Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...Google.

I can hear them now: "Get that motherf***ing snake off the motherf***ing search servers!"

An escaped ball python is runningslithering around Google's NYC offices.

Update: It's been found.

Eating, apparently.

An edible billboard made from 390kg (860lb) of pure chocolate has been eaten in just three hours.

Thorntons invited passers-by to tuck into the 14.5ft by 9.5ft (4.4m by 2.9m) sign in Covent Garden, London.

The Easter creation, a world first, was made of 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant chocolate eggs and 128 chocolate panels, each weighing 2kg.

The billboard took three months to plan and 300 hours for the team of 10 to build and was expected to last a week.

That, and getting on the news and then being blogged about by gullible bloggers who get caught up in the swirl of viral marketing.

Good news for anyone working with Microsoft development tools - the two most useful parts, Expression Web and Expression Blend, of the Expression suite of design tools are going to be part of MSDN at last.

Microsoft's developer team in the UK will no doubt be relieved that I can now stop complaining about their conspicuous absence.

John Lennon would be boggling, and Lewis Carroll would be thinking of many things, if they read this news story:

Danish scientists are to put satellite tags on walruses to try to understand where the great beasts migrate.

They will track animals for two months off west Greenland - and gauge how hunting, oil exploration and climate change may be affecting the animals.

The project is being run by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the Danish Polar Centre.

The satellite data will be shared with BBC News and posted on its website so readers can follow the migration.

ping walrus1.gl
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ping walrus2.gl
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