idle_to_idols

God, I love blood play

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:54:31 GMT

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=777869

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:38:55 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
finally!

Tue, 29 May 2007 18:11:09 GMT

I want to be old

Sweet

Thu, 10 May 2007 19:36:05 GMT

"http://letsgrabadrink.com/"
Dating sight for drunks

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:30:15 GMT

iPhone

oh, whatever, so I'm a hypocrit too.

Fri, 12 May 2006 18:55:16 GMT

--Empathy:
The recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others.
It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or
emotions of another being within oneself; a sort of emotional resonance.

--Tact:
The careful consideration of the feelings and values of another so as to create harmonious relationships with a
reduced potential for conflict or offense.
Tact is considered to be a virtue.
An example of tact would be relating to someone a potentially embarrassing detail of their appearance or demeanor
without causing them distress.
Tact is a form of interpersonal diplomacy. Tact is the ability to induce change or communicate hurtful information
without offending through the use of consideration, compassion, kindness, and reason.
A tactful person can tell you something you don't want to hear and you will be thankful for the information when
they are finished.

think about it...

hmm...being non-offensive? Nah, too much work for me.

you are sooooo full of shit... even if you were half as much, you'de still be full of it (the shit that is).
Ofcoure like me and everyone else, but sorry, it's still just annoying when it happens to me.

Mother fucking Stockholm syndrom. How I hate you so.
Let me count the ways. To myself. Alone. Grrrrrr....
Too bad I wont care in 5 minutes...

Mon, 01 May 2006 19:46:20 GMT

Images from the GERMAN BEARD CHAMPIONSHIP. Check them out. These beards. I'm cereal.

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Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:07:16 GMT

"This strange day is almost over,
just started to get sick of it,
and its strange but not all that strange,
yeah its strange but whats so strange about that,
yeah its strange but what isn't strange,
yeah its strange but, oh well,
this strange plan is random at best,
this strange how much more can i take..."

I feel like a caged animal that is in a cage with an opened door, but just can't leave by it's own free (sic) will.
I feel I've lost all of my natural instincts? Oh well, maybe I'll remember tomorrow...

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:31:01 GMT

i'm so fucking bored.

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:11:10 GMT

5:28:42 am: The senses:
Aural: The steadily increasing din of early rush hour traffic outside my living room window.
Optical: A slightly cleaner version of my normal living room/ the pale light eminating from the screen currently presented infront of me.
Taste: Cigarettes, toothpaste.
Tactile: The somewhat smooth buttons of my laptop on the pads of my fingers. It is around 70 degrees farenheit
5:28:42 am: INTERUPT: Itemized list of current clothing:
1: black, short sleeved t-shirt, 1 pair: black, pinstriped slacks, 1 pair: blue flip-flops, 1 pair: white, verticaly striped underwear.
5:28:42 am: The senses (continued):
Olfactory: Cigarettes (present), pot, cigarettes (past).

5:36:34 am: The senses:
(See above)

5:43:52 am: The senses:
(See above)
5:43:52 am: INTERUPT: Misc. comment:
(a) The clothes are comfortable, but the skin is not.(/a)
(b) Erwin Schroding on the subject of Born's probability wave interpretation of quantum mechanics:
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I had anything to do with it."(/b)
5:43:52 am: INTERUPT: Partial, alphabetical, itemized list of phobias:
(a)Algophobia(/a) /pain
(a)Apeirophobia(/a) /infinity
(c)Claustophobia(/c) /enclosure
(e)Ecclesiophobia(/e) /church
(e)Enosiophobia(/e) /chritisism
(g)Gerascophobia(/f) /inevitabillity
(h)Hedonophobia(/h) /pleasure
//--items [(i)-(y)] omitted--//
(z)Zeusophobia(/z) /gods

5:55:12 am: The senses:
(See above)

6:09:35 am: The senses:
(See above)
6:09:35 am: INTERUPT: Misc. comment:
Jesus Christ, put me to sleep...one way or another.

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:10:07 GMT

OMG a Dark Crystal sequal!!!!

Short attention span

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:39:09 GMT

Full storys...in two sentences. With pictures!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:10:54 GMT

I've found my twin!

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:52:20 GMT

lets all move to Sweden

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:08:33 GMT

Hmmm...He thinks he's people

Problem: Solution

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:19:37 GMT

Global warming:

The temperature rise seen in the last 140 years is a recovery from a cold period in the 19th century.

