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Colombia passes 1st draft of drug crop legalization bill
"Representative Hugo Velasquez Jaramillo, who proposed the bill, explained that although the cultivation of plants would be legal under the new legislation, the processing and trafficking of drugs would remain subject to criminal sentencing."
news  drugs  colombia  law  legislation  government  crime  gangs  coca  marijuana  opium 
18 days ago by milkmiruku
Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
"The article notes that unlike earlier devices, which used costly ingredients, the new device is made from inexpensive materials and employs low-cost engineering and manufacturing processes."
news  energy  science  technology  research  chemistry  power  interesting  photosynthesis 
21 days ago by milkmiruku
Brain wiring a no-brainer? Scans reveal astonishingly simple 3D grid structure
"Far from being just a tangle of wires, the brain's connections turn out to be more like ribbon cables -- folding 2D sheets of parallel neuronal fibers that cross paths at right angles, like the warp and weft of a fabric,"
news  article  brain  neuroscience  physiology  science  medical  biology  interesting 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Ruby Poetry - Andrew McDonough
"As the couplet finding algorithm was fairly crude, only looking for matches of the last three letters, and not the phonetic reprentation, I allowed myself to pick the best couplets as generated on the day. To demonstrate my code, I reran the program on the day of my talk, and read the best couplets it generated at the end:

"...

"Storm at C-word in BBC weather forecast Top Irish dancers set for Belfast

"..."
programming  ruby  news  headline  web  music  rhyme  lyric  code  linguistics  humour  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
N-Control Responds To Ocean Marketing Fiasco | GamerFront
N-Control has hired an independent consultant, Austin, Texas-based Moisés Chiullan, to field press inquiries and oversee sales and marketing operations going forward. ... "We have to move forward and take care of Avenger’s customers," Chiullan said. "I can't worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under. The internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire too."
news  gaming  internet  business  marketing  humour  haha 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters - The Atlantic
"Winning the Iowa caucuses would change all that instantly. Undoubtedly the movement that Paul inspired has moved far beyond the race-baiting it engaged in two decades ago. Young people from college campuses aren't lining up to hear him speak because of what appeared in those newsletter about the 1992 L.A. riots. Rand Paul tried his hardest to place Paul-style libertarianism into the context of the Tea Party. And he will likely carry on the movement without this 1990s baggage.

"But the questions remain. If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won't even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make? Would he even check in to see if his ideas are being implemented? Who would he appoint to Cabinet positions?"
news  usa  politics  ronpaul  libertarianism  fringe  media  management  business  transparency  racism 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
"The Commission proposes to update the 2003 Directive on the re-use of public sector information by: Making it a general rule that all documents made accessible by public sector bodies can be re-used for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, unless protected by third party copyright; Establishing the principle that public bodies should not be allowed to charge more than costs triggered by the individual request for data (marginal costs); in practice this means most data will be offered for free or virtually for free, unless duly justified. Making it compulsory to provide data in commonly-used, machine-readable formats, to ensure data can be effectively re-used. Introducing regulatory oversight to enforce these principles; Massively expanding the reach of the Directive to include libraries, museums and archives for the first time; the existing 2003 rules will apply to data from such institutions."
news  politics  technology  eu  opendata  openformats  publicsector  legislation 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud.
"So, since you live in Russia and not North Korea, you make the turnout 98%."
news  politics  statistics  russia  fraud  voting  democracy 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models
“It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the computer,” H&M press officer Hacan Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an article questioning the company’s picture-perfect online models.
news  cgi  fashion  bodyimage  physiology  business 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf
"...for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens.

"Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not"
news  politics  protest  occupy  anonymous  usa  power  business  corporacracy  law  internet  theguardian 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."
news  article  bbc  drm  ofcom  legal  software  technology  video  media  streaming  licensing  business  rights  hdtv  tv  politics 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
The Gayest Story Ever Told | Why did the ‘New Yorker’ reject this R. Crumb cover? | VICE
"People are capable of any sexual thing. To ban their marriage because someone doesn’t like the idea of them both being the same sex, that’s ridiculous."
article  news  usa  lgbt  art  politics  comics  hate 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Apple Computer Hoards Cash, Makes Products in Abusive Conditions | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
"In its fourth quarter earnings report released last week, Apple Computer revealed that 2/3 of its on-hand cash – some $54 billion — is squirreled away outside the boundaries of the United States, presumably to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. In the meantime, reports Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based group, Apple’s major manufacturing contractors routinely subject employees to forced overtime, wage theft and no breaks — and even unprotected exposure to toxins."
apple  news  technology  business  humanrights  toxic  work  illegal 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Invisible glass may solve screen reflection problems
"As you can see in the image below, the glass on the right really is nearly invisible to the naked eye. It could drastically improve the viewing experience of displays in the future as well as in other situations where glass is used, such as for windows."
technology  news  glass  nanotechnology  display  optics  cool 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
How Siri Works
"But whether [Apple] Siri becomes the model for how humans interact with computers in the future or whether it gets laughed off the stage of technical innovation like so many AI systems that have come before hinges on whether it can tell the difference between “Andrew” and “Andrea”—especially when I’m in a crowded coffee shop, speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold."
blog  technology  news  siri  apple  ai  voice  os  hci  software  algorithm  audio  interesting  business 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest
"Whereas Stonehenge was orientated towards the sun, the more then 100 meter width burial mound of Magdalenenberg was focused towards the moon. ... This archaeo-astronomic research resulted in a date of Midsummer 618 BC, which makes it the earliest and most complete example of a Celtic calendar focused on the moon"
news  science  archaeology  history  celtic  time  calendar  lunar  germany  culture 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Why Some Languages Sound So Fast
"In other words, your ears aren't deceiving you: Spaniards really do sprint and Chinese really do stroll, but they will tell you the same story in the same span of time."
news  research  language  linguistics  speech  interesting 
september 2011 by milkmiruku
In Sony’s 20th Breach In Two Months, Hackers Claim 177,000 Email Addresses Compromised
"In one thin sign of good news for Sony, the attack comes 12 days after the company’s last breach, the longest interval since May and a sign that the Sony-hacking meme may be finally wearing thin for the hacker community."
news  security  it  internet  hacking  crack  humour  business 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
New Statesman - Alan Moore: "I've disproved the existence of death"
One question remains: how do you celebrate finishing a 750,000-word novel? Moore pauses. "I'll probably have a bit of a lie down."
news  literature  books  article  fiction  humour 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
Hundreds to stage kiss-in at Soho pub - PinkNews.co.uk
"More than 400 people have pledged to join tonight’s demonstration, while 600 say they will attend a similar protest at the pub next Wednesday. Attendees are being urged to order nothing more than tap water to prevent the bar making money."
news  lgbt  activism  alcohol  uk  equality  humour 
april 2011 by milkmiruku
Making TV Safer: Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel - NYTimes.com
"State Administration for Radio, Film & Television said that TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time “lack positive thoughts and meaning.” The guidelines discouraging this type of show said that some “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”"
tv  china  censorship  news  authoritarianism  narrative  fantasy  sci-fi 
april 2011 by milkmiruku
Report: HBGary used as an object lesson by Anonymous - Security
"The Tech Herald has seen Barr’s research. [PDF] While there is plenty of information, several operation names and dates are out of order, and many of the names associated with membership are incorrect. When it comes to the ten “most senior people”, they are actually network administrators."
anonymous  security  internet  wikileaks  crack  news  it  socialengineering  passwords  humour  report  socialservices 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
Dems push for Congressional investigation of HBGary Federal
Hunton & Williams, the middleman law firm in all this (and the middleman between a major US bank and Team Themis' similar plan to take down WikiLeaks), has steadfastly refused to comment on the whole story. But it too may find itself in trouble after a professional conduct complaint (PDF) was lodged against it last week in Washington, DC"
article  news  anonymous  security  lulz  legal  usa  government 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Tesco garage petrol sign targeted by pranksters
"Jimmy Skillings, who spotted the prank and took a photograph, said: "I know petrol prices are a joke but this is funny."
bbc  news  tesco  humour  fuel 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Fighting e-waste with recyclable laptops - SmartPlanet.com
"Students from Stanford and Finland's Aalto University have developed a prototype laptop that can be disassembled in less than three minutes without the use of any tools. Once it's taken apart, the laptop's materials can easily be recycled."
news  video  hardware  laptop  research  recycling  technology 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
"Over the last week, I've talked to some of those who participated in the HBGary hack to learn in detail how they penetrated HBGary's defenses and gave the company such a stunning black eye—and what the HBGary example means for the rest of us mere mortals who use the Internet."
security  anonymous  hacking  email  it  article  news  humour 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
"That also lets me measure the number of spirals — roughly five — and calculate the size of this object: about a third of a light year across, or more than 3 trillion kilometers! Coooool."
news  blog  astronomy  cool  science  photos  space  interesting 
september 2010 by milkmiruku
Fake femme fatale shows social network risks
"I wanted to see how much intel you could gather from a person just by lurking on a social networking site. I [also] wanted to see who was most susceptible to clicking. I wanted to see how fast this thing would propagate. One of the things I found was that MIT and St. Paul's [prep school] were very cliquey. If they don't remember seeing you, they are not going to click. You had less of a chance of penetrating those groups than the actual intel and security communities."
news  usa  security  it  intelligence  social  engineering  network  friends  hack  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News | Meerkat groups have 'traditions'
"When you're out in the field," said Dr Thornton, "if you're studying certain groups, you always set your alarm a bit later because they're consistently lazy." The new study revealed that this laziness or liveliness has a "cultural basis".
bbc  news  animals  meerkats  zoology  culture  time  sleep  research  sociology  lazy  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
Detroit looks at downsizing to save city - Washington Times
"Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green."
news  politics  usa  urbanism  urbandecay  cities  agriculture  interesting 
march 2010 by milkmiruku
Your users are very stupid. (Maybe.)
"11:57 AM - The first comment to put it together: “This is what happens when people use Google to enter sites instead of typing it on their address bar… Damn you all Farmville users…” This is comment number 50

