One Method on getting banned from K-Mart
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Win One for the Cheater
Win One for the Cheater
Why the enraged Patriots will go undefeated.
Posted Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, at 6:11 PM ET
Perhaps the oddest thing about a very odd week in the history of the New England Patriots, a franchise that has known its share of very odd weeks, was the identity of the commissioner who finally brought the hammer down on the lawless regime of Bill Belichick (last seen stalking the sidelines dressed like he'd just knocked over a 7-Eleven while his enraged team performed public ritual murder on the San Diego Chargers). Way back in 1970, Sen. Charles Goodell, R-N.Y., lost his political career at least in part because he took legislative action to curb the unilateralist excesses of Richard Nixon. (Sen. Goodell lost to William F. Buckley's less-easily parodied brother James.) So, here's his kid, Roger, conducting himself in such a way that he probably should be standing on a balcony somewhere, his medals gleaming in the tropical sun. No wonder Nixon lusted after the job of the commissioner of the National Football League. Everything about the position would appeal to him.
Anyway, seeing a Goodell acting as the New Sheriff in Town—to use the John Ford-ism that's become trendy among America's sporty press—has brought out the latent authoritarian in everyone, it seems. He'd already knuckled Pacman Jones for gunplay, Michael Vick for aggravated Rovercide, and Dallas quarterback coach Wade Wilson for practicing pharmacy without either a license or a decent lie. Goodell couldn't very well have taken a pass on laying the wood to Belichick, who went out of his way to steal defensive signals on a sideline only 20 miles or so from Goodell's desk. In truth, he should have suspended Coach Beyond-The-Law for a couple of games, too, but a half-million bucks is a considerable fine, and the loss of a draft pick makes any football executive cry. People who have been waiting six years to see the Patriots get their comeuppance seemed generally quite happy with Goodell. And then the game started.
Quite simply, no NFL team in recent memory has played a game as well from start to finish as New England did Sunday night. The 38-14 final is not even remotely a measure of it. Neither is the 407-201 margin in total offense, or the 35:46 to 24:14 gap in the time of possession. This was one football operation beating the other one into the ground. The Patriots built this lead in the offseason. San Diego canned head coach Marty Schottenheimer because he lost a playoff game to the Patriots, replacing him with Norv Turner, who has now coached 325 NFL teams in his life. For their part, the Patriots picked up receivers Wes Welker, Donte Stallworth, and, most notably, Randy Moss to give Tom Brady some actual weapons to use. They also signed Adalius Thomas, a frighteningly athletic linebacker from the Baltimore Ravens. It was Thomas who broke the game open, stepping in front of a terrible Philip Rivers pass and outracing all of the Chargers more than 65 yards for a touchdown. By the time Thomas made his play, Brady already had used two of the other newcomers, Welker and Moss, to carve up the Charger secondary, the latter on a 23-yard post route that bisected two San Diego defenders and was as perfectly an executed football play as ever has been. Brady looked off the defenders and came back to Moss, who found the ball on his fingertips as he crossed the goal line at full speed.
On the other side of the ball, Thomas has given Belichick so many options on defense that the coach's creativity is at floodtide, and the team doesn't even feel the absence of all-pro defensive lineman Richard Seymour and explosive safety Rodney Harrison, the latter of whom Goodell earlier busted on a banned-substances rap. The beating was so obvious and thorough that the postgame commentary from the Patriots had more to do with the vicissitudes of the previous five days than it did with the problems inherent in beating a team that went 14-2 last season. There was all manner of chortling and gloating about how the team had managed to overcome the stigma of the media's pointing out that its head coach had gotten caught behaving like an arrogant jackass. A team this good, this dominant, got to cast itself in its own mind as outraged innocents battling to stick it to The Man.
It was like watching conservatives talk about how Michael Moore was picking on them while they were running the entire government.
It's why, absent catastrophic injury, New England can win every football game it plays this season.
For years, the rest of the NFL has chafed at the ability of the Patriots to play Poor Widdle Us while pushing the envelope of league regulations on everything from the injury list, to media obligations, to what you can and can't do on the sidelines. If, ironically, Goodell is Nixon as "the president," then Belichick is the Nixon who hired the "plumbers," right down to the ludicrous written statement that remains his only public comment on the affair and which lacks only a reference to his mother, the saint, to match old Tricky's farewell speech for unmitigated smarm. When Belichick finally got caught this week, you may have noticed that the rest of the league wasn't exactly rallying to his side. Jerome Bettis grabbed onto a retroactive alibi for having been whipped by New England over the past decade, and Tony Dungy offered a plaintive "what-about-the-children" rumination that was just inches from actual sincerity. This was not an accident. In many ways, everybody in the NFL is against the Patriots, and a lot of them have damned good reason for being so.
