The Sensitive Cynic

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:58:00 +0000

Check out Rio's Tiki Hut with Margaritaville Concoction Maker by KT Holcomb (my sister-in-law) and Rob Sands (her SO).

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:59:00 +0000

Wendy Heller on Handel�s �Messiah' in the New York Times.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:02:00 +0000

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" -- the 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerard, upon which the movie is (very, very loosely) based.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:36:00 +0000

I keep trying to read "Surveying the Brain for Origins of the Senior Moment", but I always get dis-- hey, where did I put my keys?

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:35:00 +0000

From Sarah Palin: lipstick pitbull:

Entering with her family, she has a �throw the snowmobile keys into the fur hat� sled-dogging look to her. The naughty smirk of the killer librarian. There�s a whiff of baby oil and moose blood, a heady pheromone that rouses delegates to waggle their paunches at her.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:36:00 +0000

Wondering where everybody is? How about this scenario: among the countless spacetime continua of the multiverse, the following happens over and over again: some species in some continuum develops the necessary technological prowess to build an LHC, which immediately causes a decay of the false vacuum via bubble nucleation, destroying all life in that continuum. In each universe, somebody has to be first. In this particular one, it's us.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Tired: H5N1 -- Wired: H9N2

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:13:00 +0000

Sperm-based medical nanobots:

If the spermlike motor works, it could someday use the body�s own energy source�glucose�to do such things as run super-tiny medical devices designed to release anticancer drugs or trigger the breakup of potentially deadly clots.

But... but... how are women supposed to refuel?

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:46:00 +0000

A 'Frankenbot' with a biological brain -- it's all fun and games until it starts building another robot and demanding more brain tissue.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:42:00 +0000

With an in-body network of in-body sensors, we're on the road to the Instrument of Obedience:

"The technology, which is being tested now in Portsmouth, could also be used if a patient failed to take his or her medicines. A pill dispenser would send an automatic reminder and, if the pills were not taken within a certain time, an alarm would sound and a message would be sent to the patient�s family or carers."

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:24:00 +0000

Hey look at me, I'm in a video on the web: Motto Mash-up, By Jennifer Fuchel and Matthew Greif, 2007... starring some of my favorite aphorisms!

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:52:00 +0000

Black holes may harbour their own universes:

"but those universes would likely contain their own black holes, which could contain their own universes � in an infinite loop."

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:51:00 +0000

I read this 2 weeks ago and now I can't remember what it said: Toxic Effects of Depression on Brain Function: Impairment of Delayed Recall and the Cumulative Length of Depressive Disorder

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:06:00 +0000

Life imitates art: Nerve-tapping neckband used in 'telepathic' chat -- sure sounds like an uvvy to me.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:47:00 +0000

Electron Caught On Film For The First Time:

�It takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 10^-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe.�

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:22:00 +0000

Video: Camp Nirvana for String Quartets 2007. More info at ChamberMusicMadness.org

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:51:00 +0000

An Atlas of the Universe illustrates scales from 12.5 light years to 14 billion light years -- 9 orders of magnitude!

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Listen to Studio 360: Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius, which describes Tesla's relationships with Edison, Marconi, Mark Twain, Dr. Strangelove and Death Rays. Thanks to Mike Daisey for the link.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:48:00 +0000

Tired: software methodologies. Wired: Crystal Methodology.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:34:00 +0000

Beethoven's "Fur Elise" and "Ode to Joy", transcribed for scanner.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Looking to pick up some extra cash via professional guinea-pigging? Well, here ya go.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:37:00 +0000

Big Pharma Spends [Twice As Much] On Advertising Than Research And Development. Gee, do you think this could be a reason why the FDA approved just 19 novel drugs last year � the lowest number since 1983?

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:54:00 +0000

Have you seen the new Bush coins? In gallon denominations!

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:17:00 +0000

The Geek Guide To Low-Carbs. Words to (try to) live by.

noreply@blogger.com (Craig Lee Burket) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:44:00 +0000

Looks to me like a Death Star (lower left) that can take out a whole galaxy (to the Death Star's upper right), not just one piddling little planet:
Don't let Darth Cheney see this.