Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 17, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Classic video of split-brain patient online [video]
YouTube hosts a classic video of one of the famous 'split-brain' patients who had his corpus callosum surgically cut to treat otherwise untreatable epilepsy, effectively separating the two hemispheres of the brain.
This procedure is intended to stop seizures spreading across the brain and its effects were first studied in depth by Roger Sperry, who won a Nobel prize for his work demonstrating that the patients experienced, in certain situations, a sort of split consciousness.
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Topic: VIDEO - on September 17, 2007 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Bleep - What tнe⃗ #$*! Dө⃗ ωΣ (k)πow!?
is a controversial 2004 film that combines documentary interviews and a fictional narrative to posit a connection between science and spirituality.
1 Std. 48 Min. 22 Sek
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 17, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Das Opensource-DVD Projekt
Erreichtes Ziel des Projekts Opensource-DVD, Nachfolger von Opensource-CD, ist im deutschsprachigen Raum die zentrale Plattform für Opensource-Programme.
Zielgruppe Vorrangig richtet sich die Opensource-DVD an den Windows-Anwender. Allerdings ist ein hoher Prozentsatz der vorgestellten Programme auch für Linux geeignet.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 17, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Best Free Software to Unlock Your Favorite Hardware
It sucks that your favorite gadgets have more functionality than their default software exposes, but it rules that several software applications are built to unlock that potential for free. Whether it's your iPod, Xbox, router or iPhone, we've covered some incredibly ambitious free software projects that unlock features and enable unauthorized but oh-so-useful applications to run on them. Get our top 5 favorite pieces of software to unlock your hardware and chime in with your own in the comments.
Rockbox/iPodLinux (iPod) UnleashX/Xbox Media Center (Xbox) DD-WRT (router) iBrickr/AppTapp/Installer.app (iPhone) Linux Live CDs (unbootable PC)
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 17, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
DIY Super Long Range RF Remote
This trick comes from DP Review's forums where a fellow with the handle Denny2020 posted his simple idea of adapting a pair of cheap 2 mile walkie-talkie style RF radios into use as a remote trigger for his camera.
And the neat thing is the range is 3 kms.
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Topic: Photoshop - on September 17, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Photoshop for iPhone! [video]
Here's a quick take of some fun we had with our Adobe friends at the Photoshop World keynote in Las Vegas.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 17, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
The top 50 greatest covers as voted by you
1. Kate Bush, Rocket Man (I Think it's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) (1991) (orig. Elton John, 1972)
Numerous artists have retooled 'Rocket Man', among them William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain Kirk. At the Science Fiction Film Awards in 1978, in front of an audience of greying, bemused 'suits', he performed a 'spoken word' version of the song while smoking, self-consciously, an untipped cigarette and enacting a Method masterclass in which he dramatised the Rocket Man's displeasure as he prepares to journey through the clouds.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
NORML Founder Arrested in Boston For Smoking Joint
"Eight hundred thousand people were arrested last year for marijuana. Every 41 seconds someone gets arrested for marijuana. I got arrested a couple of hours ago right here."
NORML founder Keith Stroup was delivering his yearly speech at the 18th Annual Boston Freedom Rally on Sept. 15 when he let it slip out that he had been busted just three hour earlier while smoking a joint with High Times associate publisher Rick Cusick behind the High Times/NORML booth.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Skunk strength has doubled, studies suggest
The unpublished results of authoritative research into cannabis confirm the "skunk" now on sale in England is stronger than it was a decade ago, but demolish claims that a new "super-strength skunk" - which is 20 times more powerful - is dominating the market.
Two studies due to be published later this year, which together analysed nearly 550 samples of skunk seized by the police, both conclude that the average content of the main psychoactive agent in skunk strains of cannabis, THC, has doubled from 7% in 1995 to 14% in 2005.
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Topic: WEB - on September 17, 2007 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Tor madness reloaded - German police raid home of man who operated Tor server
A German operator of a Tor server used to anonymously route traffic over the net said he was arrested in a midnight raid on his residence that stemmed from an investigation into bomb threats said to have passed through an internet protocol address under his control.
Alexander Janssen said he had just returned from a night of drinking when someone knocked "very hard" on his door. Police then entered his Dusseldorf apartment, cuffed him and said he was suspected of posting bomb threats in a German forum related to law enforcement. He told police he operated a Tor server, which typically funneled 40 GB of data per day, but the officers proceeded to search his attic, office, car - even through the undergarments of his terrified wife. He was later taken to a police station and interrogated.
theregister.co.uk itnomad.wordpress.comboingboing.net/ slashdot.orgcnet.com
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