However, the only thing that New England didn't pick up in the offseason was a cause, and now it has one, especially if the investigation is as thorough and ongoing as Goodell seems to be saying it will be. It is possible that we will have a revelation a week in which, as New England linebacker Tedy Bruschi put it after Sunday night's game, New England's "integrity" comes into question. More ill-feeling. More bad blood. More grist for Belichick's endlessly grinding motivation mill. Moreover, the players seemed all week to resent most that their work in winning three Super Bowls suddenly had been devalued by their coach's misbehavior. That's the obverse of a general feeling that has arisen among Patriots in recent years—that their own talents have been made subordinate to their coach's alleged genius.
One of these is inspiration enough. Both of them together is a volatile mix. If more sordid details come out, and Goodell feels obligated to suspend Belichick for a week, the New England players themselves might beat some team 100-0. The whole mishegas puts the 1972 Miami Dolphins' distinction as the only team to play an entire NFL season undefeated in serious jeopardy. Roger Goodell did the right thing last week, but he also created a situation in which, come February, when the Patriots win the Super BPublish Postowl, and he has to hand the trophy to Bill Belichick, it's perfectly plausible to wonder if it shouldn't be the other way around.
Belichik's $500,000 fine Tax Deductable!!!!!!!!
Wall Street Journal - The TaxProf blog, which gets its second salute from the Law Blog today, tackled an interesting question: Whether Bill Belichick (pictured), head coach of the New England Patriots, can deduct the $500,000 fine — the biggest ever for an NFL coach — he received after violating league rules by videotaping defensive signals from New York Jets coaches in the Pats’ regular-season opener earlier this month. (The team was fined $250,000.) The answer: Yes. The blog excerpted an email discussion by 12 tax law professors who, after 10,000 words on the matter, including testy exchanges over the interpretation of some old tax cases, mostly agreed that the fine is deductible under section 162 of the internal revenue code, “trade or business expenses.”
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Pot-smoking cows could stop Mad Cow Disease
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September 17, 2007 10:24amA NEW Zealand pro-cannabis groups says it has scientific evidence that cannabis can stop the development of mad cow disease.
It was not clear whether the findings applied to both cows and humans.
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml) said a French study showed cannabidiol might be effective in preventing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, the New Zealand Press Association reported tpday.
Scientists at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France found cannabidiol - a non-psychoactive ingredient - may prevent the development of prion diseases (progressive neurodegenerative disorders), the most well known of which is BSE, Norml said.
Researchers found cannabidiol inhibited the accumulation of prion proteins in infected mice and sheep.
Norml spokesman Chris Fowlie said the discovery added to the scientific evidence supporting a bill from a New Zealand Greens MP to legalise the medicinal use of cannabis.
"(It) should be supported by any MP with a clear head. Unfortunately most politicians act like mad cows whenever cannabis is mentioned," Mr Fowlie said.
Eneloop
Eneloop
A low self discharge nickel metal hydride battery made by Sanyo, available in AA (2000 mAh) and AAA (800 mAh) sizes. They are sold pre-charged and due to the low self discharge, can usually be used immediately after purchase. Eneloop batteries are ideal for photography and other high energy requirement applications.
Sanyo claims that Eneloop batteries retain 90% of their charge after six months, 85% after a year and 70% after two years, when stored at 20 degrees Celsius (68 °F).
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Chismillionare loves the RC helicopters
AH-64 "FERALBEAST" Apache RC Helicopter
With a 30m ceiling and a flight range of 20m, it's probably the most fun a guy can have with a battery-operated toy.
WIRED Fast. Scary to everyone except operator. Hovering capability great for enclosed areas. Sturdy controller. Simple set-up means you'll have it in the air seconds after taking it out of the box. Free replacement blades?you'll need 'em after your first few crashes.
TIRED Lightweight construction materials make chopper flimsy. Battery discharges fast, limiting range. It?s a mini Apache attack helicopter, where?s my mini minigun?
