‘No credible evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons, says UN inspector: The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen “no credible evidence” that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, rejecting British intelligence allegations that a weapons programme has been going on for at least four years. Anyone surprised by this is just a fucking…
Elgato is a favourite company of mine. They produce USB TV tuners and the excellent EyeTV software for watching and recording TV on a Mac. Today they released EyeTV for the iPhone, which let’s you watch live TV or recordings on your iPhone via your Mac. As expected the experience is flawless. Now I can…
I’m in Aotearoa New Zealand for a couple of weeks and driving about provided me with the great privilege of catching up with the sea of enlightenment that is NZ talkback radio, in this case the lovely Leighton Smith. Flipping through the channels I just had to stop and listen to one of Smith’s callers complaining…
John Timmer writing for Ars Technica: If scientists had to pick one area of science that’s most frequently misunderstood, evolution would probably win the vote. It’s not simply the sea of misinformation available on the Internet (although that clearly doesn’t help); it also seems that a lot of people who accept the scientific evidence don’t…
No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s opposition to a new bill that would make it a national criminal offence for any New Zealand political leader to “plan, prepare, initiate or execute an act of aggression” in violation of the UN Charter. … when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our foreign policy to be subject…
No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government giving themselves a pay rise during a recession and refusing to justify it. It’s much the same situation here in the UK. Politicians have a deep sense of entitlement and non-accountability when it comes to raising their income and expenses levels, but are quite happy to spend millions…
Bill O’Reilly being called out again out on what can only be described as his feeble fact-free attempt to paint Amersterdam as a cesspool of crime and corruption. You can watch the original Bill O’Reilly clip here, and the Roberwter’s first response here. (via Russell Brown’s Hard News)
John Siracusa’s in depth review of Snow Leopard, Apple’s latest upgrade to the Mac OS X operating system. Always worth the read.