Balls Deep wrote:
] ] Genetic testing confirms that the cow diagnosed with the
] ] first U.S. case of mad cow disease was born in Canada
]
] It's official, the Canadians are trying to do us in. All
] Canadians should be treated as Enemy Combatants.

Hey now....watch it:P
-Nano

RE: ajc.com | News | DNA on mad cow Holstein

damnit.....even though I am pissed about the ipod mini (everything being mini but the price), they have this commercial on their site that is fucking fantastic. Watch it...its pretty cool

Apple - Hardware - Ads - 20 Years of Macintosh 1984-2004

Decius wrote:
] When people heard about the iPod mini they were thinking mini
] means smaller means cheaper. Unfortunately, thats not at all
] what Apple was thinking. In this case mini apparently means
] more feminine, while also being less useful, for about the
] same price. This is the Paris Hilton of iPods. You can pay
] $299 for a 15 gig hard drive, or $250 for a 4 gig hard drive.
] Really a no brainer unless you care more about pastel colors
] then you do about your money. A real disappointment. There is
] a significant market segment here for people who want a well
] designed device that holds enough music for a plane flight but
] doesn't cost more then the ticket. Apple has missed the boat.
] I don't think these are going to sell very well.

Damnit. Thats disappointing. See, there was a company that makes some of the hardware for the ipods that came out with a 2gb drive for $70. So the rumor mill people picked up on that and decided that apple would use that and charge less for the ipod. Too bad...I was going to get one if they were only $100...Apple needs to consider the grad student market damnit:) We spend hours in the lab, and it would be useful to have a good mp3 player to listen to while working....but none of us can afford apples prices.

RE: Apple - iPod mini - Smaller, Dumber, but not Cheaper

] Since their discovery in 1982, prions have been mostly
] associated with deadly and devastating neurodegenerative
] disorders%u2014notably variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
] and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Nevertheless, some
] maintain that the mechanism by which prions change their
] shape and aggregate might be put to good use in
] biological systems. In back-to-back papers in the
] December 26 issue of Cell, researchers ascribe prion-like
] properties to an elegant mechanism involved in
] maintaining memory

This is interesting...its also kinda cool that this came along right after I decided that I would probably write about prions for my grant writing course

The Scientist :: Good news for prions?

] FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin answers some tough
] regulatory questions raised by the "constantly morphing"
] VoIP services
]
]
]
] When is a phone call not a phone call? That's the
] question the Federal Communications Commission will try
] to answer this year in its deliberations over voice over
] Internet protocol (VoIP), a technology that allows voice
] calls to zip over the Net instead of across traditional
] copper wires. Unfortunately for the FCC, the answer is
] anything but clear.

BW Online | January 6, 2004 | New Rules for the New Telecom

] analysts and Web sites that track Apple Computer Inc. are
] speculating that the company will unveil a line of
] smaller, cheaper versions of its popular but pricey iPod
] digital music players.

Steve Jobs talks tommorrow (tuesday) morning at the Macworld convention in SF....lets hope the buzz of the unveiling of the mini-ipod are not unfounded rumors:)

iPod at center of buzz / Rumors predict new affordable player at Macworld

Decius wrote:
] The 2005 Mustang is absolutely beautiful. Old school styling
] inside and out. Really a sea change for Ford. This is a
] menacing automobile. I can't wait to see one.

Werd.....I can't wait to see one either....or to buy one for that matter:) Maybe when I am 30 and finally out of grad school...:)
-Nano

RE: TheMustangSource.com | 2005 Mustang Pictures

Our simple theory and experiments provide a unified view of the creeping, undulating, and inchworming gaits observed in limbless locomotion on land, all of which originate as symmetry-breaking bifurcations of a simple base state associated with periodic longitudinal oscillations of a slender gel. These ideas are therefore also applicable to technological situations that involve moving small, soft solids on substrates.

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Biomimetic ratcheting motion of a soft, slender, sessile gel

] Giant rats in Sub-Saharan Africa are being trained to
] sniff out tuberculosis in humans

So I walked into Tom and I's living room the other day and caught the headline "Giant rats to sniff out tuberculosis" go by on the LCD screen Tom has set up. Needless to say, I had to hunt down the article to see what the hell it is about:) - Nano

New Scientist - Giant rats to sniff out tuberculosis

Scientists have developed a vibrating gel that creeps, crawls and slithers just as worms, snails and snakes do. Manoj K. Chaudhury of Lehigh University and his colleagues describe their artificial creepy-crawly--a hydrogel rod made out of the polymer acrylamide and water--in a report published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Good pets?

[Sweet - I wanna make one in the lab - Nano]

Polymer Snail Crawls Like the Real Thing