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From Geeknotes: Daize Shayne has a glamour spread in the french magazine freesport, along with Heidi Klum and Giselle Bunchen. It's the May 5th edition, no. 92. 
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From Sundown Lounge No. 39 The Net: A Political Free-For_All Associated Press 09:45 AM Mar, 27, 2006
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From Impact Lab: Paper Batteries For applications that need only small amounts of power, here's a new idea - flexible paper batteries. These batteries use a paper layer containing the electrolyte as the separator between the anode and the cathode. They are easy and cheap to manufacture because they are produced using printing machines and environmentally friendly because of easy disposal. And as they're thin and flexible, they can be tailored for a large variety of applications, including cosmetics, smart cards, sensors, greeting cards or semi-active RFIDs [And better bugs for the NSA...Ed] 
From Impact Lab: Body Implants as Fashion Tatoos, body piercing, and even branding are so yesterday. The next wave to shock parents will be body implants. Caution, these are not for people with weak stomachs. For those of you who want to stand out in a crowd, the bar has just been raised even further. There is something very painful and very disturbing about these photos. From Geeknotes: THE TIME INSIDE, an exhibition of video and photography by Luca Curci & Fabiana Roscioli Opening: April 6 2006, 7 p.m. Dates: April 4 - 29, 2006 Location: Galerie Mamia Bretesché - 48, rue Chapon - Paris contact. lucacurci@lucacurci.com 
From Sundown Lounge No. 38 I looked up "Regeneration" in a search engine, and up popped the University of Michigan, whose scientists have received a $3-million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new interdisciplinary program to train tomorrow's leaders in regenerative science. Next, this article from Science: What Controls Organ Regeneration? R. John Davenport Unlike automobiles, humans get along pretty well for most of their lives with their original parts. But organs do sometimes fail, and we can't go to the mechanic for an engine rebuild or a new water pump--at least not yet. Medicine has battled back many of the acute threats, such as infection, that curtailed human life in past centuries. Now, chronic illnesses and deteriorating organs pose the biggest drain on human health in industrialized nations, and they will only increase in importance as the population ages. Regenerative medicine--rebuilding organs and tissues--could conceivably be the 21st century equivalent of antibiotics in the 20th. Before that can happen, researchers must understand the signals that control regeneration. Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra--tubelike creatures with tentacles that live in fresh water--could grow back into complete, new organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later, Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies. Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models--such as zebrafish and special mouse lines--are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it. Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their training--a process known as dedifferentiation--and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource when reconstructing themselves. Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state (see p. 85). And stem cells help replenish our blood, skin, and bones. So why do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish? Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds methodically and produce pristine tissue. Avoiding fibrotic tissue could mean the difference between regenerating and not: Mouse nerves grow vigorously if experimentally severed in a way that prevents scarring, but if a scar forms, nerves wither. Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle: Researchers have identified one strain of mice that seals up ear holes in weeks, whereas typical strains never do. A relatively modest number of genetic differences seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too. But if scientists succeed in initiating the process in humans, new questions will emerge. What keeps regenerating cells from running amok? And what ensures that regenerated parts are the right size and shape, and in the right place and orientation? If researchers can solve these riddles--and it's a big "if"--people might be able to order up replacement parts for themselves, not just their '67 Mustangs. New Crop - Wild Triga Wild Triga is a perennial relative of wheat, and unlike wheat and other grains such as corn, rice, oats, barley and amaranth, triga does not have to be replanted each year. Instead this perennial plant provides cropland with a permanent cover while producing a new crop of grain every year. This protective blanket of vegetation not only protects the soil from erosion, it also provides habitat for wildlife and builds soil structure, increases organic matter, water infiltration and biological activity in the soil. I have an introduction from the Rodale Institute, and a wild triga factsheet from Purdue University's Center for New Crops & Plant Products... For urban green thumb folks, here's a webpage on Mini-farming and Mini-ranching... Finally, "The Longevity Meme"... Research undertaken in 2004 and 2005 suggests that adult stem cells - which become less effective at their job of repair and healing with age - could be rejuvenated, restored to action with the right biochemical cues. This exciting research offers additional opportunities for the use of stem cell research to extend healthy life span and the normal capabilities of a healthy adult. From Sundown Lounge No. 37 
From Scientific American: Nanofibers in Neurosurgery Brain injuries afflict more than five million Americans, ranging from head trauma to stroke. Currently, there is no way to restore lost function or recapture what can be a profound shift in ability and even personality. But new research suggests that nanofibers can help induce neurons to reconnect and restore vision in the process, at least in hamsters. A team of neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and their colleagues at Hong Kong University purposefully wounded 53 newly born hamster pups. They cut a relatively deep gash--1.5 millimeters deep and two millimeters wide--through the optic tract in the brains of the young rodents. The wounds of 10 of the pups were then treated with 10 microliters of a solution composed of 99 percent water and 1 percent of a special ionic peptide. These short amino acids are capable of creating a molecular scaffold that can bridge such gaps... 
