By David Pescovitz at 5:18 pm Monday, Oct 3
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The Ginkgo Pictures series that British artists Gilbert & George created for the
Venice Biennial 2005 are available for free download. Big, beautiful, high-res files. (Seen here: Fates, 2005, 426 x 760 cm)
Link (via AEIOU: Excuse my French!)
By David Pescovitz at 3:27 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Here's a sad story of a Trinidadian woman who swallowed 100 thumb-sized packets of cocaine to smuggle into England. From the BBC News:
She was told to wash them down with Coca-Cola. Three men stood guard and every three hours another man would come to check she was getting on with the task.
"It was frightful to be swallowing these things, it was horrible. I felt I was going to be sick but they gave me some black coffee. I had only taken 20 and they said I had three hours to take the other 80..."
When she had finally managed to ingest all 100 packages she was put on a flight to London with another man whom she was to pretend was her common law husband.
She was told not to eat on the flight although she did anyway, little knowing that eating stimulates gastric juices which can burn through the latex and cause the bags to burst. Fortunately, this did not happen.
Link (Thanks, Carlo Longino!)
By Cory Doctorow at 3:23 pm Monday, Oct 3
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From about 1965 to just a couple years ago, the Great Moments with Mr Lincoln Show ran dozens of time every day at the end of Disneyalnd's Main Street, USA. The Lincoln robot's speech is an inspiring little pastiche of several of his addresses, and it about as fiery as anything you'll hear at Disneyland.
Dan Howland, of the Journal of Ride Theory, created a character in the online game version of Disneyland, The Virtual Magic Kingdom, which is a graphic chat environment. The chat app censors words it thinks might be naughty, to "protect" the kids who use it.
Howland's character stood in the middle of the virtual town square, next to the virtual flagpole, and attempted to have his character utter Mr Lincoln's famous, familiar words.
The censor cut them to ribbons. Words in red are words that were blocked:
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty that God has planted in our bosums. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Thanks, Danny!)
By David Pescovitz at 2:41 pm Monday, Oct 3
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In the new issue of Newsweek, veteran tech journalist Steven Levy profiles inventor Danny Hillis. From the article:
...Hillis has never had to put out an APB for his inner child.
This becomes clear as soon as one crosses the threshold of Applied Minds, which sprawls over five flat buildings in an industrial area of Glendale, Calif. Behind an ordinary reception area, a door opens to a small room with only a red phone booth that could have been a prop in an Austin Powers movie. Hillis picks up the handset. "The blue moon jumps over the purple sky," he says, a twinkle in his eye acknowledging the corniness of the process. The wall behind him opens up to what geeks hope to see when they go to heaven: a vast room packed with brainiacs at work and exquisitely bizarre gizmos, ranging from a 13-foot skeleton of a robot dinosaur to a gleaming outback vehicle loaded with more communications gear than the trailers outside "Monday Night Football." It's a virtual museum of the future that rambles over several buildings.
At every turn, there's something to make your mouth hang open. Here's an array of data-display screens that looks like Han Solo's cockpit. There's a room populated with architectural mock-ups of "podules," fully wired instant buildings designed for stealthy government agencies (that's a picture of Donald Rumsfeld running a meeting in the full-scale version of the model sitting beneath it). Another area looks like Albert Einstein's chop shop, stuffed with half- disassembled Cadillac Escalade SUVs hooked up to exotic telemetry. Oops! Almost stepped on a six-foot-long robotic snake, slithering on the floor with scary fidelity to a pit viper.
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By Mark Frauenfelder at 1:42 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Thedrama.org has an interview with one of my favorite artists, Amy Crehore.
My grandmother in Philadelphia had piles of the latest comic books and all of the classic children’s books. We used to sit on her porch swing and read about “Archie” and “Little Lulu”, “Madeline”, “Pippi Longstocking” and “Nancy Drew”. I loved “MAD” magazine and I even started my own humor magazine with a little printing press and distributed it around the neighborhood.
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By Cory Doctorow at 1:41 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Nicholas Cage's new son is named "Kal-El Cage."
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via Warren Ellis)
By Cory Doctorow at 1:39 pm Monday, Oct 3
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A variety of companies are experimenting with adding fizzy carbonation to dairy products, fruit and other non-soda-pop/Champagne items. I expect that this would generate several interesting twists on milk coming out of your nose.
