March 2008 Archives

"Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this story. In fairness, so will just about everybody else. We hope. Comcast is experimenting with camera technology. More specifically, it trying out technology that turns cable boxes into camera-equipped devices that would utilize body-form-recognition as a means to provide custom-tailored service, and, of course, custom tailored advertising. The boxes would be able to tell who is in the room based on the shape of their body, thus tailoring programming to fit their specific desires and security settings (when children are involved). Facial recognition is not in the works as of yet."

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The title says it all.

"Peanut butter is being turned into diamonds by scientists with a technique that harnesses pressures higher than those found at the centre of the earth. Edinburgh University experts say the feat is made possible by squeezing the paste between the tips of two diamonds creating a "stiletto heel effect". The scientists also revealed they can turn oxygen into red crystals using the same method."

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"Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds

By Ken Muneoka, Manjong Han and David M. Gardiner Aaron Goodman

Key Concepts
* The gold standard for limb regeneration is the salamander, which can grow perfect replacements for lost body parts throughout its lifetime. Understanding how can provide a road map for human limb regeneration.

* The early responses of tissues at an amputation site are not that different in salamanders and in humans, but eventually human tissues form a scar, whereas the salamander's reactivate an embryonic development program to build a new limb.

* Learning to control the human wound environment to trigger salamander like healing could make it possible to regenerate large body parts."

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For those who are old enough to remember vinyl records.



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Antarctica: Home to emperor penguins, vast ice fields and the globe's most exclusive rock fest.















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This is one of my all time favorite blues clips. Everything about it is so evocative.

Funny pics. Enjoy!























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This is really cool. Just wait for it!




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We really do get old and it's unavoidable.


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I was surfing over at youtube and I came across this Willie Houston video. Now I admit I had never heard of him before but I wish I had! This is some real good blues music. Give this video a listen then scroll down and watch that other one for a bit of history.

"The 2,000 inhabitants of Longyearbyen, on an island 600 miles from the North Pole, are eagerly awaiting another visitor, whose arrival is just around the corner. From experience, they know this guest will warm the air and make the town's now filmy colors come alive -- the white of the snow; the deep blue of the water; the red, yellow and green of the wooden homes, banks, restaurants, schools and the post office."

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"(AP) -- The government announced Friday that it has said goodbye to one of the world's greatest lifesavers - the oldest smallpox vaccine. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month made arrangements to dispose of the last of its 12 million doses of Dryvax, and notified other health departments and the military to do the same by Feb. 29."


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