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Comment Re:goodbye /. (Score 0) 692

by PygmyShrew on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @09:18AM (#22999270) Attached to: Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who

No!
Come back!
We can change!
Don't go!

Seriously - good luck finding a more balanced set of opinions elsewhere.

Submission + - normal man-with thin sheet of actual brain tissue

Submitted by TasaDasa on Friday July 20, 2007 @06:41AM

TasaDasa writes: WASHINGTON (Reuters ) — A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in his skull, French researchers reported on Thursday. Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue.

Submission + - Man exonerated after throwing computer out window (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Thursday July 19, 2007 @11:58AM

Lucas123 writes: "A German man who woke his neighbors in the middle of the night when he chucked his computer out his window, was arrested but later released after the police sympathized with him over his computer frustration, according to a story in Computerworld. 'Who hasn't felt like doing that?' said a police spokesman."

Comment Technically this is a Gynoid (Score 1) 232

by salimfadhley on Wednesday May 10, 2006 @04:49AM (#15299496) Attached to: Korea Unveils World's Second Android

Android comes from the greek root andro- meaning man. The word "androgynous" comes from the gree words for both Man and Woman and means having both male and female qualities.

Since this machine is female in form, it should not be called an android, but a gynoid. :-)

Journal Journal: The Exciting Hellebore Shew

Journal by salimfadhley on Sunday April 11, 2004 @07:20PM

Please take a moment to enjoy the audio warez on this page: The Exciting Hellebore Shew

Journal Journal: The futuure sucks!

Journal by salimfadhley on Monday May 26, 2003 @02:41PM

When I was fresh out of Uni at the age of Ninteen, I fancied myself as a some kind of futurist - only many painfull years later did it occur to me that my futuristic ideas had already occured to others, and that unless you are gifted with mystical powers, nobody has the ability to predict the future... let alone 'Futurists'... which brings me to today's exhibit:

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