his persecution for being gay.

Great, great bloke who did an incredible amount for the Allies in WW2 with his work on breaking German cyphers – all respect is due.

From the Number 10 response:

“Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can’t put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan’s work I am very proud to say: we’re sorry, you deserved so much better.”

Hear, hear.

It seems that after tinkering about with bits and pieces in the header the other day I inadvertently broke the page for all versions of Internet Explorer… Oops.

So, have updated theme to the latest version of freshy2 and will fix up the CSS to colours I like shortly when I have time to get ’round to it.

At least for the moment, we are back on the radar, as it were