[digital drooly face]
okay, so I've been noticing some neat new things out lately.
Equipment:
Cannon EOS 8.2 megapixel digital camera. damn. it's like $1200, but come on... 8.2 megapixels.
m:robe 500. 3.7 inch high res touch screen mp3 player / digital camera. with the ability to "remix" music and photos.
Anime [list of shows and movies I would like to see]:
DN Angel
Gravitation
Peace Maker
Paranoia Agent
Neon Genesis Evangelion Plat
[please, feel free to tell me how any of you feel about these titles]
and although it isn't a new toy or show, I found this very encouraging:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6 After what felt like an eternity of weeks marked by nothing but war casualties and infanticide, Last Days is thrilled to kick off the week with some legitimately good news, courtesy of the December issue of Nature Medicine. "It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks." Developed by researchers in France and Brazil, the alleged vaccine contains a patient's own strain of HIV amped with a patient's own dendritic cells, those bloodborne do-gooders that seize foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells, triggering powerful immune system responses that destroy the foreign invaders. Typically, these crucial responses are rendered inactive by HIV, but for 18 Brazilian test subjects--each of whom was HIV-positive, unmedicated, and losing T cells--three injections of the new, dendritic-infused vaccine caused viral loads to drop by 80 percent while halting the decline in T cells altogether. Even better, 8 of the 18 patients maintained a 90 percent drop in HIV levels one year later. "The results suggest... a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," writes the University of Paris' Jean-Marie Andrieu. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of... T-cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."
Equipment:
Cannon EOS 8.2 megapixel digital camera. damn. it's like $1200, but come on... 8.2 megapixels.
m:robe 500. 3.7 inch high res touch screen mp3 player / digital camera. with the ability to "remix" music and photos.
Anime [list of shows and movies I would like to see]:
DN Angel
Gravitation
Peace Maker
Paranoia Agent
Neon Genesis Evangelion Plat
[please, feel free to tell me how any of you feel about these titles]
and although it isn't a new toy or show, I found this very encouraging:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6 After what felt like an eternity of weeks marked by nothing but war casualties and infanticide, Last Days is thrilled to kick off the week with some legitimately good news, courtesy of the December issue of Nature Medicine. "It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks." Developed by researchers in France and Brazil, the alleged vaccine contains a patient's own strain of HIV amped with a patient's own dendritic cells, those bloodborne do-gooders that seize foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells, triggering powerful immune system responses that destroy the foreign invaders. Typically, these crucial responses are rendered inactive by HIV, but for 18 Brazilian test subjects--each of whom was HIV-positive, unmedicated, and losing T cells--three injections of the new, dendritic-infused vaccine caused viral loads to drop by 80 percent while halting the decline in T cells altogether. Even better, 8 of the 18 patients maintained a 90 percent drop in HIV levels one year later. "The results suggest... a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," writes the University of Paris' Jean-Marie Andrieu. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of... T-cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."