Sunday, September 04, 2005

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

my friend tavish pointed this out. looks interesting.

also, I just got a USB drive (as they are now below any reasonable standard of "disposable income" even one so poor as myself might define).

I already carry a book, Moleskin, to be precise, but this may be a decent idea for formatting, or similar. I'm investigating.

Eventually a wearable or pda will be compelling enough, but my past experiments have been tinged with dissapointment. The closest I came to happiness was a Visor Edge, but it developed memory problems, and eventually had to be abandoned.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

The Australian: It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts [August 29, 2005]

!!!!!!!!

"And when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate, the US-based researchers say."

That's freaking sweet if it's not total bullshit.

Monday, August 29, 2005

StripGenerator

amusing web tool for the curious or budding web comic stripper.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Visionary: We will live longer: Leroy Hood

Another scientist getting with the increased lifespan theories. Somebody get this man a subscription to Rejuvenation Medicine!

AvantGuardian from extropy-chat explains the significance:

"Wow... in scientific circles that is a pretty huge
endorsement of transhumanism. Hood is a big dog
amongst molecular biologists, immunologists, and
bioinformaticians."

Google Talk

More Google.

They've launched an IM service, based on the open protocol Jabber, which uses your gmail contacts and will enable voice chat(if you're equipped for such).

They have a nice little client, but for the time being I'm still using my multiclient GAIM, which can connect to the service just fine.

It would be really cool if they managed to unify IM the way they've unified my other internetting, like search, blogging, email, etc.

I don't know how much money there is in IM for AIM and MSN, but I doubt they'll take it lying down anyhow. It will be interesting to see, but I'm sure the competition will lead to interesting stuff for this consumer.