Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...as photographic analysis has found a 2km crater on the site of an impact that was photographed in 1953...

An amazing piece of scientific detective work...

The Thursday 19/12/02 episode synopsis ends like this...

"To deflect the situation David decides to reveal his surprise . To Ruth’s horror, it’s a singing Father Christmas. "Oh no", she groans."

Oh! no! Ruth!

I don't think you'd catch me getting on one of these... Even though it does have quite an impressive set of specifications and a hefty set of safety information...

Luckily I don't think we have enough room in the flat...

Somehow I think it's got to be the acme of superfluous technology.

...it's time for a Googlefight.

You may have come across them in a paper on cryptography: Alice and Bob, the two most famous names in computer science. But who are they really? Thanks to a copy of an after-dinner paper hosted on troubledwater's web site we now have access to the biography of this mysterious and secretive couple...

It took our mogs sometime to realise that things had changed big time...