If you turn a pangolin upside down it looks remarkably similar to a clanger

(Clangers)

Simon Pegg. Shotguns. Again.

Hot Fuzz

Looks good.

(NSFW unless you work at a bicycle fetishers’ emporium)

This:

Manchester goes bike crazy (Mancubist)

led to these:

Love your Bike - Part 1 Love your Bike - Part 2 Love your Bike - Part 3 Love your Bike - Part 4

From the Love Your Bike people.

BBC photo researchers, eh!

Forsooth! Verrily thy garage door is unbefitting one of thy stature good sir.

The Perl advent calendar is an old favourite of mine. This year I’ve found Ruby and Catalyst calendars too. Daily tips and tricks await at:

2006 Perl Advent Calendar

Catalyst Advent Calendar 2006

Ruby Advent Calendar 2006

I started doing this a while back because I’m weird and it seemed sensible, but I’ve just found this video ( via the glorious Metafilter) that explains it all :-)

Do it in your sleeves!

Looks like ‘2001’ and got it right, and ‘Total Recall’ got it wrong. This should not surprise anyone.

Exposure to space

Apple Unix (A/UX) is Apple’s port of Unix to the original Macintosh. Specifically, it’s a port of AT&T Unix System V.2.2 (with a handful of BSD-extensions) to Macintosh systems that were based on the Motorola 680x0 line of processors. You might be asking, “Another port of Unix… What’s so special about that?” Well, A/UX combines the stability of Unix System V with the friendly graphical-user-interface (GUI) of the Macintosh Operating system. This hybrid-environment allows you to run both Macintosh and Unix programs on a single system. Sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it?

Everything you ever wanted to know about Apple’s first UNIX I might give this a try if it’ll run on my old LC475.

Some antisocial drivers are trying to sneak past Manchester’s new automatic bollards and are getting pranged as a result. The bollards block access to almost pedestrianised areas but lower to allow delivery vehicles and buses to pass. Trying to get past by following a bus doesn’t work.*

I agree with the Council and hope the bollards stay. This is a case of dangerous drivers damaging their cars and risking injury.

Also the prangs are very funny when they’re shown on the local news. This is all good.

• The BBC don’t make it easy to link to their video reports

Judith Davies, who has a daughter at the school, said: “Many people campaign against mobile phone masts near schools, but there is a great deal of ignorance about wireless computer networks. Yet they are like having a phone mast in the classroom and the transmitters are placed very close to the children.”

Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks

Scientific evidence is inconclusive, but some researchers think that children are vulnerable because of their thinner skulls and developing nervous systems.

Wifi uses the same signal as baby monitors but unlike baby monitors the signal is not constant. The wifi units are also further away from users than baby monitors are from babies (I believe baby monitors are usually fixed to cots). Babies have very thin skulls. As far as I know the “Exposing Large Numbers Of Babies To 2.4Ghz Microwave Radiation” experiment puts us all in the clear so far.

Given the almighty faff I’ve been having with wireless networks recently they should go with a wired network because it’s going to work.

If there’s one thing worse than people who can’t discriminate between different forms of radiation it’s Netgear wifi bridges that kill TCP connections and Linux wifi drivers that have a mind of their own. :-) Unfortunately A. isn’t keen on me taping cable over the walls or pulling up the new flat’s floor yet, and she has a point.