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I found an article

on Slashdot about the possibility of using bacteria in semiconductors to create “biotransistors.” Powering machines with the energy of living things kinda creeps me out.

9:44 a.m.

The Bad News:

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Nearly 28 million children in Africa will have lost at least one of their parents to AIDS by the year 2010, causing a social nightmare for these countries for decades, according to a report released Thursday.

“The HIV pandemic is producing orphans on a scale unrivaled in history,” said Susan Hunter, an author of the “Children on the Brink 2000” by the U.S. Agency for International Development. A summary was released at the 13th International AIDS Conference.

1:06 p.m.

Are you in San Francisco? Go see

Fletop

(flee-top). They’re an upstart band without a hell of a lot of material, but what they’ve got is mellow and smart. Great music and you’ll feel like an intellectual afterward, even if you’re drunk. Go catch a show now. Later, you can say you saw them on the El Rio patio and complain about how pissed you are that they sold out.

11:20 a.m.