A fantastic story about a U.S. firm using a glorified microwave oven to turn plastics back into diesel-grade oil. (With an accompanying video.)
New Scientist - 26/06/2007
A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.
All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation [...]
Has this story actually been on the TV news? I haven’t seen it anywhere other than on the BBC news site. Was it only on in Scotland? Am I just not watching enough TV? I thought they’d be all over the story, what with the bombing attempts in London and all that. (Though it still [...]
Ah, so much with the bizzy-bizzy-programmir-ing and the buggering-off-on-holiday-ing. Not so much with the blog posting.
The good news is that the replacement headphones mentioned here sound great and arrived in time to stop me trying to fit neon-underlighting and a sports-exhaust kit to my bicycle in order to blend in with the Guildford streetlife.
While I’m [...]
It’s funny how certain largely meaningless things can make you feel incredibly old indeed: Radiohead’s Ok Computer album is 10 years old today.
It came out just as I was leaving high school, and I have this strangely vivid memory of Carwyn, Martin and I very excitedly chatting on ICQ as we all listened to it [...]
Noooooooooooooooo!
My ancient-but-beloved Sony headphones have died (I think they got sat on in the pub) which means I’m suffering the ambient sounds of Guildford as I walk around. For reference, the ambient sounds of Guildford largely consist of groups of kids comparing how many cars they’ve keyed or how many times Sharon from year 10 [...]
As I was spelunking through my email archive folder today, I came to a horrible realisation. I have over 9 year’s worth of collected film and music listings from various cinema and ticket sales mailing lists. I never used to feel bad about this until it struck me today that this is just the digital [...]
Firstly: fuck LOLcats. Let’s do this thing right, you know?
Secondly, when I first saw this photo I thought it was heralding the age of subaqueous man-eating tigers, determined to chomp into a scuba-diver or two after years of having to rely on safari holidays for their manflesh treats.
It turns out that it’s actually from a [...]