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I love your work Skoti! Many many props/kudos to you. I thoroughly enjoy all your interface work. I stumbled upon your work looking for a 3d browser/internet exploration program. I've been raving for something like this since I saw the movie Hackers way back when. (I hope it continues to get updated!) Also, have you seen the animation Ghost in the Shell? Sweet interfacing for the chats, surfing the net, general browsing, and "hacking". I hope to get active in a similar production as tactile 3d, or at least create my own theme. I'll probably be on here a bit more once my finals are done...

Multi-Directional Container 2010

Lost Alien-Drive Containers 2010

and according to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
it all belongs to me
because I am "the Father of the 3d window"
I gave you your freedom!

really cool just in

it's called Brainport
a device that helps the blind see using their tongues

Very Very Cool!!! thanks lighthouse.org

and for those of you who know I love magnet technology
another story that's kinda cool is that they are using more magnets to help the heart beat better
“With Stereotaxis, magnetic fields are created by two powerful magnets encased on pivoting arms on either side of the patient.
Because the new catheters – which are extremely flexible – have magnets incorporated into their tips,
they are pulled by the magnetic fields surrounding the catheter, rather than being pushed by human hands,”

The magnets, which aid electrophysiologists in creating a virtual “road map” of the heart’s anatomy,
not only give them extremely precise control, but also enable them to precisely navigate back to specific areas based on computer-driven vectors.
High-resolution digital imagery and user-friendly joystick technology allow them to quickly and accurately ablate the source of the rhythm abnormality,
regardless of the variances in the cardiac anatomy.

in other news it's dark over here now but it's also weird
the birds are still chirping even after the sun goes down i guess they liked how nice it was today.
my favorite movie is now stranger than fiction

Scientists steal electricity from algae for the first time

YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Washington, March 27 : Reports indicate that scientists from California and Korea have successfully stolen an electric current from algae for the first time, which could eventually create a new and environmentally friendly way to generate electricity.

Creatures have been stealing energy from plants and algae for nearly as long as plants and algae have been around.

Usually, they steal the chemical energy, stored as sugar, starch and other molecules.

According to a report in Discovery News, in the scientists’ case, they stole electrons from a widespread and well studied algae called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

“We have shown that we can steal an electrical current from algae,” said Fritz Prinz, a scientist from Stanford University.

To be able to extract energy from the algae, the scientists must first essentially jump-start the cells by applying what’s called an over voltage, a tiny current of electricity that zaps the cell into action.

The over voltage only works when the algae are exposed to sunlight.

If the algae cells are zapped in the dark, they will not produce any current. When zapped and exposed to light, however, the electricity flows.

The amount of current harvested from the algae is tiny-far too little to power any consumer electrical device.

“To get even one amp, the scientists would have to hook up trillions of cells,” said Prinz.

That would take far too long, since the process reduces the algae’s lifespan down to tens of minutes.

Furthermore, the amount of current harvested does not exceed the amount of current necessary to jump start the algae into producing energy; there was no net gain in energy from the experiment.

However, algae are tiny, cheap and plentiful.

The fact that Prinz and his colleagues stole any electrical current at all was impressive and opens new research opportunities.

According to Gary Brudvig, a scientist at Yale University, “This paves the way to imagine using algal cells in some new kind of solar energy conversion process that diverts what nature does nto a way that could be used more directly than growing and harvesting a crop.” (ANI)

Scientists are hopeful that the data will help spur new developments and strategies in fostering better carbon capture, soil detoxification and solar energy storage. It will also yield some valuable insight into related algae's biofuel production capabilities and efficiencies. Key to any new discovery will be a deeper understanding of the function and structure of the algae's chloroplasts, which help conduct photosynthesis and fuel other metabolic processes.

"The Chlamy genome is like a green time capsule that affords a view into the complex core machinery that gave rise to today’s energy-capturing and oxygen-producing chloroplasts ... its keen ability to efficiently capture and convert sunlight into energy, and its role in managing the global pool of carbon," said Daniel Rokhsar, the study's co-lead scientist and the head of DOE's Joint Genome Institute Computational Biology Program.

