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Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 02:52 pm Super Chickens!
This is rather cool:

forget fluoride in your drinking water. What about cancer fighting/preventing proteins in your eggs?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=2794852
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6261427.stm?ls
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Oct. 4th, 2006 @ 10:24 am A story you won't find in regular news (Nobel Prize)
Current Mood: aggravatedaggravated
The Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine is not a story strong enough to rival Avril Lavigne spitting on the paparazzi it seems.  Though the two stories do have a common thread:  DNA.

Or, in this case, more specifically RNA.  Two American scientists have apparently discovered the sequence needed to cause gene "interference".  Which is about what it sounds like.  The ability to stop the activity of specific genes in the human body.

Which genes?  Well, possibly ones that allow the replication of AIDS or cancerous cells.  The possibilities at this point seem fairly vast.  This could be the beginning of an entirely new form of medical treatment.

But let's not let something as little as that distract us from the real news stories out there.

Details from National Geographic
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Sep. 29th, 2006 @ 03:54 pm Halloween is coming!
Current Mood: deviousdevious
So I was talking wtih Kelli last night about how exciting it is to finally be living in our house and be able to decorate for Halloween.  This is by far my favorite holiday.

I was trying to come up with some good ideas for things around the outside of the house.  We've got a nice tree out front and I thought for a minute about hanging a body from it, but Kelli was worried that it might be taken the wrong way (lynching), and after thinking for a few moments I agreed that it might come across wrong.  So instead I'm going to put together a body to stick to the side of the house that's been impaled by a pitchfork (or some other impliment).

I was also thinking about placing a basket of heads at the edge of our property near the corner of the street, and possibly some heads or various other body parts on stakes in the yard (I'm still debating).  I'd like to put something together for blood splatter that could be put on some trees and possibly our street number sign.  Problem is I want something that'll stay through minor weather, but still be fairly easy to wash away. If you've got any ideas let me know.

I'll also probbaly take a couple pieces of flat plywood to use as minor house boarding and put messages "stay out" "beware" "enter at your own risk" on the pieces of wood using spray paint. 

I really need a chainsaw.....

So yeah.  I'm excited.  And before you get all up in arms... while I do intend to scare some people on halloween night, I'll be nice to the real little kids.  I'm not looking to make anyone cry, just give some good friendly fright to a few of the older ones out.
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Sep. 5th, 2006 @ 11:31 am I don't care if it's "too soon" I have to say this... (Steve Irwin)
Current Mood: contemplativecontemplative
Steve Irwin got exactly what he had been asking for, for years.

The man was horribly abusive to any animal that was unlucky enough to cross his path.  For years he's supported himself by teaching millions of children, the world over, that animals are not worthy of our respect, compassion, and least of all our patience.  If it's not entertaining you, poke it with a stick to get it to do something.  All these children grew up with this man telling them (through his actions) that it's your duty to manhandle and terrify any creature you come across.

It's a classic example of what happens when you keep poking the tiger. 

It couldn't be any more poetic that Steve's death came at the hands of one of the most docile creatures in existence.  In all of written history there are only two other reported deaths caused by stingray (Steve was the third), and both of those occurred when the stingray was accidentally stepped on. 

In Steve's case the stingray was swimming freely and the "Croc Hunter" undoubtedly cornered and grabbed ahold of the terrified creature to once again play out his superiority on camera. 

Instinctively the stingray shot its barbed tail upward.  By chance it caught Steve in the chest and pierced his heart.  Anyone else that had taken even a moment to research and understand a stingray's defensive reactions would have known exactly how to avoid being injured.  But Steve always liked to play it off the cuff.  This was an accidental death caused by his own carelessness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1865124,00.html
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Aug. 16th, 2006 @ 01:06 pm More Snakes on a Plane
Am I taking this out of context? NA!

AVC: You're doing the voice of God for an audiobook version of the Bible. How does the voice of God differ from the voice of Samuel L. Jackson?

SLJ: Not very much.

From: Onion Interview With SLJ
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Aug. 15th, 2006 @ 05:14 pm Truth in advertising
Current Mood: amusedamused
I wish I clould take credit for this, but I got it from an article about "Snakes on a Plane"

When word got out that the film's studio, New Line, had changed the title to the supremely bland ``Pacific Air 121," the blogosphere erupted in rage. The suits didn't get it: What was exciting people was the notion of B-movie junk that for once declared itself as B-movie junk. The original title pulled away the velvet Hollywood curtain of hypocrisy and called the thing for what it was: product. Such honesty was delightful, crass, and cheering, as if ``Jurassic Park" had been retitled ``Steven Spielberg Presents Very Realistic Dinosaurs Eating People."
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Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 02:52 pm Free F.E.A.R?
Current Mood: surprisedsurprised
Apparently they're going to be giving away the multiplayer version of F.E.A.R. I haven't yet played the single player, but I've only heard good reviews. This could be the next big thing since Wolfenstein ET.

Story:

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/fear-combat/724195p1.html
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Aug. 8th, 2006 @ 10:16 pm A Linux thing.
Current Mood: amusedamused
Just posting there here for record. It might come in useful. I found it on a linux group forum:

( sync flash audio )
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Jun. 7th, 2006 @ 11:12 am The little things
So I'm not the most traveled person I know but I've been around a decent part of the U.S. and I have to say that there is a special shade of blue particularly reserved for the afternoon sky in Iowa. It simply doesn't exist anywhere else. Driving back home from Woodharbor's other plant (about 30 mintues away) with the top down in the miata I had to put forth an effort to keep from constantly looking up. Really beautiful. And then later that evening Kelli and I went swimming just before 9pm and got to watch the sunset while in the lake.

I can't wait to have people out to visit in July.
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Jun. 2nd, 2006 @ 09:02 pm Americans / Mexicans / Canadians
Current Mood: amusedamused
Current Music: Big Love Theme (God Only Knows What I'd Be Without You)
Taken from a Slashdot forum discussion about RFID tags for immigrants:

As a Mexican person who prays for never needing to go to the USA (I just went once to Disney World and Universal Studios), I say, fuck the USA government.

How ironic, I'm an American who knows he'll never need to go to Mexico,and I'm always saying "fuck the Mexican government."

And, to make things better, I am a Mexican who knows that one day he is going to have to return to Mexico and I am always saying "Fuck the Mexican government".

I'm a Canadian...what the fuck is going on down there?
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