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January 14th, 2008

January 14th, 2008
09:38 am

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Choose your poison
Remember Planarity? The online solitaire of untangling a web of lines connected to dots?

Behold Untangle, which is prettier and automatically registers completing a round instead of making you hit a checkmark. On the other hand, Untangle doesn't display your time.

Untangle link thanks to GeekPress.

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10:08 am

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A little reductionism might be good for the heart
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080113/full/news.2008.435.html

Scientists have washed the cells out of a rat heart, then reseeded the remaining connective tissue structure with heart cells from newborn rats. The resulting composite heart beats--only at 2% capacity, but that's still quite promising.

It's a long way from there to anything useful to humans, but this is a nice combination of Shiny! and Macabre!

News story thanks to the BBC.

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10:40 am

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Color poll
Untangle reminded me of how much I like rich dark blue, so....

Poll #1121045 Your favorite color(s)
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

How important is color to you?

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Very important
12 (35.3%)

Somewhat important
12 (35.3%)

Occasionally important
6 (17.6%)

It's there
4 (11.8%)

An irrelevent surface characteristic
0 (0.0%)

Favorite color(s)

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Red
8 (22.9%)

Orange
5 (14.3%)

Yellow
4 (11.4%)

Green
16 (45.7%)

Sky blue
14 (40.0%)

Twilight blue
19 (54.3%)

Purple
18 (51.4%)

Brown
6 (17.1%)

Black
10 (28.6%)

White
2 (5.7%)

Dayglo
0 (0.0%)

Bright
4 (11.4%)

Other (specify in comments)
6 (17.1%)

Something to click
5 (14.3%)

Does your favorite color have anything to do with what you look good in?

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Yes
12 (36.4%)

No
12 (36.4%)

What is this "color you look good in" of which you speak?
9 (27.3%)

If you could modify your color vision, what would you like?

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Add range in the infrared
9 (26.5%)

Add range in the ultraviolet
8 (23.5%)

More sorts of color receptors
11 (32.4%)

Polarized color
4 (11.8%)

Try it all, so long as it's easily reversable
22 (64.7%)

Clicky!
9 (26.5%)



A little something about animal, insect, and cephalopod eyes.

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11:48 am

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Snail Intelligence
http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=609

Link from The Agitator.

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