Daily Archives: May 20, 2005

Blu-ray Discs go to the next level . . . 100Gig recordable

That’s a huuuuuuggggge breakthrough and nudge to the lead in technology TDK shows 100GB! Blu-ray Disc . . . that’s 100Gig recordable while HD DVDs are up to 45 gigs read-only at the same point: The Japanese Newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition reports that TDK pushes Sony’s Blu-ray format forward by announcing a…

Simultaneous 2D and 3D

SeeReal has announced their Simultaneous 2D and 3D: an Optical Quantum Leap for the Flat Display Industry: SeeReal Technologies (www.seereal.com) today announced the next generation of 3D enabling display technologies. SeeReal has developed a new display capable of delivering both 2D and 3D pictures to several viewers simultaneously. SeeReal’s cutting-edge technology transforms a desktop display…

S&M Hypnotherapy . . .
. . . soothing therapy?
. . . . . . for some, vanilla isn’t the only flavor

Spa Magazine has a report on the business management style used by Ai Aoyama, Japan’s premiere SM Hypnotherapist . . . S&M hypnosis therapy serves up soothing sadism . . . paranoid, much . . . "soothing" hypnotherapy, not from the sound of it . . . but . . . to each their own:…

Epistemology of the Closet

Martha Nussbaum’s entertaining Epistemology of the Closet explores the three great British Utilitarians . . . Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) . . . making them much much more interesting than I would have thought. Far from being political and social conservatives as their philosophical descendants often are, these…