http://research.microsoft.com/barc/mediapresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

This is the main ongoing example of what I’m talking about here.

Digital Actors in ‘Beowulf’ Are Just Uncanny – NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/digital-actors-in-beowulf-are-just-uncanny/index.html

OK so it may not be perfect. Nor was Jar Jar Binks. Still a major step in the right direction. I’m ready to see the next one…

The hormone of darkness: melatonin could hurt memory formation at night

http://www.physorg.com/news114358662.html

Dubious. If Melatonin does indeed inhibit night-time memory formation, and it’s been doing that for numpty million years, I’m guessing there’s going to be a bloody good reason why…

Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts – New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/science/16roach.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

they may not be interested in people but I am. I certainly see a parallel between the way cockroaches and human crowds can be easily led astray by small cliques moving in unison. A mexican wave can begin with just a few people leading the way. And I’m sure the crowd’s rhythmic chanting at the Nuremberg rally was triggered by a few loyal drones…

BBC NEWS | Health | Paralysed mans mind is read

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7094526.stm

Can you imagine what it’s going to be like when the poor guy can actually “speak” again for the first time in eight years??!!

More importantly for the species, this nudges us gently in the direction of capturing our brain content generally. Keep that kind of data to ourselves and it becomes the perfect authentication tool (the ultimate protection against identity theft). It also becomes the major stepping stone to omortality. Before we can become digital beings, we must be able to transfer the data, so reading brains is a vital step.

On the other hand, let “the authorities” anywhere near this technology and it becomes the tool for perfect social control.

So folks, which is it going to be? Liberty and omortality or the ultimate Police State?

We report, you decide…

Swedish hemp farmer wins green prize

http://physorg.com/news115641741.html

always difficult to fight social psychosis…

School leader resigns over science memo

http://www.physorg.com/news115640649.html

always difficult to fight social psychosis…

Reporter Gets Circumcised to Fight AIDS

http://www.physorg.com/news115653619.html

Could have been worse. He took a bbc sound recorder with him. It could have been a camera…

1 in 10 patients comes to harm while in hospital

http://www.physorg.com/news115642178.html

oh that’s just ‘king brilliant innit! You’ve got a 10% chance of being damaged – actually made less healthy – by your trip to hospital. Anyone performed the obvious international comparison?

Testers See Windows XP Passing Vista

http://www.physorg.com/news115639032.html

I couldn’t believe it. I’ve set up two Vista machines and reverted both to XP. The performance was abysmal…

http://www.physorg.com/news115630452.html

aha! the babel fish is almost upon us!

Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Culture

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Sally+Mann%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s+photographs+lead+to+request+for+police+investigation+/1135232200901

omigod they’re pictures of half-naked children!!
They’re her own ‘king children ferchrissake and she’s a skilled photographer who knows how to capture beautiful and, occasionally, disturbing images.

Are we that freaked as a society that we can no longer see any image of a naked child without screaming paedophilia??!! If so, then we’ve become as sick as they are….

http://www.lapopart.com/admin/uploadimages/60.jpg

hey – this is art man…

New Scientist: The Omega Man

http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/profesores/becher/ns.html

Introduction to Chaitin and the limitations of what can be “known” (in the sense of what justifies logical rather than psychological certainty). This is fundamental to epistemology.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jMFw899hRush7F1VI6-mRv4M7tvQD8SSVB9G2

Will Big Pharma win again?