HP Chromebook x2 Shows Up With 3000×2000 Display
This looks like a very promising competitor to the Google Slate. I might prefer having a ChromeOS based device, rather than an Android Based device.
BBC Radio 4 - The Long Walk
In 1956, a Polish officer called Slavomir Rawicz caused a sensation with "The Long Walk," his account of a his dramatic escape from the Soviet Gulag and a 4000-mile trek on foot to India. The book was a bestseller and has remained in print for over half a century. Rawicz describes how he his fellow escapees slogged across the Siberian tundra, traversed the Gobi Desert and scaled the Himalayas. Along the way they faced hunger, exhaustion, disease and even a couple of yetis. A thrilling story: but was it true? Many have doubted whether this extraordinary tale can really have happened.
Maps is a stripped down version of maps.me
A fork of maps.me which allows for track recording, and removes most of the commercial integrations that has made it into maps.me in the last year or so.
How the Blog Broke the Web
I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flannel shirt. Back when you could really say you were surfing the net.
Archaeologists uncover remains of a horrifying Iron Age battle in Denmark
A mass grave in the small East Jutland town of Alken contains the human remains of a battle, where 13-year-old children fought alongside adult men, where the dead were left and ripped to pieces by hungry animals, and where the bones where subsequently collected and treated in the most bestial way.