Bacteria are everywhere, silently going about their business of breaking down cellulose, fermenting foods or fixing nitrogen in the soil, among a host of other activities. Given their ubiquity and diversity of functions, biotechnologists have been searching for new uses for different strains of the microscopic organisms, such as consuming oil spills or even capturing images. Now biologists at the University College Dublin in Ireland have found that a strain of Pseudomonas putida can exist quite happily on a diet of pure styrene oil--the oil remnant of superheated Styrofoam--and, in the process, turn the environmental problem into a useful, biodegradable plastic. From Wired.com: The Hunch Engine It's the paradox of human-computer interaction. Computers can process huge numbers quickly and without bias, but programming them to detect faces, trees and puppies is incredibly difficult. Determining beautiful, pristine or cute is impossible. People, on the other hand, are adept at recognizing patterns. Even newborn humans show a tendency to prefer human faces, demonstrating that the pattern-recognition part of us is deep and innate. Now researchers are readying a new suite of tools that marry those two complementary skills, using software to enhance and refine human intuition. "The computers do the computer stuff, and the humans do the human stuff," says Eric Bonabeau, founder of Icosystem. Bonabeau, a former researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, calls his innovation "the hunch engine." Presented to a general audience for the first time at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference here, the engine is a technological implementation of the "obscenity principle" -- a user of the hunch engine may not know what they are looking for, but they will "know it when they see it," the test Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously offered as a metric to define obscenity. When the user starts the hunch engine he is presented with a seed -- a starting point -- and a set of mutations. The user selects mutations that look promising in his eyes, and the application uses that selection to generate another set of mutations, continuing in that fashion until the user is satisfied with what he sees. Call it guided natural selection, where the selector for fitness is what looks good to the human in front of the monitor. The Universe Is A Quantum Computer Seth Lloyd is the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with. Between gulps, the MIT prof will impart the details of how the universe really works. And if you order another, he'll give you a summary of one of the most mind-boggling ideas emerging in science today. His new book, Programming the Universe, is a plainspoken tale of how the universe is - tell me if you've heard this before - one very large quantum computer. - Kevin Kelly... These items sent in by Manny, my Nigerian movie producer buddy... Brainwashing Techniques I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the tape carries a copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to friends or anyone in a position to communicate this information. Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Some government agencies do not want this information generally nown. Nor do the Born-Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings. Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. I don't know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I don't think it is possible to legislate against that which often cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using these techniques, there is little hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step to initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will probably only result from an underground effort. In talking about this subject, I am talking bout my own business. I know it, and I know how effective it can be. I produce hypnosis and subliminal apes and, in some of my seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to become independent and self-sufficient. But, anytime I use these techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those attending have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the desired result of participation will be. So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MAN, NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN BRAINWASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE HAD BEEN BRAINWASHED. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" . . . or have been transformed in miraculous ways. Factual backup for "Fahrenheit 911" - Section Three Section Three covers the facts in Fahrenheit 9/11 from Osama's relations with his family through Bush's military records and ends with Bush's business history, including Arbusto, Harken and the Carlyle Group. From Sundown Lounge No. 36 
From Impact Lab: Wing Suits Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is not something we recommend but that's exactly what B.A.S.E. jumper Jeb Corliss has been doing to help pave the way for the world's first landing attempt without a parachute. Amazing photos. Chinese-Only Internet The Chinese government has announced plans to launch an alternate Internet root system with new Chinese character domains for dot-com and dot-net. This may mean that Chinese Internet users will no longer rely on ICANN, the U.S.-backed domain name administrator, and, as one commentator notes, could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet... Extraterrestrial Rain There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers. Inside the bottle are samples left over from one of the strangest incidents in recent meteorological history. On 25 July, 2001, blood-red rain fell over the Kerala district of western India. And these rain bursts continued for the next two months. All along the coast it rained crimson, turning local people's clothes pink, burning leaves on trees and falling as scarlet sheets at some points. Investigations suggested the rain was red because winds had swept up dust from Arabia and dumped it on Kerala. But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense. 'If you look at these particles under a microscope, you can see they are not dust, they have a clear biological appearance...' 