"We just have to get the idea across to the nation that carbonation is not really bad for you," Astle said. "Carbonation has sold an awful lot of sugar and pop. Why not use it to sell something that's healthy?"...
"When you put the product on your tongue you get a woosh of gas that comes off the product and onto your mouth," said John Brisson, a mechanical engineering professor and co-developer of the carbonated ice cream. "With soda you don't get this woosh kind of thing."
Carbonation could extend to other foods and beverages as well. At Brigham Young, Ogden said the process used to make bubbly yogurt also works well with pudding, gelatin and similarly textured foods.
A company called Fizzy Fruit plans to introduce carbonated, cut fruit to sell at schools and other venues.
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By Cory Doctorow at 1:36 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Ann Harrison has a Wired News story today about the unGoogleables: people who by accident or design do not appear in Google:
These unGoogleables don't post online, blog, publish or build web pages using their own names. They're careful about revealing information to businesses, belong to few organizations that can leak personal data, and never submit online résumés -- all common ways that Google captures your data. They spoke to Wired News only on condition that their names be changed for this story.
Agalia says she visits online poker sites, but always enters false data not tied to her true identity. She limits online purchases and favors websites vetted by Truste and other privacy-monitoring groups. Presented with a sweepstakes offer at Legoland, Agalia said she backed out when she was required to submit personal information.
"I try to protect myself from identity theft," says Agalia, who says a would-be thief tried to use her credit card number a few months ago but got the expiration date wrong. "I shred bills, I don't give out information and I don't talk to telemarketers."
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By Cory Doctorow at 1:34 pm Monday, Oct 3
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This sonic grenade is marketed as a tool for waking up recalcitrant loved ones:
The Sonic Alarm makes the whole 'getting them out of bed' exercise a very simple, and indeed amusing, operation. Looking like an old-fashioned comedy hand grenade, the Sonic Alarm will wake pretty well anything up. Simply pull the pin, yell an emphatic "fire in the hole" and lob the grenade into the sleeper's room. After ten seconds a very annoying and piercingly loud noise (there are three volume settings) will blast out from the alarm. That's not all however, what makes this especially great is that to stop the alarm the sleeper has to find you so you can put the pin back in. It's stupid, and brilliant, and will be the bane of every over-sleeper on the planet.
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via Red Ferret)
By David Pescovitz at 1:19 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Bates College in Lewiston, Maine has launched Cryptozoology: Out Of Time Place Scale, a Web site supporting their upcoming symposium and exhibition exploring the intersection between art and cryptozoology. (Of course, the wonderful
Jill Miller, who was publicly
"Waiting For Bigfoot" this past summer, will be participating.) The physical art exhibition doesn't open until June 2006, but there's a symposium October 28-30. My cryptozoologist pal
Loren Coleman will give the keynote. Panelists include the likes of Jeffrey Vallance, Rachel Berwick, and the incredible photographer
Rosamond Purcell, whose work is seen here.
From the project Web site:
Under the umbrella of cryptozoology (CZ) this project including a symposium, exhibition, book and film series aims to explore a pursuit where the disciplines of science and art share a mutual focal point, a desperately desired visual encounter. By [Rosamond Purcell] virtue of its collective scientific aims CZ is forced to engage in subjective longing and constructions as a primary tool towards discovery, comprehension and legitimization. It is this subjectivity, this means to an end, that is often at odds with the scientific community. As a practice CZ is based on the search for visual and material evidence where every piece of proof, every proposition is questioned and placed under extreme scrutiny. Nearly all accumulated data is saved, regardless of authenticity, so that when the puzzle is solved the data can be objectively classified or cast aside as meaningless.
CZ is a fascinating zone of inquiry for contemporary artists interested in the fertile margins of the history of science and museums, taxonomy, myth, creativity and discovery. The theme out of time place scale provides an opportunity to challenge the taxonomic limitations of hierarchy, linearity, chronology and/or context that museums and art history manipulate to control presentation and reception. Staking out a position or non-site that blurs the boundaries between time place scale and choosing not to deconstruct predominant museum ideologies this project constructs an alternative mode of address that favors a return to the organized mayhem, wonder, delight, spiritual and intellectual adventurism of pre-enlightenment curio cabinets.
