Wing Commander ship blueprints

I can remember being blown away by Wing Commander when it came out. That, and having to save everything I earned from my holiday job to get a 386. Tough times.

If you have fond memories of tackling the Kilrathi in your trusty Hornet, then you'll be pleased to hear that high resolution blueprints for all the Terran ships are available for your download and printing pleasure.

The Wing Commander Combat Information Centre have 1600x1100 blueprints of all four Terran ships - the Hornet, Scimitar, Rapier and Raptor.

Or you can grab the entire blueprint pack. Although it's a monstrous 42mb, it does have the blueprints at 5000x3300 resolution.

Get those printers warmed up!

MiFare RFID vulnerabilities exposed

Great video presentation from the recent CCC in Germany, highlighting flaws and issues with the security around Philips' MiFare RFID tags (as used on Oyster cards ;-)

Renting out a holiday property? Check out The Villa Place

Just chatting to a friend of mine, who has a nice villa in France. He actually only spends a couple of months a year there, and rents it out the rest of the time. We were talking about ways to manage property rental for holiday villas via the Internet, and he gave me a heads up to an interesting new site that has just launched - The Villa Place.

They've got a really slick frontend for choosing where you're interested in, and you can browse for property via location, drilling down from a global map. If you have a property you want to rent out, you can register, then upload photos, link to reviews - it's pretty comprehensive.

It's pretty impressive stuff, and a great example of how far we've come since the early dark days of static HTML listings from estate agencies.

Check them out at http://www.thevillaplace.com/

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That's got to suck

Taken from a 2005 Africa Geographic article titled Shark Detectives. Click through for a larger image and some more great pictures.

Awesome.

Creepy creepy pope

Big hiatus as I've been caught up with various projects - a nice backlog of interesting things to post.

For starters, though, here's a fantastic picture of The Pope.

Is it me, or does he look like Emperor Palpatine? Can't you just see blue lightning shooting out of his fingertips?

The picture itself comes from a Daily Mail article detailing how the Pope will be bringing back exorcism squads to battle Satan.

The Clone Bishop Wars, if you will ;-)