Andy's witterings - Miscellaneous interesting links

Miscellaneous interesting links

Jun. 27th, 2008 at 5:49 PM

Some interesting links:

Melanoma cured by cloned immune cells.

If you have a recent copy of Microsoft Office, you may have OCR software available at no extra cost.

If you computer has Windows Vista on it, how to make Vista more stable.

High energy electricity: Teslamania.

Windows tips, including some registry tips.

The economic value of writing by Holly Lisle.

Mood:Ill
Music:Pat Banater: We Belong

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wellinghall wrote:

Jun. 27th, 2008 05:09 pm (UTC)

Teslamania

Have you read / watched The Prestige? It has some , er, interesting applications of Tesla's work ...

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alitalf wrote:

Jun. 27th, 2008 08:00 pm (UTC)

No, never heard of it. Is it sf, fantasy?? Written by whom?

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wellinghall wrote:

Jun. 27th, 2008 08:37 pm (UTC)

SF, by Christopher Priest. The book is pretty good; the film, amazing.

The Wikipedia entries are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_%28film%29

Warning: they contain spoilers.

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romancinger wrote:

Jun. 27th, 2008 07:38 pm (UTC)

Thanks, I was aware of the first one - according to my consultant it's an extremely difficult technique, and the subject also needs to be the right 'type'. And not have an auto-immune disease...

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alitalf wrote:

Jun. 27th, 2008 08:03 pm (UTC)

Ah, I can't remember what auto immune disease you have - my brain is getting very flaky. It was along shot, but I was sure you would look at it if it was relevant.

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