$100, hobbytron.com
List of artificial objects on the Moon
List of artificial objects on the Moon
Grid showing location of artificial objects on the moon (axis shows latitude and longitude)
Five third stages of rockets of the Apollo program form the heaviest pieces. While humankind has left over 170,000 kg of Earth on the Moon, only 382 kg of the Moon has been returned to Earth by Apollo and Luna missions.
The only artificial objects on the Moon that are still in use are the retroreflectors for the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment left there by Apollo astronauts.
Note that objects listed as being higher than 90 degrees east or west are on the far side of the moon. These include Ranger 4, Lunar Orbiter 1, Lunar Orbiter 2 and Lunar Orbiter 3.
click here for full article:
List of artificial objects on the Moon
Perfect drill around the house and in tight spaces.
Bosch PS10 I-Driver? Clutch Performance Sans Clutch
By limiting the I-Driver?s torque output electronically, Bosch gets rid of the bulky mechanical clutch that keeps other models out of tight spaces. Small as it is, though, it?s no lightweight: it drove 279 1-inch wood screws on a single charge ? more than any other driver in our test group.
WIRED Large, comfortable trigger. Variable speed. Removable battery. Quick charger actually charges the battery in 15 minutes, even immediately after a complete discharge.
TIRED High price. Fat-barreled handle is too big for small hands.
$145, boschtools.com
Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV
Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV
Published on Friday , September 14, 2007 at 15:56 in Health section
Bangalore: Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.
Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.
"In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome," says she.
The biggest challenge with treating HIV today is that the virus becomes dormant and often develops resistance to HIV drugs.
The only way then to cure HIV is to get rid of the virus completely and Tre, the enzyme that Indrani constructed after a year and its 126 "cycles of mutation" totally deplete HIV in the human genome in three months in laboratory conditions.
"It's a beautiful approach, but like any other drug, this one too will take a few years to reach clinics — anywhere between five and 20 years actually. A lot of research has to be done because since one is working with a novel enzyme, one has to engineer the enzyme," says she.
According to the latest statistics given out by UNAIDS and WHO, there are close to 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world and though it will be a while before an imminent cure is likely, Dr Indrani Sarkar's findings certainly hold out hope for the millions who are battling the disease across the globe.
For Chismillionaire
I'll work on a beer primer, but here's a couple tidbits to get you started:
German Beer Festival - in Boston this weekend, but its a pay event.
A good place for German beers here in town (or at least it used to be) is Jacob Wirth's over in the Theater district. Browsing their site shows that not only do they have a "monthly beer club" but that going on right now is their Oktoberfest celebration:
"From September 21 to October 13, we’re celebrating Oktoberfest with a special three-course German smorgasbord, a frosty mug of Hofbrau beer and more – for only $26.95!"
Sounds like a great deal!
Finally - for something not too far from home from the Chis, check out Julio's Liquors on Route 9 in Westborough. This place is unreal - over 200 beer varieties to chose from and you can mix and match 6 packs of both 12 and 22 ounce bottles. Its overwhelming, kind of like Toys R Us for beer.
In particular, check out Julio's event calendar - on September 30th is the "Fall Beer Classic" - over 200 beers available for tasting for FREE! I'll be there with friends, and so should you!
Bonus: Julio's has a full service cigar shop inside the store, and there also Cigar Dinners scheduled regularly!
Wired Geekipedia
Better than Wikipedia because it tells you what you need to know instead of did you know? Anything with 7 pages on the Flinstones and one page on Homer's epics is suspect in my opinion.
Geekipedia
Coca Cola readying self-chilling soft drinks?
POCKET SODAS, if can get a soda to chill, why can't we get a burger to heat up?
Coca Cola readying self-chilling soft drinks?
And you thought non-stick chewing gum was the heat. Turns out, Coca Cola may be plotting a new version of Sprite that actually chills itself upon opening. Apparently, the drink has to be kept at a specified temperature before being snapped up, and once the oh-so-thirsty consumer pops the top, "a mechanism inside creates ice made from the drink, so it is not diluted." Reportedly, the beverage would sensibly be called Sprite Super Chilled, and if it does indeed hit the UK (and prove successful) by "early next year," the technology could then be passed along to Coke, Diet Coke or even "super cold alcoholic drinks, particularly beers."Monday, September 17, 2007
Winamp goes where iTunes doesn’t dare
I've been using iTunes in combination with a little app called Hamachi for some time now to share my home music library with my computer here at work (where sadly I spend most of my time), but I've never been a huge iTunes fan - it was just the only thing that worked for this purpose. As an anal music cataloger, the limitations imposed by iTunes "user friendliness" were just too many. Winamp has always been a superior player, but without the network sharing, it was missing *the* key component that is most important to me.
