Overnight I was thinking about the programming I have been doing working on writing a UDP GPS listener program. I am getting my head around things – some of the concepts that the hardware people are using are unfamiliar to me. But I have worked out, at least in my head how I need to do things.

I was also thinking about Posidon last night. On one scene they have a couple of fans on a pipe – one at each end. The fans can blow from left to right or right to left. Open a hatch in the middle and the air blows out. But change the direction of the fans and it sucks instead of blows. This should not happen. Unless one of the ends of the pipe was clogged which it was not… I guess this is what is called ‘Hollywood Science’… Stuff which looks good in the movies but that does not quite work so well in real life…

The Discovery Channel has a list of some of the greatest accidental discoveries, including X-Rays, Velcro, Post-It notes and Popsicles. The Washington Post has a list of some of the tours available of DisneyWorld.