date:20100701

Today, starting at 9 and going until 5. Looks to be the really weird season,
starting when Captain Jack returns from The Year That Never Was, and when
James Marsters' Captain John turns up. Don't miss!

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Re: [scifinoir2] Hulu starts paid subscription TV service

(seconding Brent)

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:38 PM, brent wodehouse 
brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote:



 :-(

 Brent


 Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com HelloMahogany%40gmail.com writes:

 As the prediction foretold, it has been done...
 
 
 Hulu starts paid subscription TV service
 
 Jennifer Saba
 NEW YORK
 Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:39pm EDT
 
 Related News
 
 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65O07S20100625 ]Sony's

 PlayStation near deal with Hulu: report
 Thu, Jun 24 2010
 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2423075420100625 ]Sony

 's PlayStation near deal with Hulu-report
 Thu, Jun 24 2010
 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0OU20100623 ]Hulu in talks

 with CBS, others for paid TV shows: report
 Wed, Jun 23 2010
 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE65M04L20100623 ]Hulu in talks

 with CBS, others for paid TV shows - Bloomberg
 Wed, Jun 23 2010
 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65D4XP20100616 ]Microsoft Kinect

 arrives November 4th
 Tue, Jun 15 2010
 
 
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hulu introduced a new paid subscription service for
 watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles, television
 sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to strike a
 balance between paid and ad supported models.
 
 
 
 [ http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment ]EntertainmentÊÊ|ÊÊ[
 http://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipad ]ipadÊÊ|ÊÊ[
 http://www.reuters.com/news/technology ]TechnologyÊÊ|ÊÊ[
 http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/television ]TelevisionÊÊ|ÊÊ[
 http://www.reuters.com/news/media ]Media

 
 
 
 Until now, Hulu has been free over the web supported by advertisements,
 but offered only selected TV shows and movies. That service will continue
 to exist after the launch of Hulu Plus.
 
 
 
 Hulu's subscription service, called Hulu Plus, gives users access to more
 than 45 full programs of everything from Glee to The Office for $9.99
 a month.
 
 
 
 Like all media companies, Hulu has its work cut out in trying to get
 people to pay for programing they are used to watching for free from the
 broadcast networks.
 
 
 
 Hulu Plus is hoping to lure consumers to pay a monthly fee for the
 convenience of watching shows whenever they want.
 
 
 
 Hulu has the backing of some of the most powerful media brands, with Fox
 owner News Corp, General Electric Co's NBC Universal, ABC owner Walt
 Disney Co holding equity stakes in the company. Providence Equity
 Partners also is a stakeholder.
 
 
 
 Hulu said it is making its service available on Apple Inc's iPhone, [
 http://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipad ]iPad and iTouch, Samsung

 Electronics Co Ltd's television sets and Blu-ray players. Soon, Hulu Plus
 will be available on Sony Corp's PlayStation 3.
 
 
 
 Next year, the service will be available on Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360,
 Hulu said in its announcement on Tuesday.
 
 
 
 Netflix Inc already runs a subscription service, while Comcast Corp and
 Time Warner Inc are developing TV Everywhere, which will allow people
 to watch shows on demand for free and on any device provided they are
 already paying customers.
 
 
 
 In another case, Time Warner's HBO service Go lets subscribers download
 episodes of True Blood or Big Love as a free ad-on.
 
 
 
 The Hulu subscription plan and partnership with device makers was a
 widely anticipated move, reported by Reuters and others earlier this
 month.
 
 
 
 In a blog post, Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar described Hulu Plus as
 incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service. He said the
 subscription plan would make available full seasons of current TV shows,
 as well as back seasons of hit programs like Arrested Development and
 The X-Files.
 
 
 
 We believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show
 discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of
 our customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our
 content suppliers, Kilar wrote.
 
 
 
 CBS Corp is the only major broadcast network without an ownership stake
 in Hulu and currently does not make any of its programs available on the
 video website. The company declined to comment on whether it would
 participate in the paid service.
 
 
 
 (Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Carol
 Bishopric)
 
 
 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Comic: Superboy-v1-159

Thanks much, Mr Worf!

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Re: [scifinoir2] DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade

Simple, Mr Worf. DARPA wants those developments to happen now, and they
wants the exclusive rights to them. If some company does it on its own, then
the Guv'mint would have to pay.

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DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade

By Dan Nosowitz http://www.smartplanet.com/search/?q=Dan+Nosowitz | Jun
28, 2010 | *6*
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http://i.bnet.com/blogs/tsubamesupercomputer.jpgDARPA has begun a new
initiative titled OHPC (Omnipresent High Performance Computing) under the
umbrella of its existing UHPC (Ubiquitous High Performance Computing)
project.

It’s a solicitation for new developments in the broad scheme of
computing–faster hardware, more storage, better power management, better
heat dissipation, simpler software.

Why the need for a separate initiative? Aren’t those developments going to
happen anyway?

DARPA
sayshttps://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunitymode=formid=3ba522c52b23884843a6639c8cbd1154tab=core_cview=0
:

“To meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance,
higher energy efficiency, ease of programmability, system dependability, and
security, revolutionary new research, development, and design will be
essential to enable new generations of advanced DoD computing system
capabilities and new classes of computer applications. Current evolutionary
approaches to progress in computer designs are inadequate.”

Essentially, we’re not developing fast enough. Processing speed, heat,
internal architecture–none of this will be able to keep up with Moore’s law
in the future.

And hardware isn’t even the only stumbling block: Software needs updating
too.

Here are some of the “topics of interest”:

- Research on self aware system software, including operating system,
runtime system, I/O system, system management/administration, resource
management and means of exposing resources, and external environments

- Research on hardware, software and language design that enables highly
programmable systems, which reduces the need for users to be aware of system
complexity, including heterogeneous cores, the memory hierarchy, etc.

Energy use seems to be a high priority as well. Research on low power
circuits is sought, along with any developments in energy efficiency.

As computing power rises, so does energy use, an undesirable trend. DARPA
hopes to find ways to increase ability without increasing energy use quite
so much.

And if you’re wondering why this is all so vague, it’s because this is not
much more than a call to arms –DARPA is aiming to encourage development of
next-gen computing systems, and of course nobody knows quite what that will
look like.

DARPA is aiming for a 2018 launch of these UHPC systems.

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Re: [scifinoir2] Ebooks - SciFiction - Short Story

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[scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...



How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

   - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image:
   Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
   - June 29, 2010  |
   - 8:07 pm  |
   - Categories:
Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
   -

  For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks
and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her
objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people
work.
“We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
–Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
observe how people were using new features.

Read More
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


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Re: [scifinoir2] Superman and Batman in Apocalypse Eventually

Whoa, mama. Thanks, Mr Worf. It's on my list.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:

Yes!

*Superman and Batman in Apocalypse
Eventually*http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/superman_and_batman_in_apocalypse_eventually.php
[image: supermanbatman2__scaled_300.jpg]The next DC direct-to-DVD movie
has been revealed (well, the one after *Batman: Under the Red Hood*), and
based on DC's new policy of choosing to make money, they're making another
*Batman/Superman* joint. It'll be based on Jeph Loeb's Last Girl from
Krypton arc, which is more or less the sequel to Public Enemies, but will
be subtitled *Apocalypse* for its DVD release. I'd summarize the story for
you, but I've read it on Wikipedia about nine times and it still doesn't
make any sense to me, so here's the synopsis from the press release:

After a spaceship splashes down in Gotham City Harbor, Batman and Superman
encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as those of the Man
of Steel. The Kryptonian is soon revealed to be Kara, cousin of Superman,
who takes her under his wing to educate her about the ways of Earth.
However, the villainous Darkseid has other plans. Seeing an opportunity to
finally defeat Superman, Darkseid abducts and gains control of Kara,
utilizing the powerful Kryptonian to do his bidding. It's up to Batman and
Superman to save Kara, but they'll have to take the fight to Darkseid within
his hostile world - where unknown, deadly threats lurk around every corner,
including a brainwashed Kryptonian able to match Superman blow-for-blow.

Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy will be voicing Supes and Bats again, so that's
good news. Summer Glau will be voicing Supergirl which... well, seeing as
Glau has normally played robots and ccrazy quiet people, I never thought of
her voice as her strength. Oh well. At least there will be another short DC
short; this time featuring Green Arrow. It's due on September 28th.

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Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'

Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams
having a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on
the whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If
that happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse 
brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote:



 http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html

 Williams wants crack at 'Batman'

 By WENN.COM

 Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie
 - because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero
 franchise.

 Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film
 have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The
 Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters
 will be re-introduced.

 Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back
 for the new movie, along with The Riddler.

 Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who
 played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was
 originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to
 play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later
 handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to
 secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise.

 He tells Empire magazine, I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The
 Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as
 the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights.

 The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me
 The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The
 Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer?
 If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'.

  




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Re: [scifinoir2] Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer

This, Mr Worf, I like. I remember, decades ago, talking this over with
fellow students in college. One of us mentioned the possibility of silicon,
and we all got misty-eyed, knowing the the technology was still years off.

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 Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer

 By Dario Borghino http://www.gizmag.com/author/dario-borghino/

 *17:06 June 29, 2010*
  [image: A high-energy laser pulse (red) can modify the state of a
 phosphorus electron (yellow) 
 wit...]http://www.gizmag.com/silicon-breakthrough-quantum-computer/15572/picture/116951/

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[scifinoir2] Correction re: Torchwood

Pardon me folks -- can't read my own scrawl.

Torchwood doesn't start until 11. And it's on BBC America.

