Happy Birthday Kitty-chan

Hello Kitty is 30 today.



Sanrio first released their ultra-cute character on November the 1st 1974.

And now she's everywhere...

Bye bye Vomit Comet

285 gallons of vomit and nearly 10 years after it first flew, NASA's final converted ""Weightless Wonder" KC-135 has been retired...



It will be replaced early next year with a modified C-9

Some traditions won't stop, however. The first person to vomit in the C-9 will probably get "a little plaque -- all in good fun of course," Yaniac said.

Watching The Watchers redux

I've paid up for a moblog uk account, so I can now generate imagewalls from my phoneposts...



Since I started this project (which you can also find via sbisson_moblog), I'm spotting more and more cameras, all over the place. It's surprising how common they've become - from the street cameras that watch where we walk, to the store cameras monitoring just how we shop, and the many many different types of road cameras and traffic sensors.

562 steps to tying a tie...

A machine that ties ties. It's a bit complicated, but, hey - so's tieing a full Windsor!

128MB Sushi

Dynamism, the folk who sell the terribly nifty teeny tiny Japanese laptops are currently shipping USB drives moulded into Tokyo wax sushi replicas.

So cool it comes wrapped in dry ice...



(marypcb tells me J-list are selling them too...)