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Whoa; so it's like a printed version of zombo.com?

Because, you know, you can do anything with zombo.com

I disagree! There are only two known uses for flash: Those annoying "whoompa whoompa" pump-em-up intros. and Zombo.com

With out one of the best art sites in all of the internet. This site is for both your eyes, ears and your heart. The ending is perfect.

zsh?
zshell?
z? Z?
I got it! Zombo!

This is ZomboShell! You can do anything at ZomboShell. The infinite is possible at ZomboShell! Yes, This - is - ZomboShell!

In case you don't get it...

Making the impossible possible has already been done with ZomboOS.

http://www.sunncomm.com/index2.html

http://www.zombo.com/

All this talk of .com brings back fond memories of Zombo.

"THIS is Zombocom!" The sad part is they had more content on their website than most of the dotCom era folks.

I suppose if there's one thing CNet is good at, it's heaps of content. Not necessarily that memorable, but it's there in droves.

I agree with you, I also expected the indispensable mood-relieving Zombo.COM.

... at Zombo.com?

Its one more step towards mankind's ultimate dream , bouncy world! Car crash? No problem, you're in bouncy world! Airplane fly into a building? Boing! Ha, Ha, Ha, everybody OK!

It's even funnier if you imagine this being read by the Zombo.com guy.

(I know a guy who sleeps daily listening to that voice.)

...I was rather confused for a moment how a story on zombo.com would make /. front page.

Welcome to... GhandiCon! You can do anything at GhandiCon! The impossible is unknown at GhandiCon!

(with apologies to Zombo)

What's there to be suspicious of?

You forgot to mention Zombo.com

I dunno maybe Flash just sucks? Why don't you ask why so many websites are shoving useless Flash animations down our throats? I end up killing Flash on 99% of websites I visit because it ends up just getting in the way.

Maybe this can help in liking flash a bit more?
The only limit is yourself! (And Opera 7)

Well, it was cute. But that tip off about Zombo.com, (warning: flash) was great. Anything is possible at Zombo.com!

I just heard this, you'll see an article about it very soon (possibly the next one?). Hewlett Packard has signed an agreement and will be working together with zombo-com to deliver the next generation of amazing products: Everything is possible.

Ah!

But, the only limit is yourself!

For, anything is possible... at Zombocom!

http://www.zombo.com (turn sound up)

You can learn how to bypass the Great Firewall at Zombocom, a web site where you can do just about anything.

How do we capture the hearts and confidence of potential customers when we don't have PhD's from MIT?

Just take your concerns to Zombocom, where you can do anything (including capturing customer confidence).

You can do anything at Zombocom, so I would assume that you would be able to do something like this with a secret you were holding.

Say for example that the ads take up the bottom 15% of the screen. Would the solution then be to alter one's television to only show the top 85% of the screen? You could choose between stretching the remaining image to fit the screen, just blacking out the ads, or even replacing the ads with anything you want. (Personally, I could go for a Zombocom banner)

I doubt it would be hard to hack TV card drivers so that they would do this. How difficult and expensive would it be to do this to a normal TV?

http://www.zombo.com/

How's that for a nice flash intro?

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, February 29, 2002
Time Tourism

Pan American World Airways and Time Tourism to Offer the Ultimate Destination: Earth's History

Pan American World Airways and Time Tourism, Ltd., have formed an exclusive new exclusive business agreement where Pan American's MileHigh Club members will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles for travel to the ultimate tourist destination -- Earth's History. Pan American is the world's first airline to offer mileage accrual and redemption for time travel.

In addition to actual time travel, Pan American's MileHigh Club miles can be earned and redeemed for Time Tourism's time stasis experience and time leaps, as well as chrononaut led time-bus launch tours.

"Pan American and Time Tourism have created an incredible opportunity that only can be imagined by most people today," said Pan American Senior Vice President of Marketing John M. Bloodworth. "We are delighted to join with Time Tourism in this historical endeavor."

