There’s been a great deal of talk in Nanotechnology about building super-tiny motors to power assorted cell-sized machines, but a group of scientists now argue that it might make more sense to use motors that already exist, perfectly functional, inside living cells. Instead of trying to build a car, build a cart: BBC: Cells made to haul tiny cargoes.
Their delightful name for this innovation: Microoxen!
[ via Steve Jackson Games’ Daily Illuminator]
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Klingon Fairy Tales
“Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears” and other Klingon Fairy Tales [ via Doug Campbell ].
From Warren Ellis‘ Bad Signal mailings:
In my medicated fever last night,
I decided to write a graphic novel
called CNUT. Which is, of course,
pronounced “Canute.” But still.
CNUT. In big black letters.
Via Bruce Sterling, an evil optical illusion (below the cut). Also, while googling for a reference, I found this.
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Wasn’t me, was my twin.
From a rambling article by Eli Eshed on the sorry state of the Israeli Authors’ Association, I learned the delightful tidbit that the outgoing chairman Hertzel Hakak was replaced by his identical twin Balfour Hakak.
No, that’s not a joke. Apparently, people are still mixing them up, and accusing them of making a change in leadership that isn’t really a change. I found it hilarious.