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Saturday Arrrrrvo
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Saturday, 19-September-2009 12:34:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Arrr, it seems scant few moons since the last Talk like a Pirate Day but nay, it be upon us once again, snuck up from beyond the horizon like the Dread Pirate Roberts 'imself!
Thar be a new telescope, not all shiny brass like my old faithful, but of the radio kind, to be built in Western Australia. "The [ASKAP] in about six hours of operation will generate more data than has ever been collected by radio astronomy. Just in the first day it will have done as well as everyone else has done to date," Professor Quinn told iTnews. An EXABYTE of data per day?! Just thinkin' about it makes me stump ache.
When ye be out doin' your piratey thing of an evenin', resist the urge to check the book of faces at ye intended victim's house. Or you'll end up in leg irons, like this scurvy dog! Simple: the burglar left a trail, by way of checking his Facebook account before leaving the house with two diamond rings and forgetting to log out.
Google have plundered CMU's treasure trove and made off, not with dubloons, but with ReCAPTCHA. Google has acquired a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off that seeks to cut down on spam and fraud at Web sites while digitizing books.
From a distant land report Akihabaranews, of a tiny VESA-mountable PC that clips onto the back of yer monitor like a barnacle, thus saving your valuable desk space for maps and charts and countin' yer pieces of eight and wotnot. It's sold with an Atom N230 CPU, the NVIDIA ION (MCP7A) Chipset, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of HDD and Windows Vista.
That mangy dog Callan spotted a cardboard PC, which may well be all eco-friendly like, but hardly suited to the rigors of the poop deck! Not to mention a determined parrot could nibble it down to kitty litter in no time. More info hyaaarr.
If ye long for new seas to sail, DigitalTrends have 10 geek travel destinations to consider. Wine lovers have Napa Valley. Fashionistas have Paris. And Elvis diehards have Graceland. Devotees visit them to sample the finest, see the latest in the industry, and soak in the history of the greats. But where should geeks book their tickets to when it's time to get out of the cube and pursue their own niche interests abroad?
That's it from me, me old chumbuckets. Ye can chat with other peg-legged parrot-encrusted folk in this thread. Yarr!
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