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Nano Ring
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No comments on Nano RingThe Nano Ring – the Lord of the Rings parody thread has been circulating around the Internet for a while now, but if you’re a fan of Peter F. Hamilton, there’s a great send up of his neverending propensity to make up reams of technical specifications and acronyms in The Nano Ring…
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MREs
Son of Spam – a fun article about the US military’s latest advances in creating edible and long lasting food for troops on the move. Says Darsch: “It wasn’t the four-letter words” in soldiers’ letters that caused his lab to abandon its “father knows best mentality” about MREs [meals ready to eat]. “It was the…
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Kill Bill
Kill Bill Teaser Trailer – it’s one of those trailers where you think, ‘I don’t care if the film is shit, the trailer is amazing.’
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Nine degrees of separation
Steppe by step – a nice article about a journalist testing out Milgram’s theory that any two people in the world are only separated by a chain of six acquaintances. The journalist decided to see how many people it would take for her to meet a Mongolian herdsman.
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Another two weeks on Mars
Mars in Utah – my friend Katie is part of the Mars Society Desert Research Station Crew 11 (I was in Crew 9) and she’s writing a weblog about her experiences. If you enjoyed reading my Two Weeks on Mars weblog and would like to have a different perspective that perhaps doesn’t concentrate so much…
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Collective
Collective – the BBC’s latest effort to create its own online community and yet more evidence of their web savvyness. As pointed out on Metafilter, it’s more accessible than h2g2, but to my eyes the front page looks far too busy for newcomers. What I’d like to know is how on Earth the BBC manages…
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Pattern Recognition
A major part of my project involves me taking recordings of a signal (in this case, electrochemical spikes from a neuron) and discriminating them from the noise inherent in the system…
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Stepping out
So for a couple of hours this evening I tried to replicate the Dance Dance Revolution experience using my PC. Waiting for me at Cambridge today were two nice new Playstation gamepad USB adaptors that I bought off Ebay; I was intending to hook my two dance mats up to the computer via USB, download…
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Digital TV
An interesting quotation from this week’s New Scientist confirms what I’ve suspected* for a while: The latest 42 inch widescreen flat plasma panel screens cost around $7000, not counting a $250 wall mount and the digital tuner needed to receive broadcasts. Yet customers appear unconvinced of their quality. It turns out you cannot see the…
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WMD
In the Sunday Times today is a short opinion article by John Humphries; it’s a relatively pedestrian essay about how we shouldn’t make AK-47s any more, etc etc. Not really worthy of note, other than the fact that its title, ‘AK-47s are weapons of mass destruction too’ is quite obviously ripped off from Michigan’s Lake…
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