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Don't Eat The Yellowcake
The WMDs might have never turned up, but the US has just completed a mission to ship 550 tonnes of Yellowcake concentrated Uranium out of Iraq for re-processing in Canada. The Canadians will be reprocessing it into nuclear fuel, but the possibility was always there for the material to head in a more sinister direction. The Tuwaitha facility where it was shipped from was one of the hubs of the old regime's nuclear ambition, resulting in an Israeli bombing raid in 1981.
Shipping the Yellowcake out by sea was looking risky - either trekking it through the less stable south, or risking an excursion out through the Hormuz Strait and risking a run-in with the Iranians - so it was eventually shipped out in a monster airlift to Diego Garcia.
24th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Atomic Birthday
It's the birthday of the atomic bomb today - as the first test was carried on on June 16th 1945 at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Check our the gallery at Wired for more info.
While the Raymond Briggs-style threat of nuclear war seems to have subsided for now, the threat of a nuclear explosion seems more real than ever.
16th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lunar Round-up
Tons of cool Space News for you today. While trawling an old "stuff to put on Chimpomatic folder" I just came across this WIRED story about broadcasting video back from the moon, as well as links to the mentioned panoramic photos, which are stunning. They are hosted by the excellent Panoramas.dk, which we have previously reported on.
On top of that, The Big Picture have run a feature on Moon photography, pulling together a set of nice big images, many of which featured in Michael Light's excellent excellent Full Moon exhibition.
14th Jul 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Back From The Dead
Gotta love this list of 15 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely, airing as part of their 15th anniversary. Web Browsers? They might be de rigeur in 1997, but we'll be all about Push Media in no time.
11th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
App(le) Store
iTunes has been updated with the App Store, ready for tomorrow's iPhone 2.0 launch. Plenty of interesting looking bits and pieces on there, such as an Apple remote for controlling music around the house, Twitter clients, Facebook, Flickr uploaders, language translators, games etc. Plenty of them are free too - which should boost the popularity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch.
My old phone contract just expired, so I'm officially on the market.
10th Jul 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Sonic Boom!
NASA has unveiled their new Blackswift jet (or HTV-3X if you want the official name) - a Pulse Detonation Engine powered jet that will be able to rocket to six times the speed of sound. It's built mainly at the covert and awesomely named Skunk Works, run by of Lockheed Martin.
Simulation video here. Data here.
10th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Topographical
As noted in our recent article on music service Topspin, they recently assisted in the digital distribution of Nine Inch Nails' album The Slip. The distribution data from that release was then adapted by the NIN tech team into this awesome graphical representation in Google Earth. Love what NIN are up to with all this stuff.
4th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Plen Of Action
Think we should get Plen The Sporty Robot on board the chimp snowteam...
13th Feb 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Alive In Jo'burg
Check out Neill Blomkamp's short film Alive in Jo'burg. While obviously a showcase for special effects, it has some interesting political undertones on various current and recent events - and is superbly done.
He went on to make those smug Citreon ads. He also has another short film online - Tetra Vaal.
3rd Nov 2006 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
this text will self destruct
some new text service that auto deletes after 40 seconds is on the way ...like someone won't be able to hack that.
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13th Dec 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google's Katrina Coverage
Google have added satellite coverage from August 31st of New Orleans.
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5th Sep 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
G-Force
Thanks to an anonymous tip-off we are now secretly entrenched in the contoversial GMail system.
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The new evil empire?
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15th Oct 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet
ZZ
By far the first absolute bargain I've seen on the UK iTunes store:
"Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box Set"
79 tracks for £8.99 (or £40.99 on amazon.co.uk)
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24th Jun 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet