Wired has a post on recently released documents on HAARP. I'm brokenhearted that there's nothing in there connecting HAARP to barium sulfide and chemtrails.
Neglected to mention a story about barium sulfide in the environment suspected to be from chemtrails up in Shreveport last month.
Obviously, the transhumanists are going to be all over this Muscular Thin Films technology. The technology is coating a silicon-based organic polymer with heart muscle cells that react to electrical stimuli, which are then easily cut off into sheets. The video shows that the sheets have semi-motility in swimming with this simple motion.
It would be most interesting to see if this can be used to create probes for deep sea exploration. There will be more advanced applications (artificial arms in ten years?) but when i see "swimming" robots, no matter how small, that's what pops into my head.
It's odd that i was reading Cope's Japrocksampler last night, to run across this story about "melody roads" in Japan. They already realized that they had the rhythm, so on some roads, they have cut grooves so that tones can be created while driving over them. A driver can adjust the car to create a song of sorts. They are going to out-literalize the concept of motorik in Krautrock!
Slashdot had a strange little piece about trojan horse malware being pre-installed on Maxtor harddrives in the factory in Thailand. One of the link on there links to a story that seems to imply that the government of China is somehow involved in the scheme, but the virus described back in September is one that deletes mp3s.
I wonder if the RIAA is finding creative new ways to fight in the digital age? It's either them or the gold farmers (as the virus also looks for game passwords and uploads them to sites in Beijing,) or possibly a joint venture.
If China wanted to create a botnet, could this be the kind of industrial sabotage and espionage that would provide an instant horde of zombies? Or fuck a botnet... if it's a harddrive with malware installed as soon as the icon is clicked, why not go for financial information or scientific research?
I lost my password for Library Thing months ago. Recently i went insane on Facebook trying to put together my library on some app they stuck on there, before it began to bore me to tears with how damned slow it was to load. Now there is a My Libary feature on Google Book Search.
That edition of The Master & Margarita that i just mentioned? It ain't on there. I checked the ISBN. It's a relatively common book. Their database cannot be terribly vast yet, can it?
So much for wasting a few hours trying to save some work for the government clerks assigned to track my every movement.
When they do get this together though, it looks like it might be fairly useful, in that some of my searches on certain books will go far more smoothly.
