A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I need a life-extension icon. I'll use Shatner for now because he's a rather spritely 75-year-old, isn't he. (Yes, he's only 50 in this picture, but do you deny that he's still got it?)

From BoingBoing, some Aubrey de Grey stuff: a brief text interview, where he interestingly pooh-poohs the effectiveness of CR in humans, and the full video of a presentation he gave about how he'd like to fight aging, starting with the prerequisite fight to raise awareness of aging as something that can be fixed.

It's frustrating that my plan to be rolling in ca$h money by now hasn't really panned out because I had been planning from the start to pour a lot of it into things like SENS and the MPrize. I'll keep trying.

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It seems that "life extension" is the term on the rise for this whole thing. I like it better than "immortality", which has the air of divine unattainability baked into it, or "clinical immortality", which sounds too, erm, clinical. I'll have to go adjust my LJ tags to match, sometime.

OK, I admit it, aprils_cr_diary is kind of dopey. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn't trying to come across as obnoxious as she sometimes appears, but I have to say that anyone who describes a large object as "blank-ing[sic] huge" is undeniably from a different planet than mine.

On the other hand I'm going to keep her on my flist for a while, because one thing I discovered quickly about the CR subculture is that it's full of hardcore nerdz, and as such any writer within it emit links to interesting stuff that lay at the intersection of foodiness and hackerliness. Here's a couple of things I have found today:

* CRON-O-Meter is a Mac/Win application intended to be primarily useful to CR dieters, but I think it's more generally interesting than that. It's a nice front-end to several open databases of food items' nutritional information, and gives you an easy way to track how well you're meeting a recommended daily intake of calories, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals, so long as you're willing to punch in everything that you gobble down.

This begs the question: whose recommendation? Whoever it is, they actually think that, given my age and height, I'm deficient in all of those stats (even calories), except for carbs, of which I am eating enough to fell a wildebeest. Or something.

* Slashfood is exactly what it sounds like: a foodie version of Slashdot, except much nicer looking, and I didn't want to chuck my display out the window based on any of the headlines. I dunno if I'll actually read it regularly but I appreciate that it exists.