The very definition of CZ implies a quest, a search of something not yet realized; Loren Coleman, the pre-eminent cryptozoologist, suggests that CZ is the interest in animals out of time, place, or scale.
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By David Pescovitz at 12:53 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Now open in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge Experience Cafe serves salted rice-water, corn with water and leaves, dove eggs, and tea for $6. The waitresses sport the fatigue style worn by Pol Pot's guerillas. Form Reuters:
"Our grandfather and other relatives lost their lives under Pol Pot's regime," said 17-year-old manager Hakpry Agnchealy, whose brother owns the business. "This is more than just a restaurant. It is to remind us of those who died."
"We opened two weeks ago, but have only had two Europeans coming here to eat. We don't know how much longer we can go," she said...
Recognizing that many tourists might not be able to stomach such a close brush with the Killing Fields, the "Khmer Rouge Experience Cafe" is also promoting itself to those wishing to shed a few pounds.
Link (Thanks, Vann Hall!)
UPDATE: According to this Agence France-Presse article, the Khmer Rouge Experience (apparently AKA the History Cafe) has been closed down after it was found "that it had no license," says the tourism ministry secretary of state.
Link (Thanks, Jacob Wilding Avery!)
By Cory Doctorow at 12:23 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Man, the Internet Archive just keeps on knockin' 'em out of the park. They've just announced a deal with Yahoo and a bunch of universities to go one better than Google Print: they're scanning and making available zillions of Public Domain and in-copyright books, under a license that lets rival search engines index and make available their full text. As Brewster sez in this
NYT article, ""Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books."
Although the new project will not be a direct source of revenue of Yahoo, it could give the company's search feature more visibility. The announcement also establishes a new round in the battle between Yahoo and Google over index size - the number of documents that can be found in a search engine's database.
Yet the new project's approach differs from Google's in several ways. Once a book has been digitized, Yahoo will integrate the content into its index and provide an engine for the group's Web site (opencontentalliance.org). "As soon as it's made available on the O.C.A. Web site, we'll get a feed letting us know, so it can be indexed by us immediately," said David Mandelbrot, vice president of search content at Yahoo.
In a departure from Google's approach, the Open Content Alliance will also make the books accessible to any search engine, including Google's. (Under Google's program, a digitized book would show up only through a Google search.) And by focusing at first on works that are in the public domain - such as thousands of volumes of early American fiction - the group is sidestepping the tricky question of copyright violation.
Link
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Thanks, Brewster!)
By Mark Frauenfelder at 12:17 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Edwin Gore says: "The art group Chaos Studios here in Colorado springs has recently put up a display called "Blackmail Boxes" in downtown. It consists of black mailboxes with various threatening, blackmail related phrases on the sides. It's a pretty weird feeling when you come across them unsuspecting. I've put up a flickr set of photos."
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By Cory Doctorow at 12:04 pm Monday, Oct 3
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Dick Hardt, the founder and CEO of Sxip, a digital identity company, gave a barn-burner of a presentation on "Identity 2.0" at the O'Reilly Open Source conference. I've been meaning to watch this for weeks and have only just gotten round to it, and I'm glad I did. I'm pretty skeptical about digital identity, but Dick's presentation made me really reconsider my views. He makes a compelling case for believing that companies can be forced to let their customers own their identity information -- Slashdot karma, eBay feedback, Amazon prefs, etc -- and that customers have a good reason to want to own all of this. Dick also nicked Larry Lessig's Powerpoint-fu, and as a result, his slides are really compelling and great. I loved this.
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By Mark Frauenfelder at 12:01 pm Monday, Oct 3
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NASA's near Earth Object Program says the odds that a 400-meter asteroid, named 2004 MN4, will crash into Earth in 2029 is 1-in-60. An asteroid of this size hits our planet every ten thousand years or so. The asteroid rates a 4 on the ten-point
Torino Scale.
Torino scale 4: "A close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers. Current calculations give a 1% or greater chance of collision capable of regional devastation. Most likely, new telescopic observations will lead to re-assignment to Level 0. Attention by public and by public officials is merited if the encounter is less than a decade away."
