The Sensitive Cynic

2009-07-12T13:58:00.002-04:00

Check out Rio's Tiki Hut with Margaritaville Concoction Maker by KT Holcomb (my sister-in-law) and Rob Sands (her SO).

2008-12-29T20:59:00.001-05:00

Wendy Heller on Handel’s ‘Messiah' in the New York Times.

2008-12-29T20:02:00.001-05:00

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" -- the 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerard, upon which the movie is (very, very loosely) based.

2008-12-02T11:36:00.002-05:00

I keep trying to read "Surveying the Brain for Origins of the Senior Moment", but I always get dis-- hey, where did I put my keys?

2008-09-13T22:35:00.001-04:00

From Sarah Palin: lipstick pitbull:

Entering with her family, she has a “throw the snowmobile keys into the fur hat” sled-dogging look to her. The naughty smirk of the killer librarian. There’s a whiff of baby oil and moose blood, a heady pheromone that rouses delegates to waggle their paunches at her.

2008-09-06T11:36:00.003-04:00

Wondering where everybody is? How about this scenario: among the countless spacetime continua of the multiverse, the following happens over and over again: some species in some continuum develops the necessary technological prowess to build an LHC, which immediately causes a decay of the false vacuum via bubble nucleation, destroying all life in that continuum. In each universe, somebody has to be first. In this particular one, it's us.

2008-08-15T21:00:00.001-04:00

Tired: H5N1 -- Wired: H9N2

2008-08-15T20:13:00.002-04:00

Sperm-based medical nanobots:

If the spermlike motor works, it could someday use the body’s own energy source—glucose—to do such things as run super-tiny medical devices designed to release anticancer drugs or trigger the breakup of potentially deadly clots.

But... but... how are women supposed to refuel?

2008-08-13T17:46:00.001-04:00

A 'Frankenbot' with a biological brain -- it's all fun and games until it starts building another robot and demanding more brain tissue.

2008-05-07T11:42:00.001-04:00

With an in-body network of in-body sensors, we're on the road to the Instrument of Obedience:

"The technology, which is being tested now in Portsmouth, could also be used if a patient failed to take his or her medicines. A pill dispenser would send an automatic reminder and, if the pills were not taken within a certain time, an alarm would sound and a message would be sent to the patient’s family or carers."

2008-04-28T10:24:00.001-04:00

Hey look at me, I'm in a video on the web: Motto Mash-up, By Jennifer Fuchel and Matthew Greif, 2007... starring some of my favorite aphorisms!

2008-04-02T15:52:00.001-04:00

Black holes may harbour their own universes:

"but those universes would likely contain their own black holes, which could contain their own universes … in an infinite loop."

2008-04-02T09:51:00.001-04:00

I read this 2 weeks ago and now I can't remember what it said: Toxic Effects of Depression on Brain Function: Impairment of Delayed Recall and the Cumulative Length of Depressive Disorder

2008-03-24T08:06:00.002-04:00

Life imitates art: Nerve-tapping neckband used in 'telepathic' chat -- sure sounds like an uvvy to me.

2008-02-22T15:47:00.001-05:00

Electron Caught On Film For The First Time:

“It takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 10^-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe.”

2008-02-18T08:22:00.001-05:00

Video: Camp Nirvana for String Quartets 2007. More info at ChamberMusicMadness.org

2008-01-31T09:51:00.000-05:00

An Atlas of the Universe illustrates scales from 12.5 light years to 14 billion light years -- 9 orders of magnitude!

2008-01-31T09:43:00.000-05:00

Listen to Studio 360: Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius, which describes Tesla's relationships with Edison, Marconi, Mark Twain, Dr. Strangelove and Death Rays. Thanks to Mike Daisey for the link.

2008-01-22T17:48:00.000-05:00

Tired: software methodologies. Wired: Crystal Methodology.

2008-01-21T16:34:00.000-05:00

Beethoven's "Fur Elise" and "Ode to Joy", transcribed for scanner.

2008-01-21T11:13:00.000-05:00

Looking to pick up some extra cash via professional guinea-pigging? Well, here ya go.

2008-01-08T13:37:00.000-05:00

Big Pharma Spends [Twice As Much] On Advertising Than Research And Development. Gee, do you think this could be a reason why the FDA approved just 19 novel drugs last year — the lowest number since 1983?

2008-01-06T12:54:00.000-05:00

Have you seen the new Bush coins? In gallon denominations!

2007-12-22T16:17:00.000-05:00

The Geek Guide To Low-Carbs. Words to (try to) live by.

2007-12-18T17:44:00.000-05:00

Looks to me like a Death Star (lower left) that can take out a whole galaxy (to the Death Star's upper right), not just one piddling little planet:
Don't let Darth Cheney see this.