Posts by beanfeast

Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space

Isn't this what lead to the research that resulted in the 1996 Nobel prize in Chemistry?

I remember watching an episode of Horizon about it which YouTube kindly provide, but I haven't rewatched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1flpmrB1Zg

While Microsoft griped about NSA exploit stockpiles, it stockpiled patches: Friday's WinXP fix was built in February

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Obviously the build lab's sysadmin hasn't heard of NTP.

Salacious smut soaks 12% of web

Those search engine figures look a bit strange

comScore shows Google, Yahoo and Bing in December 2009 performing about 4.5 billion searches per day, That's significantly more than the 272 million searches performed daily as suggested by item 6. This might give an idea o how seriously some of the other items should be takes