After some teething problems and predicions about the world ending, it’s started and we’re still here: the first low power collisions have been made in two of the four sensor arrays, meaning more science is yet to come!
BBC News – Cern’s Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
All these hygenic parents who continuously wash and disinfect their children and don’t like them to play in the dirt are doing their progeny a huge disservice.
Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are “good bacteria” when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation.
By studying mice and human cells, researchers discovered that they did this by making a molecule, called lipoteichoic acid (or LTA) , which acted on keratinocytes, the main cell types found in the outer layer of the skin.
Scientists give grubby children a clean bill of health | Life and style | The Guardian.
It turns out that administering low-intensity shockwaves to the penis can help men with blood flow problems get over their difficulties getting a hard on. Viagra and Cialis help, but they need to keep taking the pills every time. This is a more permanent solution, because the shocks encourage the growth of new blood vessels from existing ones. It’s still a preliminary study, but it’s looking promising.
Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction | LiveScience.
Looking through this thing allows you to find camera lenses pointed at you. It detects signals in the 1 – 6500MHz band which means you can detect the wireless signals the camera is sending.
For this big brother age, nice to see who’s spying on you.
Spy Wi-Fi Signal and Camera Lens Detector.
Looks pretty cool to me!
Amidio’s Touch DJ app stuffs a turntable into your iPhone (video) — Engadget.
This amazing piece of software allows you to rotate an object in front of your webcam and it’ll build a 3D model of it. It has a very good tracking system, so it can follow the model as it’s moved left or right.
Cambridge University Engineering Department – Qi Pan.
Now anyone can develop for the Microsoft Surface without actually owning one of these insanely expensive items.
Learn more about Microsoft Surface technical resources.
Basically it’s all about the movie and music industry being able to kick you off the net and subject you to huge fines without any proof – just an accusation of filesharing is enough. It’s also about giving the business secretary the power to make up penalties and enforcements at whim.
It’s not about stimulating creativity, new business, ensuring that everyone has broadband, etc.
Looks like labour has it’s pockets filled with copyright holders hands!
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, unveiled in Fort Lauderdale, is nearly 50% larger than the largest cruise ships now at sea. But it’s not just the ship’s size that has people talking. Built at a record cost of $1.4 billion, the 225,282-ton vessel is chock-full of industry firsts housed within seven themed neighborhoods. The 6,296-passenger vessel’s first cruise with paying passengers is set for Dec. 1
This makes it 5 times larger than the Titanic – and in the current economic climate, they’ll have problems filling it up, as well as fitting it into ports: currently only four can take it, but other ports are expanding their facilities and there should be more ports next year.
via Oasis of the Seas sets sail – USATODAY.com.
And allthough the authenticity of the 1079 emails and 72 documents hasn’t been verified, it shows that the researchers have manipulated the data to fit their models, can’t explain the lack of global warming and have plans set up to destroy the credibility of any scientist doubting their stance.
Michelle Malkin » The global warming scandal of the century.
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Looks like Jobs will do anything to avoid repairing that overpriced piece of equipment you bought from him: not only are the repair times shocking, but the lame excuse that tar clogs up your computer, creating a biohazard – whilst not mentioned anywhere in the AppleCare contract – voids your warranty is a bit ridiculous, no?
Smoke Gets In Your Imac: Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty.
The art of swordmaking has remained fundamentally unchanged for the past couple of centuries, but Dan Watson has gone and changed the way the steel is tempered, making for swords twice as tough and flexible as any of the old ways. He does this by making the molecular strands in the steel twist in a curve instead of remaining in straight lines, and by using cryogenic freezing systems to ensure that the hardening of the molecules occurs in a completely controlled and optimum manner.
Expect to pay around $20.000,- for one of these…
Angel Sword Store | Choosing a Sword | Sword, Blades, Katana, Buccaneer, Angel.
This site lists satellites, the ISS and other astronomical objects you can see in the sky based on your own location. It’s a very comprehensive, easy to use astronomy site with object you can and can’t see.
It’s simple: you install this and you can browse your iphone in windows explorer just like another harddrive. Whyever Apple removed this from the touch / iphone is beyond me, but I’m glad there’s a fix!
A single sheet of this applied as sticky wallpaper is enough to stop a wrecking ball. Two sheets stop small projectiles. It stretches and catches the blast debris and then elastically returns the wall to its’ former state.
Xflex Blast Protection Systems.
When sprayed over an area, after a while the bacteria covering mines start to glow grean, making cleanup a doddle.
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Glowing bugs could find landmines.
And it looks like the F-35 JSF will probably be even worse. This premature buckling of the landing pads by the hot exhaust fumes, mean that the pads (which you can’t just go and replace without capsizing the ship) will run out before the ship does.
The USMC has issued DARPA a request to invent landing pads that are refrigerated and non-skid in order to mitigate the effect of the planes landing on them.
V-22 Osprey, stealth jumpjet ‘need refrigerated landing pads’ • The Register.
It’s easy: you set a start and end point in the DVD and you get a mini VOB file to convert to whatever you like and do with whatever you like before having to rip the entire DVD…
DVD Knife 3.0 – Extract clips from your DVD by DVD Knife.
They’ve managed to create a 3D fractal
Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal.
It’s called the Galaxy dress and lives in a museum.
Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs – Galaxy led dress – Gizmodo.
If you don’t allow the third party cookie, you can’t logout!
Great news for people using snotmail in libararies and internet cafe’s, where they often disable cookies for you…
Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout • The Register.
Looking for a private plane to fly? These guys buy up old aircraft, refit them with modern avionics packages and a big engine, allowing you to buy a tip top modern plane capable of doing over 200KTS IAS for a fraction of the new price.
Next Dimension Aircraft – Previously Owned Aircraft.
