11.12.2007

Now i will have my whole clone army of zombies

A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, raising the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos.

Attempts to clone human embryos for research have been dogged by technical problems and controversies over fraudulent research and questionable ethics. But the new technique promises to revolutionise the efficiency by which scientists can turn human eggs into cloned embryos.

It is the first time that scientists have been able to create viable cloned embryos from an adult primate – in this case a 10-year-old male rhesus macaque monkey – and they are scheduled to report their findings later this month.

11.11.2007

Homegrown DHS



A Dutch guy seems to have set up a small network of bluetooth scanners. He has all the information logged to a central database and you can search it over the web. On his website it says "Some of these matches were only minutes apart. Therefore I could even calculate the approximate speed of someone moving from one location to another.". There are also some interesting statistics on his site showing traffic volume in his hometown (based on bluetooth signals) and he even lists popularity of certain Nokia phones. It's interesting to see how much information an individual can gather using old equipment.

11.08.2007

Georgian riot cops in Mickey Mouse gas-masks



The Rose Revolution in the former Soviet state of Georgia is collapsing under phalances of riot-cops. This is distressing, but also fascinating -- who knew that the Georgian riot cop standard issue included a freaky white Mickey Mouse mask?

11.03.2007

Gojira is Da Bomb!!!

Godzilla Opens in Japan Sept 3rd(1954)
The first Godzilla film opened in Tokyo more than 50 years ago, and its 20,000 ton star, an enormous lizard, has been smashing up cities and towns ever since. Initially inspired by King Kong, Godzilla soon spawned several other motion pictures and TV shows. Its widespread popularity inspired Japanese filmmakers to develop a number of other monsters and heroes, such as Goro and Gamera. Why was the original Japanese version of the film heavily edited before its release in the US? More on Gojira and WW2

11.01.2007

Superfast Laser Turns Virus Into Rubble


"In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science, the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic virus can be destroyed in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the technique should generalize to human pathogens. Cleaning stored blood is one obvious application."