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Re: [scifinoir2] Superman and Batman in Apocalypse Eventually

2010-07-01 Thread George Arterberry

This plot looks kinda shaky but since Darkseid it s the baddie I'm there. Just 
wish Marvel would do something with Thanos. The Nova books and now The Thanos 
Imperative begs for an animation retelling. 

From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 1:26:50 PM
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Superman and Batman in Apocalypse Eventually

Whoa, mama. Thanks, Mr Worf. It's on my list.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ gmail.com wrote:

Yes!

Superman and Batman in Apocalypse Eventually
 The next DC direct-to-DVD movie has been revealed (well, the one after 
 Batman: Under the Red Hood), and based on DC's new policy of choosing to make 
 money, they're making another Batman/Superman joint. It'll be based on Jeph 
 Loeb's Last Girl from Krypton arc, which is more or less the sequel to 
 Public Enemies, but will be subtitled Apocalypse for its DVD release. I'd 
 summarize the story for you, but I've read it on Wikipedia about nine times 
 and it still doesn't make any sense to me, so here's the synopsis from the 
 press release:

After a spaceship splashes down in Gotham City Harbor, Batman and Superman 
encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as those of the Man of 
Steel. The Kryptonian is soon revealed to be Kara, cousin of Superman, who 
takes her under his wing to educate her about the ways of Earth. However, the 
villainous Darkseid has other plans. Seeing an opportunity to finally defeat 
Superman, Darkseid abducts and gains control of Kara, utilizing the powerful 
Kryptonian to do his bidding. It's up to Batman and Superman to save Kara, but 
they'll have to take the fight to Darkseid within his hostile world - where 
unknown, deadly threats lurk around every corner, including a brainwashed 
Kryptonian able to match Superman blow-for-blow.
Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy will be voicing Supes and Bats again, so that's 
good news. Summer Glau will be voicing Supergirl which... well, seeing as 
Glau has normally played robots and ccrazy quiet people, I never thought of 
her voice as her strength. Oh well. At least there will be another short DC 
short; this time featuring Green Arrow. It's due on September 28th.

-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! 
Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/

-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell 
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik

[scifinoir2] Flying car roundup: the good, the bad, the ugly … and the amphibious

Flying car roundup: the good, the bad, the ugly … and the amphibious

By Loz Blain http://www.gizmag.com/author/loz-blain/

*23:56 June 30, 2010*

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[scifinoir2] Tyler Perry feels betrayed by TNT

http://www.rollingout.com/insideentertainment/the-pulse/9945-madea-vs-boondocks-tyler-perry-not-suing-aaron-mcgruder-feels-betrayed-by-turner-network.html

Contrary to erroneous reports on some popular blog sites and the Atlanta 
Journal-Constitution, Tyler Perry is not suing Aaron McGruder over the highly 
publicized Boondocks episode that lampooned Perry's famous Madea character, 
blasted Perry's leadership style and seriously questioned his sexuality.

But Perry, whose popular pistol-packing, profane Madea character has helped 
rake in tens of millions at the box office over the past decade, is definitely 
ablaze with anger for the derisive and embarrassing depictions of him on the 
popular cartoon series.

Perry, according to this writer's inside source, knows the identity of the 
person who crafted the script that McGruder aired last Sunday titled, Pause. 
The person, whose name was not available at press time, is a former staff 
member at Tyler Perry Studios who was fired some time ago and re-emerged on the 
other side of Turner, working with McGruder.

[scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery

This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft.  I just 
recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and 
Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly.

~(no)rave!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haOYAKGvpWHM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9VcwD9GLRTIO0

SEATTLE  For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.
The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less than 
two months.

Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates from 
social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video with 
friends.

But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced a 
new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in 
development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra 
apps for download or a GPS mapping function.
Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus 
instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the current 
Kin phones.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger.  I am shocked, 
shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be 
McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper.

~rave?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu

McDonald's menu getting leaner

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick 

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low 
sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare.

In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending 
demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, 
among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned 
national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being 
test-marketed.

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy 
for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar 
restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy.

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[scifinoir2] Exalted List Goddess

Has anyone seen/heard-tell our Exalted List Goddess?

~rave?

[scifinoir2] As Kin Crashes and Burns, the Droid X rises

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2996


While the world continues to line up for the latest iPhone  reception problems 
and all  Verizon's just-announced jumbo-screen Motorola Droid X has racked up 
a bevy of admiring reviews.

David Pogue at the New York Times calls the Droid X (slated to arrive July 15 
for $199, with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract and after a mail-in rebate) 
a big, beautiful contender with an almost-Imax screen (4.3 inches 
diagonally, to be exact, or almost a inch bigger than the iPhone's 3.5-inch 
display). The phone performs like a speed rocket, Pogue gushes, and benefits 
from Google's open and customizable (and soon Flash-supporting) Android OS, 
although he also complains about a few nagging quirks (the security warnings 
before you download Android apps, the wonky screen rotation, the Wi-Fi-less 
Skype). 

