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"nutmeg poisoning, severe toxic symptoms produced by ingestion of powdered nutmeg, characterized by narcosis with periods of delirium and excitability."

Dorland's Medical Dictionary

"Nutmeg is poisonous and should be used in moderation, a pinch or two is safe."

Encyclopedia of Spices

"Nutmeg is safe in very small amounts, but eating 1 to 6 tablespoons at on sitting can make you ill.

"Symptoms: Eating nutmeg causes headache, dizziness, nausea and aching muscles."

Everyday Poisons

"An hallucinogen and toxic."

Toxic Plants and Household Poisons

"888/ Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."

Weird Science Fact File

"C. Nutmeg (Myristica spp.): Old World tropical hallucinogenic flowering plant, the source of nutmeg and mace. Probably pre-historical use. Taken orally or as a narcotic snuff. Extremely variable in effect, usually causes distortion of time and space perception."

Psychoactive Plants

Eh, close enough...

Looks better too.

I hate switching between the mouse/keyboard and browse most of the time with the keyboard only. Keyboard accessibility is very well thought out in Opera and with find links and spatial navigaton (shit+arrows) I can live a mostly mouse-free life and my hands are thankful for it.

Overclocked processor, and case lighting to make it go even faster.

Still could use a video-out. Hmm...

Seriously check these old putnam tests out, they are hard, high school level math is required, 12 problems in 6 hours, 3 hour blocks for US/Canada college students, the median score is often 0, when I took it last year my score was better than that, but man, still embarassing. They are of course easy once you see the solution but creativity and a lot of intuition are required to solve more than a couple in any givin year.

dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) and heptyl (a UDMH [unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine] compound)

Is add lighting

Because shit actually can enhance growth

Overclocked too!

As for respect for one's body... yes, I realize I'm not invincible. That being said, I'd rather live a short and well-enjoyed life (such as eating 24 oz. steaks) than a long and miserable one (such as being a vegetarian).

(-:Stephonovich:-)

From halfbakery-

link

"Baked in a sense by my college, Nebraska. They have orange barrels with robotic bases controlled by a "general" using GPS and such. I talked to the guy in charge of the project a while back, and they have something here that is really getting interest from many roads departments. Check out my link above. r84x, Oct 01 2003"

I just wanted to take credit for that.

I work at the main library for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and we keep track of nothing. Any person can come in and use any computer any time the library is open. In fact we have had a problem with the homeless people coming in during the winter and: smelling bad, scaring people, or whacking it to pr0n.


There is no log in for using the card catalog, in fact anyone can search it at any time: iris.unl.edu

I've never studies economics or sociology, so forgive me if I'm an ignorant fool, but its always seemed to me that as long as we are not experiancing large amounts of disease, drought or other reduction in the availability of natural resources, that economic slowdown is more a result of psycology than anything else.

Apparently what I said about historical examples went over your head. I don't quite know where your source for that "widely recognised" "fact" comes from.

Nope, you just never backed them up. And remember, google is your friend.

Four days without water
Up to 5 days

Please don't waste time opening windows! The only way you'll see a radical pressure change is if you're in the vortex. By that time you should already be grabbing your ankles and making promises to your god.

[This has been a public service message from the heart of Tornado Alley.]

The jack actually looks pretty solid to me. The point about the cost wasn't so much about adding "mere" pennies or whatnot to Apple's cost, but about charging an extra $5 to those who can afford $250+ for a neet-o walkman.

The best part of the article... when he mentions his wife

And yet, Einstein would not accept QM because it offended his concept of God.

As we've said, humans aren't always interested in the correct answer, sometimes their various traits get in the way.

That is not bunk, and many excellent theories exist which describe a Universe in which any number of variables which encompas "truth" can never be known (from Plank to Heisenberg to Hawking to Wolfram, many have cited differing reasons why reality as we know it might not be something that can be fully measured, or if it is, might exist within a mechanism which cannot be measured by us).

But what you're doing right there is twisting the definition of truth. While we may never know the location and velocity of a particle with absolute certainty, it doesn't mean we can't know anything. If you're accepting Heisnberg, there's one truth right off the bat. Maybe it's a confusing one, and not the way you normally look at the world, but if you accept that as true you at least know something.

Which leads here....

That would include QM. I don't get your definition of "bad" here.

No, my definition WOULDN'T include QM. QM is testable. It's confusing, yes, but it's something THAT CAN ACTUALLY BE PROVEN OR DISPROVEN.

One of the marks of a bad theory is that it cannot be proven and/or disproven. And I don't mean just emperically using current tecnology, I meant can't be proven/disproven EVER because the theory is defined in such a way that it is impossible.
For example:
"I have an undetectable Nerf ball that floats above my head everywhere I go."

While that theory may be useful for exploring our own psychology/philosophy, the actual statement being made is junk. There is no Nerf ball above my head. It does not exist, but you can't prove that. The theory is worthless though. By definition, this theory can NEVER have an impact on the world in which we live. Thinking about it might have effects. But there will be no actual consequences from the theory itself, it guarantees that.

