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Wednesday Shorts: 8/30/2006

Posted By The Foo On 30th August 2006 @ 13:48 In And everything else... | 2 Comments

[1] 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 [2] Blurb.com. They officially opened to the public this week - check them out!
  • Jellyfish injections: A company called [3] NanoCyte has been creating [4] 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 [5] 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 [6] out for auction this fall in Manhattan.
  • Maurice Clarett, the disgraced college football star, was claimed to have been [7] bankrolled by an Israeli Mobster after leaving Ohio State.
  • Fact or Fiction? - A 14 year old [8] 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.


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[1] Happy Hump Day: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hump+day&f=1
[2] Blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com
[3] NanoCyte: http://www.nano-cyte.com/technology.html
[4] jellyfish injections: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9799&feedId=online-news_rss
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[5] alter their genes: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9788&feedId=online-news_rss091
[6] out for auction: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14417451/
[7] bankrolled by an Israeli Mobster: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2553084&campaign=rss&sourc
e=ESPNHeadlines

[8] blind boy with Daredevil super powers: http://www.nerdshit.com/wordpress/?p=2165

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