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Today's quotable quote: Fred Allen: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne-sounds like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs.

This day in history: 05 May 2026: First American in Space (1961). In 1961, 23 days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to be launched into space. Shepard's suborbital flight—part of the US space program Project Mercury—reached a height of 115 miles (185 km). He performed several maneuvers of his capsule, Freedom 7, but returned after only a 15-minute flight.




Home - Outeniqua Choo Tjoe

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Please watch this site for news about Classic Rails’s project to return steam trains to South Africa's Garden Route.




Klepetan and Malena - Wikipedia

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Klepetan and Malena were a pair of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) who became renowned in Croatia for their romantic endeavors. Between 2001 and 2021, Klepetan traveled from South Africa to Brodski Varoš, Croatia, each spring to mate with Malena, who was unable to travel due to a gunshot injury. On ...


A Brief History of the Minimoog Part I

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Follow the life of the Minimoog Synthesizer from its inception through its prolific contributions to poplular music throughout the last 4 decades.In this fir...



Physics wins, hydrogen cars lose

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How many times have we heard that hydrogen-powered cars are “the future”? Well, that future has been collapsing like a house of cards for a…



Frogsicles: Frozen But Still Alive

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The wood frog's body makes its own anti-freeze that allows it to survive the winter. The secret ingredient? You'll never guess.From: CRAZY MONSTER FROGShttp:...





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In the news

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Vibrating pillow sleeve warns deaf sleepers of burglars and fires: A research team supervised by Assoc. Posted on 03 May 2026.

Trump Does An RFK Jr.: Fires Entire 22 Member Board Of The National Science Foundation: The Trump administration’s war on science has been a furious one. Posted on 05 May 2026.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Tue 05: light rain

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 8 %
  • Wed 06: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 36 %
  • Thu 07: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Fri 08: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Sat 09: sky is clear

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 1 %

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News (continued)

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO): Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. Posted on 04 December 2025.

What does it mean to train an AI to speak like you?: Ultra-personalized AI for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user’s identity and can breach privacy, according to a study from a Cornell Tech doctoral student who trained the technology on himself. Posted on 04 May 2026.

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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military: Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Man produces sperm from testicular tissue frozen as a child in breakthrough trial: Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one dayIn a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Forget the soundbar: How I upgraded my TV audio with spare Bluetooth speakers: You don't have to shell out hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on big speakers and soundbars for a robust audio setup. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Is this the real face of Anne Boleyn?: A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced. Posted on 01 May 2026.

AI robot tech bros dogs run wild in Berlin gallery: In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose — courtesy of American artist Beeple. Posted on 03 May 2026.

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released: The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Empty Screenings: Finds AMC showtimes with zero tickets sold, letting you spot near-empty screenings and private-theater odds by ZIP code. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants: The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications. Posted on 05 May 2026.

A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous: Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators. Posted on 24 April 2026.

Empty Screenings: Finds AMC showtimes with zero tickets sold, letting you spot near-empty screenings and private-theater odds by ZIP code. Posted on 05 May 2026.

Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto: "The Associated Press is reporting on a new study in Nature Astronomy suggesting that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. Posted on 05 May 2026.

China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet: The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging. Posted on 29 August 2025.

Mysterious green rocks in Pyrenees cave hint that prehistoric people were working copper there for 4,000 years: Dozens of pieces of bright-green rock discovered in a cave in the Pyrenees may be evidence of copper smelting 7,000 years ago. Posted on 05 May 2026.


Some of the tech in my workday

Best programming language?

The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.

The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.

w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.

While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.


Longer term weather forecast

Cape Town weather

  • Tue 05: light rain

    13 ° - 17 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 8 %
  • Wed 06: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 36 %
  • Thu 07: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Fri 08: sky is clear

    14 ° - 18 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 2 %
  • Sat 09: sky is clear

    14 ° - 17 ° Wind 11 km/h / Clouds 1 %
  • Sun 10: heavy intensity rain

    13 ° - 14 ° Wind 14 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Mon 11: moderate rain

    13 ° - 16 ° Wind 16 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Tue 12: light rain

    16 ° - 17 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 70 %
  • Wed 13: light rain

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 93 %
  • Thu 14: light rain

    15 ° - 19 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 56 %
  • Fri 15: sky is clear

    15 ° - 18 ° Wind 9 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sat 16: sky is clear

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sun 17: sky is clear

    13 ° - 20 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Mon 18: sky is clear

    14 ° - 20 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Tue 19: sky is clear

    15 ° - 21 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 1 %
  • Wed 20: sky is clear

    17 ° - 23 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 0 %