scanman’s posterous

stuff that's too long for twitter & not really apt for my blog 

in vivo & in vitro trojan

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for my Aussie twitter & blog buddies

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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.

bring on the roasted wild boar & wine.
(and someone please gag Cacophonix, the bard)

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happy (radiological) halloween

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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.

Ig Nobels

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.

Filed under  //   humour   news   science  

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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.

Filed under  //   blogs   fiction   friends   medicine   news   other bloggers   tamil   twitter  

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A day in the life of a PACS Administrator

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?!"

Filed under  //   humour   radiology   videos  

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Water found on Moon - The Hindu Cartoonscape

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thieves

drawn by my daughter, copied from a comic book (the enduring favourite, tinkle)

Filed under  //   cartoon   comics   family  

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Positive CAT scan!

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