The Droid X battery gets you through a full day easily, Pogue continues, and 
there's also Verizon's expensive but not-call-dropping network, as well as 
the handset's ability to act as a mobile hotspot for other Wi-Fi devices. That 
said, the Droid X isn't for everyone, Pogue warns, saying that the absolutely 
huge shell makes you feel as if you're talking into a frozen waffle when 
you're making a call, and that although Android is a great OS for technically 
proficient high-end users, it's more complicated and less polished than 
Apple's iOS.

[scifinoir2] Today is Tessellation Thursday at Subways

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-29/business/ct-talk-subway-cheese-0630-20100629_1_cheese-sandwich-overlap

To the geometrically inclined, the term is tessellating  positioning shapes 
in a pattern without overlap and with no gaps.

In this case, we're referring to the placement of triangular cheese slices on 
Subway sandwiches. Instead of being positioned end to end with overlap, 
starting Thursday the cheese points will alternate facing up and down along 
your sandwich.

Franchisees were notified of the change about a month ago, said Kevin Kane, 
Subway public relations manager, with some opting to make the change early. But 
come Thursday, tessellating cheese will be the order of the day at all of 
Subway's 33,000 franchises. Videos and tip sheets have been sent instructing 
sandwich artists on the new method.

The reason for the placement change is to provide greater cheese coverage on 
each sandwich by not overlapping the cheese, Kane said. This provides more 
cheese per bite.

And, no, the idea did not come from the 2007 suggestion at lefthandedtoons.com 
or from the spirited online campaign that followed, Kane says. Tessellation is 
a product of Subway's RD team, which Kane says is constantly looking for ways 
to improve the company's sandwiches. Like in 2001, when Subway changed the way 
it slices its bread.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123421235716v=wall

Re: [scifinoir2] Today is Tessellation Thursday at Subways

Does that mean they'll be putting more stuff on them today? I used to do
Subway at least once a week, until they began trying to starve me.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:




 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-29/business/ct-talk-subway-cheese-0630-20100629_1_cheese-sandwich-overlap

 To the geometrically inclined, the term is tessellating — positioning
 shapes in a pattern without overlap and with no gaps.

 In this case, we're referring to the placement of triangular cheese slices
 on Subway sandwiches. Instead of being positioned end to end with overlap,
 starting Thursday the cheese points will alternate facing up and down along
 your sandwich.

 Franchisees were notified of the change about a month ago, said Kevin Kane,
 Subway public relations manager, with some opting to make the change early.
 But come Thursday, tessellating cheese will be the order of the day at all
 of Subway's 33,000 franchises. Videos and tip sheets have been sent
 instructing sandwich artists on the new method.

 The reason for the placement change is to provide greater cheese coverage
 on each sandwich by not overlapping the cheese, Kane said. This provides
 more cheese per bite.

 And, no, the idea did not come from the 2007 suggestion at
 lefthandedtoons.com or from the spirited online campaign that followed,
 Kane says. Tessellation is a product of Subway's RD team, which Kane says
 is constantly looking for ways to improve the company's sandwiches. Like in
 2001, when Subway changed the way it slices its bread.

 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123421235716v=wall

  




-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] As Kin Crashes and Burns, the Droid X rises

So, rave, any idea as to what happened to the Kin? For three days, I
couldn't blink without seeing an ad for it on TV or online, and now
nothing...

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:



 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2996

 While the world continues to line up for the latest iPhone — reception
 problems and all — Verizon's just-announced jumbo-screen Motorola Droid X
 has racked up a bevy of admiring reviews.

 David Pogue at the New York Times calls the Droid X (slated to arrive July
 15 for $199, with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract and after a mail-in
 rebate) a big, beautiful contender with an almost-Imax screen (4.3
 inches diagonally, to be exact, or almost a inch bigger than the iPhone's
 3.5-inch display). The phone performs like a speed rocket, Pogue gushes,
 and benefits from Google's open and customizable (and soon
 Flash-supporting) Android OS, although he also complains about a few nagging
 quirks (the security warnings before you download Android apps, the wonky
 screen rotation, the Wi-Fi-less Skype).

 The Droid X battery gets you through a full day easily, Pogue continues,
 and there's also Verizon's expensive but not-call-dropping network, as
 well as the handset's ability to act as a mobile hotspot for other Wi-Fi
 devices. That said, the Droid X isn't for everyone, Pogue warns, saying that
 the absolutely huge shell makes you feel as if you're talking into a
 frozen waffle when you're making a call, and that although Android is a
 great OS for technically proficient high-end users, it's more complicated
 and less polished than Apple's iOS.

