Daily Archive for April 22nd, 2007

what-a-fucking-lunatic

MSNBC Video

Enough said.

this is in Russian but looks at the photos:
http://www.warnet.ws/news/14229/comments/

Crazy fuck! What a crazy fucking lunatic!!!

Bye

not made in China

I like the title of Lake County’s News-Sun article titled “Not Made in China“. Caught my eye, you know.

China’s manufacturing capability is increasing rapidly, and they are investing heavily into science. In our lab, for example, we have a very talented Chinese student. China is importing tools from US to develop and make new products to sell right back to US.

I think I need to invest some time and energy into learning Chinese… Am I too lazy, perhaps? Am I? Yeah, shit, I think so very much :) However, the new generation should consider that. I think I will encourage my children (if I ever have any) to learn this class of languages. All the Asian countries are on a rise and moving faster than I can think… A great well-oiled machine they are. Russia, too, I need to keep a close eye on, but them I understand. Asians I have little experience with thus am not too keen on. I think we’re not too terribly far off from seeing those countries rise. Rise high. Perhaps higher than US. No surprise there, either.

Anyway, I liked that article and wanted to share it with you, my humble 1,543 daily visitors who do not seem to like to comment… :)Â Common, what do YOU think?

Antibiotic Stress, Genetic Response and Altered Permeability of E. coli

A very interesting article was published in the online-free-access of PLoS (Public Library of Science).

Read it here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000365

It’s a big one, so let me sum it up for you. E. Coli apparently were tested and multi-drug-resistance was confirmed through the organism developing an exclusion technique — these bacterium learn to exclude drugs, or push them out of the cell, prior to the drug finding its target. The scary take-home from this is that, again, antibiotics are not the answer. At least, they’re not the only answer.

One should consider investing into science of cellular mechanics and development. By one here I mean you, me, and the president. It is important to understand what’s going on biochemically AND it is important to investigate other techniques of inactivating these cells. Yes, I keep things like electric plasma and the like in the back of my head when reading these articles.

You know, I was at a nail salon a little while ago [yes, I do get my nails done every once-in-a-while] . They had this “towel disinfection” box. It’s a UV lamp, building up concentration of reactive oxygen species and over long periods of time actually having bactericidal effect. However, all the articles I read on this called for over 600 seconds, or 10 minutes, of DIRECT exposure of bacteria to the UV light source. Here the bacteria are on a towel, in a stack of towels, crammed into a small box with a weak UV lamp… Hmm… you’re gonna get far with that, I’m sure. What’s best is that, of course, the towels were placed in the box and removed from it every 2-3 minutes or so. For sure, no sterilization there… only enough UV to perhaps slice-up a few DNA links, increasing the probability of bacteria to mutate… YAY! Go get your nails done and get exposed to deadly mutated bacteria :)

Where was I? Oh, yeah, read that article, and perhaps a small reference to it published on Medical News Today website.

So, when do you think are we all going to die from some super-bug resistant to everything? Or you think science will come up with a magic cure-it-all?

don’t be evil, be creative

So, once again Google has been beaten to a good idea. What’s best is they just snatched it but could not even make that good.

Overtime, I am beginning to be a little disappointed in Google and its strategies. Anyway, read this article on google’s use (or failure to) of stumbleupon-like technology. Also some links youmight want to visit are the GigaOM post about this and Google’s own explanation about this.

By the way, I’ve installed this dice thing. And, alas, uninstalled it already - worthless compared with StumbleUpon.