Get cataract surgery, and you'll be able to see UV light. Apparently, it's been noticed that people who've had their corneas removed can read by a black light. I'm not sure what the practicle applications of this would be, but I suppose you could read War and Peace at a rave.
Red/Green colorblindness is the genetic one (I should know, as a colorblind individual), and blue/yellow is caused by a disease of some sort. This tetrachromacy is very interesting and all, but I have a hard enough time understanding how normal people see, and swear up and down that my grey shirt is really lime green, or that there was a stop sign behind those branches back there, that I'll never really get this.
Color vision always seemed overrated anyway. I just wear lots of blacks, whites, and blues and have someone come with me when I buy clothes so I don't make any tragic fashion decisions. It can be funny, though, when I go clothes shopping with one of my four colorblind friends (aka, the ColorBlind Posse!)...
Hells yeah, this is stuff that matters! This has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on/. in a really long time.
Seriously, though, all this Playstation hype makes me glad that I'm perfectly content to play Adventure and any number of Atari 2600 games. How many PS2 games will people still be playing 20 years from now, I wonder...?
Well, I'm not quite sure if these really *qualify* as life, but I believe that prions (little things even smaller than viruses) have no nucleic acid in them at all, but are merely protien chains. Not impressive, sure, but they exist, and some cause such nasty diseases as scrapie (in sheep), mad cow disease (in cows), and Creutzfeld-Jakob Syndrome (in people).
Also, prions can survive temperatures up to 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, so cooking your meat extra rare isn't going to help.:-/ Almost makes me want to give the stuff up... nah.
Has anybody told AOL about the rash of web/internet appliance companies crashing and burning as of late? Seems like it would behoove them to consider this.
Hardware Wars is a Star Wars parody, and it's been available on video and shown occasionally in theaters for over twenty years. They even had a "Hardware Wars: Special Edition" a few years ago. Funny stuff.
... accuse presidential candidates of all being exactly the same (and usually unfairly, I think), but this time, everybody has nearly identical answers! What gives?
On the whole, though, the answers seem reasonable enough. The next step, though, will be to see who actually holds to it.
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Get cataract surgery, and you'll be able to see UV light. Apparently, it's been noticed that people who've had their corneas removed can read by a black light. I'm not sure what the practicle applications of this would be, but I suppose you could read War and Peace at a rave.
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Check here . I didn't do very well at all...
P.S. I swear it isn't a traumatizing link.
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Red/Green colorblindness is the genetic one (I should know, as a colorblind individual), and blue/yellow is caused by a disease of some sort. This tetrachromacy is very interesting and all, but I have a hard enough time understanding how normal people see, and swear up and down that my grey shirt is really lime green, or that there was a stop sign behind those branches back there, that I'll never really get this.
Color vision always seemed overrated anyway. I just wear lots of blacks, whites, and blues and have someone come with me when I buy clothes so I don't make any tragic fashion decisions. It can be funny, though, when I go clothes shopping with one of my four colorblind friends (aka, the ColorBlind Posse!)...
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Hells yeah, this is stuff that matters! This has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on /. in a really long time.
Seriously, though, all this Playstation hype makes me glad that I'm perfectly content to play Adventure and any number of Atari 2600 games. How many PS2 games will people still be playing 20 years from now, I wonder...?
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Well, I'm not quite sure if these really *qualify* as life, but I believe that prions (little things even smaller than viruses) have no nucleic acid in them at all, but are merely protien chains. Not impressive, sure, but they exist, and some cause such nasty diseases as scrapie (in sheep), mad cow disease (in cows), and Creutzfeld-Jakob Syndrome (in people). :-/ Almost makes me want to give the stuff up... nah.
Also, prions can survive temperatures up to 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, so cooking your meat extra rare isn't going to help.
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"I never forget a protocol, Mr... FTP."
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This is what happend because the computer users of the world walked away from UUCP. :-/
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This just proves that the events in "They Saved Hitler's Brain" are just that much closer to reality...
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On second thought, let's not go to Slashdot. It is a silly place.
Some call me... timothy.
OK, I'll stop now.
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Has anybody told AOL about the rash of web/internet appliance companies crashing and burning as of late? Seems like it would behoove them to consider this.
I'll be listening to a college station or something, try to order a phone, and voila!
Station not available.
Of course, when I do listen to the radio, all I really listen to is talk radio, and I haven't heard about a Tom Leykis CD coming out anytime soon.
Hardware Wars is a Star Wars parody, and it's been available on video and shown occasionally in theaters for over twenty years. They even had a "Hardware Wars: Special Edition" a few years ago. Funny stuff.
... accuse presidential candidates of all being exactly the same (and usually unfairly, I think), but this time, everybody has nearly identical answers! What gives?
On the whole, though, the answers seem reasonable enough. The next step, though, will be to see who actually holds to it.