This new information may also prove helpful in devising new therapeutic solutions for human diseases affecting the hair structures of cilia and flagella - including polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and dystonia. Expect to see a raft of new studies/discoveries involving this algal genome within the next few months.

although>>>>
Clean source of hydrogen production
Main article: Biological hydrogen production

In 1939 the German researcher Hans Gaffron (1902-1979), who was at that time attached to the University of Chicago, discovered the hydrogen metabolism of unicellular green algae. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and some other green algae can, under specified circumstances, stop producing oxygen and convert instead to the production of hydrogen. This reaction by hydrogenase, an enzyme only active in the absence of oxygen, is short-lived. Over the next thirty years Gaffron and his team worked out the basic mechanics of this photosynthetic hydrogen production by algae.[17]

Such a production of hydrogen would only need water, sunlight and green algae. There is no need for electricity, nor is there any release of greenhouse gases. In other words, this is truly clean energy.

This hydrogen production cannot take place in the presence of oxygen. Under anaerobic circumstances however, the hydrogenase enzyme can produce briefly, during only a few minutes, light-mediated photosynthetic hydrogen. This reaction acts as a safety valve, dissipating the surplus of electrons created during a critical phase in the production of sugars in the chloroplast. This critical phase emerges because the reactions, transferring the electrons, happen immediately under the effect of light, while the synthesis of sugars gets going at a slower rate. Through this pumping of electrons into the production of hydrogen, the hydrogenase avoids choking the system. This reaction is gradually stopped after a few minutes by the oxygen emerging through the reactions producing the sugars.

To increase the production of hydrogen, two tracks are being followed by the researchers.

* The first track is decoupling hydrogenase from photosynthesis. This way, oxygen accumulation can no longer inhibit the production of hydrogen. And, if one goes one step further by changing the structure of the enzyme hydrogenase, it becomes possible to render hydrogenase insensitive to oxygen. This makes a continuous production of hydrogen possible. The flux of electrons needed for this production comes, in this case, no longer from the production of sugars, but is drawn from the breakdown of its own stock of starch.[18]
* A second track is to interrupt temporarily, through genetic manipulation of hydrogenase, the photosynthesis process. This inhibits oxygen reaching a level where it is able to stop the production of hydrogen.[19]

Both tracks are very promising and the practical implications to the energy supply of the world could be enormous. But industrial production of hydrogen by green algae is not yet for the very near future. At this moment the yield of the first prototypes fluctuates between 0.5 and 3%, while 10% could be the maximum yield of this biological process.

that's not much but it's something we could use if the shit hits the fan we can still power the fan after we cleaned it
what will they steal next?

Like I said we are the aliens
THIS WAS THE AVROCAR

http://ckuik.com/avrocar

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this will teach you not to mess with roo

Looks like apple is trying to copy likenesses off of us yet again!

oh how I Loath trend FAGS! just face it apple this is one interface you can't steal WE ARE THE WRATH OF XEROX!
you can't even implement flash in a tablet Muhahaha!
we are the only theme-able game interface for an OS everyone else is just hangin' on our coatails
GO SIT ON A PYRAMID APPLE Laughing

Join facebook lets not & say we did
yea you could join it "if you wanna be a TREND FAG"
NO THANX i'll pass
Don't you id10tz know they watch everything you do
catalog where you live what you eat what u dress like
no to mention it's funded by the government to track everything you do just so your face can go in their facial recognition program
I will never join that shitty virus infected garbage website
you might like it but I'll just think your a trend FAG! who can't think for themselves.
make your own decisions. or maybe you like being a spoonFED zombie
use DIY and build your own social networks & Don't follow the herd

And finally the Lord tells me to tell you this: "My church in America will be persecuted. Some of you are going not to understand it. In that day you will see the greatest glory on your person. Many families will turn away from Me and will deny Me, yet their children will follow Me, and I will be exalted by the young more than the old and as this persecution begins, many will turn against you and lead many of you into painful positions and painful places. But I will be closer to you that day than you've ever known Me to be," and now the Spirit says, "be strong and be courageous. I've not left you comfortless. I have come and I will build you and make you a mighty army for Me. I will cause you to know My power and the healing of My virtue. Yes," says the Lord, "this is the hour I'm preparing My church. Don't be afraid. Your days ahead are bright. Your days ahead are glorious. And to businessmen, I say, I will bless your business and the world will envy you. I will prosper you and you will be a helper to many. Yes," says God, "America on that day will lack, but My church will feed the hungry in America." Stand and praise Him.