This image, the phone blogging equivalent of a lens cap snap, was posted with Opera Mini 3, released today. I decided to go through the regular process, entering my phone number (which I never remember, but fortunately my phone remembers it for me), guessing […]

I am using a fairly fresh install of Opera right now, with more default settings than I normally would use. One of these was the PDF file handling, like with other browsers (at least for Windows) Opera uses the Adobe Acrobat plugin by default. […]

The same issue of New Scientist had a report from an evangelical rationalist science congregation, under the theme of the atheists strike back. But my question is: Is this good for science? Richard Dawkins’ foundation, based on much the same idea, is discussed in […]

My magazine of choice, (The) New Scientist, released its first issue 50 years ago, and more recently followed up with a hefty anniversary issue. Reading news (or watching or browsing them for that matter) is a waste of time if you want to be […]

17 years ago, in a Friday November 17 far far away, the seminal event for the soon-to-become Velvet Revolution happened. The event itself, a sanctioned student demonstration ostensibly celebrating a martyr against the Nazi invasion 50 years earlier, mattered less than its aftermath: a […]