Ah. So it turns out that there was a (perhaps small) present minority who, rather than using the address bar, use Google to get around on the web. Since Google put this post near the top, at least a certain number of these people had no idea the site they just entered was not Facebook. The results are this mess."
blog  internet  usability  facebook  google  search  news  humour  interesting  meme  culture  ux  fail  web  comments 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
"We've lived with and loved the distinctly 'web 2.0' design for a while now and it's done us proud. However, time's moved on, and in autumn last year we decided it was time to resurrect the project."
bbc  news  blog  design  internet  web  research  web2.0  language  typography  colour  ui  ux  webdesign  webdev 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Pregnant woman jailed for having thought about abortion
"It is heard to believe, yet a true story. A pregnant woman in Iowa (USA) had been jailed for "attempted feticide" because she told hospital staff that she once thought about having an abortion."
news  usa  abortion  law  iowa  wtf  hate  children  feminism 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Noisy children no longer verboten in Berlin
"In Berlin alone, hundreds of complaints are made each year about noise levels in kindergartens and children's playgrounds. Some day-care facilities have even been forced to close after local residents have gone to court in search of a quiet life. Now Berlin's local government, the senate, has passed a law giving children the right to be noisy, the first law of its kind in Germany."
news  germany  children  law  legal  culture  society  education  interesting  politics 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Unfold Fab: The future's here baby! (first successfully printed ceramic vessel)
"We took some time to play around and get used to the dynamics of the clay print process. ... After some calibrating I decided to print a test design that would be hard to make using conventional techniques: a double walled vessel with fins connecting in- and outside."
news  blog  3d  materials  diy  fablab  fabrication  3dprinter  technology  hardware  interesting  cool  crafts  making  prediction 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
"It is hard to imagine a better resurrection for a country that has been devastated by financial corruption than to turn facilitating transparency and justice into a business model."
news  politics  iceland  technology  journalism  press  censorship  law  legal  interesting  transparency  jurisprudence  wiki  wikileaks  media 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Cardiac Arrest: Chest Compressions Alone Work Better, Studies Suggest
"Two large-scale studies published in the journal Circulation, report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better -- and may be worse -- when bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth breathing than if they press on the chest without interruption."
news  health  physiology  medical  howto  biology  research  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Barbie Becomes a Computer Engineer | Geek Feminism Blog
"Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders."
blog  news  feminism  it  engineering  toys  children  interesting  culture  computing 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone
"By allowing kids to explore activities on their own, parents not only help children pinpoint the pursuit that fits them best, but they can also prevent young minds from obsessing over an activity, a new study finds."
news  psychology  research  children  education  fun  autonomy  interesting  creativity 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Supergeek pulls off 'near impossible' crypto chip hack
"Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into using a very small needle.

