Cope

I am grateful that I have lived to see this day.

Filed under: bbc, news, robot, space on March 14th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

From the BBC: dolphin persuades two whales to stop beaching. 1. Okay, this appears to be evidence of direct communication between different species, neither of which is ours. You want to know what happens next? Ask Roland Emmerich. 2. Maybe now the Japanese will stop… nah. 3. Ecco the Dolphin wasn’t lying to us after all! (Elsewhere, putty-nosed monkeys are using language too.)

Filed under: bbc, real world on March 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s twenty-five years since the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all-time. There’s a big article about it on the BBC News website. Sixty-five million copies sold, according to Guinness, which must make it arguably the best-selling single piece of popular culture ever. It’s certainly several times more than the best-selling DVD [...]

Filed under: bbc, casual games, music on November 30th, 2007 | 2 Comments »