Following up on our previous brief discussion, I'm very curious what would happen if the laptop was seized due to my refusal to allow the search.

The forensic team will recognize immediately that my entire home directory is encrypted with FileVault. Assuming FV is secure (i don't really know), what're they gonna do about it?

As you say, absent some law penalizing me for non-compliance, seems like they're SOL.

Have you seen anything in your reading that deals with this subject?

-k

This is by far the most elaborate website under construction graphic set that I have ever seen. Check it out now as they may no longer be under construction soon.

[Wow. yeah it is. That's insane. And cool. -k]

The Iconfactory Under Construction

Beta Busts 5
Video games that never got made. (78 entries)

As usual, a few really funny ones...

I particularly liked GTA:Saskatchewan, Seal Shooter, EA Sports FIFA Fighter and Metal Bear Solid.

The picture on GTA:Saskatchewan - a lonely guy in the middle of nowhere - is hilarious.

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest

Now Josef Penninger of the Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna and Min Zhao of the University of Aberdeen, UK, have demonstrated that natural electric fields and currents in tissue play a vital role in orchestrating the wound-healing process by attracting repair cells to damaged areas.

The researchers have also identified the genes that control the process. "We were originally sceptical, but then we realised it was a real effect and looked for the genes responsible," Penninger says. "It's not homeopathy, it's biophysics."

I wonder if further research could lead to a reconciliation of sorts between eastern and western medicine?

[Rad. ]

NewScientist: To heal a wound, turn up the voltage

A bit of the old Ultraviolence.

[ I'm so going next time I'm in the city. Fuck yes. -k]

Korova Milk Bar | East Village, NYC

So freaking awesome.

Cabinet Magazine Online - How To Grow A Chair: An Interview with Richard Reames

Looks like fucking Mars.

-k

Google Maps - where am I?

Someone's got a pretty sweet, Stealth Bomber shaped mansion in the Hills south of San Francisco (San Mateo?)...

-k

Google Maps

Very cool... I'm excited by all the activity in privateer spaceflight.

SPACE.com -- EXCLUSIVE: Bigelow Orbital Module Launched into Space

"SENS has many unsupported claims and is certainly not scientifically proven. I personally would be surprised if de Grey is correct in the majority of his claims. However, I don't think Estep et al. have proved that SENS is false; that would require more research. In some cases, SENS makes claims that run parallel to existing research (while being more sensational). Future investigation into those areas will almost certainly illuminate the controversy. Until that time, people like Estep et al. are free to doubt SENS. I share many of those doubts, but it would be overstating the case to assert that Estep et al. have proved their point."

[ Seems disingenuous. Essentially, Myhrvold, speaking for the judges, is saying that the submissions failed to successfully argue that SENS doesn't deserve learned debate and careful study because no one has yet done careful study.

The challenge, as I understand it, was explicitly to present a case for dismissing the concepts of SENS. I think that's pretty silly to begin with, but given that, it's contradictory to ask people to write dismissively, and then tell them they haven't taken the concepts seriously enough.

Anyway, I've read de Grey and I put his work largely in the category of religion. It sounds wonderful and makes you feel good, but it stresses the limits of reason to accept as true.

Nonetheless, people must put their money where their mouth is, so to speak. If the proposals are so patently absurd, then demonstrate them as such. Do the science. -k]

Technology Review: Is Defeating Aging Only a Dream?