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We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.
But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japans top telephone company, says it is developing the technology to perhaps make video games more realistic. A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head -- either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved. I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off. We call this a virtual dance experience although some people have mentioned it's more like a virtual drug experience -- Taro Maeda, senior research scientist at NTT |
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Brand loyalty!!! |
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Masking Bush |
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October 26, 2005 | |
We get letters | |
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This just in: Walid Elias Kai, a Ph.D. in search engine marketing, is, it must be said, an avid fan of our company. Dr. Kai, who is Lebanese, and his Swedish wife Carol live in Kalmar, Sweden, where their son was born on September 12. His name? Oliver Google Kai.
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October 20, 2005 | |
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If you fool others long enough, you'll start to believe it yourself ~ Shehzad Kaye | |
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October 14, 2005 | |
How earthquakes happen | |
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I.57 : Assassination of George W. Bush ? |
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Accord rompu dressant la teste au ciel, Bouche sanglante dans le sang nagera, Au sol la face ointe de laict & miel. ~ Nostradamus I.57 harmony broken lifting its head to sky, Bouche blood-covered will float in the blood, on ground the face anointed with milk and honey |
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October 13, 2005 | |
Video of the South Asia Earthquake | |
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A video of the South Asia Earthquake. A 7.6 magniture earthquake that devastated the northern regions of Pakistan.
Caught on tape on a security camera of a company located in Islamabad. The city is 100 kms from the epicenter. Imagine the magniture in the regions close to the epicenter after you see this and the severity of it in Islamabad. The video is hosted on Google Video. I'm not sure if it's the best option to host videos! If anyone knows of a good video hosting site then do let me know! | |
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Poor thinking hinders relief |
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The road to hell, it is said, is paved with good intentions. That is exactly what the Kashmiri victims of Saturday's earthquake seem to be experiencing after five days.
The massive relief effort coordinated in Pakistan - especially in the private sector - has choked the road network across Kashmir. On the road to Bagh from Murree - the main artery linking the Bagh valley in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to the rest of the country - dozens of ambulances carrying critically wounded people were stuck in what seemed to be interminable traffic jams. The Pakistan army has set up a medical camp in the Bagh town - but it is desperately short on orthopaedic implants and related medical supplies which, say local doctors, have now emerged as the most urgent need. |
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October 12, 2005 | |
Good advice | |
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. | |
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PIA will carry donations free |
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I just checked PIA's website to see if there was any notification, and I found this:
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will carry all relief goods for free from all of its stations around the world. PIA's booking Offices across the Globe (alphabetized by cities) (New York, Chicago, Houston in USA, Toronto in Canada) List of PIA's worldwide Stations by Countries |
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Earthquake Relief Information |
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The following is a list of organizations and groups working to provide aid to people affected by the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that hit the northern part of Pakistan and India on Saturday, 8th October. People are cold, homeless, hungry, injured and/or still trapped under rubble all over northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. Please help.
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S Asia's deadly Himalayan fault |
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Experts have long been warning of the danger of serious earthquakes in South Asia - and say more are likely.
Many have struck along the southern flanks of the Himalayas over past centuries - but not enough to account for all the steady, northward movement of India into Asia. The earthquake in Pakistan is the result of India's long-term, gradual, geological movement north into Asia at a speed of five centimetres a year - a millimetre per week. |
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October 11, 2005 | |
Pakistan's Premier News Agency | |
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Officers and Staff members at Pakistan High Commission in India have decided to donate Rs 200,000/ in the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, set up for the victims of devastating earthquake.
The decision was taken at a meeting held here today at the premises of the Commission. They condoled with the three staff members of the Commission Altaf, Gul Zaman and Iftikhar whose family members were killed as result of this natural catastrophe. Twenty four family members of Altaf from Balakot, 18 family members of Gul Zaman from Bagh (AJK) and five members of Iftikhar’s family in Azad Jammu and Kashmir got perished in the aftermath of massive earthquake on October 8. Pakistan High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmad Khan and other officers expressed heartfelt sympathies with them on the tragic deaths of their family members. They prayed Almighty Allah may rest the departed souls in eternal peace and give fortitude to the bereaved families whose members were killed in the natural disaster. | |
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Some Big Ideas |
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Scientists and researchers are always looking for new ways to fight disease, to make complex tasks easier, to make life better. A sampling of inventions in progress.
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Frustration over aid delivery |
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Frustration is mounting in Pakistan and India over the pace of relief efforts in the earthquake zone with many remote regions still not accessible after Saturday's tremor struck.
The 7.6-magnitude earthquake was felt across northern Pakistan and the disputed region of Kashmir, as well as parts of India and Afghanistan. The death toll has topped 30,000 in Pakistan alone, with another 999 dead in India and one reported death in Afghanistan |
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Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000 |
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The Pakistan earthquake toll has reached 18,000 dead and more than 41,000 injured, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a spokesman for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, said Sunday.
Sultan told CNN the figure was as of 7.am. (10 p.m. ET Saturday). CNN could not independently verify Sultan's figures. He said the magnitude 7.6 quake that struck Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan on Saturday morning had killed 18,020 and injured 41,188 people. |
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October 07, 2005 | |
Teen stabbed father over girl | |
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A jealous youth tried to kill his father by stabbing him in the heart after losing out in a love triangle with a teenage girl.
Sean Graham, 17, and Danielle Johnstone, 17, had a child together, before she took up with the baby's grandfather, Derek Graham, who was twice her age. What am I meant to do ... just sit back and watch?" Graham said to police after he had walked into his father's living room and stabbed him as he sat in a chair. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the blow had not landed where intended and Mr Graham, 35, had escaped with a minor wound to the shoulder. His son, of Wilson Drive, Hawick, pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his father in the early hours of 2 January this year in Mr Graham's home in Crumhaughhill Road, Hawick. The advocate-depute, Paul Kearney, said that Mr Graham had been in a relationship with Danielle Johnstone, also of Hawick. He added: "Ms Johnstone had previously been in a relationship with the accused and, indeed, there was a child of that relationship. It appears that Mr Graham being in a relationship with the accused's ex-girlfriend was the cause of some friction." | |
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RIAA sued by victim |
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A woman who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking.
Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation. She is claiming hurt feelings and "outrage", and deceptive business practices. According to court documents here, Anderson said the record industry has been abusing the law courts and waged a public relations and public threat campaign targeting file sharing. This woman totally rules!!!! |
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Python Bursts After Eating Gator |
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Unfortunately for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida's Everglades National Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to bust a gut—literally.
Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead python last week after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake's gastrointestinal tract. The gruesome discovery suggests that the python's feisty last meal might have been too much for it to handle. |
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Chessboxing |
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The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the no.1 thinking sport and the no.1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors – both mentally and physically.
In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In every round of chess the FIDE rules for a ´Blitz game´ apply, in every boxing round the AIBA rules apply. |
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Cow Milk Beats Breast Milk For Healthy Teeth, Study Says |
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Experts have long hailed breast-feeding as the healthiest feeding method for newborns. However, not all the news is good news.
New research in rats suggests that breast milk causes more cavities in infants and toddlers than cow milk. Sure... Cow milk beats breast milk for health But... Woman tits beats cow tit's for voyeurism |
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October 06, 2005 | |
Video Game Addicts Concern S.Korean Gov't | |
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The habit has even been deadly: In August, a 28-year-old man died after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online computer games. The man, whom police refused to identify by name, was moved to a hospital after he collapsed while gaming and died three hours later.
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October 03, 2005 | |
KISS | |
To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse | |
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