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Monday, 25 October 2004

Flying Rats, Falling Presidents (link)

Fidel Castro Falls in Public

OK, so this isn't big news, its not quite a peoples revolution or anything, but it made me laugh that the St Petersburg Times thought it was worth reporting... President Fidel Castro fell leaving the stage after a televised speech Wednesday night, hurting his knee and arm but quickly recovering his composure to tell Cubans that "maybe I broke my knee, and maybe an arm ... but I am all in one piece."

Rat Brains Flying Jet Fighters

Check this freeky shit out, all in the name of Science of course .... Somewhere in Florida, 25,000 disembodied rat neurons are thinking about flying an F-22. These neurons are growing on top of a multi-electrode array and form a living 'brain' that's hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. When information on the simulated aircraft's horizontal and vertical movements are fed into the brain by stimulating the electrodes, the neurons fire away in patterns that are then used to control its "body" -- the simulated aircraft.

The ten geekiest hobbies

According to this article at Wave Magazine you can tell a lot about a person from the hobbies they choose. The following ten hobbies are ranked in the article depending on level of pubilc humiliation and/or affect on sex-life, please ensure you disengage from them immediately (unless like me you're hobbies are near the end of the list :-) ...