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Last I talked with Booty, he was living in the psych ward and very concerned about Freemasons taking over his neighborhood.

I still don't get it.

Dude was in the process of totally losing touch with reality.

Child of Eris, see.

Gotcha.  He getting the help he needs?

You mean he didn't get it here?   

Very funny!  A member here is ill, and it's all a big joke!

You are arguably the worst human being that has ever slithered onto this forum.  Even worse than Dr Cowass, the racist.

says the guy who was a total douchebag to BB iirc

sleazeball.

Clarification:

Last I talked with Booty, he was living in the psych ward and very concerned about Freemasons taking over his neighborhood.

I still don't get it.

Dude was in the process of totally losing touch with reality.

Child of Eris, see.

Gotcha.  He getting the help he needs?

You mean he didn't get it here?   

Its faster, geared towards instant gratification, and means that people don't have to work through their problems and see reality.

In other words, sign of the times.

Scanner Darkly anyone?

lindemans is like $7.99 a bottle.... yuo sure that shit's good?

Prove me wrong.

I love pinot noir.   Is Lindemans sold in many stores?  How much a bottle?

[Screensaver reveals new test for synaesthesia]

Screensaver reveals new test for synaesthesia

Caltech scientist Melissa Saenz has found that with certain visual stimuli, from moving dots to flashes of light, people described simple abstract sounds such as tapping, thumping, whirring or whooshing.

I tried it, and it didn't work on me.  I'd be curious to hear it work on someone here.
Synesthesia test

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Invention: Exoskeleton for grannies

Yoshiyuki Sankai at the University of Tsukuba has developed an exoskeleton for a single arm that can improve the strength and utility of aging limbs.

The device consists of a tabard worn over the shoulders with a motorized exoskeleton for one arm attached. The exoskeleton senses the angle, torque and nerve impulses in the arm and then assists the user to move his or her shoulder and elbow joints accordingly.

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A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials.

Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

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The quickest/roughest way I can think of is to drag a bunch of songs into Audacity, and then render the file as one huge MP3/OGG.

Would that be about right?

maybe combine the parts between songs with songs on either side, to get the right fading and what-not, and then queue it up with the playlist, with a subtle auto-fade between tracks.   that's what i was thinking of doing.

okay fixed:

"Freedom Appreciation Zone"
"No False Fingernails"
"Not a Free Speech Zone"
"Remove Footwear"

wtf?   O_o

please 2 fix spelling on these

fashion, not fashon

thx   ^_^*

Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon

from the Washington Post (Registration Required)

Turns out, it is a small world.  The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances.

The database covered all of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network in June 2006, or roughly half the world's instant-messaging traffic at that time, researchers said.

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In the "largest social network constructed and analyzed to date," Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University researchers investigated Maximise Your Easy Hyper Links - Video Tutorials Plus Free Link Cloaker  on a planetary scale the oft-cited report that people are separated by "six degrees of separation."

Based on 30 billion Microsoft Messenger instant-message conversations among 240 million people, the study found that the average path length among Messenger users was 6.6.

"Researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances," a Washington Post article stated.

However, one publication, eFluxMedia, suggested the study was "heavily misinterpreted" by the media.

"MSN Messenger users are not a random group of people. Their use of the Redmond company's instant messaging tool is already a selection which raises chances they can connect to each other in fewer hops. Furthermore, instant messaging itself is not a measure of real life connections. Also, somebody can have many contacts in their instant messenger client, without actually knowing them. Microsoft researchers considered acquaintances people who sent each other at least one message. But with the mass messages going around, that's hardly an accurate way of determining connections between people."

In a related story, questioning the validity of inferences from potentially skewed or incomplete data, last week, Microsoft posted videos of a test involving about 140 randomly chosen computer users who had low opinions of Vista viewing a demo of a "new operating system" called "Mojave" (actually Vista), finding they liked it.

Nevertheless, the New York Time stated, "many bloggers had problems with how the Mojave Experiment was conducted. The main complaint was: is 10 minutes of watching an expert demonstrate Vista a valid basis on which to assess it?"



SOURCE: Berkeley Lab news release
An international group of scientists has produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made, thousands of times more efficiently than previous x-ray-holographic methods.

The two experiments demonstrate that massively parallel holographic x-ray images with nanometer-scale resolution can be made of objects measured in microns, in times as brief as femtoseconds, using a pinhole array.

By knowing the precise layout of a pinhole array, including the different sizes of the different pinholes, a computer can recover a bright, high-resolution image numerically.

The researchers believe the holograms could be pushed to only a few nanometers, or, using computer refinement, even better.



SOURCE: Wired Science
Rumors are flying this weekend that Mars Phoenix has made a major discovery relating to the potential for life on Mars.

The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the "potential for life" on Mars, scientists told Aviation Week & Space Technology.

Joy. So that would put me about on a level with the rest of you guys?

ABSOLUTELY.   

[real]

Meh.  I blame it on the text message generation.

what?

- triplezero,
text message generation

If you were a real thumbtyper that would have been "wht".... or just "?"  (ok.. maybe "???")

stop playing dumb. there is no significant character limit on forum posts. you're generalizing retardedness and laziness over an entire generation.

Like Jabberwocky, but with 20% less made-up words! Well done, Rook!

davedim, cram, and payne: you r all criticizing the verbiage yes?

i realized it was verbose and perhaps a bit gaudy, but it felt like i evoked the correct imagery for the concept

it's basically a personal interpretation of an old zen koan

Ur a brillint poet