Sunday, June 29, 2008

BluRay Titles Cheap

Title
Sale
Michael Clayton
$ 56
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
$ 40
Good Luck Chuck
$ 52
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
$ 35
The Punisher
$ 35
Total Recall
$ 35
Stargate
$ 35
The Devil's Rejects
$ 35
Stir Of Echoes
$ 35
Dragon Wars
$ 52
Resident Evil
$ 40
Pan's Labyrinth
$ 56
Rush Hour 3
$ 58
Blade Runner
$ 62
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
$ 56
Harry Potter: Years 1-5
$ 222
The Legend of Zorro
$ 40
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
$ 45
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
$ 45
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
$ 45
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
$ 45
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
$ 54
Ocean's Thirteen
$ 56
Ratatouille
$ 52
Spider-Man 3
$ 58
Spider-Man: The Motion Picture Trilogy
$ 124
2001: A Space Odyssey
$ 40
King Of New York
$ 40
Hollow Man
$ 40
Bram Stoker's Dracula
$ 40
The Replacement Killers
$ 40
Doctor Strange
$ 40
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
$ 40
IMAX: Blue Planet
$ 40
300
$ 52
Wild Things
$ 40
The Fifth Element
$ 40
The Patriot
$ 40
Hellboy
$ 40
Curse of the Golden Flower
$ 40
Dirty Dancing
$ 40
Planet Earth: The Complete Series
$ 139
The Pursuit of Happyness
$ 53
Chicken Little
$ 52
The Untouchables
$ 40
Casino Royale
$ 53
Mission: Impossible
$ 40
Mission: Impossible 2
$ 40
Dreamgirls
$ 40
Reservoir Dogs
$ 40
Payback
$ 40
Black Rain
$ 40
Black Hawk Down
$ 40
The Manchurian Candidate
$ 40
Failure to Launch
$ 40
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
$ 40
World Trade Center
$ 40
U2: Rattle And Hum
$ 40
Aeon Flux
$ 40
The Italian Job
$ 40
Four Brothers
$ 40
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
$ 40
Sleepy Hollow
$ 40
Nacho Libre
$ 40
Training Day
$ 40
House of Flying Daggers
$ 40

Thursday, June 19, 2008

ERP takes it toll on regular people

Get ready folks! ERP is getting more expensive from 7th July 2008. And yes... 5 additional toll gates, higher prices (50cts more per pop), and all in the name of getting smoother traffic!

Oh well.... expect higher transportation costs, meaning business owners will increase products or services to maintain their profit margins, which means more GST to collect... bottom line is - higher inflation.

What can we do to help ourselves?

1. travel less - certainly would help.
2. travel by bus - avoid taxi and cars
3. walk if possible - more exercise - good for health

By traveling less to Orchard or Singapore River area, you not only save on transportation cost, but also expenditure on coffee, food and what not. That translate to business owners needing to transport less raw material (eg. coffee bean, cooking oil etc), into the business area. Hence win win for everyone - almost.

For the kids/teenagers - please avoid the Tolls areas to reduce ERP charges! hah

Cloned Immune Cells to tackle Cancer

A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells.

Tests revealed that the 52-year-old man's tumours, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not returned two years later.

Doctors attempted the experimental therapy as part of a clinical trial after the man's cancer failed to respond to conventional treatments.

The man is the first to benefit from the new technique, which uses cloning to produce billions of copies of a patient's immune cells. When they are injected into the body they attack the cancer and force it into remission.

Campaigners and scientists in the UK yesterday welcomed the breakthrough. "It's very exciting to see a cancer patient being successfully treated using immune cells cloned from his own body. While it's always good news when anyone with cancer gets the all-clear, this treatment will need to be tested in large clinical trials to work out how widely it could be used," said Ed Yong at Cancer Research UK.

Peter Johnson, chief clinician at the charity, added: "Although the technique is complex and difficult to use for all but a few patients, the principle that someone's own immune cells can be expanded and made to work in this way is very encouraging."

Cassian Yee at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle extracted immune cells from the patient and found that a small proportion of them, called CD4 T cells, naturally attacked a protein found on nearly three-quarters of the cancer cells. Using cloning techniques, Yee's team replicated these cells until they had more than 5bn of them.

When the cells were injected into the patient they immediately began attacking the cancer. Intriguingly, the patient's immune system gradually began a wider offensive, attacking all the cancer cells in the body, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two months later medical scans failed to pick up any signs of cancer in the patient.

The team believes the treatment could be effective in around a quarter of skin cancer patients whose immune systems have cells that are already primed to attack their tumours. "For this patient we were successful, but we would need to confirm the effectiveness of therapy in a larger study," Yee added.

In an accompanying article Louis Weiner, director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Georgetown University, Washington, wrote that Yee's work "underscores the remarkable potential of the immune system to eradicate cancer, even when the disease is widespread".

The case showed that hopes to turn the immune system into a weapon against cancer was becoming a reality, Weiner added. "If the destination is not yet at hand, it is in sight. The endgame has begun."

Using the immune system to fight cancer could be much safer than existing treatments, which often have serious side effects.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Mentos and Coke - the Water works



This is for those that didnt know that Mentos Reacts to Coke.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Mentos with Carlsburg?

You know about Mentos and Coke right? Now watch this video about Mentos reaction to Carlsburg beer.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Mathematics about Humans

Equation 1
Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Donkey = eat + sleep
Therefore,
Human = Donkey + work + enjoy
Therefore,
Human - enjoy = Donkey + work
In other words,
Human that don't know enjoy = Donkey that work
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ===
Equation 2
Men = eat + sleep + earn money
Donkeys = eat + sleep
Therefore,
Men = Donkeys + earn money
Therefore,
Men - earn money = Donkeys
In other words,
Men that don't earn money = Donkeys
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ====
Equation 3
Women = eat + sleep + spend
Donkeys = eat + sleep
Therefore,
Women = Donkeys + spend
Therefore,
Women - spend = Donkeys
In other words,
Women that don't spend = Donkeys
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= =====
To Conclude:
From Equation 2 and Equation 3
Men that don't earn money = Women that don't spend.
So, Men earn money not to let women become Donkeys! (Postulate 1)
And, Women spend not to let men become Donkeys! (Postulate 2)
So, we have?
Men + Women = Donkeys + earn money + Donkeys + spend money
Therefore from Postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude
Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!

Do you agree with APNN views?