Not anymore apparently! Or rather, not starting on October 10th and 10:10am when Winamp 10 is released!
Its still yet to be seen how straight forward its going to be, but I'm hopeful to say the least. There's a beta out now that the Pig Roaster will be testing in the next few days - stay tuned for my first impressions.
Read more about the new Winamp 10 features here.
Chismillionare's Monday deal of the Week!
Slingbox PRO and Sling HD Connect Cable Bundle $189.99
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204420525&adid=17070&dcaid=17070
Friday, September 14, 2007
Belichik formerly at Bank of America?
Just giving you a warning if you have Bank of America-
Their policy is to present items from highest to lowest on a day of posting rather than when the transaction actually was authorized.
Chismillionare had 4 small less than 20 dollar debit transactions from 8/29 and 8/30. I also wrote a check on 9/3. All of those transactions posted on 9/4. You would think the oldest gets debited first?
YOU WOULD BE WRONG!!!
The Check(since it was largest) posted first, before smaller transactions that were five days old. Their response was- "that is what our customers voted for when we polled them"
Doing a bit of digging on ripoff report (www.ripoffreport.com )shows this to be a systematic abuse and an engineered algorithm by Bank of America to generate fees. The likelihood of overdraft is far more likely this way. Several class action suits are pending. More digging reveals this policy is not what account holders who pay monthly fees receive- their transactions are presented chronologically. Customers with My Access checking and savings accounts pay no monthly fee whereas Bank of America Advantage checking customers pay quite a hefty fee every month.
Is Belichik on their board of directors?
So, If there's not enough money to cover just the check that was written, all of the ATM transactions bounce triggering a $35 dollar fee per transaction instead of just the check as the last transaction. So instead of one $35 bounce item for the check they generate 5 bounces for a nice $175 fee.
So the $11 transaction costs almost $50.
A good rule of thumb is to always have a few hundred more than you mentally think you have(after all your cash should be in a higher yield instrument anyway like an ING account) or just use cash for purchases like George Carlin said.
Chismillionare is going to switch to a bank that does their transactions like we all do in our check register. It makes no sense that a check I write four days from now will post before this yummy order of spicy tuna rolls and triple shot of Patron and tank of gas for the chauffeur on my debit card right now!!!! How can you balance that check book?
Etrade bank now has no fee accounts with unlimited check writing and all ATM fees at ANY ATM are automatically credited back to your account.
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/banking
Great Stogie Deal
Jose “Don Pepin” Garcia is one of, if not the, hottest names in the cigar industry right now. Since leaving Cuba in 2001, Don Pepin has exploded onto the U.S. cigar scene with such super-premium blends as: the brand new 601 Serie, Tatuaje, Don Pepin Black, Blue and Serie JJ, Padilla Miami 8/11, Padilla Signature 1932 and Troya among others. Don Pepin is a master in his field and a legend in the making. Years from now people will be smoking Don Pepin’s magnificent blends and remembering the young boy from Cuba who became King of Havana.
Family Guy - Blue Harvest
Tune into FOX on Sept. 23 for a special one-hour “Family Guy” episode called “Blue Harvest” that’s a tribute to the Star Wars Saga as unique as only Seth MacFarlane and his talented team of writers can make it.
Click here for a larger image of this poster.
Stay tuned to starwars.com for ongoing coverage of the show!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Top Active United States Military Fighter Jets
Fighter jets have long been a staple of any successful military campaign. They are fast, effective, expensive and highly lethal machines, capable of traveling long distances with enormous firepower and guns. This article introduces us to the five top military jet fighters in service today, the price we pay for them, and the future of jet fighting aviation. Only fighter jets that made it into active duty were considered, therefore the YF-23 Black Widow, the YF-17 Cobra, and the F-20 Tigershark were excluded. Additionally, only fighter jets were examined and therefore bombers such as the F-117 Nighthawk and the F-21 Kfir were also not included.
