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Entries from December 2007

Boeing announces ‘Laser Gunship’ completion

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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Airliners’n’deathware behemoth Boeing announced yesterday that it had fitted a high-energy laser cannon aboard a C-130 Hercules military cargo plane, creating a “Laser Gunship”. The company expects to commence blasting “mission representative” test targets next year, [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys

Oh the humanity, the humanity

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Now as folks have probably noticed from various earlier postings - I’m a fan of TV. I watch a lot of it (or more to the point, I have it on in the background pretty much continuously while I’m working in the evenings). There’s a reason I’ve got three ReplayTVs (a competitor to Tivo, a [...]

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Tags: Personal