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Monthly Archives February 2007

Space shuttle TLC

Saw this story on medicexchange today on a new device to spot cracks in Space Shuttle tiles, amongst other great uses. Reminded me of my suggestion to a colleague back in 1989 when working in Atlanta that the only fluid NASA could use to clean tiles safely was human saliva. That’s wht they kept a [...]

Posted 20 February 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Saatchi Student Art (Stuart)

Made me laugh when on checking our the Saatchi site which I worked on last year, they’ve got a newish student art section called Stuart (yes, stu-art). Shame I never got to meet Charles Saatchi but there you go. The ‘Stuart’ site, like myspace, has a chat icon which lights up when artists are online [...]

Posted 19 February 2007 † Stuart § Art § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Number 23

I caught sight of the fact there’s a new film out called The Number 23 and was laughing to myself thinking yeah like 23’s really a significant number, not. Though I like the film’s tagline:
The truth will find you. First it takes hold of your mind…then it takes hold of your life.

Posted 18 February 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Caroline and Kaka video

Video celebrating Caroline and Kaka’s love..

Posted 17 February 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Lost Room

Enjoyed the first TV episode of the Lost Room on Monday night. Very me I thought, alternative dimensions and ordinary objects. Then tonight I saw Wayne’s World 2 and got the neat coincidence, the character in the Lost Room who puts in a false eye is the same actor (Kevin Pollak) behind the counter in [...]

Posted 16 February 2007 † Stuart § Brain teasers § Coincidences § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Call for ‘neuroethics’ as brain science races ahead

Caught this very interesting piece in Medicexchange.com:
“Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain’s secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers.
“The news that brain scanners can now read a person’s intentions before they are expressed or acted [...]

Posted 15 February 2007 † Stuart § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Low-pitch treatment alleviates ringing sound of tinnitus

Fan-Gang Zeng and colleagues have identified an effective way to treat the symptoms of tinnitus, a form of hearing damage typically marked by high-pitched ringing that torments more than 60 million Americans. A low-pitched sound, the researchers discovered, applied by a simple MP3 player suppressed and provided temporary relief from the high-pitch ringing tone associated with the disorder..

Posted 15 February 2007 † Stuart § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Dreamgirls

Didn’t make it to Nick’s birthday but made it to Dreamgirls. Liked the film’s joke at Martin Luther King, ‘an amateur on the front of a record sleeve’. Plus, recalled that Eddie Murphy had once pissed off James Brown by satirising him, now in the role akin to Brown (extract from wikipedia):
“One of Eddie Murphy’s [...]

Posted 13 February 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § History-Martin Luther King § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Leaving Zakopane

Last day at Zakopane, visited a mini-ski jump competition and then hit the road:

Posted 13 February 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Work will set you free

The gates of Auchwitz, with Shirley:

Posted 13 February 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °