Archive for October, 2006

Good website… Enter in your address (or your neighbors) and find out who is running for what office.

2.6 Billion dollars is being spent on this year’s midterm election. That is more money than the GDP output of 54 countries. If there is a high turn out and 100 Million people vote that comes out to about $26 a vote.

For my fellow building and architecture geeks…

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Sky Scraper specs


The Scotsman - International - Honeybees’ DNA reveals ‘human’ side

“HONEYBEES are less closely related to other insects than once thought - nearer, in one respect at least, to humans than flies - according to scientists who have sequenced their genome.”

"Weird Al" at his best…

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“Weird Al” at his best…

“Weird Al” at his best…

Do you see what I see?

This is from Google Earth somewhere in Alberta, Canada. Reminds me of lying out in a field as a kid looking for shapes in the clouds.

It has been a bit of a running joke to some in our group for a while: using technology to decrease one’s own fertility. Turns out some of us may have been unknowingly doing it all along!

Mirror.co.uk - News - 007 ROLE OFFERED TO EWAN

What the hell?! Ewan McGregor offered the Bond role?

I haven’t actually read this whole thing yet. It’s a bit long but a very extensive and comprehensive prediction of what would happen if all human life were suddenly removed from the planet Earth. Interesting to say the least…

Morning to the masses, it another Monday morning here in sunny…. Moving on I shant bore you with the details and get to the point. I was reminded of an article I read many moons ago and found I still had a paper copy of it(contact me to see the yellowed paper version). I searched the net and found it in an online archive. Its a funny and insightful read on geek romance.

I Married a Mac Man
“Mac men treat their women like they treat their computers; with love, honor, adoration, passion and respect.”

Also I did NOT look up if that are now divorced, cause I would rather not know. In the end this old geek is just a softy for a good romance story with a happy ending.

‘Fraggle Rock’ to be made into movie - CNN.com

Dance your cares away worries for another day let the music play….

“The 1980s cult hit TV show is being developed by Ahmet Zappa — younger son of Frank Zappa — into a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the classic characters.”

A new microbe finds energy to survive underground using radiation.


Here is the article.
The Simpsons Archive: Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (The Springfield Times)

If you have never heard of tomacco and you want to learn the origin watch the following informative film.
E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT)

For the record, I do not agree with pretty much everything this guy says but still thought it interesting enough to post. I think where he fails is in the human factors around his theory. Especially the idea that the elite will only breed with the elite causing this change to occur. Humans have a long history of breaking social barriers when it comes to love, marriage and children and that will continue. The idea itself has already been tried with the ruling classes of Europe for hundreds of years and we’re not really any different now than we were then. And the differences we do see are based in medical technology and nutrition, not genetics. Anyway, from a purely scientific point of view, everything he says is possible but I would say it’s unlikely when the social factors are taken into account.