Where do you see yourself in 30 years?

Well if you’re Briton’s Ministry of Defence, apparently in a world where the glass is way more than half empty. With advances in weapons technology, a changing world cultural, and a number of other economic and social factors, the future is not looking so bright anymore – unless you’re looking forward to:

"Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups."

It’s an interesting, yet frightening read. With an outlook this grim, it almost seems like it’ll be worth the wait when the machines rise against their human overlords in 2021.

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Give This Kid an A-Bomb in Physics

A high school senior in Michigan achieved nuclear fusion in his basement. He built his own contraption out of parts from hardware stores and stuff he found on eBay. It took him two years to get results. At this rate, I'm hoping he can solve our no flying cars problem in the next five years.

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Slower Traffic Stay to the Right

Checking out Google’s blog yesterday, they’ve added a new feature to their maps – up-to-date traffic conditions for over 30 cities. So now I’ll be addicted to checking the weather and traffic every time I leave the house.

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Press Start to Begin This Surgery

In a recent study, it was found that playing video games could be beneficial to surgeons’ skills.

"Laparoscopy and related surgeries involve manipulating instruments through a small incision or body opening where the surgeon's movements are guided by watching a television screen.

Video game skills translated into higher scores on a day-and-half-long surgical skills test, and the correlation was much higher than the surgeon's length of training or prior experience in laparoscopic surgery, the study said."

I’m not sure if I want my doctor thinking about his combo moves from Mortal Kombat while he’s working on my innards, but it sounds like I enjoy the results. Maybe after spending a little more time with my PS2, I might just start checking out some med schools…

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Down to the Minute

And now a little Windows love for all you out there. I found this great, free, secure app that might just turn out to be a lifesaver. It's called WatchMyCell. Basically, it tracks your cell minutes right on your desktop. I'm not a huge talker, but I live with one. So check it out if your a time tracker. And make sure you tell your friends about it - as long as you have minutes left.

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Take a Load Off

I (and probably The Boy) have quite a few gigs of music on my hard drive - to say the least. And that's really bogging down my free space. The gang over at lifehacker gives us an easy solution that issue. Put your iTunes library on an external hard drive. Seems like a logical fix, but as with everything computer related, it's not always as easy as it seems. However, unlike The Boy, I'm a Mac guy and so is this little tutorial. So sorry to all you Windows users, but I've to look out for my own every now and again.

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