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When standard abreviations fail with Copper!
This is a real paper and while the authors are chinese the editors and reveiwers of the paper where in Cambridge… So more rigour would be expected.,….
http://www.rsc.org/ej/CC/2007/b614147a.pdf
Why I and O are dull for synaesthetes
From the latest New Scientist
Synaesthesia is a baffling phenomenon. Some synaesthetes experience colours when they read words, others hear sounds when smelling certain odours. But little is known beyond the notion that it involves a mixing of the senses.
Now, the first big study of synaesthesia is starting to change that. David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine in Texas has looked at more than 1000 synaesthetes who see colours when viewing some letters and numbers. He found that frequently used letters are most likely to evoke colours, while letters such as Q and X are less likely to do so.
However, Eagleman spotted two frequently used letters that bucked this trend: I and O. He also noticed that the numbers 1 and 0 are often not coloured. Eagleman thinks this may be because these characters are made up from natural shapes that we learn to recognise before mastering the alphabet.
My Donkey just materialised in spades. While I was incorrigably smitten, the beach’s odd lustre revealed to me a well known and little kept secret – donkey’s are always best when they aren’t cantolupsicles. 
64gb usb drive
Flash drive storage is getting serious. This is rather old news, but still seems to currently be the record. You could put your OS on this little thing and hijack a machine. So machines would be totally blank other than a disk for swap space…
It’s only $4800 USD (Nov 07)…
This is ok value I guess: www.kanguru.com (8gb for $250 USD). There’s quite a few manufactures doing 8gb, but 64gb is… wow.
Alex Ries
23 yr old (at this time) artist from melbourne. Specialising in alien creatures and the like. Certainly knows the bones beneath the skin, and if you click through to some of his deviant art you can see there are technical details of his creatures including internal organs and documentation on how they are imagined to function.
zero G life.
Vector Magic
This is a nice converter… just upload your image to the server, and voila…
elephants on acid and two headed dogs
When investigating the sexual arousal of male turkeys researchers at Penn State University were impressed to see that the birds would attempt to mate with lookalike dummies. Piece by piece they removed parts of the dummy and found that the males were still highly aroused when presented with no more than a head on a stick.