Archive for January, 2013
‘New Weight Loss Gadget Sucks Food Straight Out of the Stomach’
January 7th, 2013Wow. Maybe they can somehow form the slurry into delicious and nutritious chow pellets. Which could… You know… No? Via: Independent: Who would have thought that the future of weight loss might lie in the hands of the inventor of the Segway? Dean Kamen, creator of the two-wheeled wonder, along with a team from Aspire […]
Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area
January 7th, 2013[???] Via: CBS: Helicopters have been conducting radiation tests above portions of the Washington, D.C. area using remote gamma radiation sensing technology. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been flying the radiation missions since Dec. 27, 2012 and they will continue until next Friday, Jan. 11. The flights have been conducted during daylight only, […]
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
January 7th, 2013This is a few months old. Google has created some very unusual networking hardware for use in their datacenters. Some of this gear had been delivered to outsiders by mistake and information about it wound up on a networking equipment bulletin board. My guess is that these switches might contain application specific silicon which would […]
CombiBar
January 6th, 2013Don’t leave home without it. *chortle* Via: Reuters: Private investors in Switzerland, Austria and Germany are lining up to buy gold bars the size of a credit card that can easily be broken into one gram pieces and used as payment in an emergency. Now Swiss refinery Valcambi, a unit of U.S. mining giant Newmont, […]
Christopher Tolkien on the Evisceration of His Father’s Work
January 6th, 2013Via: WorldCrunch: Christopher Tolkien gave his first ever press interview with Le Monde, shedding light on his father’s vision and sharing his own deep dismay with Hobbit director Peter Jackson. … This commercial galaxy is now worth several billion dollars — most of which does not go to Tolkien’s heirs, and thus complicates the management […]
Intraoperative Recall: The Perplexing Phenomenon of People Who ‘Awaken’ Under General Anesthesia
January 6th, 2013Via: The Atlantic: While subduing consciousness is the most urgent aspect of Tononi’s work, he is especially animated when discussing consciousness in its fullest, brightest state. In his office in Madison, he described a hypothetical device called a “qualiascope” that could visualize consciousness the same way telescopes visualize light waves, or thermal goggles visualize heat. […]
Professor Jorge L. Duarte on Yildiz Magnet Motor
January 6th, 2013Via: PESN: In the past, many inventors have claimed the possibility of building permanent magnet motors that could operate in a self-sustainable way. However, due to one or another reason, to date, no one has succeeded in bringing forward this alleged performance to the open public. The situation with Mr. Yildiz is radically different. More: […]
California Now Officially Tolerates Some Homemade Food Businesses
January 5th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Granola makers, homemade vinegar producers, and other foodies in California have cause to rejoice today. As of Jan. 1, a new state law allows people who make food at home to sell it to restaurants and grocery stores. Leave it to California to upend decades of public health consensus that food businesses need […]
‘Can a $1 Trillion Coin End Debt Ceiling Crisis?’
January 5th, 2013There’s a lot of laughter about this, but the proposal is not altogether different from what the U.S. is doing already in slow motion. The key difference between simply minting trillion dollar coins and the way the debt scam is currently done is as follows: If the U.S. Government prints x number of trillion dollar […]
How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
January 5th, 2013Via: New York Times: LAST month, HSBC admitted in court pleadings that it had allowed big Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to launder at least $881 million. The bank also admitted to using various schemes to move hundreds of millions of dollars to nations subject to trade sanctions, including Iran, Cuba and Sudan, in violation […]
