Friday, September 06, 2002

Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone

This site describes a method of extracting audio off of scanned images of vinyl records. Kazaa vinyl swapping is on it's way!" While this method creates exceptionally noisy samples, you can definitely hear the underlying music. - link and text from /.

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

BBC NEWS | Health | Implant offers tanning revolution

Melanotan: the Australian Barbie Drug

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

From Here to Infinity: Obsessing With the Magic of Primes

"The fastest known factoring techniques are "superpolynomial"; slightly increasing the size of the input causes the algorithm to slow to a glacial crawl. Breaking down a number hundreds of digits long can take billions of years. A fast mathematical shortcut would revolutionize mathematics, and cause civilization's codes to come undone."