  




-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] As Kin Crashes and Burns, the Droid X rises

Just the ability for it to be a hotspot makes it worth a lot.  I didn't know
it could do that.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:



 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2996

 While the world continues to line up for the latest iPhone — reception
 problems and all — Verizon's just-announced jumbo-screen Motorola Droid X
 has racked up a bevy of admiring reviews.

 David Pogue at the New York Times calls the Droid X (slated to arrive July
 15 for $199, with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract and after a mail-in
 rebate) a big, beautiful contender with an almost-Imax screen (4.3
 inches diagonally, to be exact, or almost a inch bigger than the iPhone's
 3.5-inch display). The phone performs like a speed rocket, Pogue gushes,
 and benefits from Google's open and customizable (and soon
 Flash-supporting) Android OS, although he also complains about a few nagging
 quirks (the security warnings before you download Android apps, the wonky
 screen rotation, the Wi-Fi-less Skype).

 The Droid X battery gets you through a full day easily, Pogue continues,
 and there's also Verizon's expensive but not-call-dropping network, as
 well as the handset's ability to act as a mobile hotspot for other Wi-Fi
 devices. That said, the Droid X isn't for everyone, Pogue warns, saying that
 the absolutely huge shell makes you feel as if you're talking into a
 frozen waffle when you're making a call, and that although Android is a
 great OS for technically proficient high-end users, it's more complicated
 and less polished than Apple's iOS.

Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble
already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was
there, last year.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am
shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was
supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper.

~rave?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu

McDonald's menu getting leaner

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some
low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare.

In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the
impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and
walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up
for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently
being test-marketed.

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove
healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to
Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy.

--
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

rave, I don't think the boffins at Mickey D's were entirely thinking when
they tried that one out. Ordered one once, and dumped it thirty seconds
later.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am
shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was
supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper.

~rave?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu

McDonald's menu getting leaner

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some
low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare.

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove
healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to
Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy.

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Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

I think that McD's needs to focus on the basics. In and Out doesn't have a
huge menu and they are doing great business. They are creating too many
frankenburgers that taste weird.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am
shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was
supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper.

~rave?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu

McDonald's menu getting leaner

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some
low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare.

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove
healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to
Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy.

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Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery

This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft.

rave, isn't that what M$ does best?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:



 This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft. I just
 recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and
 Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly.

 ~(no)rave!


 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haOYAKGvpWHM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9VcwD9GLRTIO0

 SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.
 The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less
 than two months.

 Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates
 from social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video
 with friends.

 But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced
 a new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in
 development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra
 apps for download or a GPS mapping function.
 Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus
 instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the
 current Kin phones.

 Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

  




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Re: [scifinoir2] Tyler Perry feels betrayed by TNT

Protesting a little too much...

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:


 http://www.rollingout.com/insideentertainment/the-pulse/9945-madea-vs-boondocks-tyler-perry-not-suing-aaron-mcgruder-feels-betrayed-by-turner-network.html

 Contrary to erroneous reports on some popular blog sites and the Atlanta
 Journal-Constitution, Tyler Perry is not suing Aaron McGruder over the
 highly publicized Boondocks episode that lampooned Perry's famous Madea
 character, blasted Perry's leadership style and seriously questioned his
 sexuality.

 But Perry, whose popular pistol-packing, profane Madea character has helped
 rake in tens of millions at the box office over the past decade, is
 definitely ablaze with anger for the derisive and embarrassing depictions of
 him on the popular cartoon series.

 Perry, according to this writer's inside source, knows the identity of the
 person who crafted the script that McGruder aired last Sunday titled,
 Pause. The person, whose name was not available at press time, is a former
 staff member at Tyler Perry Studios who was fired some time ago and
 re-emerged on the other side of Turner, working with McGruder.



 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Tyler Perry feels betrayed by TNT

This explains a great many things, rave. Thanks for the enlightenment.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:




 http://www.rollingout.com/insideentertainment/the-pulse/9945-madea-vs-boondocks-tyler-perry-not-suing-aaron-mcgruder-feels-betrayed-by-turner-network.html

 Contrary to erroneous reports on some popular blog sites and the Atlanta
 Journal-Constitution, Tyler Perry is not suing Aaron McGruder over the
 highly publicized Boondocks episode that lampooned Perry's famous Madea
 character, blasted Perry's leadership style and seriously questioned his
 sexuality.

 But Perry, whose popular pistol-packing, profane Madea character has helped
 rake in tens of millions at the box office over the past decade, is
 definitely ablaze with anger for the derisive and embarrassing depictions of
 him on the popular cartoon series.

 Perry, according to this writer's inside source, knows the identity of the
 person who crafted the script that McGruder aired last Sunday titled,
 Pause. The person, whose name was not available at press time, is a former
 staff member at Tyler Perry Studios who was fired some time ago and
 re-emerged on the other side of Turner, working with McGruder.

