Home » What idiot designed the USB plug?

This article was written July 17th, 2009

When you look at a USB plug it looks more or less the same one way up as it does the other. This means that when you go to plug it in to a USB socket you have an approximately 50% chance of having it the right way up.

It’s particularly bad if you are plugging a USB plug into a socket that you don’t use very often.

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Home » Embankment : Rachel Whiteread Tate Modern gallery Turbine Hall photos

This article was written March 9th, 2007

Embankment is a commission undertaken by Rachel Whiteread for the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Contemporary sculptor Rachel Whiteread has a reputation for having created several pieces of public art and was awarded the Turner Prize for House in 1993. She created a Holocaust memorial in Viena, Austria, and created Monument in London’s Trafalgar Square. Embankment is a huge structure made from 14,000 casts of the inside of a variety of boxes that have been stacked in a variety of ways.

I took some photos at the Tate Modern gallery Turbine Hall a couple of days ago: Embankment photos

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Home » Hacked Satellites

This article was written March 9th, 2007

There’s this guy who has been going around posting on a whole bunch of forums about Hacked Satellites, so I decided it was time to go public and tell everyone the real truth about Hacked Satellites and the effect this is having on cats.

HackedSatellites.com

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