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I was a little shocked (pun not intended) to see this article on LifeHacker. Doesn’t everybody know about Uninterruptible Power Supplies already? Then reality asserted itself, as I remembered that to most people, computers are just magic boxes. When I was running a desktop system, the UPS was a must-have item. Now that I’ve only …
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Amazing stuff… a brief Internet search turns up assertions (such as a few here) that the healing properties of honey were well known in ancient civilizations, but if that’s true it apparently went out of vogue when modern antibiotics were discovered, and medicine is only now rediscovering its usefulness.
(No entry yesterday because we were on the road, driving home from a Thanksgiving visit to my family. Seventeen and a half hours, to travel less than 800 miles by highway… now I remember why we usually travel on the Saturday or Monday after Thanksgiving, instead of the Sunday. The traffic was horrid.) It seems …
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I thought I’d written about this before, but a search doesn’t turn it up now… there has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about how McDonald’s food is so unhealthy that even microbes won’t eat it. But as appealing (and health-promoting) as the idea may be, apparently it’s pure rot.
Some spammer’s automated spam-bots have targeted Geek Drivel over the past few weeks, for reasons unknown. Well, okay, the surface reasons are obvious — but since they haven’t managed to get a single spam published, despite weeks of effort and hundreds of attempts per day, you’d think the spammer would notice and turn them to …
It will be interesting to see how this develops over time.
By the end of this decade or the next, “regenerative medicine” could well be commonplace. Dr. Who, eat your heart(s) out. 😉
Damned genes and their liberal agenda. For political reasons they refuse to justify the conservatives’ assertion that they’re just better than everybody else.
We space/science/SF geeks have always hoped that something like this would be the case, but we didn’t know what to expect. It looks like a second of the variables in the calculation of the odds of intelligent civilizations in the universe that we could communicate with (the Drake Equation) has been solved… only four more …
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I’ve talked about compact fluorescent lights before, and (in the comments) about LED lights. Apparently LEDs are getting really good now… CF lights may turn out to be really short-lived.