Submitted by Erin and Lucian
omfg the dog got one of the barbies and we found this on the floor instead of being upset the seven year old very solemnly picked the mauled ken doll off of the floor and said, “the devil has spoken”
submitted by alexis:
i think i forgot to send this to you. our halloween costumes (flamingo and crab). taken with instagram.
DARPA Launches Program to Industrialize Genetic Engineering
DARPA has launched a program called called “Living Foundries,”designed to apply the conventions of manufacturing to living cells, Wired Danger Room reports.
DARPA has awarded seven research grants worth $15.5 million to six different companies and institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, Cal Tech, and the J. Craig Venter Institute. “Living Foundries” aspires to streamline genetic engineering for “on-demand production” of whatever bio-product suits the military’s immediate needs, starting with a library of “modular genetic parts.”
The agency wants researchers to come up with a set of “parts, regulators, devices and circuits” that can reliably yield various genetic systems. After that, they’ll also need “test platforms” to quickly evaluate new bio-materials to “compress the biological design-build-test cycle by at least 10X in both time and cost,” while also “increasing the complexity of systems that can be designed and executed.”
What could possibly go wrong?
(via DARPA, Venter launch assembly line for genetic engineering | KurzweilAI)
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Version 1.3: Support for Spotify
The latest version of Single A is out. Your blog will be updated automatically unless you have customized it.
The theme now supports the latest Spotify embed that Tumblr rolled out last week. Enjoy and thanks for using Single A!
Single A Tumblr Theme
The Single A tumblr theme introduces two new features not available on any other Tumblr themethe sticky post and featured tag.
Sticky Post
With Single A you have the ability to “stick” one post at the top of your blog regardless of the date and time of the post.Let’s say you always want to display at the top of your blog:
- An “About Me” post
- Your most recent original long-form blog post
- An introductory video
- A quote that you live by, or
- An advertisement
The sticky post feature allows you to do any of these things. With the sticky tag you can highlight whatever you want in your blog’s top spot.
Here’s how you set it up: In the appearance options, define the sticky tag and use that tag on the post that you would like to always display at the top of your blog. The most recent blog post with the sticky tag will always appear at the top.
Featured Tag
The featured tag enables you to display the five most recent posts of a specific tag in the right sidebar. Similar in layout to the Likes display, the featured tag display allows bloggers to display their five most recent original articles, musicians or music lovers to display their five most recent audio tracks, or photographers to display their five most recent photographs. In short, it’s designed to give you an opportunity to highlight your featured posts long after they have fallen off the first page of your blog.To enable the featured tag, all you have to do within the appearance options is:
- Insert a tag in the featured tag text box
- Use that tag on at least one post
- Define the label for the featured heading
The sticky post and featured tag are just two of the many features that Single A offers. You can add social media links; control the color of several styles; upload a custom logo or image; display likes, recent tweets, and group blog features; and incorporate the Disqus commenting platform and Google Analytics.
Jeepers, just posting folk music today! Look at these MacKenzie boys play, they’re damn good. Kenneth was in my class, Calum was in my sister’s class, and the only time in my life that I was in Scotland I walked into a bar and Angus was playing because that is what happens in Nova Scotia and there’s no point in wondering why.
You can look up their new album right here.
