This innocuous looking device, discovered on Gizmodo, is a new bluetooth microphone designed to be a dental implant. Installed in a tooth, it insures that you always look like you’ve come from lunch without checking your teeth. After the dentist appointment this morning, I think I’ll wait until there is some sort of implant involving invasive surgery. Wonder how it reacts to tinfoil?
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These images represent four texts analyzed by a program by JK Keller. As described on Bioephemera:
Red cubes represent non-unique words, with size depending on number of occurrences; blue cubes are unique words. The X-axis represents the order of the text, from beginning (top) to end (bottom). The diameter of the column is determined (somehow) by length of paragraph.
With the ability to analyze text in such away, why hasn’t someone tackled the task of subject, type, style or any other useful search or organization tools for the various free e-books flying about the net? Perhaps Project Gutenberg needs to add a tagging feature, which is now available for many Library of Congress and National Museum of Health and Medicine photos via Flickr.
A belated goodnight to Laura Huxley and a happy 102nd birthday to Albert Hofmann.
This mash-up, via High T3ch, gives so much more meaning to the phrase “shooting a film.” Want.
The Department of Homeland (In)Security is considering three different anti-missile systems for commercial airplanes. All three of these systems are ground-based technologies, most of which are tied to sensors either on the plane or on the ground. We can ignore the fact, for now, that a missile has never been fired at a commercial flight domestically, because a DHL plane was struck. In Iraq. Five years ago. Which landed safely. We must have this technology at all costs. Which is about $600 million up front.
Read the great Threat Level post on the subject here.
I have enough trouble flying without my government aiming things up in the skies at me, thank you.
The Bioephemera blog has a great post today on The Bowes Silver Swan, a clockwork swan, swimming, fishing and preening in a clockwork stream. An amazing automaton supposedly built by a man named Merlin in the 18th century.
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If you are in the habit of signing your soul away, Bob Parington invented this lovely blood pen just for you. Victims and spare souls not included.
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Dubai, not satisfied with The World, is now planning to recreate the French city of Lyon in its backyard. Saeed al-Gandhi, a businessman from Dubai, came up with the idea while working on plans to build a French language university. From the TimesOnline article:
Not wanting to be outdone by Abu Dhabi, another Arab emirate, which has announced it will build its own version of the Louvre, al-Gandhi hit upon the idea of “Lyons-Dubai City”, as the new metropolis will be known, or “Lyons’ oriental little sister”, as they call it in the French town hall.
Perhaps the 700 acre replica, which brought £350million to Lyon itself, will sit comfortably in the shade of The Palm?
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First spied on Laughing Squid, then tackled by Boing Boing, but I could not help blogging about these lovely goodies from Urban Trend. My cholesterol is already through the roof, so I’m concocting new recipes in my head as I add this to my most wanted list.
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Drew Daniel, mastermind of the Soft Pink Truth and one half of the daring duo known as Matmos, has written a new book on Throbbing Gristle’s “20 Jazz Funk Greats.” Part of the 33 1/3 series, it covers what is perhaps the classic album by the best band you’ve never listened too. Following on the heals of the band’s suprisingly wonderful reunion and Dr. Daniel’s new position in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, this is the perfect little volume for those who weren’t able to lift Wreckers of Civilisation off the coffee table.
Full disclosure: Dr. Drew is an old friend whom we dearly miss on the west coast.
Image via. Thanks Joanna Ebenstein at Morbid Anatomy.
Snopes and Mythbusters aside, the refreshing glow of fable defying facts is about as interesting as a graduate statistics course. Mind Hacks blindsides this theory with a fascinating post on Electroconvulsive Therapy. The post languidly tosses aside the fictions, nullifying the Cuckoos’ Nest image, while giving an outline of the real controversies with ECT.
I still have reservations about homebrew trepanation.
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