our mentors in the lost art of pumpkin-carving, Dave n Sarah, have left their j-o-bs to travel around the world in 365 days. yep, sucks to be them ; ) Dave left the following words of wisdom for his colleagues at RealNetworks after 7 1/2 years working down on Elliott [taken from his blog, davethegrinch.net]:…
Category: biology
Orwell Was Right
[from bloomberg.com] Almost 70 years after George Orwell created the all-seeing dictator Big Brother in the novel “1984,” Britons are being watched as never before. About 4.2 million spy cameras film each citizen 300 times a day, and police have built the world’s largest DNA database. Prime Minister Tony Blair said all Britons should carry…
Symmetry
“There are thousands of other striking instances of animal asymmetry. The akita dog in Japan with a tail that curls one way on males, the other way on females, the tendency of dolphins to swim counterclockwise around tanks, the asymmetric sex organ of the male bedbug, a fungus called laboulbeniales that grows only on the…
John Henry hear this
In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round. A six-game chess match between Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the world champion, and Deep Fritz, a souped-up version of commercially available chess software made by Chessbase, ended today in victory for the computer, which…
Growing up with Newsweek
Newsweek loves to feature articles about Autism. People love to buy Newsweek and read articles about Autism. If the following cliche’ is true [about Autism] then most of the world is Autistic only they don’t know it yet: Work is play and play is work Sound like anyone in YOUR neighborhood? When was the last…
[Van] Damme Yankees and their tactics!!!
Pretend Jean-Claude is wondering: “is this really the future of advertising? is this how Tom Sawyer got his pals to paint the fence for him? how long will it hold out? how long will it be before people are like — hey, wait a minute…i just spent three hours making an ad for Mentos and…
Youth goes marching on…
don’t wanna get caught texting in class??? NPR : Teens Turn ‘Repeller’ into Adult-Proof Ringtone = c
buttwhack.net : genius has limits, idiocy doesn’t.
buttwhack.net has *officially* launched. please stop by and register if you’d like to contribute to the idiocy that has no limits: buttwhack.net – c
Coffee makes us yes men?
Australian researchers say a caffeine hit improves our ability to process information and increases the extent to which we listen to and take on board a persuasive message. They tested this by quizzing people about their attitudes to voluntary euthanasia and abortion before and after either the equivalent of about two cups of coffee or…
Ice cream won’t make penises big
An advertising watchdog group today warned that many well-established ice cream companies target young boys who wish their penis would grow monstrously large. this concept (tho not the pics or commentary) was blatantly stolen from the Best Page in the Universe. – c
Happy 100th Birthday, Albert!!!
Today in the NYT is a fascinating interview with the father of LSD: Albert Hoffman, who turned 100 this week. Albert’s work on ergot produced several important drugs, including a compound still in use to prevent hemorrhaging after childbirth. However, it was the 25th compound that he synthesized, lysergic acid diethylamide, that was to have…
Pat Malecha : studmuffin
This is our pal, Pat. Isn’t he hot? Not only that, he’s smart as a whip on a horse’s back. He and Jen have been living in Little Port Walter (known by those in the know as Club Fed) for nearly two years now and we don’t get to see them as often as we’d…