The needle allowed him to set up a wiretap and eavesdrop on all the programming instructions as they are sent back and forth between the chip and the computer's memory."
news  security  hardware  hack  encryption  cryptography  business  interesting  technology 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Patent Docs: Patent Simulation Study Indicates that Patent Protection May Not Encourage Innovation or Promote Societal Wealth
"Data generated from this simulation suggest that the current system combining patent and open source protection for inventions generates significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001), and societal utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. Further, the empirical data generated using PatentSim suggests that commons systems can generate significantly greater amounts of innovation, productivity, and social utility than currently predominating patent systems that combine both patent and open source protection for inventions."
news  research  sociology  patents  simulation  legal  law  interesting  community  commons 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
news  bbc  article  science  research  health  brain  neuroscience  ethics  computer  medicine  belgium  uk  biology  interesting  fmri 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Last orders for pint glass as we know it?
"The government hopes introducing safer pint glasses, still made of glass, will help reduce injuries. As well as the human cost, it also hopes it will reduce the financial burden of alcohol-related crime, which currently costs the NHS £2.7bn a year.

Now, two new prototypes for beer glasses have been unveiled, as part of a programme involving the Design Council. Launched by the Home Office's Design and Technology Alliance, the aim is to use design to tackle crime."
bbc  news  uk  drink  technology  beer  glass  plastic  safety  violence 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
White Goat Recycler: Office Paper to Toilet Paper - GOOD Blog
"This device (video below) shreds your sensitive business documents and turns them into new toilet paper. ...

At half an hour per roll, that would take 100,000 hours—about 11 years. So the White Goat may not make economic sense yet (unless we put a price on the trees being saved) but surely the next version will be cheaper and smaller, right?"
news  technology  hardware  toilet  recycling  ecological  business  interesting  socialecology  poop  video  youtube 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law
"I'll give you an example: repeatedly in the AdelaideNow website one will see commentary from Aaron Fornarino of West Croydon. That person doesn't exist," Atkinson said on the air. "That name has been created by the Liberal Party in order to run Liberal Party commentary."

This morning, AdelaideNow took great delight in posting a picture of Fornarino posing with a Mac and his young daughter. He's a second-year law student who moved to the area last year and "lives in a flat on Port Rd, about 500m from Mr. Atkinson's electorate office."
news  australia  politics  internet  law  censorship  anonymity  blogging  journalism  forum  authoritarianism 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
tongodeon: Prop 8 Lawyers Have No Idea How Same-Sex Marriage Could Harm Anything
"Mr. Cooper starts to make a point - that allowing same sex couples marriage equality would also entitle opposite sex couples to domestic partnership equality - but he can't actually say what would be wrong with this, just that nobody can prove that it *wouldn't* be harmful so maybe it would. The judge doesn't buy it. You don't have to prove that same sex marriage is harmless any more than you have to prove that freedom of speech or the press is harmless, which it sometimes isn't.

