Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective. The Sound Mirrors Project attempts to reinvent this technology for the 21st Century with the help of modern age communications. See this page (via this post) for more information on sound mirrors.

Coleridge family sells out.

Make that pussy work for its treats. Yep, a one-link post about cats.

Curious George. A video quagmire on an iBook. more inside

Nobody's ever said Saddam ordered up the attacks via homunculus