Miss Kool Kitty becomes Mrs Kool Kitty!

But you can still call her Ms Kool Kitty.

Congratulations to Joanne and Bill on your New York nuptials, though I hope you are not reading this today.

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File under “Best Headline Ever”:

“A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday amid a choir of complaining Catholics that included Cardinal Edward Egan.

The “My Sweet Lord” display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan, said Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director. Semler said he submitted his resignation after officials at the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show.”

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Scientists have done what lonely shepherds have failed at for thousands of years.

Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

Next, a four-assed monkey.

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Stolen from BoingBoing.

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From Wikipedia:

An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre.

One acre comprises 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet. Because of alternative definitions of a yard or a foot, the exact size of an acre also varies slightly. Related units of length are the acre’s length of one furlong (220 yards) and the acre’s breadth of one chain (4 rods or 66 feet).

The acre is often used to express areas of land. In the metric system, the hectare is commonly used for the same purpose. An acre is approximately 0.4 hectares.

So an acre is one furlong long and one chain wide. Riiiight. Also note that rods aren’t evenly divisible by feet (16.4 feet/rod, to be exact). Imperial system, my ass.

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UK scientists are recommending that their government revamp its drug classification system so that drugs are ranked according to the level of danger they represent to humans rather than the murk potential for misuse or abuse standard currently in use.

In the new system legal drugs, such as alcohol and nicotine, are ranked alongside illegal drugs.

The new ranking places alcohol and tobacco in the upper half of the league table. These socially accepted drugs were judged more harmful than cannabis, and substantially more dangerous than the Class A drugs LSD, 4-methylthioamphetamine and ecstasy.

“Alcohol is not far behind demonised terrors of the street such as heroin and cocaine,” said Prof Blakemore.

Though it’s doubtful, if the Brits take steps in this direction, it may prompt the U.S. government to make more reasonable drug policy.

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Atlanta’s population surpasses 5 million

Metro Atlanta marks a milestone today as the U.S. Census Bureau reports that it surged past 5 million people last year. According to the bureau’s county population estimates, the 28-county metro area — known officially as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area — showed a population of 5,138,223.

-from AJC

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“Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar bear became an animal superstar after he was abandoned by his mother.

He rapidly became the symbol of Berlin Zoo, whose staff bottle-fed him and handed out cuddles in between.

At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.

Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.

But Berlin Zoo holds different opinions. Its chief vet Andre Schuele says the activists’ criticisms would make him angry if he could take them seriously. “Polar bears live alone in the wild. I see no logical reason why this bear should be killed.”

It’s things like this that make me really wonder about animal rights activists. Link

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Because no blog would be complete without at least one visit from Mr. Winkle.

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My Birthday cake. Dublin, 2007.

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In the spirit of Irish things, I got you a highway with no one on it:

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Hey, we’ve got comments again, via the Blogger comment tool. Let there be much rejoycing.

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How about a hovering Stalin’s bust? Not for nothing was he called “Man of Steel”.

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Forget the ‘zine. I say two paper cups and a string. Always worked for me.

And I don’t do hats too well. How about a hovercraft or a bust of Stalin’s head?

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Damn you, Ennui, you just made me spit coffee all over my keyboard. And yeah, the old way did have a certain charm. Hell, maybe we should give up on this newfangled blog malarky and print ourselves a ‘zine.

As for the output file, I’d say print it out and fold it into a nice hat.

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“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”

–P. J. O’Rourke

(gotten from this here place)

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Couldn’t we just revert back to the old method of sharing comments?

Also, what am I supposed to do with that file you sent to me? Rub it and make a wish?

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In other news, BlogExtra, the company that hosts our comment engine, was sold on January 11th, and seems to have broken on January 12th. I’m giving them until tomorrow to get their service running again, then we’re dumping it in favor of the Blogger comment tool.

You may return to your tasks.

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“The geologists named it after a mineralogist they really admired, Herbert Smith, labelled it and put it to one side,” says team member Young Lee. “They didn’t realise the potential herbertsmithite would have for physicists years later.”

The mineral pictured to the left may represent a new state of matter, and may well become the silicon of the quantum computing age. This arises from new discoveries about the structure of the universe, wherein electrons are not elementary particles, but are just the tail ends of strings of other, more fundamental particles. Let this be a lesson: never take lightly the naming of anything. Link

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Deputy #1: The other complaint I have heard about in my area is the amount of discard being created because of this pressure, particularly on larger twin-rigged trawlers. One fishermen estimates that six baskets out of every 40 are discarded, destroyed and thrown overboard. They are not even logged. Deputy O’Shea spoke about a waste of food. If good food is thrown overboard and is not used against quotas, we in this country have a job to do to prevent this kind of wastage. In Spain, the discard is apparently used against quotas and Spanish fishermen, therefore, do not target smaller material. The (Deputy #2) might smile at this and tell me he has other sources of information.

Deputy #2: I am not smiling. I am listening to the Deputy.

Deputy #1: I wonder whether the (Deputy #2) agrees with me as I received the impression he might have believed there was more information. I look forward to his reply as he might give me more details. These are the issues of which I have been informed.

Deputy #2: By Spaniards.

Deputy #1: No, by Irish fishermen.

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Sort of a greenish place with lots of sheep.And, as promised, I opened my Flickr account so you can see all my photos (as I upload them, which can take some time, as I tend to wander away from my laptop in the hopes that I will forget all about the Internets).

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Narcissism can have benefits, said study co-author W. Keith Campbell of the University of Georgia, suggesting it could be useful in meeting new people “or auditioning on ‘American Idol.”‘

(Many thanks to the horse-face man, who is no narcissist, for sharing the news.)

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That’s right. That’s actually the name of the post on this blog. And here I thought we were getting short on crazy people. What amazes me even more than the fact that people like this exist is the fact that so many people seem to agree. Seriously. Check out the comments.

Jews have been the driving force behind legalizing abortion in (formerly) Christian countries, such as the United States, France, England, Canada, et al. But in some Western nations, the people still have a modicum of common sense, and refuse to allow Jews to get rich performing their favorite pastime: Jewish ritual killing of Christian babies.

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I just found out that Daddy-longlegs spiders (which I knew weren’t actually spiders) are actually called harvestmen (pictured right), and that they have no venom whatsoever. I’ve also just learned that there’s a whole nother (that’s right, a whole nother) spider called Daddy-longlegs, which is actually called a cellar spider (pictured right). This is the one to which the old myth about them being fatally poisonous, but being unable to pierce human skin, applies. As it turns out, they can pierce human skin, but the venom is relatively harmless. All this while searching for info on Camel Spiders, which, as it turns out, are also not spiders.

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