Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist who one day decided that in order to measure one quantity, you have to increase the uncertainty of a related quantity. For example, you can’t measure the momentum of a immobile object.

A year or so ago I picked up a text on the basic principles of The Religious Society of Friends – Quakers for those who don’t know.

Short fiction by Gavin Eyres: Agatha sat on the steps outside her building in a quiet side street of the East End. She had done so every evening since she had moved in, though she had only lived there for a month and it was such a roasting summer that commuters broke their silence to talk of it.

Is there money to be made from swine flu? The spammers think so. Jemima Kiss 30 April 2009 guardian.co.uk

This video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street riding ever seen.

Twitter have changed the interface on the their home page. The @replies feed has been replaced with Mentions, which can be accessed via clicking on @yourusername in the sidebar.

Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.

Microsoft has wanted to kill Windows XP for years. There was only one problem. The users refused to let it die. Now, that Windows 7 is almost ready to go, Microsoft is, once more, trying to ax XP.

Traditional parenting methods that focus on breastfeeding, disclipline and high expectations are most likely to produce well-adjusted and able children, a study has shown.

Cloud computing vendors continue to be plagued with periodic shutdowns and losses of customer data. The problems have prompted some users and analysts to wonder whether cloud computing storage poses an unacceptable data security risk.