2008/03/30
ScientificAmerican.com: Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?
Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?
An interesting article regarding regeneration of human limbs.
By Ken MuneokaManjong HanDavid M. Gardiner
Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend
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Amerika
Have received an email from the friend, recently gone on business trip to USA:
“We are living in Amerika ... coca-cola ... sometimes war ...
Dude! These peasants over here are living in the past ... about comfort/ technology / ergonomy ... and they behave like imbeciles.
Seems to me that they thought they are the best after the WW2 and didn't do anything eversince ... maybe east coast is more developed ...
Secondly, they are disgustingly licking your ass all the time and seems to me that they are worst than the indians in pretending that they are doing something ... all about image, tabloids, idols ... crap mate ..
It's ok to stay here for a while ... see the surroundings, fuck as much as you can (if you can - needs money) and try to get as much green bancnotes as you can ... and foking leave !!!
When i landed in seattle it seemed to me that I traveled in the past not in US, everything is dirty and old ... but from outside looks renovated. In my hotel I feel like in my grandparents home :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY
here the lyrics translated - http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/reise_reise/amerika
Anyway, hope I won't kill anyone ... see attached some fun :)
And this one should be a standard gear for sending people in deployments, hope they'll develop it a little bit more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZTWwy6eUw&feature=related
:)“
2008/03/28
2008/03/25
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking - New York Times
Mainframes are not dead!
As usual geeks lose to suits:
"The unfulfilled predictions of demise, experts say, tend to overestimate the importance of pure technical innovation and underestimate the role of business judgment. “The rise and fall of technologies is mainly about business and not technological determinism,” said Richard S. Tedlow, a business historian at the Harvard Business School."
But stats are impressive too:
"I.B.M.’s most recent model, the z10, represents an investment of $1.5 billion and the work of 5,000 technical professionals. To nurture its ecosystem, the company partners with 400 universities worldwide in programs to teach mainframe skills."
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking - New York Times
2008/03/22
Green Day
Here in Brno I have tried green beer on a green day. This happens only once in a year, for Grass Day, so all potheads gather in pubs to have a glass of this:
2008/03/20
Vilnius..the new Prague - Vilnius, Lithuania Travel Blog
Vilnius..the new Prague - Vilnius, Lithuania Travel Blog
This post has cracked me up ;) short, but accurate description of Vilnius for the tourist.
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision
I am back from the real world (vacation) to online lair and have read backlog of interesting news. This one I have liked very much:
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision
Basically this is virtual display on the eye, you don't need to replace human eyes with artificial tools, just attach lenses and voila - digital zoom.
I wonder what would be mash up of this with Microsoft ideas about new interfaces:
Microsoft's investigation into the subconscious
Company studies thought patterns as part of battle against Apple, Google
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