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Case of the haunted scrotum

Posted by JediLlama 233 days ago in WTF (http://www.boingboing.net)
A 45-year-old man was referred for investigation of an undescended right testis by computed tomography (CT). An ultrasound scan showed a normal testis and epididymis on the left side. The right testis was not visualized in the scrotal sac or in the right inguinal region. On CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis, the right testis was not identified but the left side of the scrotum seemed to be occupied by a screaming ghostlike apparition. By chance, the distribution of normal anatomical structures within the left side of the scrotum had combined to produce this image. What of the undescended right testis? None was found. If you were a right testis, would you want to share the scrotum with that?
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Five Things IE9 is (Actually) Doing Right

Posted by JediLlama 116 days ago in Computers & Consoles (http://sixrevisions.com)
Microsoft — the company we all love to hate — is turning over a new leaf. This is true, at least, with its latest iteration of Internet Explorer, the company’s web browser.

At the risk of being completely alienated by my fellow developers, who — like me — have fostered a gut instinct reaction to stand on guard and be ready to attack whenever we hear the words "Microsoft" or "Internet Explorer", I’d like to highlight a handful of things that the company is finally doing right with their browser.

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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

Posted by JediLlama 116 days ago in Internet & Blogs (http://www.wired.com)
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.
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Girl frozen in time may hold key to ageing

Posted by JediLlama 116 days ago in Health & Environment (http://www.timesonline.co.uk)
Brooke Greenberg is old enough to drive a car and next year will be old enough to vote — but at 16lb in weight and just 30in tall, she is still the size of a one-year-old.

Scientists are hoping to gain new insights into the mysteries of ageing by sequencing the genome of a 17-year-old girl who has the body and behaviour of a tiny toddler.

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Sharon Osbourne attacks 'smug' Australians

Posted by JediLlama 119 days ago in Entertainment (http://www.adelaidenow.com.au)
TV celebrity Sharon Osbourne hates singer Dannii Minogue, thinks TV chef Curtis Stone is smug, and has criticised all Australians, The Daily Telegraph reports.
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Church to offer worship services for dogs

Posted by JediLlama 120 days ago in Religion (http://www.adelaidenow.com.au)
A Massachusetts church is scheduled to launch a new monthly worship service - for dogs.

Calvary Episcopal Church will offer later this month its first "Perfect Paws Pet Ministry" aimed at giving area pooches and their owners improved odds at getting canines into heaven.

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British sniper nails two Taliban from world record 8,120 feet

Posted by JediLlama 122 days ago in News (http://www.nypost.com)
A British sniper set a world sharpshooting record by taking out two Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan from more than a mile and a half away -- a distance so great, experts say the terrorists wouldn't have even heard the shots.
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Scientist gets a billion pages on one chip

Posted by JediLlama 122 days ago in Science & Technology (http://www.thinq.co.uk)
Dr Jay Narayan has developed a silicon storage chip that stores data in magnetic nanodots, or quantum dots; tiny structures that can measure just 6nm in diameter. Each nanoscale dot stores a single bit of data, but you can squeeze so many dots onto a small area of silicon that the university says that a single chip can “store an unprecedented amount of data.”
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IE9 HTML5 Video Will Be H264 Only

Posted by JediLlama 123 days ago in Internet & Blogs (http://www.osnews.com)
I am almost flabbergasted by the spin and blunt-face upon which this news is delivered. We were just discussing the pot calling the kettle black with Apple / Adobe and now Microsoft have also come out in favour of a closed video format for an open web--IE9's HTML5 video support will allow H264 only.
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NASA: James Cameron to develop 3D camera for Mars rover

Posted by JediLlama 123 days ago in Science & Technology (http://www.computerworld.com)
NASA announced this month that Cameron is working with Malin Space Science Systems Inc. of San Diego to build an updated camera that, if completed in time, will be installed on the Mars Science Laboratory rover, which has been dubbed Curiosity. The rover's cameras will be the machine's "science-imaging workhorse," according to the space agency.
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Movie Talk: Some 'Avatar' Fans Struggle With Blu-Ray

Posted by JediLlama 123 days ago in Entertainment (http://movies.yahoo.com)
An unusual glitch has angered some "Avatar" Blu-ray owners. For these unlucky people, since the disc won't play on their Blu-ray players, their new "Avatar" Blu-ray serves no real purpose other than to sit idly on the coffee table.
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