It has been such a long time since i updated my blog. I have been meaning to write about the fantastic flamenco concert I went to two weekends ago - it was marvelous. I am waiting for some of the photos to post.
Meanwhile, an article on PhysicsWeb about how the universe might in fact be finite sized - a cosmic hall of mirrors that trick you into believing the infinite. And the comments from /. about the article.
And finally, a hilarious cat video. Too funny by half!
Here are some interesting articles that I read:
- this article claims that as salaries get higher and higher in Bangalore, outsourcing will move away from India (or at least Bangalore) and to China.
- the other interesting article was mentioned on digg here. It seems in Ukraine there is a scam where they declare babies to be still-born but then they kill healthy new borns to sell their organs. Also it seems they harvest them for stem cell. I didn't realize babies also had stem cells (i thought it was only embryos) but then I read the following comment on the digg page:
"The idea is to pretend that the babies are stillborn so that you can take their body. Then you can harvest stem cells from bone marrow (FTA), and trade their organs. It is supposedly easier than harvesting stem cells from embryos as there are in larger amount in the bones of a full-term babies than in aborted foetuses or in embryos (supposing it's not banned). But IMHO the primary goal is harvesting hard-to-find newborn organs, stem cells being a plus."
It's a scary world we live in.
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Oh and here you can buy some very cool shirts!
For you non-firefly fans out there (why?!!!) anyway here's another reason why i love the show. Forget that it is excellent and funny and has a lovely cast. Forget that. I am now going to go deeper and let us look at the character of the characters on the show. Seems a group organized a Firefly convention in LA, with tickets selling for $60-200 and it was sold out. Three days before the event the dodgy company that was organizing it, cancelled it and ran away with the money. However, the cast still turned up at the place and partied with the people. I mean seriously, how cool and nice would the cast have to be?
I want more fireflyyyyys!!!
Hello, if you want to view some of our photos from our trip to Orlando, click here.
Alvaro has managed to dump the whole lot onto the album without doing any filtering whatsoever, so... be warned about a lot of crappy pictures! :-P
The places we went to were:
(1) NASA Space Center
(2) Epcot Center (one of the Disney parks) which had models of 9-10 different countries and then the Disney store
(3) Universal Studios
(4) Disney Walkway with all the buskers etc
(5) Cirque Du Soleil: La Nouba and then dinner with our friends Maria and Kyriakos.
This is an interesting article I read a couple of days ago which I have been meaning to post up here. Here's a funny pic from the article: (although not sure I should be finding it funny...)
It is interesting how many civil wars had their origin in the drawing of the artificial borders in WW1 and WW2.
Also interesting is Yazdânism, the religion practiced by the Kurds, called the Cult of Angels. I had no idea about them. It is interesting that the sect in Iran also believes in some of the Islamic figures like Imam Ali. They also believe in reincarnation so they are not really moslem. If you get a chance read their religious beliefs in the above article.
