H3R3 I AM TEH PWNZOR!!!

I had no idea that 1337 existed until today, at least not in such an advanced form (that is, a form collectively recognized and known by a common name). Shows how not a twenty-nothing game-head I am. But it completely makes sense that the fastest innovations in English structure and grammar would occur in the newest communication medium. The world is an endlessly facinating place if you keep your eyes open and your head up.

Internet-Brain Connectivity Developments Continue Apace

It's good to see that my dream of being permanently brain-wired to the internet is coming ever closer to being a reality. Apparently it's just a matter of time until we'll have minute control over computers with mere thoughts. From there the only thing left is some method of allowing our brains to read data from silicon implants, and then, victory!*

H/T Protein Wisdom

*Over what, who's to say. But I try not to let logic or sense interfere with fun-sounding hyperbole and rhetoric. GO BUSHCO!

Laboratory Meat

For some reason I found this article both informative and hilarious. Particularly the part about stretching and contracting the growing meat culture to give it life-like tone. Bon apetit.

(H/T Instapundit)

PS My bet - that when they finally get this process cost effective and they finally convince people that it's cool to eat meat that was grown on a cookie sheet in a lab, some sick bastard will market a version called "Soylent Green" or similar that will be very popular among disaffected youths looking for new ways to freak out their elders. You read it here first.

Exactly Right

I've been saying this for years:

Dr James Chin was head of a WHO Global Programme on Aids unit from 1987-1992.

In a new book, he says people in the general population outside Africa are unlikely to contract HIV/Aids, as it is restricted to certain high-risk groups.

Campaigners have promoted a message of safer sex which involves the use of condoms for protection.

UK experts said Dr Chin's views were inaccurate, and misrepresented current thinking among HIV/Aids bodies.

Dr Chin says HIV prevalence is low in most populations throughout the world and can be expected to remain low.

He believes this is not because of effective HIV prevention work, but because infection rates are limited by the numbers in groups whose behaviour puts them at high risk.

Read the whole thing.

H/T J. F. Beck