Hulleye Comes By!

Somehow I doubt you’ll see this cited on Fox as an example of our present grave danger in North America.

fact of the day for you: the first official international cricket match ever played was between the united states and canada.

i doubt most of you will believe me, so go ahead and google it. anyway, it would seem, as per this article that it’s making a come back.

Came across a very neat photo journal on BBC of a prison in La Paz, Bolivia.

San Pedro prison, the biggest in Bolivia’s main city, La Paz, is home to about 1,500 inmates.

Once you pass the thick walls and the security gates, any resemblance to a normal jail disappears: there are children playing, market stalls, restaurants, hairdressers and even a hotel. It looks more like the streets of El Alto, Bolivia’s poorest neighbourhood that sprawls on the outskirts of La Paz, than a prison.

The prison is divided into eight sectors and facilities range from miserable to luxurious.

There are no guards, no uniforms or metal bars on the cell windows. This relative freedom comes at a price: inmates have to pay for their cells, so most of them have to work inside the jail, selling groceries or working in the food stalls. Others work as hairdressers, laundry staff, carpenters, shoe-shine boys or TV and radio repairmen.

what won’t youtube teach us. (don’t bother clicking if you get grossed out easily or are at work).

let’s see how long this one remains “the fastest“. can someone please explain to me whether these are actually computing clusters or a single machine? because the internet combined can be considered a “fast computer” using this jargon?

When Roadrunner is finished in 2008 it will cover 12,000 square feet (1,100 square metres) of floor space at Los Alamos National Laboratory