Smart Gardens Something for you home gardeners - an automatic system intended for growing small- to medium-sized herbs and flowers without the complexity of a recirculating hydroponic system. It's called a Smart Garden. Just passing it on... From Geeknotes: 
Daize Shayne takes "First Place" in the Surfing Mag. Reader's Choice Poll for Hottest Surf Babe!!! Go Daize...Go Daize...Go Daize...Go Daize!!!! www.daize.com 
Hi all. I have been posting new shows and adding videos. I'm going for a shorter (~5min) format as I'm being positioned for cell phone distribution (Yaaaaaa!!) I'm planning to do 5 minute shows Mon-Thur and then a longer music focused show on Fridays. Whatta ya think? I'm also inviting folks to call in their positive vibe tips and we'll play them on our show 206-888-Chick (2442). Make'm Smile! KFC From Sundown Lounge No. 35  From the Mount Washington Observatory: Storm Glass While doing a 'weird science' search, I delved into chemistry, landing on the Darwin Expedition and came across an instrument I'd never heard of before - a storm glass. Storm glasses are hermetically sealed glass tubes containing a supersaturated mixture of chemicals. The premise is that changing weather affects the solubility of the mixture. huh... Apparently, clear liquid meant bright weather; dim liquid, rain. Large flakes meant overcast or, in winter, snowy skies. As its name implies, many believed the instrument was especially sensitive to the coming of stormy weather. So, if small stars are seen in dim liquid, you expect thunderstorms. The captain of the Beagle, Admiral Robert Fitzroy, invented this original barometer to forecast the weather. In 1863 he got the mixture right - distilled water, ethanol, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, and camphor. There's a Wikipedia page on this instrument, and yes, you can buy 'em, but if you'd like to make your own, with this receipe (with the assistance of a chemistry geek buddy...)  Wilhelm Reich(1897-1957) was a psychoanalyst and student of Sigmund Freud, who pioneered the study of the orgasm and human sexuality. His book 'The Bion' (1938) extended the scope of Reich's research from bodywork and the bioelectric nature of pleasure and anxiety to consider a vast cosmology and the origins of life. Reich claimed to have discovered 'Orgone' ('Lifeforce'), and explored the implications in 'Bion Experiments and the Cancer Problem' (1939). In 1952 and 1953 Reich experimented with weather control and cloudbusting. Reich also developed a metal-lined device named the "Orgone Accumulator", believing that the box trapped orgone energy that he could harness in groundbreaking approaches towards psychiatry, medicine, the social sciences, biology and weather research. This is where the feds stepped in... What is Orgone Energy? How to build your own Orgone Accumulator  From Sundown Lounge No. 34  From Scientific American: Mutant Chicken Teeth Working late in the developmental biology lab one night, Matthew Harris of the University of Wisconsin noticed that the beak of a mutant chicken embryo he was examining had fallen off. Upon closer examination of the snubbed beak, he found tiny bumps and protuberances along its edge that looked like teeth--alligator teeth to be specific. The accidental discovery revealed that chickens retain the ability to grow teeth, even though birds lost this feature long ago. The finding also resurrected the controversial theory of one of the founders of comparative anatomy, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire. In the early 19th century, Saint-Hillaire observed that developing parrots have tiny bumps on their beaks that resemble teeth, something he ascribed to modern animals deriving from more basic primitive forms. But due to his developing battles with Georges Cuvier over evolution, the finding was forgotten until Harris, a graduate student, rediscovered it nearly 200 years later...  From Impact Lab: Energy From Dog Poop San Francisco, a leader in urban recycling, is preparing to enlist its canine population for a first in the United States: converting dog poop into energy. Norcal Waste Systems Inc., the city's garbage company, plans to test collection carts and biodegradable bags in a city-center park popular with dog walkers. A city study found that almost 4 percent of all the garbage picked up at San Francisco homes was from animal waste destined for the city's landfill, Norcal Waste spokesman Robert Reid said. San Francisco has an estimated 120,000 dogs... From Sundown Lounge No. 33 Latest Cold Fusion News, From Scienceblog.com... Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial improvements over the original design. The device, which uses two opposing crystals to generate a powerful electric field, could potentially lead to a portable, battery-operated neutron generator for a variety of applications, from non-destructive testing to detecting explosives and scanning luggage at airports... ROME (Reuters) - An Italian atheist lost his legal crusade against the Catholic Church on Thursday when a judge rejected his attempts to sue a priest for saying that Jesus existed 2,000 years ago, the priest's lawyer said. Luigi Cascioli, 72, had argued his hometown priest and former schoolmate had effectively broken an Italian law meant to protect the public from being conned. But instead of granting Cascioli his request to bring the case to court, the judge recommended magistrates investigate him for slandering priest Enrico Righi, Righi's lawyer, Bruno Severo said. The 76-year-old priest said he was delighted by the news. "Thank God it's over," Righi told Reuters. "I'm glad it has ended like this, because imagine if it had gone on and on." Cascioli, author of a book called "The Fable of Christ", said the court had not yet informed him of the ruling. But he was not surprised, and said he would appeal to Italy's highest court, and then to The Hague. Asked about the possibility he would be tried for slander, Cascioli chuckled, saying that to prove he lied, prosecutors would have to prove that Jesus existed. "They don't have any proof," he said. Soldiers Face Debilitating Diseases They served their time in the military in places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and more recently, Iraq and Afghanistan. Most returned in good health. But an NBC 30 (in Connecticut) investigation has found that for some soldiers, their service has meant a long and debilitating death sentence with mysterious diseases. "I have good days, I have bad days," said M. Sterry, of New Haven. "There were eight of us that served together. Six of my friends are dead." She looks healthy, but Sterry is a very sick woman who has no idea how much longer she will live. "I've had three heart attacks, two heart surgeries. I have chronic headaches, chronic upper respiratory infections. I get pneumonia two or three times a year," she said. "I have chronic fatigue, joint aches, muscle aches. I have a rash that migrates all over my body." Sterry figures the initial symptoms began in Saudi Arabia in September of 1991 while she was serving with the National Guard. Three years later, after completing her tour of duty and coming back home, the symptoms were still there, but much more severe. State Sen. Gayle Slossberg said one of the sources of the diseases may be depleted uranium. She was one of those who helped pass legislation last year setting up a health registry in Connecticut, strictly to keep records on our military personnel. "We'll know where they've served, what they've done, what the scope of the job was," she said. "We'll be able to identify to some extent what they've been exposed to and what their symptoms are." But it will come too late for David Leighton, of Naugatuck, a Marine who served in Saudi Arabia in Desert Storm. When he came home, the symptoms he had had for quite some time would not go away. His mother, Gail Leighton, said that for the next 15 years, she saw her once vital and vibrant son slowly dying before her eyes. "You would have had to have been there during the journey and see him in bed and sweating and in agony," she said. She said her son was a patriot, that his dad had been a Marine. She said the federal government did not believe that those coming back became sick because of the conditions in which they served. "That was the hardest part, I think, more than anything, to have the DOD, the Department of Defense, and the VA spending so much time and energy trying to deny and discount and discredit some of the people who were doing research." State Veterans Commissioner Linda Schwartz told NBC 30 that making the connection between battlefield exposures and diseases has been a long, ongoing process. She said the use of depleted uranium has to be studied because, as she put it, we're sending our best people into battle and their well-being must be the top priority. From Sundown Lounge No. 32 Continuing the thread on alternative energy, here's a list of articles on cold fusion and sonofusion (fusion generated by sound waves, covered previously in SL 14) from freeenergynews.com  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) believes that biofuels—made from crops of native grasses, such as fast - growing switchgrass — could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil, curb emissions of the "greenhouse gas" carbon dioxide, and strengthen America's farm economy. The Biofuels Feedstock Development Program (BFDP) at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has assembled a team of scientists ranging from economists and energy analysts to plant physiologists and geneticists to lay the groundwork for this new source of renewable energy. Included are researchers at universities, other national laboratories, and agricultural research stations around the nation. Their goal, according to ORNL physiologist Sandy McLaughlin, who leads the switchgrass research effort, is nothing short of building the foundation for a biofuels industry that will make and market ethanol and other biofuels from switchgrass and at prices competitive with fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel... Hey, Attorney General, Tap This! A recent New York Times story about the NSA domestic eavesdropping program included the photograph below (Mike Theiler/European Pressphoto Agency) of students protesting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by turning their backs to him during his speech.  