A nice link explaining the science which intrigued NASA: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Widom-Larsen.php

ThinkGeek has a nice array of watches :
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=watch

Their dipswitch watch is especially fun :)

There was much I enjoyed, and much i loathed. GAME did a good job of importing the american customer service model in an effort to become more profesional as it grew. It was a very sales driven environemnet, where the goal was to engage the customer, and help steer their choices. Some people like that some don't. The GAME stores were constantly in competition against each other for sales, and also against their own sales figures from previous years. Sadly, whilst the company moved towards focusing more on the customers, it failed to focus on its staff. There was no benefit to the Sales assistants in selling more, other than their manager shouted at them less. The company had a big chip on its shuoulder about staff theft as it tried to transition and exapnd from a small chain to a more profesional outfit. This led to routine searches of staff before leaving the store, and treating all staff as potentional thiefs. I agree with the above posts that what really killed GAME though,was the reduction in footfall. "Young" game buyers moved across to internet shopping a long time ago, but GAME survived on the key period of Christmas presents. December+january takings were equall to takings for the rest of the year in some concessions. With the appearance of not jsut games, but also hardware in supermarkets, this too began to ebb away. I loved checking out games at GAME when I was young. I loved working there in my early 20's. I want to say I wish it was still there, but when I think about it, I haven't been to GAME to buy anything for over 5 years. I go to browse, and catch up with friends. But never to buy. In the end, I guess I killed GAME.

My understanding of the comments so far: (1) This issue is a sharp rise in the cost, rather than the absolute cost. So the fact that others are already paying more is irelevant. If an item of your domestic budget suddenly increases drastically in cost this hurts. This is especially true, when you are limited in trems of how much you can reduce your use of that item. (2) Other countries are also expriencing these price rises, but it is more painful for americans. It is more painful for several reasons including the lesser density of population requiring more travel, but also the long history of cheap energy, which means fewer alternatives to petrol transport have been developed. (3) There are two seperate sources of pressure of petrol costs. The long term issue of finite resources, and the short/mid term pressures of middle east instability. There is a strong political lobby using these price rises as a platform to remind people of the need to consider alternative energy soureces. There is also a realisation in "The West" of our energy dependence on "The East", and this causes tension.

When I was at Uni over a decade ago now, the firewall rankled with me (I'm a grown up...let me choose! ;) so being somewhat childish I attached a hardware keylogger and reported a computer fault (I think i cleared the isntalled printers and said the "PC won't print"). Anyhoo, next time I cam back to the lab I had me an admin login. This didn't allow me to access the net through my user, but interstingly the admin account seemed to have pretty much unfettered access to the web. I was too scared to use it, but had I needed soemthing in an emergency...it was there ;)

I only think of myself as owning one pair of "shoes". I do however own a pair of walking boots, a pair of wellingtons, a pair of slippers, and a bear of sandals.I also have some rollerblades. I appreciate that strictly speaking these are all shoes, but in day to day use the word "shoes" isn't usually used to refer to these. So I've voted for 1 pair :)

The only people who call me are work, my family, and my group of friends who know each other. If i'm at work, they can all call me there. If I'm at hoem, they can all call me there. If I'm out with family I don't wish work or friends to call me.. If I'm out with friends I don't wish family or work to call me. So I don't really understand why i should need a cell! Maybe I need friends who don't kow each other. I guess if I had competeing groups ofr friends a cell could be useful. But I doubt it ;)

Given that Nokia is pushing for Qt development on the Raspberry pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/369), would this be the perfect project for it?

I do not consider myself sufficiently well informed to be able to argue on the major economic and political issues at stake with either party. I could be swayed be eithers arguments because of this. I do consider myself sufficiently well informed to be confident that neither of the major parties are going to take us somewhere morally or politically disastrous. In view of this, I am registered to vote in case a minority party with evidently flawed beliefs should gain a strong following. However assuming that this is not the case, and one of the main parties is going to win, I won't be voting.

for 6 months every year I just remember that the house clocks are out by 1 hour. Much easier that taking them down :)

Surely the key section to this article is the last line which reads: "British scientists last month challenged the link between sirtuins and longevity in worms and fruit flies in the journal Nature, concluding they had ''nothing to do with extending life''.