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Some are rethinking the merits of cubicles and their impact on employee productivity. Thank gad.

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Funny about Frederick’s
Only a few really sexy outfits

Cool having Flash in this post though, eh? But the vidi is off-site. Don’t be surprised if it disappears.

Asahi is giving away beer pouring robots. Oh to live in such a innovative country.

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Sex.com = 12 triệu USD!

TTO - Cuối ngày 26-1, tên miền đắt giá nhất thế giới Sex.com đã được bán ra với giá là 12 triệu USD cho các nhà đầu tư ẩn danh.

[Roughly: TTO (Tuổi Trẻ Online) As Jan.26 ended, the world’s most expensive domain name, sex.com, sold for USD12 million…]

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Eek-A-Mouse - Gangster Chronicles, U-Neek album, 4:55, at Radio RightOnScales

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The Scientist Online includes a report on creating new life-forms by developing artificial cells. Is This Life? covers efforts to create “a growing, dividing, living organism of totally synthetic origins” by Jack Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School.

According to the report, “such an entity must meet 12 requirements for life including:

• having membrane enclosures (1)
• that can capture energy (2),
• maintain ion gradients (3),
• encapsulate macromolecules (4), and
• divide (5).
• Macromolecules must be able to grow by polymerization (6),
• evolve in a way that speeds growth (7), and
• store information (8). Add to that information store the ability to mutate (9)
• and to direct growth of catalytic polymers, and you have 10.
• finally, the cell must contain genes and enzymes that can be replicated (11),
• and they must be shared among daughter cells (12).

The report is supposed to include a Flash video of attempts at the last two outstanding steps. But it seems to have gone AWOL.

As consolation, PBS Nova’s report Artificial Life, created October 2005, includes Quicktime, RealVideo and Windows Media of a 15-minute segment on AL. And, supposedly, still, Biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz will answer questions, there, online, about “efforts to make artificial life and what that might tell us about early life on Earth”. Deamer participated in the The-Scientist report this post was originally about.

A free stock photo gallery with lot’s of great pictures you can use for your personal work. You can coose from Aminals, Constructions, 3D renderings, Nature pix, Textures & Backgrounds, web templates and mo’! Looks not too shab.

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A comprehensive yet concise list of quickly readable reasons to “migrate” to GNU/Linux from any proprietary operating system, Windows, Unix or other. From Bellevue Linux.

And it’s always good to have some handy numbers to back you up: Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, Revised as of November 14, 2005.

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Forget going somewhere at warp 9.95, try “jumping” 100,000 light years in seconds. This article tries to show how it could be done. Long, but with groovy SVG diagramatics and a fairly good comments set. - AD20060128Sat14h53m31ICT

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