Posted by The Foo in And everything else...

Happy Hump Day! I have been little under the weather lately with feeling tired and heavy headed all the time. With that, and my constant back ache, I feel really old and useless! I may have to research the web and pay a visit to my doctor to see what’s wrong with me.

Anyway, here are some interesting articles/ops to share:

• A Blog in a Book: You can now publish and sell your blog/photoblog on actual printed books for cheap with a new service called Blurb.com. They officially opened to the public this week - check them out!
• Jellyfish injections: A company called NanoCyte has been creating jellyfish injections claiming it would be used to treat skin complaints like acne, or deliver drugs like insulin to diabetics and to apply tattoos.
• Fighting fruit flies: Ralph Greenspan and Herman Dierick of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California, have been breeding fruit flies and have found a way to alter their genes to make them aggressive and have fighting tendancies. Not sure why you would want that but be careful the next time you try to swat a fly! Yikes!
• “Live long and Prosper” - The new Star Trek Bible, a 500 page catalog of Trekkie memorabilia is out for auction this fall in Manhattan.
• Maurice Clarett, the disgraced college football star, was claimed to have been bankrolled by an Israeli Mobster after leaving Ohio State.
• Fact or Fiction? - A 14 year old blind boy with Daredevil super powers i.e. the ability to “see” with sound waves being bounced of object. The technique is called Echolocation and is what bats/ dolphins use to get around.

2 Responses to “Wednesday Shorts: 8/30/2006”

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   kristarella said: @ 9:46 pm
   August 30th, 2006 

   
   

   The blind boy is interesting! I loved that movie, this story sounds real, bit too detailed to be fictitious. I’d like it to be true.

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   Angela K said: @ 2:53 pm
   August 31st, 2006 

   
   

   I hope you feel better soon, Foo! I had an 80-year-old woman recommend Metabolife to me the other day when I told her how tired I was. HA! I may actually try it, though, even though it pushes me over the I’m-too-young-to-try-this-crap line. Best wishes to you!

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