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2011-08-20T08:16:53+00:00

I, for one, welcome our new 21-amino-acid worm overlords. and their friends the gasoline-shitting bacteria.

2011-08-12T10:30:59+00:00

Just 20 amino acids are used in natural living organisms, assembled in different combinations to make the tens of thousands of different proteins needed to sustain life. But Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin have re-engineered the nematode worm's gene-reading machinery to include a 21st amino acid, not found in nature.
At Scripps, researchers showed in a paper in PNAS how one of those three letter words could be re-assigned, so that cells would read it as an instruction to incorporate an unnatural amino acid, one not normally found in living organisms. But that was in the bacterium E. coli; until now, no one had succeeded in doing the same in a whole animal.
So far it is just a proof of principle - the artificial protein that is produced in every cell of the nematode worm's tiny body contains a fluorescent dye that glows cherry red under ultraviolet light. If the genetic trick failed, there would be no glow.
But Dr Chin says any artificial amino acid could be chosen to produce specific new properties. Dr de Bono suggests the approach could now be used to introduce into organisms designer proteins that could be controlled by light.

Metabolism in reverse: Making biofuels at full-throttle pace

Researchers unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published online in Nature, Rice's team described how it reversed one of the most efficient of all metabolic pathways -- the beta oxidation cycle -- to engineer bacteria that produce biofuel at a breakneck pace.
On a cell-per-cell basis, the bacteria produced the butanol, a biofuel that can be substituted for gasoline in most engines, about 10 times faster than any previously reported organism. "That's really not even a fair comparison because the other organisms used an expensive, enriched feedstock, and we used the cheapest thing you can imagine, just glucose and mineral salts."
Gonzalez's team reversed the beta oxidation cycle by selectively manipulating about a dozen genes in E. coli. They also showed that selective manipulations of particular genes could be used to produce fatty acids of particular lengths, including long-chain molecules like stearic acid and palmitic acid, which have chains of more than a dozen carbon atoms.
"This is not a one-trick pony," Gonzalez said. "We can make many kinds of specialized molecules for many different markets. We can also do this in any organism. Some producers prefer to use industrial organisms other than E. coli, like algae or yeast. That's another advantage of using reverse-beta oxidation, because the pathway is present in almost every organism."

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Leukemia cured... with HIV

2011-08-12T10:06:07+00:00

"Treatment exceeds wildest expectations"

In the research published Wednesday, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say the treatment made the most common type of leukemia completely disappear in two of the patients and reduced it by 70 percent in the third. In each of the patients as much as five pounds of cancerous tissue completely melted away in a few weeks, and a year later it is still gone.
In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients.
As the white cells killed the cancer cells, the patients experienced the fevers and aches and pains that one would expect when the body is fighting off an infection, but beyond that the side effects have been minimal.

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rouadec: an email catchall on a domain name is a great way of getting random photos from strangers

2011-07-02T15:43:23+00:00

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Instrument lets you play music on your friends' faces

2011-06-22T19:17:31+00:00

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comment organiser un concours de baffe

A silly new instrumental toy from Takara Tomy lets you play music on your friends' faces.

(Thanks, Stuart!)

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Instrument lets you play music on your friends' faces

2011-06-22T16:41:51+00:00

A silly new instrumental toy from Takara Tomy lets you play music on your friends' faces.

(Thanks, Stuart!)

FBI Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites — Including Pinboard — Offline

2011-06-21T22:34:17+00:00

Verne G. Kopytoff, reporting for the NYT:

The raid was on a hosting facility in the United States used by DigitalOne, a company based in Switzerland. It was not immediately clear what the F.B.I. was looking for.

In a note to one of its clients, a DigitalOne employee, Sergej Ostroumow, said: “This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server — we can not check it.”

It continued: “F.B.I. was interesting only in one of clients and it is absolutely unintelligible, why they took servers of tens of clients. After FBI’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our website is offline and support doesn’t work. We are still in trying to solve this problem and all our colleagues are at work since 15 hours.”

Yikes. See also: Pinboard’s status page.

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rouadec: RT @MrVoletron: Holy crap I just discovered Dr P's Tetris dubstep mix. Pants-crapping commence! http://t.co/8iujiS5

2011-06-17T09:04:11+00:00

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Harto & Co. - Episode 8

2011-06-16T19:03:00+00:00

It's a mess. "Hot" and "Damn" sold separately.

A Flowchart For Fixers

2011-06-13T21:00:00+00:00

To see life and pop culture graphed for your inner geek, check out Graph Jam!

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rouadec: ok this is viral blablablah but still I enjoyed watching it http://t.co/eU35rFl :)

2011-06-10T21:10:07+00:00

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Des cyclistes et des piétons

2011-05-24T09:47:03+00:00

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"au lieu d'utiliser ma bouche pour avertir quelqu'un de son utilisation incorrecte de l'espace public j'ai prefere le bousculer, je suis etonne de voir que mon comportement a pu etre mal interprete..."

Aujourd’hui j’ai été confronté à deux cyclistes de trottoir. De ceux que la rue effraye et qui se fraient un passage entre les piétons.

