Year: 2008

  • Get ready!

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    Steve Jobs is about to start talking in San Francisco. What’s coming?

  • This morning

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    Summer’s back for a couple of days. This was my view cycling to work this morning.

  • Beach babes

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  • Reading

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    Disparate coffee table reading in our house.

  • iTunes Films in the UK

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    You can now rent and buy films through iTunes in the UK! I’ve been waiting for this for ages, but I’m a little suprised that Apple managed to organise it already. I was expecting an Autumn release. We never rent films from local DVD shops any more, and switched to the Amazon model of online/by…

  • Video podcast

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    Rhi and I are adding video podcasts to the embryology stream on iTunes. They’re teaching core bits of anatomy, instead of embryology, and we start off going over some of the anatomical triangles of the neck in paint. They’re in .m4v format at the moment (MPEG4). I haven’t decided how to put them on this…

  • The future of prosthetics?

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    Take a look at Dean Kamen’s new prosthetic arm he and his team have invented. It’s a robot arm that replicates the movements allowed by the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, and is controlled via the user’s muscles elsewhere in the body. Guess why it was nicknamed “Luke”. Wired article.

  • Scientists image a single HIV particle being born

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    Freakin’ wow. Scientists from Rockerfeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center have imaged, in real time, molecules coming together to form an HIV particle. As a cell biologist used to working with bright-field and dark-field microscopes that is trying to get his head around the idea of nanomedicine, that’s just freakin’ wow. From…

  • Jack & Indy

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    Jack & Indy, originally uploaded by samwebster. I just watched the new Indiana Jones film without Jack & he really wanted to go. I think he’ll enjoy it. I wonder if any of it will scare him. Should we see it in the cinema together or wait for the DVD?

  • I hate chevrons

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    I hate these damned chevrons! They try to hypnotise me, and instead of making me focus on the distance between me and the car in front they confuse my eye and take my attention away from driving. And it’s a bloody long section too! You keep thinking you can see the end….. and then there’s…