1. F-14 Tomcat
Manufacturer Grumman
Designed by Bob Kress, engineering manager[1]
Maiden flight 21 December 1970
Introduction September 1974
Retired 22 September 2006, USN
Status Active service with Iran, Limited Service in United States Navy
Primary users United States Navy, Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
Number built 712
Unit cost US$38 million in 1998
Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier
Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier
One of many photos that you'll find after Googling "Femtroopers."
If you want to check out a very welcome new trend in science fiction fandom (assuming you're a huge geek), then Google the word "Femtroopers." This is perhaps the most celebratory development for horny Star Wars fans since Princess Leia became Jabba the Hutt's barge ho.
I think these photos are really hot, but maybe that's because I've seen "The Empire Strikes Back" at least 25 times and own a George Lucas action figure. While the armored hot pants and bare midriff are both nice touches, the contoured breast plate is definitely the sexiest/funniest part of the costume.Whether this becomes a huge trend or not, Femtroopers suddenly make it a lot easier to defend people who dress up like Star Wars characters. Either way, this definitely gets a few more people to attend WonderCon next year.
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www.imageevent.com/rainandsteve/
August 30 2006 at 02:00 AM
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
How will it turn out for you?- Use Financial Fate software
Most personal finance software focuses on keeping track of expenses, managing investments, or creating a retirement plan. But a new program called Financial Fate helps you peer into the future to see whether you're headed for a comfortably solvent life—or bankruptcy. Developed by Aydren Simmons and Monty Hothersall, former corporate cash-flow experts, Financial Fate first asks you to enter 10 categories of data, such as income, mortgage, other debt, annual expenses, investments, and projections for future years. The software then tells you how you will end up financially. By making adjustments, such as increasing your projected income, you can see what you must do to achieve your desired results. The program is $69.95 at financialfate.com.
New 'Tron' races on
Sept 11, 2007
TORONTO -- Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct "Tron," described as "the next chapter" of Disney's 1982 cult classic. Sean Bailey is producing via the Live Planet banner, as is Steven Lisberger, who co-wrote and directed the original film.Kosinski, who last month signed on to helm the remake of "Logan's Run" for Warner Bros. Pictures, will oversee the visual development of the project and have input on the script, which is being written by "Lost" scribes Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Story details are being kept secret.
The original, about a computer programr thrust into a computer and forced to fight in games he helped create, is remembered for its sci-fi gladiator-style battles and groundbreaking special effects. It was the first movie to use computer-generated images instead of models and other optical effects in conjunction with live action. The arcade game based on the movie was so popular that it earned more than the movie.
When making the original, in order to convince the studio to take a chance on a first-time director, Lisberger shot a test reel, financed by the studio, involving the deadly Frisbee battle. In a case of historical synchronicity, sources said one of the things Kosinski will be doing is working on a sequence involving the movie's Light Cycles to work out his vision for the movie. Sources also said visual effects personnel, for many of whom "Tron" was an inspiration to enter the business, already are jockeying for pole position to work on the sequence.
Brigham Taylor is overseeing for Disney.
Kosinski is a former architect whose specs caught the attention of director David Fincher, who convinced Kosinski to move to Los Angeles, where he joined the director at commercial house Anonymous Content. Kosinski then moved quickly up the ladder, eventually directing award-winning spots for Nike, Apple and Nintendo that gained notice for their use of computer technology that erased the lines between reality and CGI.
Kosinski is repped by Endeavor and Michael Sugar and Bard Dorros at Anonymous Content.
3d Printing
Desktop Factory 125ci 3d Printer
Imagine being able to download the three-dimensional plans for your child's favorite toy, then pressing Print — and out comes not a picture, but the toy itself. That's the idea behind Desktop Factory, a 3-D printer that melts a mixture of nylon, aluminum and glass into durable (albeit small) objects. The technology is still in its infancy, but it's the first of its kind to be marketed to individual consumers.
One slick piece of artwork
Morpho Towers
At first glance, Morpho Towers may seem static — two metal spirals lounging lazily on a plate resting in a magnetic liquid saturated with iron particles. But crank up your stereo and prepare to be dazzled: The ferrofluid will creep up the towers, forming a viscous, organic sculpture that grooves to the tunes and forms a stunning variety of shapes. Heavy metal will never be the same.
Sept. 12, 1933: Physicist's Reaction Begins Chain of Events
1933: Physicist Leo Szilard gets the nuclear age rolling, so to speak, by conceiving the idea of a nuclear chain reaction while standing at a red light.
