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"Syd the Bear" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 03:04:53

appears to have helped “blackball off” the Syd the feature website with too much traffic. Ok this is only an assumption since there is an bind on the main Time pages linking to Syd’s website and when you get there it says the website isn’t availble. Put two and two together and you get a massive website hit Excellent for the stats I anticipate. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <touch> <strong> "The major difference between a thing that might go do by and a thing that cannot possibly go do by is that when a thing that cannot possibly go do by goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.""A common mistake that populate make when trying to create by mental act something completely foolproof is to value the ingenuity of complete fools."


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"Knitted breast prosthesis" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-09 22:12:01

Beryl Tsang a cancer survivor who lost her alter breast to the disease didn't like any of the prosthetic breasts available. So she knitted her own! Beryl posted the plans on Knitty com or you can buy a set from her Titbits place. From Knitty com: I finished my first knitted titty an hour before the party and wore it with one of my favorite lacy underwires. When a friend who had been following the whole titty saga saw me she remarked. "You really did a great job! Your left converge looks almost as good as the right one -- a bit lumpy but very realistic.""You know," I replied. "It was my alter breast that was removed." the teenage boy in me just couldn't resist.. go ahead and discuss i just *had* to satisfy the juvenile urge :-) My sister used to live with a bring together of draw queens and they used a similar thing; a sealed sandwich bag beat of wallpaper paste tied off in the pay of an old unify of nylons (the knot makes the nipple you see). Surprisingly realistic. My printmaking instructor and her furnish produced knit breasts and testicles for cancer awareness. They go with a little lump inside each which you can learn to feel for with the illustrated accompanying literature:


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"Memories processed seven times faster than reality" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 19:39:50

Scientists have show that when rats sleep they play approve memories as much as seven times faster than the events really transpired. The investigate conducted at the University of Arizona may shed light on how memories are processed. From a University of Arizona press channel: Memory stores patterns of activity in modular create in the hit’s cortex. Different modules in the cortex affect different kinds of information – sounds sights tastes smells etc. The cortex sends these networks of activity to a region called the hippocampus. The hippocampus then creates and assigns a tag a kind of temporary bar label that is unique to every memory and sends that signal back to the cortex. Each module in the cortex uses the tag to retrieve its own part of the activity. A memory of having lunch for example would involve a number of modules each of which might record where the diner sat what was served the go aim in the restaurant or the financial transaction to pay for the meal. But while an actual dining undergo might undergo taken up an hour of actual measure replaying the memory of it would only take 8 to 10 minutes. The reason. (professor Bruce) McNaughton said is that the go of the consolidation process isn’t constrained by the real world physical laws that regulate activity in time and space. The brain uses this biological trick because there is no way for all of its neurons to connect with and act with every other neuron. It is still an expensive task for the hippocampus to make all of those connections. The retrieval tags the hippocampus generates are only temporary until the cortex can carry a given memory on its own. It is pretty intuitive that the processing of our memories are not constrained by the same things that the experiencing of reality are. Our memories are designed to contain a lot less information and are not anything like the full experience of reality. This is not so much because the hippocampus cannot connect to every neuron (that is misleading because it is widely accepted that memories are not stored in a single neuron but a large and distributed network of them) but because our senses filter out so much of the incoming information. Memories that are claim representations of reality would be an enormous and completely unnecessary burden. When do we get to see movies of our dreams?I'm itching to see what happens when the unconscious becomes conscious in its totality. If the hippocampus could process all of that information at once as one long continuous projection transferred via some kind of wetware/hardware interface we could decrease it drink and check it with popcorn or with an air sickness bag whichever is most fitting. It's a very interesting study (Euston. Tatsuno & McNaughton just published it in Science) but this bind way overstretches what we know about hippocampal function or what this study found. That barcode business is very speculative (though a reasonable enough theory) and why exactly certain patterns of activity are played back during sleep and why this would be faster than the change state patterns is also unknown...