"We are proud to have Pan American as Time Tourism's official domestic airline," said John W. Booth, President and CEO of Time Tourism. "We look forward to taking their passengers back to the future."

Pan American's MileHigh Club members can earn and redeem miles through participating in any of the following Time Tourism's programs:

Bus Launch Tours: With a chrononaut as host, MileHigh Club members can experience the thrill of a live countdown disappearance at the Quale Time Center in Wyoming.

Time Stasis Experience: Participants can experience a timeless eternity just like the chrononauts at the formerly top secret Doctor Mengele Dental Training Center in Auschwitz, Germany.

24 Hour Time Leap: Expert anesthetists take participants on a leap 1 day into their own future.

Time Travel: Time Tourism will offer MileHigh Club members a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel through time! Participants will be able to climb aboard a sub-temporal timecraft and phase to a velocity of C (186,000 miles per second), experience several minutes of timelessness and see the Earth through history. Upon return to the present, participants earn their chrononaut watches! Despite the doubts of our engineers, management is confident that service will begin sometime tomorrow.

For more information about this unique opportunity, please visit www.panam.com or www.zombo.com. Temporal Tourism, Ltd., the world's leading time tourism company, offers a wide range of temporal experiences, from time stasis experience and 24 hour time leaps, chrononaut training and time travel qualification programs on Earth, to actual voyages through time. Time Tourism has provided clients like Amelia Earheart and Jimmy Hoffa with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly to the Intertemporal Station. With offices in Bermuda, Miami Fl, and San Juan Puerto Rico, Space Adventures is developing a U.S.-based timeport from which passenger sub-temporal space flights will begin operations real soon now. For more information about Time Tourism, visit www.zombo.com or call 202-347-4833.

Pan American World Airways has 64 years of expeience in providing quality air travel since 1927. First American airline to operate a permanent international air service. First airline to develop and use instrument flight techniques. First airline to operate scheduled transpacific passenger and mail service. First airline to operate scheduled transatlantic passenger and mail service. First airline to complete a round-the-world flight. First airline to operate jets with the continental US. First airline to relay inflight messages via satellite. Pan Am is certainly one of the greatest airlines in history.

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Contact information:

Pan American World Airways
John M. Bloodworth
800-359-7262

Time Tourism Ltd.
John W. Booth
202-347-4833

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PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, February 29, 2002
Time Tourism

Pan American World Airways and Time Tourism to Offer the Ultimate Destination: Earth's History

Pan American World Airways and Time Tourism, Ltd., have formed an exclusive new exclusive business agreement where Pan American's MileHigh Club members will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles for travel to the ultimate tourist destination -- Earth's History. Pan American is the world's first airline to offer mileage accrual and redemption for time travel.

In addition to actual time travel, Pan American's MileHigh Club miles can be earned and redeemed for Time Tourism's time stasis experience and time leaps, as well as chrononaut led time-bus launch tours.

"Pan American and Time Tourism have created an incredible opportunity that only can be imagined by most people today," said Pan American Senior Vice President of Marketing John M. Bloodworth. "We are delighted to join with Time Tourism in this historical endeavor."

"We are proud to have Pan American as Time Tourism's official domestic airline," said John W. Booth, President and CEO of Time Tourism. "We look forward to taking their passengers back to the future."

Pan American's MileHigh Club members can earn and redeem miles through participating in any of the following Time Tourism's programs:

Bus Launch Tours: With a chrononaut as host, MileHigh Club members can experience the thrill of a live countdown disappearance at the Quale Time Center in Wyoming.

Time Stasis Experience: Participants can experience a timeless eternity just like the chrononauts at the formerly top secret Doctor Mengele Dental Training Center in Auschwitz, Germany.