  




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Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery

M$ thinks that if they throw enough money at something that they can
dominate a market. Totally silly but you know that they will keep trying. I
read somewhere that they only sold 500 phones! Wow... That's more than a
failure. That is a FAIL.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

 This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft.  I just
 recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and
 Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly.

 ~(no)rave!


 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haOYAKGvpWHM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9VcwD9GLRTIO0

 SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.
 The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less
 than two months.

 Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates
 from social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video
 with friends.

 But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced
 a new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in
 development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra
 apps for download or a GPS mapping function.
 Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus
 instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the
 current Kin phones.

 Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.





 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer

I think that we may see it sooner than the date that they are aiming for. I
have the feeling that they are on the verge of a major breakthrough.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 This, Mr Worf, I like. I remember, decades ago, talking this over with
 fellow students in college. One of us mentioned the possibility of silicon,
 and we all got misty-eyed, knowing the the technology was still years off.


 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer

 By Dario Borghino http://www.gizmag.com/author/dario-borghino/

 *17:06 June 29, 2010*
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Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have
been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

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 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks
 and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her
 objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people
 work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
 –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
 suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
 software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
 Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
 observe how people were using new features.

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Re: [scifinoir2] DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade

True.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:

Simple, Mr Worf. DARPA wants those developments to happen now, and they
wants the exclusive rights to them. If some company does it on its own, then
the Guv'mint would have to pay.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:

DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade

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It’s a solicitation for new developments in the broad scheme of
computing–faster hardware, more storage, better power management, better
heat dissipation, simpler software.

Why the need for a separate initiative? Aren’t those developments going to
happen anyway?

DARPA
sayshttps://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunitymode=formid=3ba522c52b23884843a6639c8cbd1154tab=core_cview=0
:

Essentially, we’re not developing fast enough. Processing speed, heat,
internal architecture–none of this will be able to keep up with Moore’s law
in the future.

And hardware isn’t even the only stumbling block: Software needs updating
too.

Here are some of the “topics of interest”:

Energy use seems to be a high priority as well. Research on low power
circuits is sought, along with any developments in energy efficiency.

As computing power rises, so does energy use, an undesirable trend. DARPA
hopes to find ways to increase ability without increasing energy use quite
so much.

DARPA is aiming for a 2018 launch of these UHPC systems.

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Re: [scifinoir2] Comic: Superboy-v1-159

I misread the title. I thought it was the entire series, but it is one
episode.

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 Thanks much, Mr Worf!

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Re: [scifinoir2] Hulu starts paid subscription TV service

They will only be offering NBC's stuff.

This needs to flop or we'll have to pay for everything online.

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 As the prediction foretold, it has been done...

 Hulu starts paid subscription TV service
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Tue, Jun 15 2010

   NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hulu introduced a new paid subscription
 service for watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles,
 television sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to
 strike a balance between paid and ad supported models.

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   |  Media http://www.reuters.com/news/media

 Until now, Hulu has been free over the web supported by advertisements,
 but offered only selected TV shows and movies. That service will continue to
 exist after the launch of Hulu Plus.

 Hulu's subscription service, called Hulu Plus, gives users access to more
 than 45 full programs of everything from Glee to The Office for $9.99 a
 month.

 Like all media companies, Hulu has its work cut out in trying to get
 people to pay for programing they are used to watching for free from the
 broadcast networks.

 Hulu Plus is hoping to lure consumers to pay a monthly fee for the
 convenience of watching shows whenever they want.

 Hulu has the backing of some of the most powerful media brands, with Fox
 owner News Corp, General Electric Co's NBC Universal, ABC owner Walt Disney
 Co holding equity stakes in the company. Providence Equity Partners also is
 a stakeholder.

 Hulu said it is making its service available on Apple Inc's iPhone, 
 iPadhttp://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipadand iTouch, Samsung Electronics Co 
 Ltd's television sets and Blu-ray
 players. Soon, Hulu Plus will be available on Sony Corp's PlayStation 3.

 Next year, the service will be available on Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360,
 Hulu said in its announcement on Tuesday.

 Netflix Inc already runs a subscription service, while Comcast Corp and
 Time Warner Inc are developing TV Everywhere, which will allow people to
 watch shows on demand for free and on any device provided they are already
 paying customers.

 In another case, Time Warner's HBO service Go lets subscribers download
 episodes of True Blood or Big Love as a free ad-on.

 The Hulu subscription plan and partnership with device makers was a widely
 anticipated move, reported by Reuters and others earlier this month.

 In a blog post, Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar described Hulu Plus as
 incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service. He said the
 subscription plan would make available full seasons of current TV shows, as
 well as back seasons of hit programs like Arrested Development and The
 X-Files.

 We believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show
 discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of our
 customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our content
 suppliers, Kilar wrote.

 CBS Corp is the only major broadcast network without an ownership stake in
 Hulu and currently does not make any of its programs available on the video
 website. The company declined to comment on whether it would participate in
 the paid service.

