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The Red Herring (strangely) has an article about female tetrchromats, that is, women who have 4 different cone photopigments in their retinas, instead of the usual 3 (red, green, blue.) Some quirk of genetics precludes males from having this mutation, but it seems like some women do. When I read the intro I immediately wondered if they see CMYK color space, but I guess it is more like a fourth color somewhere between red and green in addition to the usual RGB trio. Looking around at the color scheme in this apartment I'm beginning to think that MB must be so blessed. I knew there had to be an explanation.
Is this completely off the deep end? I keep hearing in my head that sample Public Enemy uses: "The government you have elected is inoperative." Anybody know where that comes from?
That Transmeta chip is finally starting to show up in some very small portable computers. Lots of pictures in this tech-report article. That Sony VAIO (last one) sure looks sweet.
Wow. CNN and the Environmental News Network are both reporting that a microbe has been recovered from the upper earth atmosphere which could have extraterrestrial origins. From CNN:
"The living bacteria, plucked from an altitude of 10 miles (16 km) or higher by a scientific balloon, could have been deposited in terrestrial airspace by a passing comet, according to the researchers. The microorganisms are unlike any known on Earth, but the astrobiologists 'want to keep the details under wraps until they are absolutely convinced that these are extraterrestrial,' said study participant Chandra Wickramasinghe, a noted scientist at Cardiff University in Wales."I'm trusting genehack on this: "If they're right, it's huge, but I fear that eliminating all the other, more likely explanations is going to take quite a bit of work."
Riothero's familly was part of a usaweekend piece on weblogging families.
On the web development front: Here's an interesting plea for developers to start coding web applications using the DOM. (via tremendo.)
Another great lights at night from space picture from the good folks at NASA (via robotwisdom.)
The BBC has a short piece about recent breakthroughs in direct computer to animal brain connections. Spooky/cool.
Here are some shots from Iceland. Again, I was mostly shooting video, so these are just from two of our stops where we pulled out the still camera. In the right light that thing (Canon S10) can take some pretty good pictures. Especially so in Alex's hands.
O.K. here are a few pictures off the still camera from Amsterdam. I was mostly shooting video, so there aren't too many pictures. Later, if I get some time to go over the video, I'll pull some more stills from that. Nothing too impressive, but you can see where we stayed. Shots from Iceland are on the way.