Spermbots! - I swear; there's no way I could make this shit up

Scientists look to sperm to power nanobots

MSNBC, Jan. 2, 2007

A tiny assembly line using ATP, which powers the whip-like tail of sperm, could be harnessed to propel future nanobots or other tiny medical devices inside the human body, Cornell University scientists report.


For their research, the scientists used mouse sperm proteins as templates so the proteins stuck to the surface of a tiny gold chip covered with nickel ions.



If circumstances go awry, this could get messy. It's all fun and games until someone's eye gets...well, you know.

A Society of Authorship: Blissfully Leaping he Divide

Are we taking back control? Did we ever have it to begin with? The latter is a question for another day; let’s stick with the first for now. A bipartisan group of former –well, mostly former- politicians are producing ripples across the surface ofstatus quo’s idyllic setting.

Their immodest goal: To end divisive partisan polarization, create bipartisanship and bring the country together after the 2008 election.

Leading the charge are David Boren, Oklahoma University president and a former U.S. senator, along with former Democratic Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Charles Robb of Virginia and Gary Hart of Colorado, also a former presidential candidate.

Republican sponsors include former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former Sens. Bill Brock of Tennessee and John Danforth of Missouri, and Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.

And yes, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be there, but he's not running for president.


Other formers expected to participate include Bill Cohen, former secretary of defense, and former U.S. Sens. Alan Dixon of Illinois and Bob Graham of Florida. Also, Jim Leach, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa, and Edward Perkins, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
(kathleen parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/4/2008)

Political activism has taken a similar form in Tallahassee, Fl. The Village Square , where a local group is attempting to soften the deafening roar emanating from the of the talking heads who dominate the airwaves, is offering the shocking alternative of respectful discourse.



Meanwhile back in wet NorCal, the City, Earthlink, and Google were unable to establish a wi-fi network to serve the citizenry. Enter a small company with an audacious vision. Meraki is stepping into the void to test its low-cost, community-powered system in this little techcentric village we call home. Since March, Free the Net has been employing a mesh system supported by solar-powered, wireless repeaters installed on rooftops in select neighborhoods throughout the city.

As of this article, up to 15,000 antennae are planned for encompassing the remainder of the city. The resulting non-linear web has great potential. Meraki’s mesh draws a comparison to Google’s use of multiple digital platforms to create expanding, self-modifying, clouds of infobots.

These three examples, covering the national political culture, local discourse, and digital access, serve as prime examples of the ongoing collaborative revolution and its ability to fundamentally change how and for whom our societies function. The web is rapidly transforming in an attempt to attain a semblance of human parallel cognitive structure; both information retrieval clouds and wireless mesh technologies are simple, early adaptations of an evolving cognitive digital matrix.

Each peace(sic) of information accessed empowers us all. Every query for controlled information undermines an oblivious, but deeply entrenched power structure. On the headstone we shall write

And while the they remained blissfully unaware...

their network was compromised.


Can I get an Amen from my brothers and sisters?

Truth Out

Benazir Bhutto - another casualty in ghandi's nightmare

In 1947 the abstractly named country, Dominion of Pakistan, was formed. The name was changed to the more appropriate monikerthe Islamic State of Pakistan by the Muslim League political organization. The league was established as a response to a British administration decision in the largest Indian state, the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), that acceded to Hindu demands and made Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, the official language. This aggravated Muslim fears that the Hindu majority would seek to suppress Muslim culture and religion in an independent India. A British official, Sir Percival Griffiths, wrote of "the Muslim belief that their interest must be regarded as completely separate from those of the Hindus, and that no fusion of the two communities was possible."

On October 16, 1951, the initial Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, had been scheduled to make an important announcement in a public meeting of the Muslim City League at Municipal Park, Rawalpindi. Liaquat was shot twice in the chest during that meeting by a man sitting in the audience only fifteen yards away.

On December 27, 2007 former Prime Minister and current leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party was assassinated in Municipal Park, Rawalpindi. In the interim her father, keeping with family and political tradition, managed to get himself hanged in Rawalpindi in 1979.

While Pakistan has employed the technique of political assassination many times in the years between there has been a significant rise since 1987. Coincidentally, 1986 marked my final visit to Karachi. As you can see by the list below, it was a good time to depart the country.


* Meena Keshwar Kamal, (1987), Afghan founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

* Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq,(1988), 10-year President of Pakistan and 12-year Chief of Army Staff in a sabotage-induced aircraft crash.

* Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, (1989), militant Islamist, near Peshawar

* Fazle Haq, (1991), former governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985

* Iqbal Masih, (1995), 13-year-old anti-child labor activist, in Rakh Baoli

* Siddiq Khan Kanju, (2001), former foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993

* Benazir Bhutto, (2007), former Prime Minister of Pakistan, by unknown assassins

The British Empire's legacy? Destruction, upheaval, and war.