 (Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Carol
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[scifinoir2] Fwd: July Films, Events, and More

Just a sample of whats showing here this month. Cool huh?





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• Battle League HORUMO #1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_horumo
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VIZ CINEMA - JULY: Beyond The Battles
VIZ Cinema’s summer gets hotter with fiery fights and good ole’ battles from
Samurais to Cyberspace conflicts and more! SF IndieFest also joins us to
bring a fascinating line-up of sci-fi, horror and fantasy films as the 8th
Another Hole In The Head, a Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Film Festival!

SUPERFROG Gallery - Yu-Cheng Chou exhibit
*Because 64 Crayons Made in the USA*
An exhibition curated by Cydney M. Payton

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  Special DVD Release Screening by VIZ Pictures!
VIZ Pictures presents the DVD release of the combat action comedy Battle
League HORUMO! Get sucked into the underground college tradition in Kyoto!

Based on a novel by Manabu Makime, Kyoto University student Akira Abe joins
the club “Azure Dragon” in order to get closer to the girl of his dreams.
But soon he is swept into the 1000-year-old tradition of Oni spirit battles
known as “Horumo.”

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- Ghost In The Shell (Original version)
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Join hosts Patrick Macias (editor, Otaku USA magazine), August Ragone
(author, Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters), and Tomohiro Machiyama
(founding editor, Movie Treasures magazine) as they explore the fascinating
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[scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed th is equipment before

I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
prison and at some border points in the United States.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html

[scifinoir2] Kids today?

There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school
to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids
are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is
going on?



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Re: [scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed this equipment before

I'm a little creeped out about this.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote:



 I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
 supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
 prison and at some border points in the United States.


 http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html




 




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Re: [scifinoir2] Kids today?

I think so too.  No kids were that height when I was in 7th grade.  It also
seems that babies become interactive a lot earlier than they did even 20
years ago.  Does anyone else think that back then they never seemed able to
focus or do anything else they seem to emerge doing now?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school
 to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids
 are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is
 going on?



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 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed this equipment before

It scares me.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 I'm a little creeped out about this.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote:



 I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
 supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
 prison and at some border points in the United States.


 http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html







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[scifinoir2] Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed

Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed

- By Laura Sanders, Science
Newshttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/laura-sanders/ [image:
Email Author] bma...@wired.com
- July 1, 2010 |
- 2:43 pm |
- Categories: Biologyhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/biology/,
Medicine http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/medicine/
-

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/stem-cells-from-human-blood-can-be-reprogrammed/blood_donation_sectionz/

Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem
cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body,
three independent papers report in the July 2 *Cell Stem Cell*. The new
technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of
personalized stem cells.

[image: sciencenews] http://bit.ly/2TwTeSBecause taking blood is safe,
fast and efficient compared to current stem cell harvesting methods, some of
which include biopsies and pretreatments with drugs, researchers hope that
blood-derived stem cells could one day be used to study and treat diseases —
though major safety hurdles remain.

The findings “represent a huge and important progression in the field,” stem
cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, writes in a
commentary appearing in the same issue of the journal.

Three research groups used similar methods to prod certain immune cells in
human blood to become induced pluripotent stem cells. Because they are
reprogrammed adult cells, these stem cells share many of the same
regenerative abilities as true embryonic stem cells but may not have as much
versatility in the kinds of mature cells they can become. But induced
pluripotent cells are harvested from adults and so don’t face the same
ethical mires posed by embryo-derived stem cells. And as techniques for
manipulating induced pluripotent cells improve, some researchers think they
may be just as useful.

The new studies accomplished the reprogramming feat by using viruses to
deliver a four-gene cocktail that reverts the cells to a naive state in
which any developmental path is open. In theory at least, these induced
pluripotent stem cells could go on to form neurons in the brain, muscle
cells in the leg or beating heart cells.

Scientists’ manipulations turned the stem cells in the new studies into
several types of mature blood cells, including infection-fighting T cells.
What’s more, all the groups showed that a batch of the stem cells implanted
into mice developed into the three main types of progenitor cells found in
human embryos. In embryos, these progenitor cells give rise to different
tissues.

More research is needed to determine whether these cells can be further
coaxed to form fully functional tissue, says Rudolf Jaenisch of MIT and the
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who
led one of the studies. The concern is that if these cells retain traces of
memory from their previous lives as blood cells, they may not be good at
forming other tissue types.

Past studies have induced other kinds of mature cells to form stem cells.
The most common source has been adult skin cells called fibroblasts, which
have been manipulated into stem cells and then neurons (*SN: 2/27/10,
p.
5http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/55895/title/Skin_cells_transformed_directly_into_neurons
*). But harvesting fibroblasts is harder than drawing blood, requiring
surgery and sutures. What’s more, inducing fibroblasts to form stem cells
can take about a month in the lab, during which mutations can accumulate.
The new blood cell techniques can be completed in a few days.

