tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13597381486706144952024-02-20T15:07:17.397-08:00I don't care who reads this.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-8734118840130526192011-05-04T11:41:00.001-07:002011-06-01T11:21:03.230-07:00Social Media AggregatorThat last post just reminded me of something. <br />
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Some things I want to tweet. Some I want to blog. I wish they, and all social media of mine, were linked. I want a bar in the center of my computer that I can just type something into it and can file it appropriately. I'm too lazy to have a separate app for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc... on my phone. I want it to all be linked.<br />
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EDIT: <a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">found it</a><br />
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Almost exactly what I was looking for.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-45129099035447636162011-05-04T11:37:00.001-07:002011-06-01T11:30:03.401-07:00TED Talks: Printing Kidneys<a href="LINK FOR THE VIDEO">http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html<br />
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First TEDmed I've seen – fascinating. Humans have the capability of printing new organs.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-81536730808967705342011-05-04T11:35:00.001-07:002011-06-01T11:29:29.567-07:00TED Talk: Architecture that Senses and Responds<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/carlo_ratti_architecture_that_senses_and_responds.html"><b>LINK FOR THE VIDEO</b></a><br />
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I never realized how much Formula 1 races and racecars in general depend upon technology. Each car has a team of techies monitoring every fluctuation in the car’s performance and collecting data in order to diagnose what needs to be changed at each pit stop. I thought NASCAR had turned stale, with no innovation, but that’s just naive thinking. In the same way statistics revolutionized baseball, monitoring a car’s performance and analyzing data has transformed the sport of racing. <br />
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This TED talk explains how that, in the same way we can monitor a car’s health, we can monitor the state a city is in. By using data that is automatically collected from people’s cell phones (anonymously), we can see if there are any fluctuations in the population spread of a city, i.e. if there’s an NFL game in the city that night, then we can temporarily adapt utilities, the electricity grid etc. to improve efficiency. <br />
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Furthermore, we currently have the ability to track trash by putting miniature trackers that are powered by 9 volts onto trash items. The trackers can transmit their location as a signal to a computer database. With the data, we can visualize the path of garbage and use that data to shore up inefficiencies in the system.<br />
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Today’s technology also allows us to create floating “pixels” the size of golf balls that can be controlled wirelessly via a computer program. They’re propelled and held in the air by two rotars. Although the size of a golf ball, a collection of thousands of these “pixels” make the perfect screen when viewed from a distance. If I had the money, I'd create a GIANT screen over NY and display my thoughts on it for the whole city to see. Occasionally I'd through up the bat symbol, too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-91948628268232395182011-05-04T11:34:00.000-07:002011-06-01T11:50:33.869-07:00Immortality?“As one corollary of Juan and Steve's hypothesis, humans are speciating into hominids with hitherto unthinkable capabilities, thanks to developments in genomics and genetic engineering. In effect in foreseeable future we can renew our bodies completely from skin cells turned into pluripotent stem cells and can download our memories into the renewed body as binary codes much like computer software.”<br />
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<a href="VIDEO LINK">http://www.ted.com/conversations/2361/will_you_like_to_be_immortal.html<br />
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http://www.ted.com/talks/harvey_fineberg_are_we_ready_for_neo_evolution.html<br />
Interesting talk. <br />
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I need to work hard in order to have the resources to take advantage of all the cool things that are going to come around when I’m older. <br />
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Case and point: soon we’ll able to sequence our genome for $1,000. In the future, if you have money, you’ll probably be able to purchase very customized solutions to your health problems. Maybe even genetically–tailored solutions…Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-59862267524659664072011-01-11T06:38:00.000-08:002011-01-11T06:38:34.073-08:00Pale Blue Dot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png/442px-Pale_Blue_Dot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="599" width="442" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png/442px-Pale_Blue_Dot.png" /></a></div><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot">The famous photo</a> was taken at <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Voyager_blue_dot.svg/800px-Voyager_blue_dot.svg.png">this location</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0">Nasa Should Try Advertising Like This... There's So Much Potential...</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-58680423770926995782011-01-11T06:19:00.000-08:002011-01-11T06:19:12.481-08:00Brilliant Move By Nintendo<a href="http://blog.pikimal.com/geek/2011/01/10/3ds-coins-forward-thinking-by-nintendo/">Giving Kids Points For Excercise; Getting Kids To Take Their 3DS Everywhere They Go</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-17489777200112063632011-01-11T06:16:00.001-08:002011-01-11T06:16:23.825-08:00Meanwhile, In Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/979/16803017779012173941535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="540" width="720" src="http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/979/16803017779012173941535.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-20070386014393311202011-01-11T06:13:00.000-08:002011-01-11T06:13:49.218-08:00What Sarah Palin and Muslims Have In Common...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/UcNWH.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="243" width="535" src="http://i.imgur.com/UcNWH.png" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-52004329250157671422011-01-11T06:05:00.000-08:002011-01-11T06:06:29.780-08:00TED TALKS: Where good ideas come from<b>TED TALKS</b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c">"Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from"<br />
</a>People usually think of good ideas as things that emanate from a single "Eureka!" moment. In this video Steven Johnson argues that most ideas are the result of a heterogeneous collection of minds sharing their findings (and failings). <br />
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<i>Cool ideas from the video</i><br />
- In his study where Kevin Dunbar sought to find where innovations take place in a scientific lab, Dunbar found most innovations come from weekly meeting where scientists share their results (actually mostly when they showed their mistakes)<br />
-GPS resulted from a random group of scientists talking at lunch and sharing their ideas<br />
- A new idea is a network of neurons in your brain firing in a way they never had before <br />
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<b>Also:</b><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions">Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions</a>. Or, how to blow your mind and spend 10 minutes reading random facts. <br />
