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Wooly Mammoth Brainstorm »
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
Brainstorm session with Thraxxus [...]
Sucker Punch – Geek Porn »
Every so often a Director is given the opportunity to take his teen age boy fantasies and turn them into a film. Well it turns out that Zack Snyder was given this opportunity given his track record for other Geek films that bordered on mental masturbation. Realize I am not complaining and I will see [...]
Grammar Nazi’s »
One of my favorite author’s – Michael Sullivan had a great post on his amazon.com blog – no idea how to easily link it to just this old post so I’ll just quote it from :
“Children everywhere are raised to believe in absolutes. There are right ways and wrong ways of doing everything. This is [...]
Vaccines – Whooping Cough Outbreak »
We here at Blinkinblogs debate the usefulness of Vaccines on a regular basis, or it seems that is like what we are doing. In actuality we are normally debating just one – the H1N1 vaccine and its time to market seeming a tad quick along with some of the materials in it being in question. [...]
Mandatory, Volunteer National Service for 18 to 42 year olds »
H. R. 5741
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to [...]
Hayward – Buh Bye. »
BP’s Tony Hayward is stepping down – about damn time. The “embattled” CEO is stepping down after showing the world that he may be the most ego-maniacal CEO of all time. This power house of brilliance lead a company who is responsible for arguably the worst man-caused nature based disaster in the history of the Earth and his [...]
What’s Up My Ninja?! »
Pure awesomeness. Any time someone can make fun of the “N-word” or “N-Bomb” in a way that is both intelligent and funny I must applaud. We here at Blinkinblogs love to make fun of stereotypes, not those that the stereotypes are directed at, but the stereotypes themselves, and these guys do a great job. Well [...]
HTML 5 Palette Swapping »
These guys are amazing – they use old school video game animation techniques for palette swapping to animate some images in HTML for a browser. You will want to look at this site in something other that Internet Explorer (which sucks badly these days) as IE will just throw some crappy error about needing a [...]
Evolutionary comparisons with ancient Transibs »
Formal Title: Recombination Signal Sequences providing evidence for low vitality cerebral output in higher order Apes when compared with ancient Transibs
The V(D)J recombination reaction in jawed vertebrates is catalyzed by the RAG1 and RAG2 proteins, which are believed to have emerged approximately 500 million years ago from transposon-encoded proteins. What makes this extremely interesting is [...]
Poetry Friday »
The Man’s Fairy Tale.
Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess… Will you marry me?”
The Princess said “NO!”
…
And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles
and went fishing and hunting
and dated women half his age and drank beer and whiskey
and had tons of money in the bank and [...]
Congress Continues to not solve the problem. »
According to the Washington Post:
“Congress has approved a six-month extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. On a vote of 272 to 152, the House gave the measure final approval and sent it on to the White House, where aides said President Obama plans to sign it immediately.”
At a cursory look this seems [...]
Amazon’s eBook Sales Overtake Hardcover »
Amazon is still being a little sneaky with the actual number, using the word “millions,” the company has revealed that sales of its Kindle have tripled since they dropped the price $259 to $189. News that downloaded kindle eBooks have overtaken its hardcover counterparts is certainly cause for major celebration.
According to a press release, 14.3 Kindle books have [...]
Such is the human race… »
Attribution: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/global_warming.png
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat. ~Mark Twain
Google Discontinues Nexus One »
In the same amount of time it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones, Google only sold 135,000 of the Android-powered Nexus.
On July 16, the company announced that it received its final order from the phone’s manufacturer, HTC. The phone that was supposed to change the way you buy wireless phones. On release, the Nexus [...]
More Lohan BS »
So get this shiz: Lohan is going to jail, but will spend her entire stay in solitary. What a crock of shiznit. This is just more favoritism shown to famous people who screw up. Let us reverse positions for a moment.
Scenario: James, the inner city African American Male, skipped out on his probation. He goes to court [...]