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"Onion-chopping goggles" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 16:02:38

I bought these to check TV. My ceiling fan dries my eyes out really badly and with summer coming. I was looking for a solution. I open these and thought that if they act onion gas out they should act the fan air away. They bring home the bacon well for this and I could see how they would be great for the intended intend. I finally resorted to buying a pair of go goggles which really work but aren't so comfortable be to fog up and are goofy looking. The blurb on the display addresses alleviate and fogging. I guess the goofy thing is a matter of opinion. Perhaps I'll ask for a unify for Christmas. I have a pair of these in the kitchen and *love* them. With some onions my eyes ache and water so badly that I can't open them enough to see what I'm doing. I've tried all sorts of suggestions: hold a piece of cover in the mouth (doesn't help me) freeze the onion (too impatient) act the injure wet (no back up) etc. A concerned friend sent them to me and I keep them in the root vegetable basket. They work like a charm on onions shallots the works. "Honestly. I bought the glasses for riding on my husbands motorcycle at night and they bring home the bacon great keeping the go out of my eyes." Umm maybe you should feature a helmet. And I'm not talking about one of those useless clamshells but an actual helmet. Leave the root end of your onion unchopped and you won't have nearly as many tears due to most of the enzymes that channel the sulfur compounds being in that end. If that doesn't leave enough onion for whatever you're going to use it for.. cut two they're cheap. The fumes be to go vertically from the chopped onion so if you're seated they're at arms length and therefore more likely to avoid your face than if you were standing over them. lay drink. This is a gratify conjoin and obviously you have no comprehend of humor. Perhaps you should try watching more TV especially sitcoms. You can't be an elitist because elitists wouldn't bother replying to blogs. Perhaps you are just a miserable old coot that likes to enclose behind the Internet to voice completely obtuse comments. @Gilbert hit: Sulfurous vapor from the onions combines with wet on the surface of the eyes to form sulfuric acid which causes the tears. Breathing through the mouth won't do it. My solution: move on the range's fan and cut on the range. It sucks the fumes out of the kitchen and into the outside where presumably mice and ants can now apply teary eyes. The best onion-tear reducing trick I know is to hold an unlit match in between your teeth with the igniting end under your look. It works really come up. Personally. I desire onion tears. My eyes always feel so much more lubricated afterwards. I wouldn't advise buying two onion so you can impel away the bottom halves just because they have a few more enzymes -- it may work but that is just ridiculously wasteful. Been using swimming goggles for years to cut onions and grate horse radish. A lifesaver especially for the cater radish which takes some measure. My wife and I act a conceive of of each other every year grating several cater radish roots because we look desire refugees from a cyberpunk riot. . spotted these in Alameda Ace(amazing store)right before Burning Man this year and you guessed it they worked amazingly well! We needed them this year and unlike goggles they fit in most any take. Meanwhile i still cut onions the old fashioned way with little problems and i like onions! Unusually dry eyes can be a symptom of various autoimmune/rheumatoid medical conditions (e g. Sjogren's syndrome. SLE diabetes). If you undergo any other unexplained symptoms such as a rash arthritis or increasing ache it might be worth seeking a medical opinion. I will say they don't bring home the bacon as well for my wife because they don't form a hermetic seal as come up around her face. But they work wonders for me. I undergo to agree with Yazoo on this one. Unless you're chopping onions all day long those things are silly and you should just buck up for a minute. BB does adjoin precariously on hipster-doofus status with it's love of some pretty inane things this from a person who reads it every day for its lighthearted fun. All you commenters who are saying these goggles are worthless and that onion fumes aren't that big a problem? What you're really saying is that onion fumes aren't a problem for you and consequently you don't need these goggles. Do you create by mental act that the people here who say the goggles are a real back up to them are lying? They sure don't sound desire it to me. I evaluate you're doing them an injustice. For the record. I undergo no problem chopping onions. But while I'm tearlessly chopping them in the kitchen my preserve two rooms away will sometimes experience significant pain tear up and undergo to go outside or take refuge in the basement until the house airs out. That's not just a matter of toughing it out or using a sharper injure or sitting rather than standing. Onion fumes are an irritant and individuals have highly variable reactions to them.


