Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is reportedly in talks with Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn (of Blur fame) and Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl fa

While perusing the reviews for the Quantum Leap, Season 2 DVDs on Netflix, I discovered every one contained some variation of the following statement: "Most of the period music has been replaced by some horrible generic music! " That's right, the RIAA has been demanding h

Up until recently, the only method for dealing with viral illness (aside from just weathering it) has been vaccination. And essentially, a vaccine is just a sort of advance warning to the body's immune system to let it know what to be ready for in the future. Within your immune system is the potential to identify and filter out trillions of different antigens (foreign substances and proteins), given enough time to identify and bring them to readiness. Even without a vaccine most viral illn

The most immediate treatment for HIV happens to belong in what may be regarded as the simplest and so far only partially effective block on HIV: drugs.

In the interest of this series of HIV entries I feel I should point out a few basic facts. There are essentially seven major ways of harm to living things:

1) Injury
2) Poisoning
3) Genetic illness
4) Prion infections
5) Viral infections
6) Bacterial infections
7) Parasitic infections

Much has been made of the MPAA's legal attack on BitTorrent Trackers. But I doubt they'll ever take action against Bram Cohen per se. Number one, because they know they don't have a legal leg to stand on - they might as well sue the creator of ftp. And of course since BitTorrent is not a network there is no one to sue there. Nevertheles

I've taken an interest in HIV recently, arguably the most formidable infectious disease we've ever seen since the development of modern medicine with germ theory. Our most advanced medical science has so far been completely stumped by this little retrovirus, a failing only exceeded by the cavalier and frequently cynical approach taken by governments and society in dealing with the threat of this illness. Drug therapies have improved greatly over the years but none offer a cure. Vaccine res

My Karma is Excellent. I've metamoderated a handful of times recently. I used to get mod points practically on a weekly basis. So why haven't I seen them in months and months? Did /. forget me? In a possibly related topic, I submitted a story about three months ago ("How Not To Get Into Manga") which to this day is still marked as "pending". UPDATE: Apparently the two are not related; stories can stay pending for YEARS if they think they can be used someday. I'