Rants N’ Jibes

Albert Hoffman is a swiss chemist. He invented the hallucinogenic drug LSD. He died of a heart attack at his Basel home at the age of 102.

He first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal properties of a plant fungus (ergot fungus). He ingested some of it by accident and felt its hallucinogenic effects. On which, he commented saying “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”. It was soon used as a common street drug by 1960. LSD is not addictive which makes it very different from other drugs.

The continued abuse of this drug forced countries to make it illegal. LSD is claimed by many researchers to be aiding as a psychotherapeutic drug. However, none of these claims have been officially accepted and this still remains a schedule 1 drug with no medical use.

AMD will present the first live demonstration of the world’s only triple-core processor, the AMD Phenom X3 and the 780 chipset in the Middle East.

They will also demonstrate their Spider high-performance platform, which combines AMD Phenom quad core processors with the AMD 790 chipset, to enable support for up to four GPUs with power consumption of under 65 watts, for superior gaming performance.

Gautam Srivastava, Vice President , sales and marketing and managing director for AMD, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan, commented: “Through our regional distribution partner, Almasa, we want to educate customers about AMD’s compelling line of solutions that are designed to empower a broad range of customers to experience the performance and multi-tasking capability of true multi-core technology.”

“Regionally, we are seeing a strong demand from customers who want a greater visual experience, by increasing the performance and multi-core capabilities from their desktop PC systems. With the expanded portfolio of new graphics solutions and the new CPU’s based on AMD Phenom Triple-Core and Quad-Core processors, we are meeting the needs of all PC users - from both performance hungry gamers to digital media enthusiasts,” added Srivastava.

Kristen Byrnes, a 15-year-old who lives in Portland, Maine, has delivered some shocking news striking a ray of hope for us who thought the world was doomed.

Young Kristen wrote a great thesis that which took her 4 months to compile for extra credit in her Honors Earth Sciences class. Meanwhile, she also maintained an average of 4.0 in all of her other Honors classes.

Her family is highly proud of her and so are many other for her efforts in compiling her information into an neutral note.

Kristen had a great way of analysing things. This particular story was, by the way, compiled after watching Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

You can read her article here.

I, however had a different outlook ont the issue (Global Warming), but i’d rather not dwell on that!
This girl has a great talent and should be appreciated for this skill she has.