It's likely the odds will increase in our favor over time, but according to Mosnews, Viktor Shor of the Practical Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences says "his research predicts that the asteroid’s orbit could change and it may return in seven years [following the first near miss in 2028 or 2029], this time crashing into the Earth’s surface."
According to the model, the impact of a 500-meter asteroid traveling at a speed of 10-20 kilometers per second hitting the ocean would cause a circular wave 200-meters high. An asteroid 10 kilometers in diameter would cause a tsunami 4 kilometers high which would be about 400 meters high as it hit land. The scientists say that a similar disaster took place millions of years ago and resulted in the extinction of 90 percent of all living species.
By way of comparison, the asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 was only 50 meters across. The blast was equivalent to 800 Hiroshima atom bombs and completely wiped out a half a million acres of forest. The asteroid (or comet) that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 10-kilometers in diameter.
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Reader comment: douglips says:
"The information on 2004 MN4 you gave is out of date - there was a subsequent news release dated February 3 which ruled out impact in 2029. However, there is still a possibility of impact in 2036, a little more than 1 in 1000.
"Also, note that this asteroid has been renamed Apophis, which I'm sure will satisfy Stargate SG-1 fans everywhere.
"CURRENT risk profile for Apophis, should be updated by NASA occasionally: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
"Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_MN4
"More recent news release than the December 2004 one previously cited on Boing Boing: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news149.html"
By Cory Doctorow at 11:44 am Monday, Oct 3
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Part Four of my serialized novel-in-progress, Themepunks, is up on Salon today. This installment deals with the arrival of the first MBA on the little hacker enclave in South Florida, and what he plans to do with their imaginations:
"You know," he said, after they'd ordered coffee and desert, "it's all about abundance. I want my kids to grow up with abundance, and whatever is going on right now, it's providing abundance in abundance. The self-storage industry is bigger than the recording industry, did you know that? All they do is provide a place to put stuff that we own that we can't find room for -- that's superabundance."
"I have a locker in Milpitas," she said.
"There you go. It's a growth industry." He drank his coffee. On the way back to their cars, he said, "My daughter, Anushka, is 12, and my son, Lee, is 8. I haven't lived with them in four years and I've only seen them twice since. They're good kids, though. It just couldn't work with their mother. She's Russian, and connected -- that's how we met, I was hustling for my import-export business and she had some good connections -- so after the divorce there was no question of my taking the kids with me. But they're good kids."
"Only twice?"
"We videoconference. Who knew that long-distance divorce was the killer app for videoconferencing?"
Link
Part One Link,
Part Two Link,
Part Three Link
By Cory Doctorow at 11:38 am Monday, Oct 3
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Dustini sez, "Hey, the woman who
placed corporate logos on insects has struck again. I think it would be best if I'd just quote what's on her flickr page:
'For some reason, early last year, I was highly amused by the idea of making drawings with all the hair that collected on the walls of the communal showers.'
So, what did she do? Make pictures out of hairs found in the shower. Hilarious!"
Link
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Thanks, Dustini!)
By Cory Doctorow at 11:30 am Monday, Oct 3
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I've just finished reading "How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard," co-authored by Penn Jillette and Mickey D. Lynn. The book purports to be a how-to manual of cheating from a master card-cheat, crook and hustler, as recounted to (and written down by) Jillette and Lynn. I'm not sure if it's a genuine account, a composite account from many card-sharps, or a fiction from the whole cloth, and I don't care. It was a thoroughly fascinating and enjoyable read.
I don't know when I've ever read a book that was more hard-boiled. It read like a cross between the classic con-man study The Big Con and a Dashiell Hammett novel. The author's account makes him out to be a genuine sociopath, and his descriptions of dealing bottoms and seconds, goading other players into acting badly, sneaking chips and the contents of home-game strongboxes are filled with a gleeful species of braggadocio that makes it clear that this guy is a lot more fun to read about than to meet (likewise, the HOWTOs for surviving the inevitable beatings you'll endure when you get caught are clear enough warning to me that moral considerations aside, cheating at cards is just a bad idea).
There's an hilarious appendix of card-sharp lingo that tells many tales -- I love slang and jargon and word-play.
