So NBIX traded above $4 for a while yesterday but closed at $3.40, up just 67 cents from the prior day’s close.  I bought more.  If guru is right, this could be a very nice holding.

GOOGLE GOGGLES

Holy cow.  Point your phone . . . click . . . and Google will tell you everything about what you’re looking at.  Or – with facial recognition, potentially – whom you’re looking at.  See the demo here.  At first I thought it was a spoof, but apparently it’s not.

Read a little about its implications here (thanks, Rex):

. . . We’re at the point where you could snap a person’s face and find out their entire life story: their employment, their friends, what they looked like before they dyed their hair.  I don't know where the societal breaking point for pervasive, omnipresent technology is... but I think we're getting close.

LIVING FOREVER

Friday I linked to a potential cancer breakthrough as an example of the way Ray Kurzweil could prove to be right – that average life expectancy really could begin increasing by more than one year per year.  Well, even before the pixels had dried, there was this news of “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer” (although if you read to the very end, you see it may not be quite as scary as it sounds) . . . and then this clip of a guy walking around with an artificial heart and a backpack.

DIGITIZE YOUR LIFE

Got decaying home videos?   Old photo albums?  Color slides?  There are lots of services that will put them all onto a flash drive for you.  This one services the greater New York area.  All those color slides my Dad took?  And 9 hours of video tape?  All now reside on a 16GB flash drive that fits on a keychain.