A reader has this information to add: The NYT left out a funny detail — the students had the words “Tap This” printed on their asses, so Gonzales could read it as he gave his speech. A couple dozen students participated in the protest and some clips were shown on CNN the day of the speech. Too bad they didn't have a more Wonkette appropriate slogan on their asses — I'm sure you know what I'm talking about!  From Sundown Lounge No. 31 Cold Fusion, by Michelle Thaller, csmonitor.com PASADENA, CALIF. – For the last few years, mentioning cold fusion around scientists (myself included) has been a little like mentioning Bigfoot or UFO sightings. After the 1989 announcement of fusion in a bottle, so to speak, and the subsequent retraction, the whole idea of cold fusion seemed a bit beyond the pale. But that's all about to change. A very reputable, very careful group of scientists at the University of Los Angeles (Brian Naranjo, Jim Gimzewski, Seth Putterman) has initiated a fusion reaction using a laboratory device that's not much bigger than a breadbox, and works at roughly room temperature. This time, it looks like the real thing... Breaking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics In the December 15 issue of Nature, a team of US scientists reported a very interesting observation : that, under certain circumstances, liquids that are stirred together--like cream into a cup of black coffee--can be unstirred, with the particles of each fluid moving precisely back to their former positions, as if time had reversed. The well-known 2nd law of thermodynamics essentially states that disorder increases. In the long term, this means that the universe will inevitably fall apart. In the short term, it means that phenomena like the stirring of coffee, billowing of smoke, flow of heat, the decay of body and buildings are all "irreversible". Remember though that the basic physics laws of the universe do not have the notion of 'irreversibility' included in them; They do not demand the 2nd law. David J. Pine of New York University and Jerry P. Gollub of Haverford College in Pennsylvania showed with their device that there is a sharp transition between reversible and irreversible flows. Their device has two concentric cylinders with a gap of about a tenth of an inch wide in between them, which they filled up with a liquid (of the viscosity of honey) and hundreds of thousands of tiny beads (of the same density as the liquid). Because of having same density, the beads floated within the liquid without rising or falling. David and Jerry traced the motion of about 60 such beads which they dyed black... Then they rotated the inner cylinder - dragging along the liquid and the beads - and then turned it back to its original position. When the amount of turning was small, the balls all returned to virtually the same positions from where they started. For a slightly greater degree of turning, then the balls started moving around ending up in a completely different formation. Study of such complex phenomena is important not only for understanding limits and scope of a fundamental law of Physics but also for its application in manufacturing drugs, refining oil and getting an insight into the movement of the Earth's interior.  Watching the vast devastation of New Orleans and all those destroyed homes that need to be cleared so the people can get back in and get started, well it made me think of prefab homes that were really popular in the south and other places when i was a kid. So I checked out Modernist Prefab Houses, and found a fresh item at Impact Lab. We're talking 21st century design, nothing tacky here. We have 10 companies in Acton, MA, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, San Francisco, and St. Louis. In size you got studios up to 3 bedrooms with two floors, from 1400 to 2400 sq. ft. at an avg. of $130/S.F. So that's roughly 180,000 to 300,000. In today's market, that's not bad for a house that'll roll up in a couple flatbeds and go up in less than a week, ready to be hooked up to the grid. Especially since FEMA still won't release the thousands of emergency mobile homes that were collected for the victims... SAN FRANCISCO - Google (Research) is getting lambasted online for its new policy of accommodating China's Internet-censorship rules. But with its new Chinese search engine, Google.cn, Google isn't living up to its reputation for technical wizardry. Paul Boutin points out on his blog that if you search for "Tiananmen," you get peaceful photos of the Beijing square -- but if you search for common misspellings like "Tienanmen," "Tianenmen," or "Tiananman," you get photos of tanks. Let's keep this item below the radar so free thinking and searching citizens in China can use it... Here's the info on chicagopoetry.com's top 10 for February & Poet of the Month, and the 5th Annual PSH Great Poetry Exchange... 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