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One eyed woman wants digital eye-cam

Ian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:09:34 +0000

Tanya lost an eye in a car accident and was supplied by a pretty realistic looking prosthetic replacement. It seems, however, that she’d like to make the best of a bad situation and ‘upgrade’ that eye. She has put out a call on her blog for engineers to build her an eye with a digital camera that can provide augmented reality. There are a few possiblities; a ‘Terminator’-like display readout perhaps, or maybe just the ability to document her day with a genuine photographic memory. She seems to be gathering quite a bit of interest and I would imagine those with the skill-set to work with these sort of devices would always welcome a guinea pig. The devleopment could turn out to be very interesting.

Chris Morris at CERN

Ian — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:01:35 +0000

Something about these pictures that I recently stumbled across excites me.

Chris Morris at CERN

We have a machine here that, some say, can generate a black hole and destroy the earth and we have the greatest minds in British Comedy: Chris Morris, Simon ‘League Against Tedium’ Munnery and Kevin ‘I’m in pretty much everything worth watching’ Eldon. All in the same room tunnel! I can only presume something amazing is going to happen.

All joking aside, the CERN podcast with these people is very interesting if a lot of the physics usually overwhelms you (as it does me).

Listen (and view) the Munnery / Eldon CERN podcast
Listen to the Chris Morris CERN podcast

Survival Of The Fittest

Ian — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:38:48 +0000

Surely now those pesky creationists will no longer struggle with the concept of evolution after they read this craigslist post.

“I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.…”