Matt Cutts noticed this morning that Google is taking every precaution to protect its brain-trust. Including adding these lines to its own robots.txt file.

User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains

One comment on Matt’s post states there is nothing to be found at ‘http://www.google.com/brains’. It may already be too late to save Google.

What are you doing to prevent zombie attacks today?

(See also: MattCutts: Google Protects itself from Zombies)
(See also: Google: robots.txt)

The feature uses a tool developed by Viewpath. There appears to be a poorly documented dependency on Internet Explorer as I had trouble getting it to work on the Macintosh.

(See also: wikipedia: Gantt Chart)
(See also: googledocs BLOG)

Sir Richard Branson is staging an attempt to break the transatlantic sailing record. Branson has teamed up with Ben Ainslie and members of Team Origin.

The boat is a 99-ft super maxi called ‘Virgin Money’ and holds 24 crew. Two of the crew are Sir Richard’s children. The 30.6 ton vessel has a maximum speed of 45 knots. The 18-ft 15 ton canting keel and twin rudders. 4-hour watch cycles will allow very little sleep for the record seeking run. To break the record, the team needs to cross the Atlantic in under 6 days, 27 hours and 52 mins.

The weather is expected to be pretty rough. But these are the winds that will allow ‘Virgin Money’ to break the record.

“It’s going to be pretty unpleasant,” Richard Branson added. “I suspect most people will be thoroughly, thoroughly ill throughout most of the journey.”

Fair winds and following seas Sir Richard.

(See also: Sir Richard’s Virgin Money Blog)

(See also: NYtimes: Branson Begins Assault on Trans-Atlantic Record)
(See also: NYdailynews: Virgin’s Richard Branson to attempt sailing record)
(See also: seabreeze: Background of Virgin Money 99ft maxi-race yacht)
(See also: yachtsandyachting: Sir Richard Branson goes for Atlantic record on Virgin Money)(See also: VirginNews: SIR RICHARD BRANSON TO ATTEMPT ATLANTIC CROSSING RECORD ABOARD ‘VIRGIN MONEY’)
(See also: CNN World Sport: Branson and Ainslie begin transatlantic record attempt)
(See also: VirginMoney: Yacht)

The group of 11 had to evacuate their 47-foot-long ocean-going sailboats quickly, heading for safety as Hurricane Omar got closer and closer.

(See also: WCCO: Minnesota Family Was In Line Of Hurricane Omar)

(See also: WCCO: News segment)
(See also: TJEA Travel: 2008 Regatta)

Air-cooled, twin cam, V12 produces somewhere between 6 and 8 horsepower. With a displacement of 87cc and runs on a mixture of Methanol, Nitromethan (5-10%) and synthetic hi-performance-lubrication (10%).

The moment of creation in software does not always provide this level of tactile satisfaction.

(See also: www.wawu.edu)
(See also: AutoBlog: mini v12)
(See also: O.S. engines: Wankel)
(See also: History of handmade model engines.)