more interesting

rejection for success

candy. so much candy. I could nibble all day

which reminds me, I have dentist appointment at 6.30
by tomorrow, two of my good companions will be gone. Or join one more of their number in my desk-drawer in a small ziploc.

30 interesting brain facts

why I love Gibson

"Nanofax?"

"Everything the name implies," says Klaus, "and considerably less."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nanofax AG offers a technology that digitally reproduces objects, physically, at a distance. Within certain rather large limitations, of course. A child's doll, placed in a Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in London, will be reproduced in the Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in New York-"

"How?"

'With assemblers, out of whatever's available. But the system's been placed under severe legal constraints. It can't, for instance, reproduce functional hardware. And of course it can't, most particularly can't, reproduce functional nanoassemblers."

"I thought that they'd proven that didn't work anyway," Laney says.

"Oh no," says the Rooster, "they just don't want it to."

--- from All Tomorrow's Parties


Stereolithography is coming true

getting better

is about taking a rock and growing that
into a tower


sometimes you get a lighthouse

wunderwaffe

german ww2 tech was better

how to get hit by a car like a boss

this is awesome cool

http://i.imgur.com/va2RE.gif

there is no way to happiness

happiness is the way

meditation heals

, works at gene level
see link
also, rick hansen's talks on youtube

caffeine

Caffeine amplifies your stress levels

and this is enlightening : how retail commerce tricks and cons you every possible way

education and learning

education is knowing nature's ways
learning is memorizing other men's works
update :
there's symbol mapping, symbolic manipulation in itself (math/philosophy etc),
and otherwise , memory replay, extrapolation of mental video, audio ?

did you think it could be simply captured in words like "education" and "learning" ?

economics of seinfeld

seinfeld economics

i love it !!
i can still remember elaine shouting "you're all crazy" to a restaurant full of people eating candy bars with a knife and fork

should not we be

eating mnore of this - bran rice/rice bran

what happens when you drink a coke : it's like a horror movie

original article here

1. In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
2. 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
3. 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
4. 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
5. 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
6. 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
7. 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

going viral

game theory experiemnt on going viral

loosely coupled, lack of perfect information = good for adoption

major hubs of adoption = more clear information = less of new meme-ing

in other words Gibson's Cody Harwood was on the dot about letting sub-cultures evolve, seemingly spin away and then going in and main-streaming them.like zion.

claire danes in stardust

has no eyebrows.
if i look at her face long enough, i become overcome by a sense of revulsion, which is unfortunate as the whole look that she has gooing is anything but

i mean, if i were in a magical adventure , i'd love it if she showed up in it (with eyebrows) ..

from "The Forbidden Kingdom"

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Kung Fu...
Hard work over time to accomplish skill.
A painter can have kung fu.
Or the butcher, who cuts meat everyday with such a skill that his knife never touches the board.

Learn the form, seek the formless.
Hear the soundless.
Learn it all, and forget it all.
Learn the way, and then find your own way.
The musician can have kung fu, or the poet, who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This too is kung fu.
But do not name it, my friend. For it is like water.
Nothing is softer than water, yet it can overcome rock.
It does not fight, it flows along the opponent.
Formless, nameless. A true master dwells within.
Only you can free him.
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Wanted this down somewhere.

I like Munnabhai MBBS

Munna bhai mbbs is a superb movie.
The cast brilliantly turns the borderline stupid script in the Hindi version into real gold.
You've got to see Wasool Raja to see how the jokes and characters don't translate so easily into other languages

stupid

- how stupid is a celebration of lights in a city where you can't see the night sky even if you wanted to ?

- how stupid is buying firecrackers priced Rs. 1920 ? what is this , a wine ?

- how stupid is that automobile exhaust is not pollution enough that we have to add sulphur,nitrates and other shit to it ? is not diabetes and b.p enough that we have to add bronchitis and red eyes to it ?

- how stupid is it that a bunch of people make large amounts of sugar laden fried dough and 'gift' it to others so that you end up eating so much sugar in a day that you would otherwise eat in a week or two ?

The date might be an auspicious one but the ways have to change

and it looks like i have to go it alone

there's something seriously wrong here

http://gizmodo.com/5681152/woman-must-pay-15-million-for-illegally-downloaded-songs

new find of the day

Ted Nelson
wikipedia says ...
Ted Nelson promotes four maxims: "most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong".

interesting. that's the second reference to oxlabs in two days.
since all i see the real world through reddit and hacker news, i can only conclude that there are more brits active on these sites than a while ago.

and also the lion's notebooks