iakttakelser (observations)

Updaated: The Atlantic reports that researchers at John Hopkins University, has managed to use hydrogel to grow scar-free tissue for burn victims. Hydrogel should be part of the "home apotek/drugstore" everywhere. Stemming blood is lifesaving, Read CNet article here .

Nikhyl Singhal, the co-founder and CEO of voice-application startup SayNow asks: Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction? Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year,  when asked  if Facebook would be around in 100 years, as long as Ma Bell has been around, Zuckerberg responded, “I don’t know. But I don’t know how long telephones will be around for.”  Will they be around for ten more years? I’ll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know it, to meet its demise.

På vei hjem fra Larvik til Hamar ville jeg nå prøve de ferdigpakkede kodekortene NSB selger i automatene på InterCity toget. Jeg la på penger, valgte produktet og det datt ned i "renna". Så var det å taste inn http://interaktiv.nsb.no i nettleseren og velge betal. Første valg er koden som du finner nede i esken. Selvfølgelig tastet jeg feil en gang - det er kinkige koder. Men prisen er det noe annet. 65 kr. for tilgang i 3,5 timer er uanstendig.

No will ever give you the time you need to meditate, you have to create that timeslot yourself. If you cannot, now there is antother option that just wait for your next incarnation, meditate on the go.  Seeing this article I glimpsed out of the window and saw a big gull standing on the terrace looking at me. So I took the advice from Firman and tried to sink into that staring bird. Read the article from Psycology today by Dorothy Firman, Ed.D. here.

Do you know Futurama? Here is something similar. Tap it (or click if you are so out of date;) to see source witch is an interactive big picture. You can even order a print! NMap.org via  Gizmodo .

I´m way to connected to the digital world, and would have to make a strategy to keep sane. If you also are a bit addicted read the post of Mary Sojourner, M.A from Psycology today, which wrote this poem: Pursue thought;  Put on a lined cape  And go outside Far from the silent houses, lit by lamps... Along the path, the gaze of the moon follows you.  The tangled branches  There on the snow  Mark out the signs  Of your thoughts.

Det amerikanske arkitektkontoret fra Boston gjorde i 2008 et arbeide for å gjøre monstermastene på Island penere. Jeg synes de klarte det, men hva mener du?

Fredriksens stenger på søndag, sommergjestene er reist. Båtfolket har lagt de fleste båtene på land allerede.

There remains only one active fisherman in Nevlunghavn. Leif Marthinsen, stopped the game two years ago, and now does fishing for fun, and when the tourists are here in the summer. So the small fishing harbour 150 km from Oslo isn´t what is was before.

Den prøyssiske generalen Carl von Clausewitz er den mest siterte militærteoretikeren i den vestlige verden. Hans bok «Om krigen» utkom for drøyt 170 år siden, men er fortsatt relevant. Clausewitz hevdet politikkens primat. Krigen måtte underordnes politikken og styres og tøyles av den. Herav tesen om krig som fortsettelse av politikken med andre midler. For snart 10 år siden avla en internasjonal kommisjon under ledelse av Gareth Evans og Mohamed Sahnoun en rapport om bruk av militær makt for humanitære formål. Under overskriften «Ansvar for å beskytte» definerte kommisjonen noen kriterier som må oppfylles for at militærmakten skal tjene et slikt formål. Formålet må være å hindre overgrep i stor skala, og det må være klart definert; maktbruken må begrenses til det som er nødvendig for å nå målet; bruk av makt må være siste utvei; og en intervensjon må ha rimelig sjanse til å lykkes. I det minste må de sannsynlige konsekvensene av et militært inngrep være å foretrekke framfor konsekv...

From MindmappingReview.com excellent review of NovaMind

Fiskeferie med far er ikke helt enkelt når han har Alzheimer. I Oslo-tunellen fant han ut at han skulle på toalettet, og da toget skulle gå videre, var han ikke å finne. Toalettet nærmest var tomt, og han var ikke å se. Men de sto vakt ved PC-en og lot meg se igjennom hele toget før jeg fant ham. "Kom litt skeivt ut", var hans kommentar. Med gamle og barn kommer noen ganger den gamle NSB ånden fram. Måtte den overleve NSBs endeløse krise!

