Month: January 2014

Most metal goat

Biquette spent the first half of her life in a milking factory, and was then handed over to the farm, where she immediately started to hang out at the shows. “Seeing as the barn floor where we throw the concerts is wooden, I think that she felt the vibrations in her hooves”. Flo added that the goat really enjoyed any settings with lots of people, and would hang out whenever there was a gathering. Biquette was very tame, and followed the Malaysian grindcore band around like a dog. “When it was Wormrot’s turn to play, the goat suddenly went in front of the crowd and watched them play the whole set. It was just chilling around the corner when other bands were playing.” And grindcore wasn’t Biquette’s only vice. She loved tobacco and alcohol, which might have even contributed to her early demise.

Nanobiopsies

using a 50nm pipette to repeatedly sample from a living cell without killing it.

robotic nanobiopsy can extract tiny samples from inside a living cell without killing it. Single-cell nanobiopsy is a powerful tool for scientists working to understand the dynamic processes that occur within living cells

Buttcoin 2.0

Of course this will catch a lot of people off guard. Some combination of DACs, distributed contracts, software, non-BTC asset transfers and higher protocol layers will render more trusted third-party intermediaries of the paleoeconomy (and their handlers) irrelevant. Large portions of the economy invested in centralized stock and bond exchanges, asset and derivatives markets, and even legal provision could become redundant sooner than many know. Should these ventures succeed, the Bitcoin community will face another round of public scrutiny and pressures to justify or amend their existence. Someday, they might be able to just ignore them. The implications are unclear but uncomfortable.

vi Moria

vi: Moria
Like Fangorn, ancient and deep, with hints of the long labor of a great people. There is, supposedly, a monumental city of stone down here somewhere but it’s so dark I can’t see a damn thing. No, wait! A shaft of light illuminates some runes! They read as follows:

^C^C^X^X^X^Xquit
qQ!qdammit[esc]qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;
:xwhat

The goldilocks zone

a 10x larger goldilocks zone in planetary systems will revise everyone’s estimates in the drake equation upwards. “The surfaces of rocky planets and moons that we know of are nothing like Earth. They’re typically cold and barren with no atmosphere or a very thin or even corrosive atmosphere. Going below the surface protects you from a whole host of unpleasant conditions on the surface. So the subsurface habitable zone may turn out to be very important. Earth might even be unusual in having life on the surface.”