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"The reason why the world wide web was created is to keep track of subatomic particles.  That's why it was built."


- Dr. Michio Kaku

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

- The Beatles

"Telling someone they can't where socks with sandals is like giving someone a spoon and telling them they can't eat rice with it."

"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?"

- Billy Joe Armstrong

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

- Washington Irving

"You don't need something more to get something more."

- Murray Gell-Mann, world renown Nobel Prize winning physicist

"I think there is so much more in existence besides matter, energy, and time. Nineteenth-century physics had those in an orderly arrangement, but it is too weird to be just that.

If you think about yourself as something going through time, how thick are you? You've got to have a certain finite "thickness" in time, or you wouldn't exist. So you might be a fraction of a second, or a second wide, or five, sliding through time.

It might be that certain parts of you are weeks, months, or years wide. Or maybe some part of you is 'now' all the time--from your birth (or maybe even before birth) to your death. Some part of you is in the future at any moment, and some part of you is in the past, because you couldn't possibly be just in this infinitesimally thin thing we call 'now'--because there wouldn't be room for you in there!"

- Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

First cars that run on water, then temperature sensitive color morphing materials, now fuel-free energy generation using just magnets. A wonderful bunch those Aussies are.

"Never give a sword to a man that can't dance."

- Confucius

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"It is only the dead who have seen the end of war."

- Plato

"States have been storing blood samples from newborns since blood screening for genetic defects and diseases began in the 1960s. The samples can help detect and treat a wide range of diseases, but in the age of the genome, the issue of storing samples has taken on unprecedented importance. Blood samples contain DNA that can be unambiguously linked to individuals, which may in the future present tempting data to governments, businesses and health providers."

This is a clip from a recent article on Wired.com. It makes you wonder why a government would pass legislation to archive medical histories of it's citizens. It certainly can't be due to the implementation of a national health care system. We spend so much money killing people that we're too broke to provide medical aid to our communities. I guess that's what they call Karma.

"We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Chuang Tzu, in the third century B.C., put it in an amusing way; having dreamed that he was a butterfly flitting from flower to flower, he stated that he was now wondering whether he was then a man dreaming he was a butterfly or whether he was now a butterfly dreaming he was a man. "

- Wei Wu Wei, Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon

One thing comes into mind when reading this article: if a two year old gets a hold of one of these, they just might stop asking their parents, "...and what's that!?"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/evolution_robotics/

Just think of it as a hand-held price scanner, interactive encyclopedia, and once the world's police get their hands on one: portable facial recognition.

Isn't technology wonderful?

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

- Einstein