Cool new geek stuff. Read about it here.

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Fascinating:
TOKYO (AFP) - The monthly discomfort many women see as a curse could pay off someday as Japanese researchers say menstrual blood can be used to repair heart damage.
Scientists obtained menstrual blood from nine women and cultivated it for about a month, focusing on a kind of cell that can act like stem cells.
Some […]

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An interview with Ken Wilber.

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New Hubble photos of colliding galaxies!

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The guys at Public Policy Polling have a sense of humor. (Hey Chris, maybe you should apply!)
First off, please do not call us or e-mail us and tell us we suck! We are well aware, and it does not feel good.
It’s pretty easy, based on the exit polls, to see where we went wrong. We […]

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The human body.

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I keep telling people but nobody listens:
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by […]

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I forgot to mention that my Very Good Friend Paul Krugman® reads Making Light, and was thrilled to be sitting across from Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (who, like me, is a narcoleptic) at dinner.
I also needled Paul Krugman®, “You’re one of those people who ordered a Kindle, aren’t you?”
And yes, he did. “But I didn’t get it […]

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Seems like the logical solution will be for tech-savvy types to volunteer their services (and also for cable companies to provide low-rate basic service for retirement and nursing homes):
Page said his TV is often all that breaks the solitude of his days at Friendship Terrace Apartments, a retirement community in Northwest Washington.
“For people who are […]

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And I do not have the energy to tell you why. Suffice it to say, it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do.

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Not sure what this means, but it sure sounds cool.

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Windows Vista. You really should read this.

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Just to get away from all the primary fun for a moment, I want to introduce you to my new toy. I spent Friday night building this thing and, though there’s still some work to be done, I’m pretty pleased with the results.

The beer is included as a reference to get an idea of the […]

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An interview with the new Harvard president. She sounds like a very interesting thinker.

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A fifth internet cable has been cut.

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Fascinating.

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I can’t wait to get this piece of crap off my computer. It doesn’t work properly with any of my peripherals.

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This made me smile:
WASHINGTON - The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way.
NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.
This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the […]

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George Costanza was wrong!

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Google has a new online toy to play with - their own CAD program.

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And people think I’m too far out there.

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Well, tonight I finally got around to hooking up the new computer. I attached all the plugs, turned it on and …. nothing. I mean, it went on, but there was no picture on the monitor.
To be continued, I suppose.

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My new computer is here and I think I’m in love. It’s so much smaller - about three times the width of my laptop, and about the same length.
Now all I have to do is remove Vista and get Maya over here to migrate my data, and I’m good to go. Yay!

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Pretty interesting to us geeks:
A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby — an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before.
Using images from the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other sources, scientists said the […]

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This has been my own consistent experience in the business world. It’s almost a truism that the better the salesperson, the worse the spelling and reading skills.

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