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SETI denies hearing ET's voice
News Reports that a group set up as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) has detected a radio transmission that it suspects could be a signal from an alien civilisation have been dismissed by the organisation.
[September 3, 2004, 17:20]
Paul Allen to fund alien research
News Along with Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's director of research, Allen has donated $12.5m (about £7.75m) to a group of astronomers in the San Francisco region, for the construction of the largest-ever radiotelescope to be used in the search for alien...
[August 9, 2000, 12:04]
Natural Selection (Half-Life mod)
Downloads The humans must keep their cool and work together to assault an alien-infested spacecraft or colony. On the other hand, playing as an alien will be an intense action experience, rewarding reflexes and alien heroics.
[January 27, 2004, 7:00]
Lazer Blazer (Series 60)
Downloads Your ship will move slowly until you line up with the portals, at which point the lazer will activate and blaze you towards the portalThere are 8 portals to collect: Slow Speed Portal - 1 point Medium Speed Portal - 2 points Fast Speed Portal - 3...
[February 15, 2006, 6:00]
Alien Clock 3D Screensaver
Downloads At the same time ingenious Alien scientists have been deeply exploring the time phenomenon and finally created Interstellar Time Factory aimed to produce the time of the highest quality. While it's orbiting our planets we have a unique chance...
[January 19, 2008, 6:00]
Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Red Sector
Downloads Alien beings from a far off galaxy had already taken an interest in our solar system and it wasn't long before the threat of little green men became a reality. Within 25 years of stepping foot on the planet over 10% of Earth's inhabitants...
[August 24, 2005, 15:20]
The Chris Long Column: Turn that bloody noise down!
News He's just apologised for a loud clanking noise -- "that was me hitting an alien with a crowbar.he says. The problem is he has half a pint of adrenaline flowing around his body and, true to his evolutionary roots, he is 100 percent focused on the...
[December 16, 1998, 6:01]
Chris Long's Column: Cut the virtual insanity
News When Jeff Goldblum uploaded the virus to the alien ship, he used what looked very much like an AppleTalk connector. To an alien ship? Were you to watch Star Trek you'd know that communications in the future are made via sub-space and there is no...
[February 9, 1999, 9:29]
World's first all-digital film makes debut
News Vidocq is the work of director Pitof, better-known to English speakers mainly through his work as a special-effects producer in films like Alien 4 and The City of Lost Children. The thriller, starring Gerard Depardieu and Ines Sastre, recreates the...
[September 19, 2001, 17:02]
Seven androids - and their lessons for enterprise IT
News Ash in Alien Instead of working for the ship and its crew, Ash is secretly following orders from 'the company', which wants to retrieve the alien for study at any price. One of the very first androids in legend, the Golem was a clay man brought to...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog the 30-some protesters in front of 24 Hour Fitness at Van Ness Avenue and Post Street chanted as they held an aerobics class and waved signs that read, "Bite My Fat Alien Butt," and "I'm Yummy. The [billboard] ad for 24 Hour Fitness.depicts an...
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News the 30-some protesters in front of 24 Hour Fitness at Van Ness Avenue and Post Street chanted as they held an aerobics class and waved signs that read, "Bite My Fat Alien Butt," and "I'm Yummy. The [billboard] ad for 24 Hour Fitness.depicts an...
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
'Hitchhiker's Guide' catches final ride
News The new story builds on Adams' satirical 1979 "Hitchhiker's Guide", which followed the search by alien Ford Prefect and his human companion Arthur Dent for an answer to life, the universe and everything.
[November 20, 2001, 12:10]
The Day Ahead: Cisco puts face on economic slowdown
News Commentary: You know Cisco Systems was having a bad earnings day when the company's Web cast for its analyst conference call didn't work and the dial-in number produced sounds that sounded like an alien life form took it over.
[February 7, 2001, 13:01]
Sarbanes-Oxley: What IT managers need to know
News While some of the terms used in this article may seem alien, keep in mind that this is how the auditing world talks in real life. If you work for a public company, chances are there's a Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) project underway.
[January 18, 2005, 10:30]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback If the president was an alien, would it be wise to allow him to continue to lead? Okay, maybe that is too glib, but you're essentially asking that if I start from your foundation beliefs, how would I respond (if god is the angry god of the old...
[January 11, 2004, 19:41]
Is the move worthwhile for Dell?
Talkback The biggest question that comes to my mind, is it worthwhile for Dell even considering entry in to an almost alien segment that is relatively saturated and high competitive? If at all Dell start making phones, it is more likely to be defensive...
[March 2, 2007, 8:56]
Alien Invasion
Downloads Avoid directly killing ships with hostages at all costs to prevent popular opinion (your life bar) from depleting. Aliens have invaded, and it is up to you to defend the planet. Blast the invading force into smithereens, but be careful, as some of...
[August 22, 2008, 8:00]
Sun funds Seti@home
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to fund the next generation of Seti@home, the University of California's distributed computing project that allows computer users donate unused processor cycles to aid the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
[December 17, 2003, 13:20]