Une quadra quinqagénante du quartier européen et un jeune maghrébin du quartier Bethléem roulant l’oreille vissée à son GSM.

Dans les deux cas, lassé de devoir faire attention sur un trottoir (pour mémoire on relira la définition du dispositif : “un trottoir est un espace surélevé sur le côté des rues et réservé aux piétons“) aux mouvements rapides ou désordonnés d’un véhicule, j’ai poussé l’épaule du cycliste. Une chiquenaude, comme on chasse une mouche.

En deux occasions, j’ai pu découvrir à quel point ce geste insupporte le cycliste. Subitement ramené à sa condition d’équilibriste en mouvement, il rage contre ce piéton qui conteste l’invasion de cet espace protégé de la folie des hommes et de leurs machines : le trottoir.

La cycliste m’a proposé d’aller me faire foutre et a poursuivi son chemin, le cycliste après avoir émis un avis sur les moeurs de ma maman m’a décoché un coup de pied au bassin. Les deux ont vitupéré contre le risque de chute que je leur faisais courir. Fin de l’expérience, début d’analyse.

Bruxelles comptait en 2007, je n’ai rien trouvé de plus récent, selon le tableau 27 du PDF 16 collisions entre cyclistes et piétons. Pas d’info sur la gravité (2 décès mais de quel côté ?), toutefois c’est plus que les collisions avec les cyclos, les motos, les tracteurs…., l’IBSR dispose de chiffres mais leur actualisation est lente.
La consultation des rapports d’activité de la police ne sont pas plus diserts et ne permettent pas de savoir si les autorités ont verbalisé des cyclistes pour conduite sur trottoir.

Pourquoi donc à Bruxelles l’augmentation de la pratique du vélo se fait-elle au détriment d’usagers encore plus faibles ?

"au lieu d'utiliser ma bouche pour avertir quelqu'un de son utilisation incorrecte de l'espace public j'ai prefere le bousculer, je suis etonne de voir que mon comportement a pu etre mal interprete..."

Des cyclistes et des piétons

2011-05-23T20:33:40+00:00

Aujourd’hui j’ai été confronté à deux cyclistes de trottoir. De ceux que la rue effraye et qui se fraient un passage entre les piétons.

Une quadra quinqagénante du quartier européen et un jeune maghrébin du quartier Bethléem roulant l’oreille vissée à son GSM.

Pourquoi donc à Bruxelles l’augmentation de la pratique du vélo se fait-elle au détriment d’usagers encore plus faibles ?

rouadec: nice, can't even work anymore http://chrome.angrybirds.com/

2011-05-12T07:41:17+00:00

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"A common mistake is to amputate here."

2011-05-07T01:13:45+00:00

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hey josh. just wondering if you have any insights into how a girl can approach a guy with a 100% rate of success on a night out? what do i gotta do to lock it down? i play to win, so gimme an ACE. thanks a bundle, reb

2011-05-06T01:49:00+00:00

It’s a dance, mama, and you need to know the moves. Here’s how it works:

You catch his eye from across the bar, coyly playing with the bendy straw in your titillatingly named cocktail, perhaps a Double Stuf Penetration (gin and Oreos and gin) or a Delicious Butt (gin sprayed with Ed Hardy perfume). You let him see your lips at work. Then you glance away, scanning the crowd, just to toy with him, just to let him know there’s competition out there in the hot darkness. But then your eyes fall upon him again, this time lingering on his piercing jowls and devastating ears. You take a sip of your drink to hide your flustered smile, but let him catch a glimpse. You run your finger along the rim of the glass, slowly, so slowly. It goes skreeeeeeee! You raise an eyebrow almost imperceptibly. You do the trick where it looks like you’re removing your thumb. You tuck your upper lip above your teeth and go durrr. You jab your tongue in your cheek to make it look like you’re giving an invisible blowjob. You belch like crazy. I mean come on. It doesn’t matter. Just go over there and say “I thought you should know I have boobies and they’re located right here” and then point out the location of your boobies. 100% success rate.

» Rating: ONE SEXY LADIES (that’s you!)

Hatefuck hacking

2011-05-04T19:59:11+00:00

These days, almost all of my software is written out of anger. I used to program for fun, and then for convenience. Now, it's motivated almost exclusively by rage.

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rouadec: switching from macports to homebrew, wish I never had to choose in the first place

2011-05-01T21:47:46+00:00

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This Taco

2011-04-28T01:50:00+00:00

OK, yes, technically, this is indeed material inside an edible wrapper, but otherwise it’s more gastrointestinal doomsday device than taco. The meat is a fetid gritty paste the color of crib death. The cheese has both the flavor and texture of a ribbed, lubricated condom and don’t ask how I know that. The lettuce is, I believe, cleverly decorated slivers of construction paper. The sour cream is disconcertingly beige. The hot sauce is neither hot nor sauce but rather a kind of lukewarm gel. The shell is limp and chewy and seems humiliated by what it’s being asked to carry.

This is the fifth one I’ve had tonight. My mind is suddenly splayed wide, open to all possibilities. The universe reaches down and high fives my soul. I tear long jagged scars in the fabric of reality, revealing the unnameable horrors that lurk underneath. I eat death and shit genius.

