// February 27th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
It’s Called Le voyage dans la Lune or Trip to the Moon done in 1907 by Georges Méliès a french filmmaker:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4]
Seem Familier? You may have seen a tribute on this Smashing Pumpkins Video:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZYqaSc4cU]
Motion Pictures are awesome…….
// February 26th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
This is a must see video of a Multi-Touch Interaction System, the future of computing.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByAFrcOwJk]
I can see so many ways I could use that in the lab I work in. Listen to Jeff Han describe this technology.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc]
imagine using it for a drilling in to a 3D model of an atom or an chemical compound, or showing a molecular interactions. Organic chemistry would have been a whole lot easier.
Imagine using this for real time animation or applying this to audio engineering. The possibilities go on and on and this technology is just in its infancy.
I may not be able to fly around with a jet pack yet but this is just as cool. The Future is upon us and its good to be a part of it.
// February 23rd, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
This poll shows you just how closed-minded the American Public is.
How does being an Athiest, Homosexual, or even married 3 times make you less qualified to be president? I don’t get it. None of this would even drop in to my mind when deciding who I would vote for.
Again I ask…what kind of world do I live in?
Found via richarddawkins.net
// February 21st, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
Because they may become a surgeon (medpagetoday.com):
Surgeons who played video games at least three hours a week in their past were 27% faster, with 37% fewer errors, in simulations of laparoscopic surgery than nonplayers, reported James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center here, and colleagues in the February issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.
Among the 33 residents and attending physicians in Dr. Rosser’s Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills and Suturing training program, those who currently played video games committed 32% fewer errors and were 24% faster than nonplayers.
Who would have thought that a 400 dollar gaming console that everyone thought was going to fry the brains of our generation would have an impact like this?
Now if only those doctors could figure out the real life equivalent of up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A start.
// February 21st, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
You can’t go wrong with Rose McGowen in this one.
Teaser Trailer:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRp7gdGJAyc]
Longer Theatrical Trailer:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUwLi7sUZg]
(link to a trailer i saw a while back that aired on spike TV)
// February 20th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
Finally, Some reconciliation for all the torture of Vanderbilt Football.
The Baseball team is ranked #1 in the country and the Basketball team is #17 or #21 depending on which poll you look at.
I personally think the SEC is the toughest conference (The east the strogest) in college basketball today and the reason there are not more reanked SEC teams is because they are all beating each other. I hope the SEC get it fair share of teams in the NCAA tourny. But we will see. Should make the SEC conference tourny all that more exciting.
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// February 18th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-er9FqhYA]
found via GiFS
And that girl is quite the hottie. Happy Sunday!!
// February 17th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
There is a reason why you listen to scientists when they suggest things.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. [Carl Sagan, Cosmos television series]
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring — Carl Sagan
// February 17th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
Vandy beat Florida today 83-70 and I was there. This is the 6th top 25 team Vandy has beat. We should be a solid top 25 team come Monday, not to mention a pretty much assured NCAA tournament bid. This years SEC tournament should be exciting.
We stopped the nations longest winning streak and broke the record for the most Vanderbilt wins under Coach Stallings. It was a pretty historic afternoon. It sure felt good to be a part of it.
Coach Stalling and Billy Donovan shaking hands at the bottom right.
How about them doors. Derrick Byars and Shan Foster both scored 24. I think at Derrick Byars deserves the SEC player of the year. He has played consistanly well all season.
More Pictures at my Flickr Site
// February 16th, 2007 // Comments // Uncategorized
Do you think you have Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD) if so you need to ask you doctor about Havidol.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQw_cdhXGco]
From the website:
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Problems can be avoided if you take HAVIDOL only when you are able to immediately benefit from its effects. To fully benefit from HAVIDOL patients are encouraged to engage in activities requiring exceptional mental, motor, and consumptive coordination. HAVIDOL is not for you if you have abruptly stopped using alcohol or sedatives. Havidol should be taken indefinitely. Side effects may include mood changes, muscle strain, extraordinary thinking, dermal gloss, impulsivity induced consumption, excessive salivation, hair growth, markedly delayed sexual climax, inter-species communication, taste perversion, terminal smile, and oral inflammation. Very rarely users may experience a need to change physicians.
Talk to your doctor about HAVIDOL
If you haven’t guessed this isn’t real. It was created by artist Justine Cooper to show how Pharmaceutical companies push their drugs.
The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public. Consumer advertising for prescription medications, which are a staple of television advertising in the United States, was legalised in the country in 1997.
Cooper said she intended the exhibit to be subtle.
“The drug ads themselves are sometimes so comedic. I couldn’t be outrageously spoofy so I really wanted it to be a more subtle kind of parody that draws you in, makes you want this thing and then makes you wonder why you want it and maybe where you can get it,” she added.
Make sure you check out the website it is pretty funny, once you know it fake. Like the chemical name –avafynetyme HCL — or have a fine time HCL.
According to the yahoo article, people believed this was real. I guess there is a sucker born every minute. I wonder how many people bought Head ON?? Its made of wax and a chemical used for cleaning lab glassware.
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