Re: [silk] Meet up.

2013-08-10 Thread rashmi v
Hi ! This weekend might be short notice for most people. I was thinking of Saturday August 31st. Regards Rashmi On Aug 10, 2013 11:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: On 10-Aug-2013, at 11:25, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: I am free tomorrow. We can meet

Re: [silk] Meet up.

2013-08-10 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
If it's Aug 31, count me in. (Phone mail. Excuse formatting, top-posting etc.) C On 8/10/13, rashmi v rashm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ! This weekend might be short notice for most people. I was thinking of Saturday August 31st. Regards Rashmi On Aug 10, 2013 11:29 AM, Suresh

Re: [silk] The Ecuadorian Library - Bruce Sterling

2013-08-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 04-Aug-13 10:25 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: Some money quotes from the article Personal computers can have users, but social media has livestock. and Computers were invented as crypto-ware and spy-ware and control-ware. That’s what Alan Turing was all about. That’s where computing came

[silk] LEDs cause blindness?

2013-08-10 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
I'm waiting for research some day to start screaming that staring at computer screens (and not to mention social networks) causes depression and loneliness. http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/led-zone/4419340/Do-LEDs-cause-blindness Do LEDs cause blindness? Carolyn Mathas - August 6, 2013

Re: [silk] LEDs cause blindness?

2013-08-10 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
A better written article, http://www.livescience.com/31949-led-lights-eye-damage.html And the original research, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1751-1097.2012.01237.x/abstract And the researcher, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_S%C3%A1nchez-Ramos On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:00

Re: [silk] LEDs cause blindness?

2013-08-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: I'm waiting for research some day to start screaming that staring at computer screens (and not to mention social networks) causes depression and loneliness. As with any other aspect of the human condition, you can