Folding@Home
Posted by coldcut, 13.5.2008 03:14
...is a project which aggregates together computers on the net, likeyours and mine, to form a super-duper computer; the humungous crunchingpower of this is then used to work out molecular biochemistry problemssuch as folding protein structures. This is medically important asquite a lot of diseases such as sickle cell anemia are caused byabnormally folded proteins...thus by joining the project and donatingfree cpu time you are helping accelerate medical progress and possiblyhelping yourself as well as others. DO try this at home, but carefulhow you fold yourself.
Folding@Home here
'Goodbye'magazine launches soon....like 'Hello' mag but concentrating ondeathstyles of the rich and famous. corpses and those still, just,doing the mortal coil shuffle. Exclusive funeral pix. really spitefulobituaries. 'who's next' column. undertakers to the stars articles.death tips: how to leave a good looking corpse, celebrity coffins. Weare not recommending starting this magazine , you understand, justobserving that it may soon come to pass. However, interested publisherscan contact deathstyles@ninjatune.net
Nasty.
Had supperwith Morris before he set off for Japan and as usual got treated to abumper infocrop. Made the aquaintince of cult Japanese animation Haland Bons
Thats the first episode, the others are about. youeither love it or cant love it. I cackled my head off, tho found roundep4 it couldnt quite sustain me. But it is superb.
Watched'Freedom Writers' , true life story of a US school teacher bringingliterature to her resistant ghetto youth class. An inspiring story butUNBELIEVABLY clunky cliched cheesy hollywood. Pass.
Morrissays Flight of the Conchords is the new Mighty Boosh, or at least verymassive. yall probably hip to this one but what the hell txt is cheapand this is a classic: 'Business Time'
This weekend was Coldcut JVJ at new festival GuernseyLive, the first festy of the year and good fun...a full tent thanks tothe Editors. Thanks to those who came and said hallo and posted. Justbefore our set found a bunch of random liggers in our personal Coldcuttent seemingly polishing off our rider without offering so much as ablowjob, a regretably common occurence. Just as I was instructing ourhospitality person to eject them, recognised Vince Noir of the saidBoosh. Backtracking hastily, got this pic which is blurry but cool
Lovelybloke ( though character-wise personally I-dentify more with HowardMoon and his cream poetry). And ace mackeral fisherman, it transpired.Link here is video director Tim Hope who is a Coldcut mate and alsodoes video projections for the Boosh.
LOVE the MB absolutely thebest thing since the Young Ones imho, tho it is just possible that the3rd series wasn't quite as dope as the first 2. They will of course beheadlining the Big Chill this year where i wont be for the first timefor years as Ibiza is calling...dates soon...VJing with 4YourEye.
Vince -aka Noel- was there with Dee Plume's band Robots in Disguise which
(Should anal retentive be spelt with a hypen?)
leads me onto the topic of ROBOTS. Certainly the next big thing, especially MUSICAL robots. Check this out...
letsmakerobots here
Play the first vid...stick with it, it takes a while to get going but is wicker.
Feel a Coldcut collab coming on with that shit...Boom...or at least Thwack Tick Tick ningningning.
Would there be any interest in a ltd edition Coldcut drum robot like that? £100? answers to this blog.
Heres a scary and astonishing bot...
I love that bit where it skids and NEARLY goes overbut somehow recovers like a raver on acid tripping and turning it intoa move.
The US do have gun toting bots, but had to retire a loadin Iraq before they got used because ..uh..."the US Army's ProgramExecutive Officer, Kevin Fahey, who reportedly said that there was anincident where "the gun started moving when it was not intended tomove". Quite. Next stop: Terminator. What was scifi is now scifact.When i die I'll leave my body to Science Fiction, to fight back.
Topof the Bots...heres another groovy one...reassembles itself when kickedapart...in a chilled fashion...thanks to Brian Kane of EBN for this..
Space...the Vinyl frontier. Ask Raj who is nowstoring my records. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has taken $30million in bookings for flights to start in 2009 @$200k a flight to flyweightless for 6 mins. I always thought he was quite cool, but mateCOME ON...at this stage you have to make a project like that carbonneutral at least and better environmentally neutral ie replace the fuelyou use which is colossal. He's also been running some sort of acontest for ideas to stop global warming , which twinned with Galacticsuggests advanced schizophrenia to say the least. A quick perusal ofthe site turned up no mention of environmental considerations...http://www.virgingalactic.com/
On a more positive tip, geneticsmega genius Craig Venter may yet save the world by building bacteriawhich eat CO2 and produce fuel. Dont tell the Gov or the 4x4 posse thattho...theres still a way to go and we NEED intelligent Energy andpollution control anyway NOW.
This talk by Craig is pretty inspirational:
Gets my vote.
Tho as one guy points out, MrVenter is in some ways the most dangerous guy on the planet...if youthought GM foods were scary, using the tech he is developing- hasdeveloped, eg DNA synthesis- we are entering the era of designergenetics applied to everything. Being able to make and modify livingthings is the goal of Synthetic Genomics. New lifeforms, immortality,radical body remixing...the electronics era is fading out into thebiotech era and the mind bogles.
So, a key tipping-point racecould be Peak Oil vs Synthetic Genomics. Peak Oil is a phrase todesrcibe the point at which Oil production peaks, ie the real beginningof the end for Oil. This may already have occured, if not it must soon.
WIthout oil, we cannotfeed even that part of the world population we do feed...Oil is themainstay of modern agriculture, the essential resource for fertiliser,pesticides, and farm machinary. This is why rice prices in most of theworld have doubled in the last year which as you can imagine people arenot happy about....
two essential docs on this subject are Crude Awakening
and The Power of Community-how Cuba survived Peak Oil. I'm off to Cuba, me. They sorted it.
This is a rambling post, sorry.
Comedown Pete Tong, new head of Music for resurrected film company HammerHorror. First offering 'Beyond the Rave'...you could not make itup...we wish mr Tong well in this terrifyingly appropriate musical post.
Bigup to disarmucl.com
acampaign to get UCL to offload its armaments shares. The UK being no2seller of arms in the world natch. you know who no1 country is, dontyou. Clue : the 2 countries often work together on ..uh..arms sellingpromotional activities.
Coldcut news flash: we can now revealthat super producer Dave Switch aka Solid Groove will be workingclosely with us on the new Coldcut album. We loved his work on TrueSkool and basically it should guarantee a banging result for all,Forward my selector. Big Thanks to Ross Alan for the intial connectionand Ninja outernational Dom Smith for piloting us in with that. Moresoon...Dave is in LA and is on it AS OF NOW.
Lets end on a smoking piece of music found by Morris, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
I cant embed it but its Here
Love, Peace, Other and all Funky Things
xxx
Matt