24 Hour Time Leap: Expert anesthetists take participants on a leap 1 day into their own future.

Time Travel: Time Tourism will offer MileHigh Club members a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel through time! Participants will be able to climb aboard a sub-temporal timecraft and phase to a velocity of C (186,000 miles per second), experience several minutes of timelessness and see the Earth through history. Upon return to the present, participants earn their chrononaut watches! Despite the doubts of our engineers, management is confident that service will begin sometime tomorrow.

For more information about this unique opportunity, please visit www.panam.com or www.zombo.com. Temporal Tourism, Ltd., the world's leading time tourism company, offers a wide range of temporal experiences, from time stasis experience and 24 hour time leaps, chrononaut training and time travel qualification programs on Earth, to actual voyages through time. Time Tourism has provided clients like Amelia Earheart and Jimmy Hoffa with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly to the Intertemporal Station. With offices in Bermuda, Miami Fl, and San Juan Puerto Rico, Space Adventures is developing a U.S.-based timeport from which passenger sub-temporal space flights will begin operations real soon now. For more information about Time Tourism, visit www.zombo.com or call 202-347-4833.

Pan American World Airways has 64 years of expeience in providing quality air travel since 1927. First American airline to operate a permanent international air service. First airline to develop and use instrument flight techniques. First airline to operate scheduled transpacific passenger and mail service. First airline to operate scheduled transatlantic passenger and mail service. First airline to complete a round-the-world flight. First airline to operate jets with the continental US. First airline to relay inflight messages via satellite. Pan Am is certainly one of the greatest airlines in history.

###

Contact information:

Pan American World Airways
John M. Bloodworth
800-359-7262

Time Tourism Ltd.
John W. Booth
202-347-4833

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Anything I need huh? I already found everything I need right here!

In the meantime, why not spend some time at Zombo.com?

You think THIS looks awesome, you should see how good this looks!

zombocom will still work!

Having once been a (Indian) kid dragged to the principal's office for hacking back in early high school (slithered out of a three day suspension by offering advise on how to beef up their network security to keep the malicous ones out), I can sympathize with the overwhelming weight that comes crashing down on your shoulders when the "heat" decides to grill you under the hot lights. It would be foolish for me to claim that I know what went through this young man's mind, but clearly he must have deemed the fallout from his actions too severe to overcome. Being a bright young man with high post-secondary aspirations, no doubt he perceived the scar of a ten day suspension on his record -- much like a prison record -- as something that might hold him back from getting where he wants to go in life. I think back (was it that long ago?), and don't recall suicide crossing my mind, but I can definitely see where such thoughts might have started.

It's sad. It's painful to hear about, especially within a community of other hacker types. I'm sure this story hits home for more than just me. However, I think it's important to realize that none of us are going to be able to crawl into the mind of this poor soul, and as such we're stuck with passing judgements with a VERY incomplete story. My condolences to the family.

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

Couple that with the hype machine that surrounded Napster... not exactly something they tried to stop... and it's no wonder they managed to get up everyone's noses.

I'm forced to sit back and laugh at the people who come up to me in the hallways distressed about the demise of Napster. "What am I going to do now?" There are alternatives, and always have been... mostly overlooked because everyone was using big bad Napster. Now that they're scrounging for MP3 sources... even the alternatives have their numbered, thanks to the whole Napster song-and-dance.

MP3 trading. DivX movie trading. Piracy. By dancing buck naked in front of the regulatory agenices, it is any wonder we see Slashdot being overrun with stories about the big corporations and their draconian copy protection schemes-to-be?

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

The study I linked to above as "Effect of mobile phone on life-saving and life-sustatning systems" concluded:

"Our results permit the conclusion that the ban on mobile phones in hospitals is based not on actual events, but on theoretical considerations in the absence of any practical information on the actual susceptibility of devices and their reaction to the electromagnetic fields involved."

