January 2009
20 posts
Bay Area Company Clones Dead Pooch
A Florida couple pained by the death of their Labrador retriever has cloned the beloved family pet. The
now 10-week-old golden lab was created using the DNA from the family’s
deceased pet in a South Korea laboratory by a Bay Area bio-tech firm
and is the first single-birth, commercially cloned pup in the United
States, the Miami Herald reported. The Otto family brought home
the cuddly...
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Sir David Attenborough: 'I get hate mail telling...
“They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance,” Sir David said
during an interview with the Radio Times about his latest documentary on
Charles Darwin and natural selection.
This year marks two centuries since Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the
groundbreaking On the Origin of Species was published.
Telling the magazine that he was also asked why he did not...
Doomsday vault hit by financial crisis
Do we need a bail-out package for the world’s plants? The Millennium
seed bank is a huge international effort to store samples of every
plant species on the planet in a vault 150 km beneath the Arctic
permafrost. It only just opened last year
and already has run into trouble. The enterprise is funded in part by
lottery money and in part by corporate funds, but the global...
the truth and nothing but...
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Richard Trenton Chase
Can public works stimulate the economy
Media Alert! Jim Babka will appear on Straight Talk w/ Gary Nolan this evening. See the Postscript for details.
Quotes of the Day: “Is it too much to ask that someone criticizing (John Maynard) Keynes actually, you know, read Keynes…?” — Paul Krugman
Okay Mr. Krugman, let’s read what Keynes wrote in 1942 …
“Organized public works, at home and abroad, may
be the right cure for...
The Elements of the Plan
Quote of the Day: “Art is
individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating
force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb
monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the
reduction of man to the level of a machine.” — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Source: The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1891
Subject: Passing the “Read...
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Economy Profits From File-Sharing, Report...
Commissioned
by the Dutch government, a recently published report concludes that
file-sharing has a positive effect on the economy, both on the long and
short term. A massive 30% of the Dutch population uses file-sharing
software to download music, games, movies and other forms of
entertainment, which is now considered to be a ‘good thing’.
...
Note to self
So Trillian Astra has been in development for what, 8 years now?
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Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
HOUSTON – A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant’s death.
While in the Grayson County...
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IE Market share drops below 70%
For the first time since Windows 2000 was released, the number of people browsing the web, using Internet Explorer, has dropped to below 70%; if statistics released today by Net Applications are to be believed.
Leading the assault on IE is of course Mozilla Firefox, now peaking at over 20%, followed by Safari, at around 7%. The remainder is made of “bit players”, such as Chrome, Opera...