20th January 2008 Archive

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• Remembering the Commodore SX-64

  This Old Box 'Check out my new portable computer! HEAVE

  We're shrinking away this week from monolithic supercomputers with This Old Box for something a little bit smaller. In fact, we'll be looking at the world's first commercial full-color portable computer. Fantastic! But first, some insight into our computer selection process: It's twofold this time - 1) The system was …

  PCs & Chips 20 Jan 2008, 00:15

• Alcohol where the sun doesn't shine, and nanotubes darker than that

  Comments Long legs and friendly bums appreciated

  Polish limb boffins have concluded that 'perfect' legs are 5 per cent longer than average. They had volunteers rate silhouettes according to attractiveness, and found that a bit of legginess went a long way. Unfortunately for the lanky among us, however, limbs 10 per cent longer than average were considered even less attractive …

  Letters 20 Jan 2008, 01:10

• Her Light Materials, Volume I

  Stob The Lost Magic Golden Closing Curly Bracket

  'So that's how I came to be mysteriously orphaned and, on my ninth birthday, just three years ago today, sent to work as a junior grader at the Ah-Poo! Toilet Tissue reclamation factory at Fort Wirth', explained Jo, our heroine, a feisty, scruffy and independently-minded young tomboy whose more mature, more feminine side we won' …

  Verity Stob 20 Jan 2008, 01:13

• Join the army, get your ID pinched - MoD laptop goes AWOL

  Ten years' supply of applicants swiped from car

  Personal details of the 600,000 people who have applied to join the armed forces over the last ten years were stolen with an MoD laptop earlier this month, it was admitted late on Friday. The computer was stolen from the car of a junior naval officer, which was parked outside his house overnight in Edgbaston, Birmingham. It …

  Government 20 Jan 2008, 20:01