(Aside: I didn't realize that the Prop 8 people want to discriminate against gays *and* straights. It's not just important that gays can't have marriage; straights also shouldn't have civil unions.)"
usa  politics  news  lgbt  sex  legal  discrimination  wtf  hate  government  law  philosophy  morality  california  prop8  rights 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?
You can see that there are clearly a lot more questions that need to be answered about gaming services like OnLive both in terms of the user experience and how it will interact with the rest of the gaming community at large, both PC and console. I see a lot of potential for OnLive to revolutionize gaming and how this entertainment medium works across any number of platforms.
news  article  gaming  computer  streaming  technology  pc  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
BLAWGDOG: Google's Angry, Sacrifice and the Accelerated Splitting Internet
"Twitter is blocked in China, but yesterday the Chinese twitters made tag #GoogleCN climbed to the top ten of twitter's keywords. It is a bit touching, and a bit hopeful - A profitable, foreign company get this means filtering and block still not make Chinese people (at least some of them) losing their eyesight and judgment to what is good and what is bad.

However, they are losing, and may lose faster, along with the Cinternet's separation from the Internet. Here are the top 20 websites according to Alexa:"
news  china  censorship  politics  internet  web  search  google  technology  sociology  socialservices  blogging 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
OpenID Connect
“OpenID Connect”, therefore, is what I’m starting to use in casual conversation as my answer to Twitter and Facebook Connect.
news  openid  oauth  social  identity  security  marketing  internet  web  standards  openprotocol 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development - Telegraph
"The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to Valium, works like alcohol on nerves in the brain that provide a feeling of wellbeing and relaxation.

But unlike alcohol its does not affect other parts of the brain that control mood swings and lead to addiction. It is also much easier to flush out of the body.

Finally because it is much more focused in its effects, it can also be switched off with an antidote, leaving the drinker immediately sober. "
news  research  science  health  physiology  food  drugs  biochemistry  biology  alcohol  brain  neuroscience  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
YouTube faces 4chan porn attack
On the Lukeywes1234 thing. ED has more infos.
news  internet  web  media  youtube  4chan  protest  porn  sociology  social  interesting 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Kepler telescope spots 'Styrofoam' planet - space - 04 January 2010 - New Scientist
"During its first six weeks of observations, it found five new planets. All are giants – four are heavier than Jupiter and one is about as massive as Neptune. They all orbit their host stars so closely that their surfaces are hotter than molten lava. "Looking at them might be like looking at a blast furnace," says lead scientist William Borucki, who presented the results on Monday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC. ...

