Month: November 2008

  • How to grow a good moustache

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    The BBC provide some helpful advice on how to look after your mo, advertising the end of Movember. BBC video.

  • Fire on the desktop!

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    I’m feeling really cold. I think changing my desktop wallpaper might help.

  • Cathy Davey: Save Button

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    Cathy Davey is summing up how I’ve been feeling about my self-built, custom, water-cooled PC for the last week or so: iTunes: Cathy Davey, Save Button

  • Science

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    “Scientific research was the lifeblood of civilization; it was the one investment that could be guaranteed to pay dividends for eternity.” From Earthlight, by A.C. Clarke.

  • Nothing to see here. Move along.

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  • Sponsor me!

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    This stupid moustache (under the stupid beard) has been cultivated for a couple of weeks now, so it’s time for you lot to start donating! Me and the medical students are raising money for Prostate Cancer, so please donate some cash to make this worthwhile. Click on this donate link and send some money please!…

  • by Scrum V reporter Rick O’Shea

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    “I recognise that face”, I thought, skipping through my Google Reader feed’s articles (Google Alert, “Swansea Medicine”). I’m sure I’ve seen him on Monday mornings. BBC 606 article: Henson’s “season affectively disordered?”

  • Fans go mad for new Warcraft game

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    BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat are reporting on today’s release of the new World of Warcraft update, The Wrath of the Lich King. “World of Warcraft makes more money than the biggest Hollywood blockbusters every single month, has 11 million players and controls two thirds of the online gaming market, so when an expanded version was…

  • Week 110 – hand anatomy

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    This week I talked about the anatomy of the hand, and in particular the intrinsic muscles of the hand. The extrinsic muscles, the blood supply and the nervous innervation are largely covered elsewhere, and you need to link all these bits together. I talked about how the tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor…

  • iPhone becomes top handset in U.S.

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    I think this is a little amazing: the Apple iPhone is the number one selling mobile phone in the US. How can such a large, expensive, multifunctional device be so popular? It must be good, and more people these days must need more than just a phone. LA Times article.