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  1. Horrified because some older backup CDs have warped and actually _disintegrated_, I have all core files in triplicate now.2:11 AM Nov 7th from Seesmic
  2. Finally, after juggling various hard disks for the past few years, got my 100GB or so of salient data backed up on DVDs. Happy.1:53 AM Nov 7th from Seesmic
  3. Some of the Universe's First (i.e. furthest) galaxies discovered http://is.gd/4Psbo12:51 AM Nov 7th from Seesmic
  4. @liy Cisco: average family consumes 11.4GB/month. Digi is on the bar.4:00 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic in reply to liy
  5. @liy that's equivalent to running a 56kbps modem 100% for a full month3:58 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic in reply to liy
  6. RT @celtx: authors describe their approach to writing, a process that can be ... http://bit.ly/136RPY (wsj) ... like today.3:48 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  7. RT @BBCWild: BBCEarth: Spirit bears become 'invisible' : Being invisible to fish is what helps a rare white morph o.. http://bit.ly/3FaLcq3:37 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  8. Assumably that points to the scale of processing required to process the DNA. Meanwhile, back to the reality: http://is.gd/4OJPC3:08 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  9. A total collection of all cocoons would require a space as big as 1000 Bird Nest stadiums.3:01 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  10. http://bit.ly/FcXQA 648 trillion cocoons required to make the ribbon2:39 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  11. Inorganic Composition and Thermal Properties of Cocoon Fiber http://is.gd/4OHZo, Akita-U2:22 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  12. So IBM's nanopore chip is like one of Wembley's gates rendered in inferno-vision, profiling every bit of dna that passes it. Tremendous.1:48 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  13. http://is.gd/4OFOX -- Wembley. A nanocamera in the cell might see it like this http://is.gd/4OFYg. Yes it looks like the Inferno.1:34 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  14. Right so now the size of my conceivable cell nucleus is comparable to the Wembley Stadium, and cell boundary 2 kms from center spot.1:29 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  15. Still just a fraction of Beijing's Bird Nest (6mil m3), but the ribbon settles nicely in Wembley like a slumbering spaghetti monster.12:58 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  16. * When I said weight, I actually mean mass. Anyway, Wembley Arena, bowl volume: 1,139,100 m3. Candidate as ribbon basket? http://is.gd/4ODPg12:43 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  17. Suddenly Puteri Gunung Ledang actually makes sense.12:27 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  18. Sorry my bad, 1/3 of the 5 billion humans alive. Or all your babies.12:24 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  19. Or 3 times the weight of the 5 billion humans alive! My effing gene blot.12:22 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic
  20. Wolfram-Alpha: Ribbon weight is equivalent to 0.51 yearly trash output of the UShttp://is.gd/4OCFs12:17 AM Nov 6th from Seesmic