One, called Kepler 7b, is about as dense as polystyrene. It is about 1.5 times as wide as Jupiter, but only about a tenth as dense, making it one of the most diffuse planets yet found."
news  science  space  astronpmy  exoplanets  technology  satellite  planets 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio | Singularity Hub
"Ray Kurzweil, prolific inventor and Singularity enthusiast, is planning to debut Blio at CES 2010 in January. Blio is an e-reader platform, not hardware, that can be used on PC, MAC, iPhone and iPod touch."
news  technology  software  books  ebooks  pc  singularity  free  interesting 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office
"An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China."
news  internet  china  conference  censorship  un  egypt  authoritarianism  hate  books 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: Smashing the Mega-d/Ozdok botnet in 24 hours
"FireEye's formal effort to shutdown this botnet stared last night. The research team here worked in multiple directions simultaneously. The purpose was to work against all the fallback mechanisms so fast that bot herders wouldn't get a chance to counter react."
news  security  spam  internet  email  networks  botnet  technology  interesting  malware  virus 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
"On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election results to verify the votes went to the correct candidates."
news  politics  software  election  elections  opensource  technology  security  privacy  java  cryptography  interesting  usa  government 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
"The group is developing silk-silicon LEDs that might act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings, as well as arrays of conformable electrodes that might interface with the nervous system."
news  technology  hardware  electronics  led  tattoo  bme  interesting  prediction  cool  research  biology  biotech 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
A postman puts his case | open Democracy News Analysis
"I am a postman and concerned at the absence in the media of any account of how mail delivery is organised and what Royal Mail's modernisation programme entails."
news  uk  snailmail  communication  business  government  union  interesting 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D
"I wasn't the least bit surprised to quickly discover a handful of Wave-based roleplaying games already in progress, and many more in various stages of planning. In the past few days, I've watched games from the sideline and talked to some Game Masters and gamers—there seems to be an emerging consensus that Google Wave has as much RPG potential as any platform since the venerable and proverbial tabletop."
news  article  rpg  gaming  internet  wave  software  games  google  culture  interesting  emerging 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries
"It seems that more expressive typography will be working its way to the Web soon. But Kew isn't stopping at basic font support via WOFF. He has also been experimenting with implementing support for advanced typographic features like ligatures, discretionary forms, alternate forms, tabular figures for easier to read tables, and more, all via CSS properties."
article  news  fonts  metadata  typography  format  css  html  openformat  web  firefox  w3c  woff 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Apology for singing shop worker
"Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS)."
bbc  news  uk  legal  music  copyright  wtf  scotland  culture 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine
"Dubbed BookServer, the open platform is meant to provide a standard means for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and individual authors to serve texts onto laptops, netbooks, smartphones, game consoles, and specialized ereaders a la the Amazon Kindle. The Archive has already demonstrated an early incarnation of the architecture with the Kindle and Sony's Reader Digital Book."
news  books  economics  publishing  library  openformats  literature  technology  interesting  distribution  ebooks  archive.org 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Health claim of probiotics not accepted
"Of 180 claims for probiotic ingredients, the EU's food agency the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) threw out every one. Ten were rejected outright and a 21-member expert panel could not assess the remaining 170 because the ingredients for which the claims were made could not be identified. ... However Britain's best-selling yogurt drinks, Actimel and Yakult, were excluded from Efsa's findings yesterday because Danone, Actimel's maker, and Yakult, the Japanese firm which introduced probiotic drinks to the UK in 1996, withdrew their claims before they could be scrutinised."
news  science  health  food  lie  advertising  research  physiology  biology  interesting  humour  eu 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Energy-from-waste powers US army
"The PyTEC system heats mixed waste, releasing a gas that can be burned to produce five times more energy than is required to drive the system. ... The approach could see use in urban areas, reducing municipal waste volume by 95% while producing energy."
news  environment  energy  technology  power  hardware  military  chemistry  interesting  prediction 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Microsoft Research shows off multitouch mouse prototypes
"Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method, and at first glance all five seem to fly in the face of regular ergonomics."
news  technology  hardware  research  microsoft  gadget  mouse  inputdev  prediction  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Scientists develop nasal spray that improves memory
"If a nasal spray can improve memory, perhaps we're on our way to giving some folks a whiff of common sense, such as accepting the realities of evolution," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "This is exciting piece of interdisciplinary science, since IL-6 had previously been considered a by-product of inflammation, not an agent that affects cognition."
news  science  research  drugs  health  biology  brain  neuroscience  sleep  memory  transhumanism  cognition  education  interesting  intelligence 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Brewery's Nanny State beer swipe
"A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer"."
bbc  news  beer  alcohol  drink  drugs  government  culture  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Ofcom executives enjoy free food and drink almost every day of week - Telegraph
"It shows the keenness of leading players in Britain’s media industry and Government to lobby the quango, which rules on complaints about TV programmes and carves up the radio and mobile phone markets."
news  uk  tv  government  media  politics  lobbying  bribe  business 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction."
news  sexuality  lgbt  statistics  privacy  culture  computing  facebook  identity  mit  social  usa  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bombing Attempt | Wired.com
"The work of German filmmakers peddling a satirical movie called Short Cut to Hollywood, the elaborate hoax involved at least two faked websites, a faked Wikipedia entry and California phone numbers for “public safety” officials that were actually being answered by hoaxsters in Germany using Skype."
news  prank  hoax  usa  germany  media  wikipedia  film  journalism  interesting  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Nissan gives silent electric cars 'Blade Runner' appeal | Los Angeles Times
“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic,” Toshiyuki Tabata, Nissan’s noise and vibration expert, told Bloomberg. “We wanted something a bit different, something closer to the world of art.”
news  cars  technology  hardware  sound  futuristic  electriccar  legal  transport 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - New Scientist
"Last year, sports psychologists at the University of Münster, Germany, showed video clips of bouts to 42 experienced referees. They then played the same clips again, digitally manipulated so that the clothing colours were swapped round. The result? In close matches, the scoring swapped round too, with red competitors awarded an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were dressed in blue (Psychological Science, vol 19, p 769). "If one competitor is strong and the other weak, it won't change the outcome of the fight," says Norbert Hagemann, who led the study. "But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the colour to tip the scale.""
news  research  science  psychology  culture  colour  red  blue  neuroscience  cognition  interesting  bias 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
blog.cat.org.uk » Turned on! The UK’s First Micro Grid Goes Online
"This week, Jase Kuriakose an engineer at CAT turned on the UK’s first totally renewable micro grid. The systems works by combining all the wind, solar, bio mass and hydro energy we produce at CAT and storing it in a battery bank. When it needs more energy it simply connects to the grid through an intelligent electronic control device to take more, when we are producing too much it gives the energy to the national grid."
uk  news  technology  sustainability  hardware  power  solar  wind  hydropower  battery  electricity  microgeneration  interesting  prediction  autonomy 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
China 'covers suicide bridge in butter'
Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cover a 1,000 ft long steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide. ... "Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers."
news  china  suicide  bridge  weird  humour  society  culture 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Military robot 'hops' over walls
"Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot - which is being developed for the US military - uses its four wheels to get around."

