| Folding@Home is a distributed computing project aimed at understanding the process of protein folding. This will allow to find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. If you have ever considered to donate your unusued CPU time, this is obviously one of the best ideas. |  |
2 comments April 7th, 2003
| I don’t know much about architecture, but I can’t stop admiring Calatrava’s works, some of which include the Alamillo bridge in Sevilla, some auditoriums in Valencia (his birthplace), the Art museum in Milwaukee and the Pavillion in Basilea. I’m now looking for a flat and I wish I could find something like the Turning Torso. It is an awesome skyscraper for residential use designed by Calatrava and being built in the Swedish city of Malmö. |  |
4 comments April 6th, 2003
| The photos from Paris are now online. Overally, it’s one of my favorite cities in western Europe (as far as I’ve seen). If you want to know what’s on Paris, buy a Pariscope for a few cents. However, you won’t need any guidebook to be sure that you should see at least: the Mona Lisa and much more at Le Louvre, the astonishing Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Moulin Rouge. If you like science you must also see Foucault’s pendulum, and you’ll have no doubt that the Earth rotates on its axis. Of course, this is a tiny list for what you can actually see and do in Paris. So many things that you’ll often collapse, sit down for a while and see the world go by.
The complete photo gallery is here. Don’t forget to check this original desktop background |
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2 comments April 4th, 2003
| So, very appropriately, I came back to work on April’s fool. Paris was great. I made approx one hundred photos in four days, which is below my average anyway. Will upload them very shortly, promise. And to make your mouth water, I’m gonna start with a very tasty pick: a Pakistani-Indian restaurant called Nabab and located at rue des Trois Freres. If you like curry, this is the perfect place to enjoy a relaxed dinner in Paris. Especially recommendable are the chicken vindaloo and the lamb makhani, both accompanied with oriental fried rice and garlic nan.
p.s. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. |
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2 comments April 1st, 2003
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Q: What do you call a principal female opera singer whose high C is lower than those of other principal female opera singers? A: A deep C diva. |
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