Got Brain Worms?
From Holy Web!: OMFG: Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm. FOXNews Wash your hands!
Kundun Tweets
The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama joined twitter this morning, and they are following me. (I’d better watch what I tweet 🙂 ) http://twitter.com/OHHDL UPDATE: Apparently not the real OHHDL… 🙁 UPDATE #2: The real Dalai Lama is now on Twitter @DalaiLama.
Bacon Explosion!
From BBQPitBoys.com:
Humans are among us!
From I Believe in Advertising:
Cold Brewing with Style
From Cold Drip Coffee Maker on The Coffee Snob: The Coffee Snob Cold Drip Coffee Maker produces an exquisite coffee concentrate using an exclusive cold drip method to extract only the best parts of the coffee bean. The harsh acids and oils that make for bitter-tasting coffee and that are…
LEGO minifig motorcycle helmet –
From Joel Johnson on Boing Boing Gadgets It’s the work of designer Sebastian Errazuriz.
Gmail gives users ‘Multiple Inboxes’
From Steven Musil at cnet news: Google late Thursday unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view. The new feature–called Multiple Inboxes–allows users to have multiple viewing panes open simultaneously without having to open another browser window. The…
TED2009: Al Gore
From Mark @ BoingBoing.net: Al Gore is showing animation of the Arctic Ice cap. Over the last 25 years the permanent ice has diminished. A massive amount of frozen carbon is being released. In some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is bubbling out of the water. He plays a video…
Extinct Ibex Resurrected by Cloning… then Goes Extinct Again!
From Gavin Hudson on EcoWordly.com: Just seven minutes after Spanish and French scientists brought the Pyrenean ibex back from extinction, the young animal died of lung complications also common to other cloned animals. And so an extinct species blinked into life for an instant and then flickered out again. The…
Clampdown continues in Tibet, China and Australia to meet for Human Rights Dialogue
From Phayul.com: Australian and Chinese officials will meet on Monday for the Twelfth Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue, originally scheduled for late last year. Meanwhile authorities in Lhasa have arrested dozens of Tibetans as part of a renewed military crackdown ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising on…