While it linguistically has all the elements necessary to be a statement of a theory, conceptually it falls short.

As for Occam's Razor, obviously it can't be applied as the ONLY means for judging a theory.

I know, I'm too late for anyone to actually *read* this. But it must be pointed out that you will *not* need to use flea shampoo on a dead badger. Fleas need a live host. As soon as the host dies, the flea looks for another warm-blooded host.

How the flea is likely to behave when its original host is re-animated, however, might be up for debate.

From Research Nebraska

Methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas. The world's agricultural livestock produce about 17 percent of the methane in the atmosphere. A byproduct of digestion, cattle and other ruminant animals produce methane when organisms in their stomachs called methanogens break down fiber in grasses and grains they eat.

Here are some pictures of the little critters, and here

I think only the submitter would call cicadas "June Bugs". Nowhere in the article were they ever called June Bugs. And here is what I think of when someone says June Bugs.

(That and the Bugs Bunny marathon on Cartoon Network.)

Cicadas are not June Bugs .

FYI,

from this IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation (1998) website,
http://www.ieeeits.org/society/goldjub_tech.htm

All three authors (Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux, and Punya Thitimajshima) got the award for their invention of turbo codes.

The first two are French professors who had already got mentioned in the article, the last one is Thai, at that time a PhD student at Ecole.

The original paper in the conference is this one

Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux, and Punya Thitimajshima, "Near Shannon Limit Error-Correcting Coding and Decoding:Turbo-Codes", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, (Geneva, Switzerland), pp. 1064--1070, May 1993.
http://gladstone.systems.caltech.edu/EE/Courses/EE 127/EE127B/handout/berrou.pdf

for publications in Turbo Code, try this one

TURBO CODE BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://pilgrim.unl.edu/comlab/turbopage/tcb.html

Unreal. It's of a puppy licking a little boy's face. I think they need to replace the picture both the dog and the kid to accurately reflect the kind of business they are in.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, there is the J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Business Administration (I am a current student in this program). The focus of this program is to teach both computer science and business in an integrated curriculum. Although funding came from Ed. McVaney, the founder of J.D. Edwards (now PeopleSoft), there are absolutely no strings. More information can be found at:
http://jdedwards.unl.edu

At the University of Nebraska-Omaha, there is the Peter Kiewit Institute offering the Walter Scott Scholarship. The focus of this program is more technologically oriented and lacking the business aspect. More information can be found at:
http://www.pki.nebraska.edu

I had multiple offers and picked the J.D. Edwards Program hoping to get a firm business background that would help me stand out from other Computer Science majors.

I'm very happy here in Lincoln. It is a good campus and the professors are very knowledgeable in their field. Our current director worked in senior management positions at Engineering Systems International (Paris), NKK Corp. (Tokyo), Hewlett Packard, Convex Computer Corp., and Alliant Computer Systems. He was also a research faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Take these recommendations for what you will. It is well worth your time to at least look into either of these programs. I know that here in Lincoln, if you ask nice, JDE will even put you up for the night (if needed). Just let me know your coming and we'll have a good time with the multiple projection systems in a mad Halo fest (or something).

Mr Luth went on to say "At Marz Intergalactic Shrimp and Martini Bar, 1140 O St Lincoln (happy hour 6-7pm), we definitely do not encourage our patrons to disrobe."

Heh, on this page it's described as a "martini bar with an interesting decorative theme". I'll say.

I posted a BitTorrent for the Duality 640 DivX here.

I used an old PrimeStar dish to catch a falling ceiling. ...or at least most of the wet stuff.

Which Japan has started using as the plastic parts in Walkmans for instance a little info.
Don't know how viable it is, or how much it will catch on, but since they been talked about for a while and are now starting to be used, it could get interesting.

And for those who can't use google ...here's what it looks like

My school's beowulf cluster dropped from 107th to 200th!

It's still awesome though.

Prairiefire:
Specs
Prairiecam

My school's beowulf cluster dropped from 107th to 200th!

It's still awesome though.

Prairiefire:
Specs
Prairiecam

I have found a page on computer-related Repetitive Strain Injuries, and how you can prevent them. Then again, you could always just go here and prevent injury while looking stylish!

Seriously... that can't be good for your hands.

For me, it helps reduce fatigue and tension.
Downside is that tiny motions are trickier,
like it's difficult to hit pixels in Photoshop.

Have you looked at touchpads and rollerballs?
Cheers, Joel

P.S. maybe this page will help you? RSI reviews

i have a applet that creates cartograms and the difference is amazing (go to the 'map' menu item and create a cartogram with 10 or so iterations). previously, one would see each iteration rendering, while 1.4.1 in safari almost instantaneously creates it.

Personally I use apt-get (RPM version) and point my sources.list to here (Don't tell them I just anounced it on /.)

Absolutely - Miller and Urey showed that a few examples of a particular class of biological compound could be formed under very specific conditions.

Other theories point to the catalytic properties of clays (see here) and their role in the polymerisation of nucleotides (the subunits of nuclic acids such as RNA and DNA).

