Carrier pigeon

...in laying the path for the technologies we use today. Without these people, we'd probably still be living in the dark ages, relying on pmail (carrier pigeon-mail) instead of email. So enjoy this holiday list, which includes a short history...

In this article: Alan Turing, Isaac Newton, Calculus, Mathematics, Physics, Speed of light, Quantum mechanics, and All rights reserved

If you're going to nominate The Internet for a Nobel Peace Prize you should also nominate newspapers, the postal service, telegrams, carrier pigeons, telephones, and the Pony Express, none of which actually deserve it as it's the people who...

In this article: Wired, Democracy, Shirin Ebadi, Twitter, U.S., and Zeitgeist

...may be a good start for the budding adventurer, but the true argonaut in the family -- you know, the one that'll have to receive this via carrier pigeon atop Volcan Concepcion in the middle of Lago de Nicaragua -- only the best will do. The...

In this article: Iphone, TomTom, Engadget, Navteq, Garmin, Puerto Rico, United States, Beneficiary, and Magellan

...shouldn't have any access rights to it. Neutral Holy cow. Then go live on a militia compound and communicate by string-and-tin can or by carrier pigeon. Oh, wait, the pigeon could be shot down and tortured for information. And someone...

In this article: Ubuntu, Unix, E mail, Iphone, and Oliver Stone

...from the pittiful numbers that early settlers reduced them to - near extinction! But not all animals can survive these "bottlenecks. " Carrier pigeons, on the other hand, didn't. Cheetahs, alas, suffer from an unusually low and homogeneous...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Dog, Galapagos Islands, Big Bang, Coyote, Wolf, God, and Twitter

...on the phone, if you need to email, if you need to tweet ... I don't even know if people phone anybody any more, if you want to send off a carrier pigeon and let people know, anyone who might otherwise be watching tonight and isn't, let them...

In this article: Rove McManus, The 7pm Project, Logie awards, Roving Enterprises, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tasma Walton, Network Ten, and Belinda Emmett

...[UPDATE: or via this BBC documentary], welcome: you'll find 5+ years of archives in the sidebar to your left. Thought of introducing a carrier pigeon service as well? You obviously don't court publicity. Being outed must have been the...

In this article: Sunday Times, Twitter, Google Earth, and Facebook

...send or download large files can take ages. If it wasn't for the fact that one of my clients is an animal rights group, I'd buy some carrier pigeons. Political pressure is required to force BT and other telecoms companies to get rid of the...

In this article: Copper, Labour, Scotland, and Glasgow

...can respond in real time," Smith said. Data and mobile communications will remain intact throughout the exercise. "We'd be reduced to carrier pigeons and semaphore if we didn't have some form of communications," Smith explained. He added...

In this article: House of Lords, EU, and UK

...victory is pretty much assured. The Commodore offense is bad even by SEC standards. Boise State played Hawaii late. My trusty carrier pigeon, Williford, informs me that they were successful. Really successful - 54-9. That's more...

In this article: Texas, Texas Tech, Mississippi State, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Missouri, SEC, Michigan State, and Iowa Hawkeyes