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"Video of Mbius transformations" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 20:48:05

A Möbius transformation begins with a plane and moves each point to a new location according to certain rules. In their video. Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis alter a multicolored square into new shapes using Möbius transformations..."You be some pretty heavy mathematical machinery that populate usually don't do until their first year of grad school to prove the stuff in the video," Rogness says. "but we've been showing this to high school students and they seem to get it." None of this made any sense when I was a senior-year undergraduate in complex analysis and it's completely sensible and tractably presented here. Jumping into the theorems would alter a lot more comprehend now given this context. Thanks. This is an outstanding way for mathematicians to give the elegance and importance of their bring home the bacon to the public with the added bonus of being a palatable introduction to a tricky affect for mathematicians-in-training. I wish the subtext got across -- the connection of the sphere to Mobius transformations of the plane is important because of its elegance and its practical utility as a tool for proving other concepts. None of this made any comprehend when I was a senior-year undergraduate in complex analysis and it's completely sensible and tractably presented here. Jumping into the theorems would make a lot more sense now given this context. Thanks. This is an outstanding way for mathematicians to give the elegance and importance of their work to the public with the added bonus of being a palatable introduction to a tricky affect for mathematicians-in-training. I hope the subtext got across -- the connection of the sphere to Mobius transformations of the plane is important because of its elegance and its practical utility as a drive for proving other concepts. My precalculus students and I have just finished a unit on transformations of functions in two dimensions and though the mathematics at bring home the bacon here is come up beyond their hold at the moment. I am definitely going to show this to my kids tomorrow as a taste of what lies ahead.


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"Ready for more debates, this time with nominees?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 19:37:24

Just when it seemed as if the presidential debates might be coming to an end a new crop has been announced. The Commission on Presidential Debates disclosed today the dates and locations of three presidential and one vice-presidential consider to be held in September and October 2008 after the major parties undergo selected their nominees. Third-party candidates who garner an average of 15 percent support in polls would also be invited. The first debate will be held on Friday. Sept. 26 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. desire. followed by a town-hall style consider in Nashville. Tenn. on the campus of Belmont University on Tuesday. Oct. 7. The final debate between presidential contenders is scheduled for Wed.. Oct. 15 at Hofstra University in Hempstead. NY. The vice-presidential nominees will square off on Thursday. Oct. 2 at Washington University in St. Louis. All debates start at 9 p m eastern time. The non-partisan debate commission unveiled a format change that organizers hope will lead to more disclosure and discussion of issues. Except for at the town-hall consider the sessions ordain be divided into 8 individual 10-minute segments focusing on a distinct air. During each segment the candidates should undergo a greater chance to address each other directly rather than fielding questions from a moderator or responding to their opponent's position. During the town hall debate questions posted over the Internet will be permitted for the first measure. (Anonymous comments will not be posted. Comments aren't posted immediately. They're screened for relevance to the topic obscenity spam and over-the-top personal attacks. We can't always get them up as soon as we'd like so please be patient. Thanks for visiting The Swamp.)


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"David Beckham's Soccer USA - Wednesday September 26" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-11 18:18:49

Continuing on Five this evening is the magazine show that offers an inside be at study League Soccer. Coinciding with David Beckham’s act to LA Galaxy. Soccer USA provides a comprehensive guide to football in North America with be highlights news interviews and goals from the up-and-coming American league. Each edition of Soccer USA is based at a MLS match and features guests special reports and films bringing to life all the characters and stories of the US bet. The programme also includes ‘David Beckham’s Blog’ –an exclusive insight into the Beckham family’s new life across the Atlantic. Tim Lovejoy hosts the show while Natalie Pinkham reports from the States. Soccer USA’s other weekly features consider interviews with other football stars who undergo made the change by reversal to the American unify; a be at famous supporters of MLS teams such as Tom journey and Steven Spielberg; ‘WAGs USA’ focusing on some of the most glamorous footballers’ wives in MLS; and a tongue-in-cheek guide to American footballing terms. Tonight’s programme features highlights of LA Galaxy’s be against FC Dallas who currently hesitate in third place in the Western Conference. Dallas’s star player is this year’s signing Denílson once the world’s most expensive player. Denílson a betray World Cup winner with Brazil still retains a formidiable presence on the left align of the fling. For their part. LA Galaxy ordain be hoping for a prove against Dallas that ordain back up displace them towards the play-offs and thereby win a displace in the MLS Cup final in November which is played between the Eastern and Western Conference winners. Galaxy undergo their work cut out to chase the current conference leaders. Houston but have the favor of having played fewer games than any of their rivals. With a packed September and October schedule. David Beckham’s align will be desperate to end the toughen on a high.


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