Buddha with Thousand Hands
Beautiful dance piece where many people lined up appear as one person with a hundred arms.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The Micallef Program - Wine Sketch
Another great sketch from The Micallef Program involving a tilted room.
Sirius to merge with XM in $13 billion deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio are to merge in a $13 billion tie-up that gives subscribers access to entertainers such as Oprah Winfrey and shock-jock Howard Stern, the companies said on Monday.
The merger, which faces regulatory scrutiny, would create a company with 14 million paying customers with access to a wide array of sports, music and entertainment.
Under the terms of the deal, XM stockholders will get 4.6 shares in Sirius for each XM share held. The merger would create a company with an enterprise value of $13 billion, including $1.6 billion in net debt.
The combination creates a company with combined 2006 revenues of about $1.5 billion based on analysts' consensus estimates, Sirius and XM said in a press release.
Veteran media executive Mel Karmazin, currently Sirius CEO, will be CEO of the combined company, and Gary Parsons, now chairman of XM, will hold the same position in the new company. It said Hugh Panero, XM CEO, will continue in his current role until the merger closes.
"This combination is the next logical step in the evolution of audio entertainment," said Karmazin in a statement. He said it will create "unprecedented choice for consumers."
The deal will face tough regulatory scrutiny. The satellite radio licenses prevent one entity from owning them, however Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said last month that its rules are open to change.
Sealab 2021
Awesome cartoon about the inhabitants of an underwater lab from AdultSwin. You can find almost every episode on youtube. This one is my favorite.
Scientists Grow Mouse Teeth From Single Cells
JAPAN (HealthDay News) -- Using tissue regeneration technology, Japanese researchers have been able to grow a new tooth from single mouse tooth cells and use it to replace natural teeth in a mouse.
The achievement is "a breakthrough in the development of bioengineered organs and proposes a novel concept for the organ replacement in future regenerative therapies," lead researcher Takashi Tsuji, associate professor, Department of Biological Technology, Tokyo University of Science, said in a prepared statement.
Reporting in the Feb. 19 online issue of the journal Nature Methods, Tsuji's team started by using the two cell types that form teeth -- mesenchymal and epithelial cells. They grew sufficient quantities of each of these cells and then injected them into a drop of collagen. This eventually developed into a budding tooth, which they transplanted into the cavity left by an extracted tooth in a mouse.
The new tooth developed normally and had the same composition and structure as natural teeth, the researchers reported. Ultimately, such bioengineered teeth could be used instead of inlays or synthetic implants, they said.
In addition, the new method might be applied to re-growing other organs. In fact, the researchers used similar methods to re-grow a mouse hair follicle that would eventually form a whisker. "This method would be able to adopt the reconstitution of a wide variety of organs such as a kidney and liver," Tsuji said. READ MORE>
Gates vs. Jobs
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs square off in the clean white virtual world of the iconic Mac ads.
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