How utterly magnificent

Nicked from sciamachy: the Vegetarian Passport

... a web page with, in most prevalent languages of the world, a description of what a vegetarian (also, same for vegan) is.

So, if you go somewhere and are having problems communicating with the locals that you don't dig on swine, you can (at worst) hand them a printed copy of the relevant page.

I can't imagine how much shit this would have saved me in the past, buying chinese food in spain, explaining via mime that where I come from, a ten pound steak is, in fact, considered meat :)

Thuper Computerth

Cripes ... nothing about supercomputers for ages, then three come along at once...

Canadian Virtual Supercomputer project

1100 G5 Macs networked together to form cheap ($5million) Supercomputer (with speed 'approaching that of a 486'... *snigger*)

Playstation IIs used to form rudimentary supercomputer

and, best of all:

Egyptians construct biotech supercomputer