» Rating: NINE SEXY LADIES

Making Small Talk With My Friend's Kid

2011-04-26T01:49:02+00:00

“You’re, what, like four years old?”

“Nine.”

“Wow, you look great, bro. So what are you into these days? Pokemon? Uh. Pogs?”

“I think a lot about space.”

“Outer space.”

“Yeah.”

“Flying saucers and shit?”

“Space is vast.”

“Look at you with the vast.”

“Some of the stars we see today might’ve blown up a long time ago. We don’t know.”

“Pretty freaky, man. What’s your favorite planet? Uranus?”

“Yeah that’s a good one.”

“Your anus.”

“Did you know the Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day because of falling space dust?”

“That sounds about right. You go to a special school, champ?”

“Yeah.”

» Rating: SIX SEXY LADIES

That pocket supercomputer of yours is such a snitch.

2011-04-20T17:32:00+00:00

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go

Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.
For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010.

Here's the app to plot the data on your phone on a map. Yup, it's there!

AT&T saves all that data too, but at least that (theoretically) requires a subpoena. This just requires momentary access to the phone.

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rouadec: RT @edent: An excellent Slashdot comment about the dangers of the .xxx domain name scam http://bit.ly/eX8E5A

2011-04-17T17:15:11+00:00

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rouadec: RT @html5douche: SHIT GUYS DID YOU KNOW IF YOU WRITE SEMANTIC MARKUP AND USE LIKE H1 TAGS THERE IS SEO BENEFIT? MAYBE YOU SHOULD WRITE A ...

2011-04-16T21:57:07+00:00

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That Broken Toilet

2011-04-14T01:56:13+00:00

Boy what a time I had in the office bathroom! Get this: I go into one of the stalls and see there is still pee in the bowl. Wait there’s more. I briefly consider moving to the next stall but that’d be a middle stall, and who wants a middle stall. Nobody is who. So I flush the toilet and it gets going on a very hearty, loud, industrial-strength flush, the kind you can only get in office buildings. I stand there and admire its thoroughness.

OK, Josh, so far nothing noteworthy! Your story is delivering exactly zero goods! Aha but here comes the surprise twist: The toilet never stops flushing. It just keeps churning away! This roaring flush is locked in an endless loop! It will not stop for anything or anybody.

I am of course frozen in terror. Should I fruitlessly jiggle the handle? Burst into tears? Run away? These were all very me options but I did come in here for a reason, so I say whatever and sit right down on the flushing commode and get to business. And I’m so glad I did! Check it:

The constant flushing provides a nice level of white noise, which covers up all other bathroom-related sounds. This puts the user at ease, minimizing embarrassment and encouraging him to void with gusto.
All waste product is immediately whisked away, as if it were never there to begin with. This makes the user feel like a being of pure light, above the petty and corporeal concerns of ordinary men.
The splashback from the neverending flush provides gentle bidet-like action, which users find both titillating and refreshing.
Said bidet action and decadent waste of water make the user feel like a member of a royal family or maybe a chairman of an awesome board. The user may find himself engorged with a sense of cruel entitlement, and think less fondly of his loved ones, who suddenly seem crass and filthy.

I was in there for like half an hour. The thing was still flushing when I finally left. I felt dapper and confident. I was a man who could crush the whole world in his mighty fist.

» Rating: EIGHT SEXY LADIES

Why didn’t I think of that?

2011-04-13T09:35:26+00:00

Can you BELIEVE it?!

He just stands there. Looking at them. Standing. Looking. That’s it. What a genius!

Here’s his website. Praise Braco!

And Praise Tim Heidecker for finding what I’ve been searching for, for years.

rouadec: RT @onepointzero: Free ice cream on Place Stéphanie in Brussels today. http://plixi.com/p/91760924

2011-04-12T13:08:43+00:00

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rouadec: RT @simonw: Whoa, just learnt that the latest Chrome speaks SPDY instead of HTTP to google.com servers, see chrome://net-internals/#spdy ...

2011-04-07T22:06:18+00:00

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The 1980s were a glorious time to be a young sandworm.

2011-04-05T19:55:15+00:00

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Do you like leather?

2011-04-05T08:51:00+00:00

Lovely/horrid leather-based ad from 1982…

What an ending!

Thanks @LewisFisher for this leathery piece of cheesiness.

This will make Mirror's Edge easier.

2011-04-04T04:16:01+00:00

Temptest Freerunning Academy

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Hawken First-Person Video

2011-03-31T04:29:37+00:00

The initial video for Hawken, a multiplayer FPS by Adhesive Games, teased us with only a few seconds of first-person footage. This one, however, spends the entirety of its three minutes showing off what it’ll be like to take on opponents from inside the cramped cockpit of your mech. And it still looks amazing.

Follow the game’s progress at the Hawken blog.

Balrog Bukkake!

2011-03-29T23:08:58+00:00

Gwoździor!!

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rouadec: RT @onepointzero: Jacked up on Jesus… an hour long, but you can jump anywhere and find nuggets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcfUxLg1EU

2011-03-21T15:59:25+00:00

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dream hotel

2011-03-20T08:13:55+00:00

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