Well… it’s 2008. Wierd. Any hew… still need some time to recover and catch up.
Everyone knows that we’re outsourcing everything these days and a lot of that business goes to India… but outsourcing pregnancies? I mean, creepy? Yeah….
Less creepily, take a look at this fellow who’s gone and graded the flags of the world! [...]

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You know I find myself wishing I could both translate stuff into morse code and listen to that translation all the time (ok not really). Fortunately for the world someone has gone and busted out a java applet (an applet!!) that does just that giving you both a visual and audio representation! (via) Even better [...]

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The Telegraph has published the secrets - discovered by scientists (of course! you see why I love scientists now?) - of rock, paper scissors. Personally, my secret was always the last tip they give - throw the move that would have beaten your opponent’s previous move and it’s stood me in good stead over these [...]

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You know I loves the warm tender embrace of my teevee. What with the writers’ strike reality shows are even more prominent and I two of those that I quite enjoy are It Takes a Thief and Repo Men (just saw the application to get your house burgled by It Takes a Thief!). Add another [...]

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Ok, this is super creepy - scientists are now starting to create new life forms from DNA that they have created. That’s super messed up! I guess it is now a contest of whether we’ll be enslaved by robot overlords or devoured by mutant blob first, I’m not sure who I’m routing for… I like [...]

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Last Monday Art of 2007!
Wandered by foodiebytes.com which hopes to let you find new places to eat (if you live in Boston, Chicago, NY, SF or DC). It takes the novel approach of letting you search by food (or dietary restriction apparently as they suggest searching for “gluten-free” as an example). This seems like an [...]

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In a daring display of one-upsmanship scientists of the auroras borealis were not content with all the press their newer noctilucent cloud studying brethren were getting and have discovered (maybe) the source of power for these northern lights! Using satellites and magic they believe that they are caused by “comes from a stream of charged [...]

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So some random website is reporting that Korean scientists have cloned cats but with a sciency twist. The twist? Obviously they made the cats glow in the dark. Now there’s every possibility that this is a hoax - most likely on the part of the internet, but it’s true that the Korean’s now have a [...]

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Ok, Merriam-Webster has just announced it’s word of the year. w00t. The reason for this is that it was voted online. Compare and contrast to locavore, the word of the year for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Not voted for online. My favourite is the quote from m-w’s president:
“People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 [...]

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You know, when I was growing up, all we had in the way of wierd lights in the sky were UFO’s and Aurora Borealis. But now there’s night-shining clouds for the whippersnappers to gaze upon. These so called noctilucent clouds are coming on faster, lower and brighter than ever before and scientists (my favourite, you [...]

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