] Scientists have found for the first time a way to rev up a potent
] "anti-aging" enzyme in living cells, an advance they said could
] speed the development of drugs to extend human life span and
] prevent a wide range of geriatric diseases.

hmmm, it says they help cells survive damage, but would that avoid the increase in cancer rates that other anti-aging tricks have?...can anyone help me out on that one?...

oh, also anyone with a subscription to nature care to comment on the article this is about?...

Enzymes Found to Delay Aging Process

] In 2000, the Business Software Alliance conducted a
] raid and subsequent audit at the San Luis Obispo,
] Calif.-based company that turned up a few dozen
] unlicensed copies of programs. Ball settled for $65,000,
] plus $35,000 in legal fees. But by then, the BSA, a trade
] group that helps enforce copyrights and licensing
] provisions for major business software makers, had put
] the company on the evening news and featured it in
] regional ads warning other businesses to monitor their
] software licenses.
]
] Humiliated by the experience, Ball told his IT
] department he wanted Microsoft products out of his
] business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we
] have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who
] recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't
] do business with someone who treats us poorly.

An entertaining interview with a medium sized business owner who runs linux exclusively.

Ernie Ball Rockin' on without Microsoft

]Instead of quibbling over whether nanotech is antihuman, we need to
]be asking how we can use it to benefit the greatest number of
]people.

An analysis of (well, more accurately, a preemptive strike against) the coming wave of anti-nanotech sentiment. Nanotechnologists vs Luddites! Round 1! FIGHT!

[I love Annalee Newitz....her writing is awesome - Nano]

AlterNet: TECHSPLOITATION: Nanophobia

] We started wearing clothes about 70,000 years ago - at least
] according to our lice genes.

] At that time the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) evolved
] from the head louse (P. humanus capitis), say Mark Stoneking and
] his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
] Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The split should correspond to
] the time when the body louse's habitat - clothes - became
] widespread.

Lice genes date first human clothes

] we collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. anything goes...

crazyness, just stuff they find on the street, check it out, some really funny stuff...

Found Magazine

for free, a good companion to the books (being that the books are based on these lectures)...

the Fynman lectures on physics on mp3

nice to see these all in one place, lots of archives...

why take your own pictures at defcon, drink, and let other suckers take the pictures...

Repository for Defcon pictures and links to others sites...

its got the "woo woo!"

Bubb Rubb

] Scientists in China have, for the first time, used
] cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain
] a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a
] report in a scientific journal that has reignited the
] smoldering ethics debate over cloning research.

Even though they claim most of the rabbit DNA was removed prior to the fusing, how valid of a test cell would these actually be? Without having 100% of the qualities of a normal cell how could we actually use these and get reliable results?

Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo (washingtonpost.com)

Just caught this one in my inbox.. Psyiode has started up a site to keep track of the Blackboard case.

Its important to note that Psyiode has no connection to Acidus, Virgil, or any of the Interz0ne con staff. Blackboard may decide to come after him too.

I like the domain. :)

www.fuckblackboard.com