We would therefore recommend that all life-saving and life-support systems that can also be used outside the hospital should be made mobile phone-proof. When apnoea monitors and respirators are protected from such interference, hazardous situations could be avoided by establishing the rule: "No portables, and mobile phones only at a distance of at least 1 metre from medical devices". With regard to emergency telephones, the minimum distance to medical devices should be at least 1.5 metres."

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

"First Ever Webcam" to Come Offline.
not
First Ever "Webcam To Come Offline."

Besides, I liked the original headline: "First Ever Webcam to Coming Offline." Heh. I think this whole "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" craziness might be having an unanticpated adverse effect on the already languishing grammar of the 'Net.

I, for one, will mourn the loss of the coffee cam, not for lack of other stupid things to look at on the Internet, but for its role as an innovator. Doing something not because it's particularly earth shattering or useful, but just because you can. Geek chic!

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

Something I wrote elsewhere once upon a time:

This year, I've been wearing a pager in hospital, while my digital PCS phone sits either freezing or melting in my car... stashed safely in the parking lot. It's due to the familiar fact that hospitals have those gigantic signs posted everywhere, screaming about how any device that transmits RF might cause a massive explosion or result in patient deaths. We commonly have this explained to us by the fact that "cellular phones and other RF transmitters may interfere with sensitive medical equipment." Aren't these sensitive pieces of equipment RF shielded in any way to prevent this, let alone to prevent the multitude of walkie-talkie conversations and telemetry broadcasts permeating the hospital hallways from upsetting the various electronic doodads? I've even seen docs answer their mobile phones right in front of me, ON HOSPITAL PROPERTY, thumbing their noses at the dictum that "PHONE IN HOSPITAL BAD."

I, procrastinating my own reading, did a quick search online for an answer to this question which has plagued me and my colleauges for some time now. Here are a few highlights from different points of view:

Digital Cellular Phone Interference with Cardiac Pacemakers
Is There an Effect of a Cellular Phone on Pacemaker Function?
Is it time for Cellular Bill of Rights?
Medical Center Goes Wireless
EM interference of external pacemakers... study
Effect of mobile phone on life-saving and life-sustatning systems
Interference to medical equipment form mobile phones.
Initial experience with a wireless PDA as a teleradiology terminal...

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

This might not be the place to discuss the pathology of diabetic retinopathy in detail, but I'll babble enough so you can understand the therapy for it. Changes in the blood vessels which supply the retina in the early stages of this condition lead to inefficient oxygen delivery to the active tissues -- ischemia. As a response, the blood vessels branch, grow, and proliferate to combat this. This is a Bad Thing, because the new vessels can get in the way of the retinal surface, or break causing haemmorhages, retinal detatchment.

The treatment of choice for this is a laser therapy, different from the Lasix/Excimer cornea-modifying modalities, which goes by the super-funky name "pan-retinal laser photocoagulation" (I love saying that) where peripheral parts of the retina are zapped with an argon laser. This reduces the metabolic oxygen requirement for the peripheral retina... such that the more important central structures are spared. Done right, and at the right time, this can reduce the incidence of severe visual loss by 50%, and as much as 90% in some studies.

I don't want to sound offtopic (discussing a different laser therapy), but I'm concerned that someone who is diabetic might fall into this thread and assume that all laser therapies are the same, and thus make judgements about photocoagulation therapy based on the concerns raised about Excimer.

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.

20/20 is "average vision," with average determined the same way you'd define a mean on a normal distribution. Naturally, there will be outliers in both directions. Thus, there are a fair number of people with better-than-average vision, by definition.

It's important to realize as well that most people have their vision checked with a visual acuity scale designed to determine distance vision... one of those pesky things with the gigantic letter "E" at the top. It's an extremely gross measure of visual acuity, meant only as a screening test. Near vision, astigmatisim, visual field defects, isolated visual irregularities, etc. don't show up. The test itself is often woefully inaccurate. So take your numbers as a rough estimate, not something laid down in stone.

--- [DrPsycho] Coping with reality since 1975.