There Are No Green Cars

No car is "green," "clean," or "environmentally friendly," according to
strict advertising guidelines now in effect in Norway. "Cars cannot do
anything good for the environment except less damage than others,"

http://www.carfree.com/cft/i048.html

MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX

"Extraordinary news for computer scientists and the Open Source community was announced over the weekend, as the source code of the MULTICS operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally been opened. Multics was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system and introduced a large number of new concepts, including dynamic linking and a hierarchical file system. It was extremely powerful, and UNIX can in fact be considered to be a 'simplified' successor to MULTICS. The last running Multics installation was shut down on October 31, 2000. From now on, MULTICS can be downloaded from an official MIT site (it's the complete MR12.5 source dumped at CGI in Calgary in 2000, including the PL/1 compiler). Unfortunately you can't install this on any PC, as MULTICS requires dedicated hardware, and there's no operational computer system today that could run this OS. Nevertheless the software should be considered to be an outstanding source for computer research and scientists. It is not yet known if it will be possible to emulate the required hardware to run the OS."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/1710224&from=rss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics

http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/

The Highway Code - Cyclists

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/Cyclists/index.htm

Will Life Be Worth Living In 2,000AD?

July 22, 1961, Weekend Magazine

What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you.

http://www.pixelmatic.com.au/2000/

Stagecoach UK Bus

Connecting communities in over 100 towns and cities in the UK, and running a fleet of around 7,000 buses and coaches, Stagecoach UK Bus is one of the largest operators in the country.

http://www.stagecoachbus.com/

Relativity: Einstein's theory of relativity in animations and film clips

Einstein's theory of special relativity includes electricity and magnetism in a simple, logical extension of the relativity of Galileo and Newton. Its conclusions, including time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc² have changed profoundly our ideas of time and space, matter and energy.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/