Stanford University stem cell biologist Marius Wernig points out that the
new method is still less efficient than the fibroblast technique. “But with
improving technology, this cell type could very well replace the skin
fibroblasts currently mostly used to generate induced pluripotent stem cells
from patients,” Wernig says.

Researchers are still a long way off from transplanting such stem cells or
their mature offspring into people safely. The viruses used to deliver genes
into the cells may have unintended consequences, and the cells’ long-term
behavior is still unknown.

But even if the cells won’t be put directly into patients, Jaenisch says
that the new method “opens up access to enormous resources of collected
cells from patients” that can be used to study diseases. For example, lab
experiments with cells from these collections might be used to study why
motor neurons from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis die, or how
healthy liver cells respond to a promising but potentially toxic drug.

*Photo: sectionz http://www.flickr.com/photos/sectionz/50232092//Flickr*

*See Also:*

- Living, Breeding Mice Grown From Skin
Cellshttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/ipsmice/
- Turning Skin Cells to Stem Cells,

[scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man

2010-07-01 Thread brent wodehouse

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/

Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man

by Nicole Sperling


We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and hes British.
Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly
sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield,
while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.s most highly
regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliams The Imaginarium of
Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowleys Boy A, for which he received a
best actor BAFTA in 2008. Hes been getting heat in the U.S., too. This
year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin
Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David
Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite
Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as
yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The
Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated
on the big screen by Tobey Maguire.

[scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word

2010-07-01 Thread brent wodehouse

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html

Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management?

July 1, 2010

We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that
seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV
reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about
the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a
profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson
acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it.

But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at
RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger
management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a
tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his
baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues.

In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he
had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters.

According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva,
including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In
one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in
heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault.

In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's
womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going
to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral
sex on] me first.

There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll
undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to
follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of
course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it
is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied
having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it,
through his lawyer, as a loud argument.

It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his
latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson
should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where.
It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing
bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a
store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds
to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast.

Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'

Williams is frighteningly good at playing a psychopath. He'd make an awesome 
Toyman, if they go with the more disturbed Toyman of recent years. The version 
that John Byrne crafted after the Crisis even abducted and killed young 
children. The one in the Justice League cartoon was creepy with that masked 
face of his, and the disturbing childlike way he spoke. 

- Original Message - 
From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:28:43 AM 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' 

Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams having 
a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on the 
whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If that 
happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman. 

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse  brent_wodeho...@thefence.us 
 wrote: 

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html 

Williams wants crack at 'Batman' 

By WENN.COM 

Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie 
- because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero 
franchise. 

Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film 
have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The 
Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters 
will be re-introduced. 

Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back 
for the new movie, along with The Riddler. 

Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who 
played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was 
originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to 
play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later 
handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to 
secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise. 

He tells Empire magazine, I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The 
Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as 
the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights. 

The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me 
The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The 
Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer? 
If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'. 

-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell 
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real 
breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic 
plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and 
prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that 
actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like 
chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For 
chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, 
LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. 


- Original Message - 
From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner 






Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes  Noble already 
serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last 
year. 


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn  ravena...@yahoo.com  wrote: 








I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, 
shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be 
McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. 

~rave? 

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu
 

McDonald's menu getting leaner 

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items 

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick 

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low 
sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. 

In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending 
demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, 
among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned 
national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being 
test-marketed. 

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy 
for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar 
restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. 





-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell 
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word

As reprehensible as this latest outburst of Gibson's is if true, I don't want 
to know about it. The voyeuristic, leering nature of our society is 
increasingly bothering me. Yeah, he's a celebrity, so his life is under the 
microscope. Yeah, he obviously has an inner core of racism and misogyny, so 
people are on the lookout for stuff like this. And yeah, being a celebrity 
who's a known racist misogynist with a short fuse, he's an idiot for leaving 
a record of something this awful. 
But at the end of the day, it's a private affair between him and his 
girlfriend, and I don't want to know about it. I mean, what if some of the 
stuff any of us said in private, on the phone, or in a nasty e-mail to another 
person were to be made public? 
So Imma try to avert my eyes to this latest example of what a messed-up 
person Gibson is... 

- Original Message - 
From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:33:39 PM 
Subject: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word 






http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html
 

Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? 

July 1, 2010 

We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that 
seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV 
reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about 
the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a 
profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson 
acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it. 

But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at 
RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger 
management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a 
tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his 
baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. 

In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he 
had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters. 

According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, 
including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In 
one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in 
heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault. 

In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's 
womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going 
to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral 
sex on] me first. 

There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll 
undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to 
follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of 
course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it 
is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied 
having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, 
through his lawyer, as a loud argument. 

It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his 
latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson 
should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. 
It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing 
bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a 
store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds 
to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast.

Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man