Hulleye Comes By!

Now scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human

Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

Vigilante attack sheep guard British village

Leighterton is protected by 60-year-old retired farmworker Keith Clifford and his herd of “highly-trained” attack sheep.

9/11 remains possibly used on roads

Debris that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads: and apparently there’s a landfill in Staten Island called Fresh Kills!

Fantastic voyage: From science fiction to reality
Succeeded for the first time in guiding, in vivo and via computer control, a microdevice inside an artery, at a speed of 10 centimetres a second

3pointD.com reports:

NASA, the U.S. space agency, is getting ready to launch its own exploration into virtual space. NASAs Learning Technologies arm has issued an intramural call for proposal ideas for the development of a massively multiplayer online game that is intended to be the front-end of a larger synthetic environment. The program is funded to the tune of $1 million a year for fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009.

For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through water or glass. The phenomenon is known as negative refraction and could in principle be used to construct optical microscopes for imaging things as small as molecules, and even to create cloaking devices for rendering objects invisible.”

WTFCNN is one of my favourite new daily reads. it highlights cnn headlines and then you say out loud WTF!?!?!

edit: fixed the link and goes to correct website now.

Desktop Tower Defense.

Can’t stop playing it.

A French map shows that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover Australia in the early 1520s, almost 250 years before Captain Cook claimed them for Britain. “‘The Vallard cartographer has put these individual charts together like a jigsaw puzzle. Without clear compass markings its possible to join the southern chart in two different ways. My theory is it had been wrongly joined.’ Using a computer Trickett rotated the southern part of the Vallard map 90 degrees to produce a map which accurately depicts Australia’s east coast.

An anonymous author (they cannot legally reveal their identity) describes their National Security Letter gag order. Since the Patriot Act, the FBI has been sending out tens of thousands of these Letters, the recipients of which have no choice but to comply and keep absolutely quiet about it.

Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information about one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had reviewed or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had. The letter came with a gag provision that prohibited me from telling anyone, including my client, that the FBI was seeking this information. Based on the context of the demand — a context that the FBI still won’t let me discuss publicly — I suspected that the FBI was abusing its power and that the letter sought information to which the FBI was not entitled.

Rather than turn over the information, I contacted lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, and in April 2004 I filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSL power.

this time, the top 50 most important people on the web. they shape what we read, hear, write and talk about in our daily lives. it’s an interesting list with everyone from brin, page and schmidt to schneier, jobs, newmark, rosedale, scoble, cerf and many others.

St. Louis University researchers have concocted batteries fueled by almost any kind of sugar, from tree sap to flat soda, and that could be used to power everything from computers to cell phones. Their thinking: If sugar can jack up the human body, why not electronics?

Chinese people have customarily burned fake currency called Hell Money to honor (and equip) their ancestors in the afterlife.

Now, in keeping with modern times, they’re burning paper viagras!

Cemeteries in China are selling paper replicas of Viagra, which are to be burned for dead relatives so they can have sex in the afterlife, state media reported today.

According to the Nanjing Morning News, the paper Viagra is being snapped up by customers, along with images of condoms and heavily made-up bar girls, who are women employed by bars to act as companions to male customers and make them spend a lot of money.

so i’ve been on blogging hiatus. i’ve tried to keep up with most of the blogs i like and read but things have been keeping me busy lately. lots of stuff happened recently. woolmer’s dead. it’s warm today. pakistan and india didn’t make it to the super 8’s. britons are held captive in iran. and i won’t bother mentioning all the geek stuff i’ve been reading. anyway i’ll continue on as if nothing happened yet.