Interesting Links for 1-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• Boots to start selling paternity tests over the counter. 1 in 25 fathers to get unexpected news...
  (tags: parents children)
• Finally, an Android tablet that's not a huge pile of poo. (Seriously - what is it with all the shit Android tablets?)
  (tags: android tablet archos)
• IPv4 enters exhaustion phase
  (tags: ipv6 internet)
• Egypt shuts off its last ISP. I can't see this lasting much longer.
  (tags: egypt internet)
• Artemis - a computer game where 6 of you take control of a Star Trek-like ship, and have to work cooperatively. Awesome!
  (tags: computer_games startrek)
• Android overtakes Nokia to become the world's leading smartphone platform
  (tags: android mobile_phones)
• New Age terrorists develop homeopathic bomb
  (tags: homeopathy funny terrorism)

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Apparently S&P just downgraded Egyptian bonds to one notch above "junk".

ObMubarak: "I'll just get me coat ..."

(If the head of state is singlehandedly responsible for the national credit rating tanking, he's not long for the presidential palace.)

[andrewducker]

Yes. If he was going to crack down it should have happened days ago. Failing that, if the populace aren't going to spontaneously back down he's lost all credibility and is going to have to get out of there.