Posts by petebog

Butterflies In Spaaaace!

Piiiiigs in Spaaaaace!

Surely can't be long now then!

Mitsubishi to build range-extended hybrid

Aerodynamic gripes...

Not really that important for a relatively low speed low powered city runaround... whereas space for the kids is.

Aerodynamic drag only really starts to become a major factor at much higher speeds than 30mph (or ~8mph if you drive in London).

Kind soul donates Claymore mine to charity

@Richard Morris

"Blast from the past".

Bravo sir, bravo.

Kingdom of Sweden dragged into Reg smut-basket

Best 'Yo Momma' line ever.

a) Mr. Orlowski is only irritated that another company is larger than his own mothers company,

Superb, just superb.

Mars lander has probably carked it, says NASA

Next year?

Any chance of it rising from the ashes next summer? Or will the batteries be shagged?

Hubble in double trouble

Aliens

Hs to be, surely. They've finally got fed up with all our spying on their remote homes and decided to do something about it.

Black widows: Coming soon to a kitchen sink near you

I for one..

..welcome our new 8 legged iridescencent green jawed aggressive jumping arachnid overlords.

Bebo users release interstellar spamgasm at Gliese 581

We come in peace

Innit?

Captain Cyborg to chew the fat with Ultra Hal

I for one...

...welcome our new nonsensical garbage spouting overlords.

Reg reader completely loses the plot

@Tony

"rolled up cardboard covered in sticky back plastic."

Cardboard!? Ooh, you lucky lucky bastard! All we ever had was used tissue paper, rescued from the dump and stuck together with our own spit.

US sky marshals submit to Heart of Gold randomware

@ Tony Chandler

Well played sir, well played.

Electric Mini spied in Munich

Has nobody realised...

It's not the exhaust, it's part of the suspension.

What a bunch of numpties!

Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say

@Adblock lovers

What's wrong with a good ol' fashioned hosts file?

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

MS beefs up WinXP Pro's anti-piracy nagware

“plain black background”

Is what I always set my desktop to. Makes it a bit tricky to tell if my copy's genuine or not...

DARPA in Tom'n'Jerry robo-brain quest

And I for one..

..welcome our new cat-brained overlords.

Mozilla dishes up teasers for concept browser

Surfacing

Not heard that one before, it must be a new addition to the management speak dictionary.

From context I'd say surfacing = bringing forward / announcing / suggesting.

Not that hard to work out. ;-)