I've always been a fan of this little sub-genre of narrative accounts of con-men, gamblers and so forth. I don't gamble at all, don't even play the lotto (we call it the stupidity tax in my household) but I find reading about the crazy, hell-for-leather, grifting exploits of amoral con-artists just fascinating.
The book's got many grace-notes but my favorite is that when you remove the dust-jacket, there's a different title printed on the back of the book (nominally so you can read it without arousing suspicion): THE HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS IN AMERICA BY DB RICHARDS.
Home games are ripe for the picking. There are more George games going on in a bullshit town than you'll ever find at the swankiest casino in Vegas. A lot of people would rather blow their money in their weekly payday game than spend a bundle on tickets and hotels to get to the closest casino. If they stay at home, they have more money to play with and more to lose to you. Why should you split your money with Wayne Newton.
There are pros and there are cons (other than you) in the home game. First, you'll have to play with a lot of idiots. Don't let them frustrate you. Many of them won't know the game. Almost every single one of them will believe that they're a "much better than average" player. They'll try to be hip and act like riverboat gamblers. One guy I played with proudly showed his pocket aces and announced that he had "US Air" instead of "American Airlines" (A-A). They'll make you sick because they're so stupid and so easily taken. Don't get cynical. They're like children. Be patient and support them. Children aren't smart; they're little robots that do and feel what you teach them to do and feel. Unlike children, home game players won't give you their love, they'll only give you their money. And that's better any day.
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By Cory Doctorow at 11:02 am Monday, Oct 3
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For the past year-and-some, I've been attending meetings of the Digital Video Broadcasters' CPCM, a standards-group that is writing Europe's equivalent to the Broadcast Flag. I've just filed a report with a British House of Commons committee that is holding an inquiry into the digital television transition. This is one of the very first detailed papers on the subject, and I hope to release more as I'm able -- we've limited ourselves to discussion of the elements that have been made public by the chairs, and as more of this becomes public, I'll be publishing more on the subject.
The DVB CPCM specification is being developed in closed-door meetings. Joining DVB costs 10,000 Euros per year, and membership is only open to manufacturers, broadcasters, studios, and academics. Its proceedings and intermediate work products are not widely published or publicized.
Most of the details of CPCM have not been publicly disclosed. The material in this section is drawn from two public presentations, one given by the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) Vice-President, Jim Williams, at the DVB World Conference in Dublin in March 2005, the other given by DVB Content Protection Technical Group chairman Chris Hibbert to the MPAA's Copy Protection Technical Working Group in Los Angeles in January 2005.
CPCM is a system to "enable...current & future business models." To accomplish this, CPCM employs three areas of specification:
* Usage State Information (USI). This is a set of commands that can be embedded in a TV programme. These commands instruct a DTV receiver to apply particular restrictions to the programme received by the device. Elements of USI include "Copy Once" and "Copy Never," "Proximity Control" and "View No More." The level of control afforded by USI is particularly extensive and fine-grained compared to the "rights expression" in older use-restriction schemes. This more precise level of control is intentional and regarded as beneficial by its authors.
* Definitions. CPCM defines new terms, "Authorised Domain" and "Local Environment." The definitions of these terms effectively set the boundaries of what a valid family is ("Authorised Domain") and how far apart two devices are allowed to be in order to interact ("Local Environment").
* Compliance rules. This is a set of rules for DTV device manufacturers. They limit the choices manufacturers can make in developing their products, and require them to implement technological measures they might not choose to use otherwise.
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By Mark Frauenfelder at 10:25 am Monday, Oct 3
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Japan times has a short list of
otaku (obsessive fangeeks) jargon.
Hesoten -- laid-back, secure, happy. Literally means sprawled on one's back with one's belly-button pointing skyward.
Haniwa rukku -- High-school girls, particularly in northeast Japan, have taken to wearing sweat pants under their short uniform skirts to discourage the ubiquitous camera peepers. By so doing, they resemble the garments on haniwa, the clay figures placed around prehistoric grave mounds.
Nonai kanojo -- literally "brain-inside girlfriend." It means the girl of one's fantasies -- a virtual partner who does not actually exist. The opposite would be riaru (real) kanojo.
