Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

The Register points us all at research from Bristol University that shows that cows have a "complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges".

The report, apparently, has "documented how cows within a herd form friendship groups of between two and four animals with whom they spend most of their time, often grooming and licking each other. They will also dislike other cows, and can bear grudges for months or years".

Must remember to leave some copies of The Times crossword for the small herd of Jerseys behind my parent's house, and to smile sweetly as I go by...

It may be big, but it's certainly clever: a watch that displays the time on a pair of nixie tubes, with just a flick of a wrist.



Read the whole story to see how it was developed, from bread board prototype to two dead CNC lathes...

Not the only nixie watch out there, but certainly the most watchlike...

Another gloriously sunny New Zealand beach ...

This time it's looking down the coast from between Picton and Blenheim.