Szilard, a native of Budapest and a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, left Hungary for Germany to escape the postwar rise of anti-Semitism. Originally an engineering student, he switched to physics after moving to Berlin and studied under Albert Einstein, among others.
His decade in Berlin was fruitful and Slizard was engaged in a number of projects, including development of the linear accelerator, cyclotron and home refrigeration. But with the rise of the Nazis, Slizard found himself on the move again, this time to London.
Not long after his arrival, Slizard read an article in the Times of London rejecting the idea of any practical use for atomic energy. So incensed was Slizard, the story goes, that he stood right there at a traffic signal in Bloomsbury and dreamed up the nuclear chain reaction. A year later he patented the concept.
His early attempts at triggering a reaction, however, failed. He tried using beryllium and indium to no effect and, in 1936, he assigned his chain-reaction patent to the British Admiralty to ensure secrecy. Soon thereafter, Slizard accepted a teaching post at Columbia University in New York, and moved to the United States.
There, he met Enrico Fermi and, reacting to the discovery of nuclear fission in a Berlin laboratory, the two men realized uranium was the agent they needed to produce their reaction. Working at the University of Chicago, they produced the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction in December 1942.
How to Make Custom IPhone Ringtones Without Paying Apple $2
Apple started selling iPhone ringtones for $2 apiece through its iTunes store last week, but if you aren't afraid of a little tinkering, you can get that "Hey Ya" or "Sexy Back" ringtone without shelling out the extra bucks.
Users have to pay Apple $1 for a song, plus an extra $1 to convert that song into a ringtone. Of course, hackers immediately set out to find a way to generate iPhone ringtones for free. In a classic game of cat and mouse, Apple has spent the last few days trying to block iPhone owners from installing free ringtones on their devices -- only to watch hackers come up with workarounds just hours after each patch is released.
Apple has continued to update its iTunes software (which syncs with the iPhone to add ringtones) to block the specific loopholes uncovered by the hackers. In fact, iTunes was updated almost immediately after the first loophole was uncovered Friday.
Despite Apple's best efforts, the chase continues. The most-popular desktop applications for installing custom ringtones were updated this weekend, in one case only hours after Apple updated its software to block them.
Mac users can rely on applications like iToner ($15 from Ambrosia Software), which is a full-featured ringtone manager for the iPhone. Windows users can get similar functionality from iPhoneRingtoneMaker ($15 from Efiko Software).
These options feature drag-and-drop ringtone management, including the ability to use just about any sound file and the option to set specific songs to play when specific people call. The latest iTunes update appears to have crippled iPhoneRingtoneMaker for some users, but the developers at Efiko are working on the problem. IToner is currently up to date.
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/09/ringtone_hacksanother article:
Gizmodo 8 ways to get ringtones on iphone
Gene Therapy without Viruses
The promise of gene therapy has long been held up by the lack of a safe and effective way to insert the desired therapeutic genes into the right cells. To solve that problem, MIT researchers have developed a new polymer for gene therapy that is as effective as viruses, the standard carriers, but it seems to have none of the risks of viral treatments. The researchers have successfully tested a version of the polymer in mice with ovarian cancer, and they believe they can further modify the polymer to target virtually any cell in the body.
Gene therapy works by delivering to a specific group of diseased cells copies of a gene that corrects what ails them. "If you could get it [a gene] where it's needed, you could treat many diseases," says the MIT Center for Cancer Research's Daniel Anderson, one of the leaders of the polymer research group.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19367/
Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang ups the ante
FRANKFURT, Germany — Thank heaven for automotive manufacturers like Bugatti that specialize in wretched excess. How else could the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show provide the appropriate balance for all those size- and horsepower-challenged microcars like the Toyota iQ and the Volkswagen up!?
And thanks, too, to Bugatti for rendering its latest creation, a special back-to-nature edition of the Veyron 16.4 supercar, dubbed Pur Sang (French for "thoroughbred").
The Molsheim-based maker of subdued 16-cylinder machines has elected to offer a model sans exterior paint, enabling the underlying raw materials to show through. That means the monocoque is rendered simply in clear-coated carbon fiber, wrapped in body panels of polished aluminum.
The effect, needless to say, is stunning. The price? If you have to ask...
What this means to you: How else would you expect Bugatti to one-up its sister brand Lamborghini and the new 1 million-euro Reventon?
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