Actually, nVidia are probably at the same level of dickishness when it comes to flaws in their Linux drivers, but the fact I'm running DRI, AIGLX and multi-monitors on a £40 nVidia card a couple of hours after installing it has a lot going for them. ATI meanwhile broke multi-monitors in their drivers several versions ago (at least for my card), are a nightmare to get direct rendering running on, don't support AIGLX at all and, when I asked them about the multi-monitor thing just replied their drivers were “as is”.

Well, they weren't ising much at all so I'm taking my money elsewhere.

“And so it has again with the recent launch of a My Bloody Valentine MySpace page and numerous blog posts hinting at a possible performance at Coachella. Well, being diehard MBV followers ourselves, we've also been snooping around and have learned, through sources who didn't want to be named, that "it's definitely happening."”

My Bloody Valentine reunion? Amen! | Popwatch | Blog | Movies | Music | TV: Entertainment Weekly

“Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).”

SPACE.com — Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary

Popped up to Leeds to watch the 4-1 thrashing of Southend this weekend. Since I got up there really early (and thus bought my ticket before the massive queues that delayed kick-off by 15 mins) I drove over to Knaresborough to see Mother Shipton's Cave (warning: annoying sound) before the game.

The story of Mother Shipton is pretty much fake, but the petrifying “well” there is interesting - and you have to have some respect for Richard Head (nicknamed Dick?) who seemingly invented the tourist trap...

Some pics of the place are now on the flickr.

Mayday, by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block, is probably the best disaster novel ever written. There are a number of reasons, including that it was written at the tail-end of the 70s and could take in all that could be learnt from movies such as Airport, Airport 1975, Airport '77, Airport '79: Concorde and the classics that are The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake!

But the hands-down best reason is that it plays on everyone's deep-seated fear of the retarded.

The plot is this: an advanced passenger plane, a Straton something-or-other, which flies at around 62,000 feet is accidentally hit by a dummy missile fired as part of a secret illegal Navy experiment. The missile, which has no warhead, does not destroy the plane, but punches a hole right through it, de-pressurising the plane. Five of the passengers and crew survive this because they were in the toilets, which lost pressure less quickly than the rest of the plane.

Those involved in the secret illegal Navy experiment, when they find out what they've hit and thinking that everyone on board died, want the evidence destroyed. They hold off when they see the plane change course under control of the survivors.

Meanwhile, the five survivors discover that the de-pressurisation didn't kill off their fellow passengers and crew - just turned them into brain-damaged zombies who drool, moan, slur whatever words you say back to you, rape or - in the case of the co-pilot - just really, really, really want to get back into their cockpit where their wheel is.

And when the airline's insurance company rep realizes there are 300 retards on board and his company will have to support them for ever, he hatches a plan with one of the airline's execs to crash the plane over the Pacific...

It's a pretty awesome combination - although a made-for-TV version appears to be hated by all.

“Anthony Wilson, who managed Manchester bands Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, has died, British media reported on Friday.”

Hacienda co-founder Wilson dies - Yahoo! News