I’m surprised it had one. The Texan pride in not having building codes or other regulations designed to protect citizens is one of the things I find so maddening about the state.
Seems like at one time the Texan plumbers had a lot of clout.
Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space
The ISS will collect signals from special lightweight transmitters, designed by German space equipment specialist SpaceTech, weighing less than five grams each, and powered by the Sun. Besides GPS, these transmitters are also equipped with accelerometers, temperature, pressure and humidity sensors.
Good.
Grav-wave eggheads come closer to nailing down Hubble’s Constant – the universe’s speedy rate of expansion
65.3 to 75.6 kilometers per second per megaparsec, apparently.
Learn Bluespeak with IBM: Internal buzzword-bingo memo schools staff on this newfangled thing called The Cloud
Perfectly cromulent, all of them.
Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?
‘It’s not a surveillance program’… US govt isn’t going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress
Well, okay then…
Flame War!
Chance the snapper!!!
Chance die schnapi?
[ETA] Also, that song will be stuck in my head all day now… having a battle with Eddie Grant’s Electric Avenue…
300,000 edgy folk pledge themselves on Facebook to storming supposedly UFO-tastic Area 51
Yeah, thanks, I did know about that. It’s well covered by local media here.
Chance the Snapper is the finest name ever given to a feral animal in an urban environment!