Then there's the formation of phospholipid bilayers to give a cell membrane - though that's not too much of a stretch given the propensity of these molecules to form micelles when mixed with water. Of course you have to have the lipids in the first place.

The point is that in the sequence:

1. Create Life
2. ???
3. Profit

the ??? is actually a whole bunch of things that have to come together in the right way and so it may take a while - about 4.6e9 years so far on this rock we call home. Of course we may be able to speed things up a little but it is still a non-trivial exercise.

Isn't the graphic in the story rather meaning "Danger of Opportunity" for "Crisis"?

No? Racoons do have their share of fleas (I worked trapping them one winter as part of a masters project, and got first-hand evidence of their infestation), and they also have plenty of other diseases & pests. How about rabies, ascarids (a roundworm; which can cause blindness in humans), leptospirosis, canine distemper, and assorted other nasty diseases for humans and animals.

Leave urban wildlife alone - they aren't pets, and shouldn't be encouraged to live near your house, for your own and your pets' good. Just because they're cuter than rats doesn't mean they're less dangerous.

That said, you're right, many nasties can flourish in compost heaps, and the whole thing can be obnoxious to neighbors. But done properly, most compost heaps, even with food, can be almost scentless. And finally, even grass clippings can be a problem, as flies love them as they decompose, something about the scent they give off being similar to the fly's own pheremones.

In short, compost piles are great, but they need to be implemented properly. A good source of information is always your local Extension Service office, which can be found under the county listings in your phone book.

Step 1) Obtain a 55 gal. drum, with a small hole at the top.

Step 2) Provide a large heat source.

Step 3) Place 55 gal. drum on heat source.

Step 4) Pour enough water into the drum so that it just covers the bottom, and creates steam.

Step 5) Allow the water to boil inside the drum. This will cause the vapor pressure inside the drum to change, and the atmospheric pressure inside the drum to drop dramatically.

Step 6) Spray 55 gallon drum with (preferably cold) water...for about 2-3 seconds.

Step 7) *WHAM* ... 55 gal. drum will more or less implode on itself instantaneously, crushed by the weight of the atmosphere. It will look like a truck hit it at 100 MPH. I've seen it before, its insane.

Here, have 60 more ideas:

Becker demos

The RSI page has a lot more info on the subject. Good luck!

In 1978, Lincoln heart surgeon Dr. Deepak M. Gangahar, president of the Nebraska Heart Institute, was the first Nebraska physician to insert a pig valve in a patient. Today, the use of pig valves -- as well as other "biologic" valves constructed from cow heart valves or from human valves taken from cadavers -- is routine.

(-:Stephonovich:-)

On a side note, there was a big push in the 70's to get pinball machines out of pool halls and gambling dens. Before, they were regulated like slot machines (games of chance) and banned in most cities. Here's a link to that.

Human effects on bridges is hardly a surprise. Recall in 1981 when the Kansas City Hyatt's skywalk collapsed, killing 114, because the pedestrians were dancing (and the design was altered to ease construction). You'd think that would have been enough of a wake up call to the millenium designers to consider human motion.

The Hyatt's skywalk collapsed soley because of the change in design. The design change caused the walkway to fail to meet building code. Some civil engineers who studied the disaster were surprised it could support its own weight, much less the weight of the pedestrians.

Quoting from a Kansas City Star article.

The National Bureau of Standards concluded failure was just a matter of time. "The walkways," its probe found, "had only minimal capacity to resist their own weight."

The dancing people were by and large on the floor below the skywalk, participating in a dance contest.

The mistake that caused the Hyatt disaster was not one of failing to consider human motion in the design, but failing to consider the effects of seemingly minor changes in design.

In a paper to be published in the June issue of the Journal of Science Education and Technology, Brooks and Markwell likened the rate of link rot to the type of "extinction equation" commonly used to describe natural processes such as radioactive decay. They wrote that the hyperlinks in their study had an expected "half-life" of 55 months."

Also this, which is just a link from the previous article.

Easy! :)

(web's half-life -game -unreal -counter -gamers)

In a paper to be published in the June issue of the Journal of Science Education and Technology, Brooks and Markwell likened the rate of link rot to the type of "extinction equation" commonly used to describe natural processes such as radioactive decay. They wrote that the hyperlinks in their study had an expected "half-life" of 55 months."

Also this, which is just a link from the previous article.

Easy! :)

(web's half-life -game -unreal -counter -gamers)

. The generators would then convert the energy into harmless microwave beams, which would be aimed at collecting stations on Earth

The only way I see space based power being practicable is with some sort of geo-synchronous elevator (the ones that are connected to the planet by a metal cable in sci-fi).

The /. conspiracy: /. used to joke about "Will code C++ for food". Why is this not funny any more?

It's a bit of a pain, yes? Well, I wrote a script to upgrade all our 7.1 boxes to kde 2.2.2. It's at kde-2.2.2-6 (Though I personally don't use the script anymore, as we've migrated to using apt-get for most software installs/updates these days. -- Rex