Even after the modest 1.0 degree F global warming of the last 140 years, present-day global temperatures remain cooler by about 1.0 degree F than they were when the Vikings settled Greenland in medieval times.

For more than 7,500 of the last 10,000 years, temperatures have been higher than today.

For at least 5,000 of the last 10,000 years, the mean planetary temperature was about 1.5 degrees F warmer than today.

Deforestation:
Give it a few years

Poverty:
Dollar menu

Crime:
Just keep electing George Bush

Pollution:
It's not that uncomfortable. Plus anyone can automatically make industrial music with them.

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:30:48 GMT

Dear god the binge and purge is over...I think.

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:36:41 GMT

its 10:30! who wants to go to stubs?

Interconnectedness

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:42:20 GMT

It's funny how patterns arise the more you look for them.

Did anyone see the movie Stealth? Great idea.

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:58:28 GMT

Why this brain flies on rat cunning
By Philip Sherwell
Washington
December 7, 2004

It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.

The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida.

They hope their research into neural computation will help them develop sophisticated hybrid computers, with a thinking biological component.

One target is to install living computers in unmanned aircraft so they can be deployed on missions too dangerous for humans. It is also hoped that the research will provide the basis for developing new drugs to treat brain diseases such as epilepsy.

The brain-in-a-dish is the idea of Thomas DeMarse, 37, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida. His work has been praised as a significant insight into the brain by leading US academics and scientific journals.

The 25,000 neurons were suspended in a specialised liquid to keep them alive and then laid across a grid of 60 electrodes in a small glass dish.

Under the microscope they looked at first like grains of sand, but soon the cells begin to connect to form what scientists are calling a "live computation device" (a brain). The electrodes measure and stimulate neural activity in the network, allowing researchers to study how the brain processes, transforms and stores information.

In the most striking experiment, the brain was linked to the jet simulator. Manipulated by the electrodes and a desktop computer, it was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.

"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr DeMarse said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."

Previously, scientists have been able to monitor the activity of only a few neurons at a time, but Dr DeMarse and his team can study how thousands of cells conduct calculations together. But it is still a long way from a human brain.

"The goal is to study how cortical networks perform their neural computations. The implications are extremely important," Dr DeMarse said.

The first result could be to enable scientists to build living elements into traditional computers, enabling more flexible and varied means of solving problems. Although computers today are extremely powerful, they still lack the flexibility in working things out that humans take for granted.

Computers, for example, find it difficult to spot the difference between a table and a lamp if they are unfamiliar with them.

"The algorithms that living computers use are also extremely fault-tolerant," Dr DeMarse said. "A few neurons die off every day in humans without any noticeable drop in performance, and yet if the same were to happen in a traditional silicon-based computer the results would be catastrophic."

The work by Dr DeMarse and his team is attracting interest from scientists around the world.

The US National Science Foundation has awarded them a $US500,000 ($A640,000) grant to produce a mathematical model of how the neurons compute, and the US National Institute of Health is financing research into epilepsy.

-Telegraph

So rats can fly and I cant even drive. Assholes.

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:58:47 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATASHAFACE

The death star was hiding behind Saturn's rings all along. J/K its only Mimas
It's a trap

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:31:55 GMT

Thats what fucking poseurs get

Oh my god I am so bored. Could visit Coreface at work, but too lazy. Oh well, guess I'll just go to bed. LAME.

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:24:02 GMT

Merry thanksgiving and a happy new year bitches

Rawk out particles

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:29:59 GMT

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Hip-Hop Atoms
For the first time, a team of physicists of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has controlled "the movement of a single atom back and forth between neighboring locations on a crystal." This will allow to build nanoscale devices atom by atom. Not happy enough with this technological breakthrough, the NIST team also discovered that the atoms were 'noisy' when moving on the crystal surface. They converted the electronic signals emitted by the atoms into audio ones and they were quite surprised to hear something similar to a 'hip-hop' musician's rhythmic 'scratching'.

The audio files also helped the team to know in real time that atoms have moved into desired positions. Read more for pictures and references or jump here to listen to the hip-hop atoms (Real Player necessary, 2 minutes and 40 seconds).
:: posted by Roland Piquepaille, 1:25 PM

You need real player to listen

None

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:21:59 GMT

The Lowbrow Line

A friend once said that everyone has a story. A person is known for telling the story, and others, often, will beg for the person to tell that story. Culturally, it's been a way for people to introduce themselves -- or be introduced - to new people.
Leave your mark

David Bowie is going to play Nikola Tesla
Here