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Monthly Archives: June 2004

War Psychiatry from the Textbook of Military Medicine [TMM]

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Includes chapters on “Psychiatric Lessons of War”, “Disorders of Frustration and Loneliness”, “Neuropsych Casualties of Nuclear,Biol, and Chem Warfare”, “Psychiatric Principles of Future Warfare”, “A Psychological Model of Combat Stress” and “Disabling and Disfiguring Injuries”.

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Muscle bound overlords…blame myostatin-free mutants

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

From Slashdot:
“It’s not exactly regular Slashdot fare, but the NYTimes has a story about a kid in Berlin (now 4 years old) who was born with naturally massive muscles. It’s not a new condition, but it apparently hasn’t been recorded in humans before. It also looks like the cause is a suppression of the myostatin [...]

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Pocketster

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

“Pocketster is the world’s first wireless personal web server for the PocketPC that advertises itself to other Pocket PCs in the neighbourhood using ad-hoc WiFi networks and Rendezvous.”

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Hitchens Fisks Moore in brutal demolishon of “Unfairenheit 9/11″

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Unfairenheit 9/11 - The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens:
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the [...]

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Rooney gag

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses tops British top 100 albums list…

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Good choice. maybe not the best, but damned good! [Guardian]

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Useful image hosting service

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

“TinyPic, a free image hosting site without the hassles.You can easily host pictures for Ebay, message boards and live journals.”

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Suspended Bed [Mocoloco]

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

A beautiful suspended bed designed by German mathematician and designer Max Longin.

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Testosterone damps pain sensation in males [Nature]

Monday, June 21, 2004

“It will come as no surprise to some… men are less sensitive than women, at least to pain. Researchers have found that the male hormone testosterone masks feelings of discomfort. They believe that such tolerance effects may help men to maintain their stamina in fights, when testosterone levels are high.
“If men are less sensitive to [...]

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Turn your PC into a Mac [Engadget]

Friday, June 18, 2004

An Engadget How-To:
So, you wanna make your ugly Windows XP interface look like Mac OS X, huh? It’s really not all that difficult to do, and with a little luck, you’ll be able to convince all but the most die-hard Mac users that you run an Apple computer. First, here’s a list of the programs [...]

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