Self-powered nanowire devices. Nat Nanotech

Harvesting energy from ambient sources --
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2010.46.html

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#dinosaur sighting, parked in the bike lane.

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The next medium, whatever it is-

"The next medium, whatever it is - it may be the extension of consciousness - will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form.  A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip it into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind."

-Marshall McLuhan

1962

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"The user is the content."

- Marshall McLuhan

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"We look at the present through a rearview mirror. We march backwards into the future."

-Marshall McLuhan

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IE8, Safari, Firefox fall in first day of CanSecWest. IE8 busted in 2 minutes.

Browser hacking champeens:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174101/Hacker_busts_IE8_on_Windo
ws_7_in_2_minutes

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Misery loves company, or, depression has its own gravity? Rosenquist et al: Social network determinants of depression

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/mp201013a.html

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