…geek blog sites.

…that we should view as curable.

Note to self: should the need unfortunately arise, tell the surgeon that I don’t want him to do my colostomy this way.

Either way, I suspect that you’ll still pay through the nose.

From the past. Lileks would have a great time with this.

Well, we did get the undersea tourist boats.

An interesting, but somewhat depressing look at the upcoming crisis in geriatrics, over at the New Yorker.

What struck me about it was the assumption that the decline is inevitable, and that we have to focus on managing it, when in fact we need to put a lot more effort into technologies that can stop aging, and even reverse it. The assumption is that living too long is a problem, and it is, if we don’t figure out how to maintain and restore the ability of the body to repair itself.

[Via Alan Boyle]

Who will win out?

Following a market lead wrestled free in February, Blu-ray

Now here’s a solar panel installation business I could really get into:

It’s a two-piece bikini with photovoltaic film strips attached strategically to various parts of the clothing, so that you can charge your gadgets while you’re catching some rays. Better yet, the charging takes place via those rays.

I was surprised to learn that Virginia hadn’t read Bernal’s classic. As she notes, the price would indicate that it could support a new printing.

The answer seems to be (unsurprisingly, at least to me) both. And that’s good news, since many have claimed “neither.”

An astronaut is going to run the Boston Marathon remotely. I think the astronauts should demand conjugal visits.