This is very cool:
British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
The technique that created the ‘mini-liver’, currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver.
Described as a ‘Eureka moment’ by the [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Drinks, for all my friends
October 31, 2006 – 3:15 pm
For DFF II
October 30, 2006 – 2:46 pm
The ultimate digital artists toy - you just need to come up with $2,500.
‘Nother great web reference
October 24, 2006 – 1:52 pm
Stumbled on this from Keven Kelly’s Cool Tools. I have all of the sailing knots down through tons of practice, but man do I need to work on my fly fishing knots. Its right up there with this site.
Satan loves my little song
October 21, 2006 – 4:58 pm
Two large doses o’ the funny, from James Kocholka:
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Color psychology
October 20, 2006 – 5:07 pm
For many of my childhood years, the walls in my room were painted fairly bright yellow - which maybe wasn’t such a great thing:
Like the sun, too much bright yellow hurts our eyes and agitates us. Brilliant yellows make our eyes tired. Therefore, like road workers use yellow flags for caution, you want to use [...]
Periodic spiral
October 20, 2006 – 11:10 am
I didn’t know that there were flaws with the periodic table, but the periodic spiral purports to fix them.
Look upon their works, ye mighty, in 90 seconds flat
October 19, 2006 – 9:55 pm
This is pretty cool:
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Too weird for their own good, and perhaps for the good of others
October 16, 2006 – 3:20 pm
Oil & Gold is one of my 10 favorite albums.
(reminder via)
Proceed with caution, cognitive hazard ahead
October 15, 2006 – 2:41 pm
I joked with NZC the other day about susceptibility to existential attacks, and today I see that the lifeboat foundation anticipates they might become more common:
My own weakness is also included (note archenemy blog category “lotus eating”):
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It’s the foreign policy, stupid
October 13, 2006 – 5:21 pm
Hilarious! The GOP commissioned this from David Zucker, however they (unfortunately but understandably) passed on running it.
Podcast here.
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Back to The Baron
October 13, 2006 – 4:01 pm
I stumbled on to some reviews for The Baron cologne (for Gentlemen).
Of course here is the most important review of all -
I give you The Baron on The Baron:
The Baron de Charlus once told me: ‘I am slightly concerned that some believe The Baron cologne was either commissioned by me, composed in my honour or [...]
Rebranding complete
October 12, 2006 – 12:04 pm
Technical Video Rental is now SmartFlix:
Much better name, but still the same great company.
“Yep, it’s made with bits of real panther, so you know it’s good.”
October 11, 2006 – 5:06 pm
I always loved the cologne scene in Anchorman:
Brian Fantana: I’ll give this little cookie an hour before we’re doing the no-pants dance. Time to musk up.
[opens cologne cabinet]
Ron Burgundy: Wow. Never ceases to amaze me. What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard’s Delight.
Brian Fantana: No, she [...]
A gift for someone you care about
October 11, 2006 – 10:34 am
Sometimes while searching though Amazon I stumble across some things that would be nice to have, you know, just in case.
Something you could leave on your kitchen table so when you friends come over they would ask “What’s that?”
And you could answer: “A deluxe mine probe kit”
Because if you’re walking your dogs, you never know [...]
Coming (relatively) soon: another Frank Millah Thrillah
October 9, 2006 – 6:55 pm
Check out the visually stunning trailer for Frank Miller’s 300.
I continue to be fascinated by the art of movie trailers. This one IS the movie, about as condensed as possible. In what felt like 20 seconds (I didn’t actually time it) it tells you everything you need to know right up front: that they’re going [...]
“BE like a normal MAN”
October 5, 2006 – 11:40 am
That was the heading of spam I received this morning. Now I’m nervous what marketers actually know about me.
My response:
“I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man.”
Pure geekery
October 2, 2006 – 12:47 pm
A diskworld wedding cake. I have to say I have new respect for marzipan as a medium.
I am a big fan of the Discworld series. Fun, light, interesting reads. When I first moved to Germany, my connection to sanity was “The British Bookshop” in Frankfurt until I had a social life, and [...]