But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.
bbc  news  robot  us  military  technology  hardware  interesting  video 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Dads 'to share maternity leave'
"Fathers will be able to take six months' paternity leave, the government has announced. The move will allow mothers to decide to return to work after six months and fathers to stay at home for the rest of the 12 months off allowed by law."
bbc  news  politics  uk  children  family  gender  feminism  law  legal  business  progressive  interesting  welfare  rights 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers
"As if the Government taking official statistics directly from partisan sources wasn't bad enough, the BBC reporter Oliver Hawkins also found that the figures were based on some highly questionable assumptions. The 7m figure had actually been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m. That 6.7m was gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software - in other words, only 136 people. It gets worse. That 11.6% of respondents who admitted to file sharing was adjusted upwards to 16.3% "to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it." The report's author told the BBC that the adjustment "wasn't just pulled out of thin air" but based on unspecified evidence"
news  uk  bbc  filesharing  government  business  statistics  computing  internet  authoritarianism  interesting  newlabour  lie 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
XMPP: Catch the Wave
"At the Google I/O developer conference earlier today, Google made a big splash by announcing Wave, a radical rethinking of communication over the Internet. As Tim O’Reilly noted, the Wave vision is to combine the best of different conversational media and collaboration tools, including email, IM, phone, microblogging, and file sharing. Little noted among hoopla is the fact that “The Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open extension to XMPP core [RFC3920] protocol to allow near real-time communication between two wave servers.”
blog  article  news  google  web  im  jabber  xmpp  standards  openprotocol  interesting  wave  communication 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
[Challenge] Anneka 'sorry' for horse damage
"A team of conservationists are having to repair damage caused to a Dorset landmark by an episode of the BBC's Challenge Anneka. Television star Anneka Rice attempted to spruce up the Osmington White Horse landmark in Weymouth in 1989, but 20 years on the repairs are coming undone."
bbc  news  tv  uk  archaeology  humour  history 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Accidental headline of the year | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The Daily Express had a prime example over the weekend of what can happen when you fiddle around with a headline."
news  newspapers  humour  uk  publishing  oldmedia 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
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