in vivo & in vitro trojan
via gocomics.com
i have a nit to pick!
a trojan is not exactly a virus, as it does not self replicate.
i'm sure my geek friends will agree.
stuff that's too long for twitter & not really apt for my blog
...a radiologist peering into the interwebs...
blog: http://www.catscanman.net/blog/
friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/scanman
blip: http://blip.fm/scanman
for my Aussie twitter & blog buddies
via gocomics.com lyrics for the original kookaburra song are here
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Happy 50th Anniversary Asterix & Obelix
For half a century they have been fending off Roman attacks from their village, armed only with fearlessness, flying menhirs and a cauldron of magic potion. But now Astérix and his band of indomitable Gauls are invading Lutetia – modern-day Paris – and determined to make their presence felt. Fifty years after Albert Uderzo and Réne Goscinny unveiled their comic stars on the pages of Pilote magazine, Parisians are to be besieged by tributes to France's most popular comic strip. Today, among the third-century Gallo-Roman baths upon which the Musée de Cluny is partially built, an exhibition of original plates and manuscripts opened to allow fans a glimpse of the creators' inspirations.
via guardian.co.uk
bring on the roasted wild boar & wine.
(and someone please gag Cacophonix, the bard)
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Ig Nobel 2009 Prize winnners announced
The winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prize were announced on October 1, at a ceremony held at Harvard’s Sanders theater.
This photo, from the Associated Press, shows Public Health Prize winner Elena Bodnar demonstrating her invention — a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (center) and Orhan Pamuk (right) assist in the demonstration.
via improbable.com
Other notable winners:
Veterinary Medicine Prize for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
Peace Prize for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
Physics Prize for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over.
…and the best,
Chemistry Prize for creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila.
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amazing how new media works
i'm constantly amazed at how something as frivolous as twitter can lead to some amazing stuff.
thanks to my twitter pal sridhar, i play an anonymous cameo role (a pivotal role, in his words) in an interesting short story that he wrote in his tamil blog. all thanks to a story of a rare heavy metal toxicity that i found in the new york times (via twitter again) that i tweeted about. it's a great story, a typical work of rajeshkumar style tamil pulp fiction.Comments [1]
A day in the life of a PACS Administrator
via youtube.com
as the blurb in YouTube says, "This might not make sense if you are not a fellow PACS administrator, but if you are, it will seem VERY familiar..." Indeed :D
Sent to me by Suresh, our Senior-PACS-Admin-cum-Managing-Director-cum-On-Call-Medical-Officer.
I love the ambidextrous guy (Dr.Kildare) who wants two mice to work on his four screens and the lady surgeon who goes "I'm a Super User?!"
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Positive CAT scan!
ROFL.
how i wish the expensive fancy-shmancy multislice scanner in my department could do this!
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