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<a href="http://www.funzug.com/index.php/nature/amazing-sight-in-the-south-pacific.html">Guys witness the birth of an island.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-47775161738529087842011-01-11T05:53:00.000-08:002011-01-11T05:53:53.629-08:00Saddest Book in the Universe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/1qb4H.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="600" width="435" src="http://i.imgur.com/1qb4H.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Even better, read the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Microwave-One-Sonia-Allison/product-reviews/1852250437/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1">reviews on Amazon.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-54326052371939271122011-01-09T22:21:00.003-08:002011-01-09T22:21:48.276-08:00Why Can't You Walk Straight?<a href="http://vimeo.com/17083789">Even when you're sober...</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-60570464728297458752011-01-09T22:00:00.000-08:002011-01-09T22:00:53.484-08:00Medicine, etc.<a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/brightest-2010/tomoaki-kato-1210">Tomoaki Kato, a transplant surgeon, performed a 23-hour operation termed 'ex vivo surgery', where all of the patient's abdominal organs are removed and then reimplanted in order to excise a tumor.</a> <br />
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This reminds me of the TED talks about the advancement of medicine and anti-aging technologies we should see soon: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iYpxRXlboQ">Watch This.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eyuyj/i_am_the_son_of_a_big_time_drug_dealer_who_killed/">This should be made into a movie</a><br />
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For some quick laughs:<br />
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/83mRF.jpg">Starwars</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w">Old Monty Python: Ministry of Silly Walks</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-22756486189254923732010-12-29T16:05:00.000-08:002010-12-29T16:06:51.322-08:00Music Isn't Ever Created, Just Borrowed and Improved UponColdplay's frontman Chris Martin once said, "I don’t think you can say we’re that original. I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists.”<br />
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I imagine he was just trying to be clever, but quite a few people got upset about that soundbite. Coldplay even got <a href="http://rockonthestreets.com/2008/06/18/coldplay-accused-of-copyright-infringement-by-new-york-band/">slapped on the wrist for copyright infringement later. </a><br />
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But if you play an instrument, you know what I'm talking about. John Mayer takes licks from old Clapton recordings, which Clapton had taken from Robert Johnson in the first place. As for Robert Johnson? <a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Robert-Johnson-the-Legend--the-Devil--the-Crossroads--and-27">He sold his soul to the devil</a>, apparently. Whether you believe in the superstitious part of the <a href="http://www.forever27.co.uk/27/">27 Club</a> or not, <a href="http://www.classicbands.com/27Club.html">this site</a> says a Liverpool University found that musicians more frequently at age 27 than any other age.<br />
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I couldn't find the original study, but I find myself believing it regardless. Musicians are young, hip, and often iconoclastic. 27 seems the right age at which this personality starts to clash with the fact that they're getting older. The resultant emotional instability might be just enough to send a wild rock & roller to party just a little too hard -- and choke on his vomit like Morrison or Hendrix. Whereas the deaths of those two were never proved to be resultant of emotional stress, you have guys like Kurt Cobain. <br />
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Anyways, the 27 Club made damn good music. Here's a song to commemorate them. It's one of my favorites: <br />
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After eating an omlette and some yogurt to keep my <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jan-feb/39">gut happy</a>, I meandered around the internets for a while. If I'm to believe what I read, it turns out that:<br />
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- <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jan-feb/88">It doesn't matter if you're parents are gay, you'll turn out ok<br />
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- <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2010/the-brain-2/27-metal-marvel-mended-brains-50-years-lithium">Lithium has potential to be a panacea (at least for psychological diseases) but since it's not profitable for pharmaceutical companies, we don't study it</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8228192/Political-views-hard-wired-into-your-brain.html">Political views are hard-wired in your brain </a>(take this with a grain of salt...)<br />
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I then came across <a href="http://i.imgur.com/kIyD1.jpg">this comic</a>, which hit way too close to home... I'm going to go do something productive for a while.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-63500335530855887302010-12-27T11:10:00.000-08:002010-12-27T15:08:44.725-08:00Still Stuck In Cape CodBecause of <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_winter_weather">this</a> storm. (Thankfully not <a href="http://asset.soup.io/asset/1360/6154_bb13.jpeg">this</a> one.)<br />
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<b>Interesting Links:</b><br />
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What would happen if a jet hit the wall of a nuclear containment building at 500mph? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vlt7swhCM">This.</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101225/ap_on_re_us/us_message_in_a_bottle"> Confederate Message In A Bottle</a><br />
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I found <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/aljazeeratop102010/">this</a> to be a more fascinating glimpse of 2010 than Time's Person of the Year award<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/26/AR2010122600610.html">A better alternative to the War On Drugs?</a><br />
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<a href="http://i.imgur.com/hBriM.gif">Close Call</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359738148670614495.post-50493812591826413482010-12-26T12:21:00.000-08:002010-12-27T11:19:24.747-08:00Inaugural PostIn New England for Christmas. Stuck indoors thanks to a <a href="http://vimeo.com/18213768">blizzard</a>, so I'm watching the Patriots and watching random Youtube videos. In other words, living the American Dream. <br />
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Lions! <strike>Ft. Tigers and Bears.</strike> <br />
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Trippy Animation, Trippy Music:<br />
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Man In Wheel Chair With Anger Issues:<br />
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Really Really Really Sweet Beatboxing: <br />
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<b>Interesting Links:</b><br />
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<a href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3498349.ece">An unsanitised history of washing</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26kristof.html?_r=1">The Big (Military) Taboo</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.neuroquantology.com/repository/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:honeybees-are-found-to-interact-with-quantum-fields&catid=59:quantum-field-theory-in-brain&Itemid=70">Bees & Quantum Mechanics</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0