December 2009
Typo Caused Airbus Plane Tail-Strike During...
Currently, there’s a typo in a trending topic on Twitter, and it’s doing my head in, though at least it won’t be responsible for a plane tail-strike like the one that occurred at Melbourne Airport in Australia earlier this year. The typo has just been discovered as the reason why the United Arab Emirates A340-541 Airbus had problems taking off, with...
Transparent Truck System Could Actually Save Lives...
Art Lebedev calls this simple invention—a camera that takes images from the front of a truck to show it on screens in the back—Transparentius. I call it geeneeuzz. I don’t know why this drawing shows a tank at the front of the truck, but I guess that in Russia people drive T-90s like in the US people drive Fords. I wish the technology was so cheap that this...
National Geographic to shut down magazine
WASHINGTON � The National Geographic Society said on Thursday that it was shutting down the print edition of National Geographic Adventure magazine, an outdoors publication it started 10 years ago. The Adventure brand will continue with a “robust website” and mobile and other products, the National Geographic Society said, but the December-January edition of National Geographic...