Link (via Japundit)
By Cory Doctorow at 9:51 am Monday, Oct 3
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Dark chocolate has long been a folk-remedy for diarrhea, and a new study from a children's hospital in Oakland confirms the scientific basis for it:
History shows that the use of cocoa to treat diarrhea dates back to the 16th century by ancient South American and European cultures. Until now, no one knew exactly why the cocoa bean appeared to be a remedy. "Our research successfully proves that this ancient myth is really based on scientific principals," said Dr. Illek. For more than a year, scientists tested cocoa extract and flavonoids in cell cultures that mimic the lining of the intestine. All of the cultures reported lower fluid levels. Consequently, the tests confirmed that cocoa flavonoids are a possible remedy for diarrhea.
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By Xeni Jardin at 9:49 am Monday, Oct 3
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John Todd says:
I've recently (re?)discovered Lister engines and ST Generators.
For those of you with a strange mechanical penchant, or a wild-eyed post-Apocalyptic wishlist, here is the toy for you! It's a piece of early 20th-century British design, now made in India. Runs a house with 9000 watts on .3 gallons of biodiesel per hour (!!!) and can be serviced with flat rocks and grass clippings (well, almost.) They weigh quite a bit, but who cares? No MOS chips, integrated circuits, explosive fuels, or cheap metal parts that aren't meant to be serviced by the owner. Rumors are for some of these engines lasting >100,000 hours with regular maintenance. Wow. Plus, they're just neat machines to look at - dinosaurs that earn their keep.
There's a video on the rocketboy site that shows one running; they're only a bit louder than a dryer outside if you muffle it appropriately. Price is around $2200 with decent-sized engine and generator head; quite reasonable, when compared to any other 100% duty cycle generator you might care to cost out.
Links: utterpower.com, oldstylelisters.com, poweranand.com, f1-rocketboy.com/lister.html.
Maybe when my back porch patio concrete gets put down in the spring, there will be a nice corner with a mini-ISO containing fuel and a Lister genset!
By Xeni Jardin at 8:27 am Monday, Oct 3
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From The Smoking Gun:
While we knew that Tinky Winky was gay, TSG was unaware of the Teletubbies cocaine connection. When federal officials in New York yesterday announced the arrest of 22 members of an international drug cartel, they revealed that cocaine shipments seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were labeled with a sweet portrait of the colorful cartoon quartet.
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By Xeni Jardin at 8:17 am Monday, Oct 3
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Chewbacca on drums: Link. The image comes from a weekly photo caption contest on starwars.com that features images gathered from fan events and Lucasfilm archives. (Thanks, Bonnie Burton!)
By Xeni Jardin at 7:30 am Monday, Oct 3
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KCRW-FM, the Los Angeles-based NPR affiliate known worldwide for innovative music programming, just
deleted "
Day to Day" from its lineup. The sound of much gasping and rending of garments can be heard today in Hollywood.
I'm the program's regular technology contributor, and I'm really bummed about KCRW's decision. Apparently so are KCRW listeners: I got a bunch of email about it over the weekend.
I'm proud to be part of "Day to Day." I have much respect for hosts Alex Chadwick, Madeleine Brand, and Noah Adams; and for each of the reporters, editors, and producers who work so hard to it an unmissable source of news and opinion.
Nobody goes into public radio news to get rich. A strong public service ethic drives this program. Everyone I work with on the program is there because they believe in it, because they want to make a difference, because they want to produce great work, and because they love it. If you feel the same way about the show, I encourage you to let the management at KCRW know. Bring back "Day to Day"!
email link, phone: 310-450-5183, postal: KCRW, attn: Ruth Seymour, General Manager/Program Director, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, Ca. 90405, USA.
The good news, however, is that "Day to Day" can still be heard on more than a hundred other affiliate stations around the country (including LA's KPCC, where it airs at 9AM weekdays). And for folks out of range of those FM signals, each day's program is streamed online, and available there in permanent archive.
(Thanks, Rochelle!)
By Xeni Jardin at 7:24 am Monday, Oct 3
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Last night, the CBS News commentator known best for curmudgeonly humor let loose with a fierce rant on what the Iraq war is doing to America's economy.
Transcript,
video. (
Thanks, beoba)