NSB har utrolig nok internett tilgang på sitt Intecity-tog mellom Lillehammer og Skien. Bare synd de har en løsning som stinker :( Jeg gikk på på Tangen for en tur til Larvik, og tenkte at nå fikk jeg kjøpe tilgang siden jeg hadde en del timer fremfor meg. Etter litt om og men kom NSB Interaktiv opp med en side hvor pop-upen blandet seg med teksten bakenfor. Vel tenkte jeg, jeg kjører Chrome på Mac, så jeg prøvde samme adresse på Safari. Men akk nei. Men med litt tolket jeg budskapet om at jeg fikk underholding for 49 kroner. Litt dyrt, men, men. Jeg sa ja, valgte kredittkort og fikk opp spørsmål om navn og adresse og telefon og mail osv. Heldigvis benytter jeg et program som fyller ut slikt, men hei NSB, jeg skal ikke kjøpe ei togvogn, bare bruke ruteren deres i 4 timer! Så valgte jeg VISA kort og ble tvunget til å fylle ut 16 tall, forfall og kode. Hjelpeprogrammet ble blokkert! De krever full identifikasjon, som grensepolitiet av asylsøkere for å kjøpe 4 timer tid på ruteren! Nå ...

Texting, which in USA means SMS and Messenger, are heavyli used. Girls, which use it most, has an average of hundred messages dayli! The infographic below illustrates the trends and averages for texting in the US and around the world. How do you and your texting compare? And your children?

Siden vi må ha sikker strømforsyning, of det det synes som det er best å bruke master, hvorfor ikke gjøre som islendingene: gjøre mastene skikkelig kule? Designboom har historien her .

Today I went uptown to pay a late invoice for garbage. I went to my bank, BanCaja, standing in queue half an hour. "This you cannot pay here" , they said, and showed me some small letter where it put that it only could be paid in BBVA and some few other banks. In BBVA I had to stand in another line an half hour more. "You cannot pay this, its expired." , said the clerk. "You have to go to Suma and request a new invoice." In Suma I had to wait another hafv hour, and then finally got a new invoice. Since I now was a bit experienced, I went directly to BBVA, just to see a line that was more than double as long as the last time. I decided to move the task to  another day, hopefully before the invoice expire. Have you ever heard of expired invoiced? Or to say it another way: " If you don´t pay me before that day I would not accept it! " It makes me remember the old Spanish novel "Vuelva Usted mañana" which you can read in Spanish her...

See the Huffington Post story here . The recently approved clinical test can be found here . Huffington Post tells: LONDON — For three years, Connie McPherson had debilitating leg ulcers that were so painful she sometimes couldn't sleep. Despite repeated surgery, antibiotics, steroids and other treatments, nothing helped. Then last year, she took part in a trial for a new gel aimed at chronic wounds. "It was the answer to my prayers," said McPherson, 58, a real estate agent in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Within weeks, McPherson said the ulcer treated was completely healed. "I tried everything possible and this is the only thing that worked." The gel used to treat McPherson was developed by a team led by David Becker, a professor of cell and developmental biology at University College London. The gel, named Nexagon, works by interrupting how cells communicate and prevents the production of a protein that blocks healing. That allows cells to move faster to the wound to be...

There are just too may divorces where the children are suffering. So everything you could do before you start to have children, or they start to have you, will help. On one of my favorite blogs, Psychology Today, they discuss this matter here .

Gaudi sat the standard for Spanish architects, and they keep on doing nice buildings. This article shows a lot of nice examples of the Vallecas 11 architects here .

It´s so boring to see a supposed hightech surrounding and the people starts talking in old Nokia og Motorola mobiles. When they type a number the put in each number - they don´t even know that the contact list exists! And twitter and facebook aren´t even mentioned. Not to talk about the new localisation providers like FourSquare. TechCrunch is apperantly getting this in their nice Sunday morning post here , doing some tricks with the soap opera. What about you, do you want to see some real stuff in old style television?