http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/09/cnn-rick-sanchez-fox-news-video-.html

I bet he enjoyed that. I just hope he doesn’t believe that it will have any effect on the behaviour of Fox News or its audience…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M07CeixCo9Q

wtf?

A step toward better brain implants using conducting polymer nanotubes

http://www.physorg.com/news173465029.html

useful step in the development of the brain reading technology we’re going to need to begin storing our minds…

ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

http://www.physorg.com/news173430426.html

hmmm… I want this kind of reliability but I note a total absence of any mention of cost…

US engineer defends Google in defamation trial

http://www.physorg.com/news173459576.html

I’ve made the point before but it bears repeating. I’ve never understood the blinkered attitude of the censors who want to remove material like this.

It constitutes “evidence” of a crime and can be (and it seems, in this case has been) used to sustain a conviction against the perps. Surely that’s good thing. So fine, once it’s done it’s job, take it down to prevent further humiliation of the victim. But don’t shoot the messenger.

Sugar + weed killer = potential clean energy source

http://www.physorg.com/news173441084.html

well well well, I never thought all those bombs I made as a kid would turn out to be useable fuel cells. Does that mean I can retrospectively claim I was researching a means of producing safe green energy?

New digital security program doesnt protect as promised

http://www.physorg.com/news173450942.html

this (Vanish) was always a very dumb idea. If you really give a shit about privacy then you set up a private channel of communication and only use that. Then your “only” problem is trust in the recipient rather than the world and his dog…

CIAs Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Were Counterproductive

http://www.physorg.com/news173424688.html

and this, of course, is the ultimate example of how facts have very little role to play in the behaviour or policies of authoritarians…

British girl dies after cervical cancer vaccine jab

http://www.physorg.com/news173428319.html

I guarantee that this poor girls death will feature heavily in the conspiracy theories surrounding various vaccines and how the authorities are planning to vaccinate dissidence and opposition out of the population. You heard it here first…

What proportion of psychotic illness is due to cannabis?

http://www.physorg.com/news173420594.html

excellent development. Reading between the lines, what these researchers seem to be saying is that the ludicrous hostility to cannabis is driven by untested assumptions about its effect on public health.

This is no surprise to those of us who have actually studied what little evidence there is, but it will be extremely useful to confirm what we already know.

And if, along the way, we do find that particular groups or particular forms of consumption cause higher levels of risk, then we might even come up with sensible means of coping with them.

This is certainly an area where the Facts will help promote at least support for liberty; though we still face the huge historical problem that the facts rarely influence the behaviour or policies of Authoritarians…

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/09/29/review_pc_tune_up_sofware/

extremely useful to have someone else do the donkey work of such a comparison. The results are no surprise, though, personally, despite having 4gb of RAM, I still use Registry Easy to keep my registry under control…

Treemometers: A new scientific scandal • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/yamal_scandal/

this could be one of the more serious science scandals of recent years…

Wireless carriers gear up to fight FCC’s net neutrality plans • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/fcc_wireless_neutrality_plans/

despite what I said the other day, I feel a smidge of sympathy for the cellcos. They have much more obvious bandwidth limitations than the landline providers so it seems reasonable to allow them to charge for bandwidth at least, though NOT content…

Google fits web with meta comments engine • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/google_sidewiki/

kinda like stumble in fact. Stumble comments on arbitrary web pages can be read only if you have the Stumble software, and Googles “metacomments” can only be read if you install the Google toolbar. Big deal.

Having said that, the first attempt at this was about 10 years ago and I was very pissed off that it didn’t catch on. It was much more flexible than Stumble in one respect (only) in that you could actually place your comment ANYWHERE on the relevant page (other users with the software would see a little icon which they could mouseover to see the content) which meant you could do a detailed comment on specific elements within the page. Really useful for the 27 of us who tried it….

Geordi LaForge video-to-brain rig built at MIT • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/geordi_laforge_mit_nerve_chip/

another “version 1″ technofix which everyone will take the piss out of. Version 13 (or whatever) will be invisibly implanted into your retina and function with (n) times the resolution of the human eye and across the entire spectrum from long infra red to short UV – meaning we’ll all be able to see in the dark etc…