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Karim also rejected the use of a sophisticated code program called "Mujhaddin Secrets", which implements all the AES candidate cyphers, "because 'kaffirs', or non-believers, know about it so it must be less secure". - Alex Lomas

The judge agreed with this description and threw the case out. He said the court had no power over academic decisions, nor the expertise to judge if they were correct or not. - Alex Lomas

Mmmm, yummy fonts - Alex Lomas

Mmmm, yummy fonts - Alex Lomas

This is, indeed, yummy. - Alex Lomas

Genius, pure genuis - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

I have same problem - BoBo

Bump for the above comment. All my disconnected feeds are still posting, I think. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Mmm, jam. - Alex Lomas

We haz them in our garden. Nom. - Alex Lomas

Mmmm, meat. I can totally vouch for this place. Yum. - Alex Lomas

Microsoft, you're idiots. - Alex Lomas

Now there's a reason not to use 'loyalty' cards. - Alex Lomas

"The airship USS Macon - comparable in size to the even more famous and equally doomed liner Titanic - suffered storm damage and crashed into the ocean off Point Sur, south of San Francisco, exactly 75 years ago yesterday. The huge dirigible's remains and those of her embarked biplane fighters now lie 1500 feet below the waves in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary." - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

1 dead disk already though. Bah. - Alex Lomas from iPhone

One reason why more Blackberries are sold than iPhones is because Blackberry users have a choice of whether to have a physical keyboard or not. Blackberry users have choice on how to interface with a Blackberry. For alot of people, not having a physical keyboard is a non-starter. Ultimately, giving customers a choice is a big factor in making a product successful. One of the reason why... more... - Tim Jones

I'm a windows guy through and through and use a BlackBerry, but today I have a personal shopper appointment at the Apple store and I'm going to get an iPhone. Mostly I've just given up resisting the immutable force of iPhone apps (no one seems to develop for mobile web anymore, all of the things I want to do on a mobile device involve an iphone app). - Alex Lomas

You should go to Microsoft Research. They have a lot more. - Robert Scoble

And he had Facebook open on one :) - Alex Lomas

"Current theory would state that the leading edge of a fin, fan or turbine blade should be absolutely straight and smooth for best effect - a 'fact' that has been taken for granted for decades. But the more Fish studied the odd leading-edge bumps, or Tubercles, the more it became apparent that evolution's work on the fin was far ahead of man's best efforts. Airfoils fitted with tubercle bumps showed much higher lift efficiency and greater stall resistance than identical airfoils without them. Turbines fitted with tubercles to the leading edges of each blade are able to produce more power at low fluid speeds, are quieter, and perform much better in turbulent fluid streams. It seems the bumps have the effect of channeling air into smaller areas of the blade, resulting in a higher wind speed through the channels and a number of rotating airflows on top of the blade which increase lift. Furthermore, the bumps eliminate the tendency of air to run down the length of the blade's edge and fly... more... - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Hey, if dimples make golf balls fly farther, then why not? - Gabe

Vortex generators have been used on aircraft wings for decades and work by introducing energy into the boundary layer thus making it more difficult to detatch the flow (like http://www.mauleairinc.com/cd...) but these seem quite interesting. Haven't used any of my aeronautical engineering degree until just now :) - Alex Lomas

I think I may be able to spend nearly all my money here. - Alex Lomas

I think I may be able to spend nearly all my money here. - Alex Lomas

"'Within faith schools we are still getting a message of anaesthetised hatred - 'we don't hate these people but they're not equal'. If that is said enough, it softens the brains of young people and that's so dangerous. And it's a message echoed by sections of the press.'" - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

"I stepped between two glass walls and was subjected to what my police training would allow me to conclude was a procedural vacuum." - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

"Fifteen university students have been permanently scarred after branding themselves with heated coat hangers. The group from the University of Exeter branded their chests with the initial of the halls they lived in last year." - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

If this is in any way related to that bloody Jan Moir article I feel I may have to burn down the Dail Mail's printing presses. They did pick the wrong poof though... - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

Have a read of some of these comments, they're just fricking unbelievable. I mean things like: "why do we test for antibodies and not the virus itself? BECAUSE THE VIRUS DOESN'T EXIST!" - no you moron, it's because antibody testing is fast, cheap and reliable. These people make me beyond mad. - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

I'm sure this will make for an even more impartial FIA. - Alex Lomas

While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. - Alex Lomas

While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. - Alex Lomas

Make your own David Cameron - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

"maximum ISO value of 102,400 -- approaching night vision territory" - I need one of these. - Alex Lomas from Bookmarklet

That ISO figure is insane! Any Canon users out there feel like jumping to the dark side to get their hands on this? - Andrew Terry

Free SSL certs with the CA root cert included in Windows 7 - Alex Lomas