Global Trickster

I am huddling in the corner, holding my precious…my ibook that is, to my chest. Hiding from that bastard Jason. His very presence sends sparks of pain into my precious. He actually reached for my laptop, and sent a spark that shut the computer off and seems to have reset my bios? It reverted the time to Dec. 31st 1969.

Then, he visciously tried to attack it again, only I was ready this time and intercepted him. But just his mere touch sent a jolt through my hand and into the earbud on the opposite side of my body, causing the earbud to screech in static pain.

Beware the Jason! Fear him and his anti-mac electrical aura!

[tags]Apple[/tags]

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I’ve replaced the links to my reading list with something called the Google Reader. This is an RSS collector that I can organize, and then neatly place a summary of on my page, (see the upper right box) I’m still experimenting, so well see how this works. I might put the links back up, not sure. You can read the articles in it by clicking on them, or if you want to see the full reading list, just click on the “Read in Google Reader” which takes you to my collection. Don’t forget the Google Notebook will also include links/info that is not listed here. (categorized of course)

[tags] Google, Web 2.0, social bookmarking, blog [/tags]

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Future Feeder:

We Feel Fine May 17th, 2006
We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kanvar is a visualization of how the internet community feels. The program scours across blogs for phrases containing “I feel” and parses them into a field for analysis from many different angles. Brilliant!

Interesting experiment, combining all the bloggers in an emotional soup.

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Anyone who doesn’t know who this is should really start reading at this link, then read some of his work.

On the one hand, Bucky is a model of potential for those distopian pessimist such as myself. A man who actually believed that he could make changes, that there was a glimmer of hope for survival of our species.

On the other hand, many of the amazing ideas he had have not been given the appropriate amount of time and thought by the “leaders” of the “spaceship earth” (his term) Thus strengthening my prayers of doom I recite each night before sleep.

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Future Feeder » Biotech:

Bio-Paper for Printing Organs Thursday, November 10th, 2005 An emerging branch of medicine called “organ printing” takes a patient’s own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based “bio-ink” and “bio-paper” to create tissue to repair a damaged organ. A new hydrogel or “bio-paper”,developed by the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, enables printing of organs by layering thin sheets embedded with cells. The cells and liquid hydrogel are put in the printer cartridge and then dropped into three-dimensional, 1-microliter dots that form layers as the hydrogel hardens. The cells form tissue that can be implanted into a damaged organ. Glenn D. Prestwich believes testing will begin on humans in the next year as research pushes to repair damaged organs in real-time.

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I’ve added a public Google Notebook to the links on the right. Always the technophile, I’ve jumped onto this new service from Google. I may be easily over-hyping its potential, however, what the future holds for it may prove me right. Essentially, its much like del.icio.us, where you can catalog your travels on the Internet, except, instead of just bookmarks, you can clip images, text, etc. Then you can either keep it private or public. It has a very blog-like feel. I’m going to continue testing it, feel free to visit the public research notebook.  What I’m really looking forward to is the integration to other google services.

At the same time…I’m not sure if I want all of this information in the hands of such a beast? Google has said that they want to “organize the worlds information” no real specification on whether that’s private or public information. I won’t be putting my private information up anytime soon anyways, so ladies, I’m afraid you’ll have to keep imagining the majesty that is the Monkey King. (heh..ahh…even I laughed a little there)

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