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NanoPhoto of the Day
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Posted in Science on 28 March 2007
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Das a small boot! This small submarine is 4 millimeters long and about 65 millimeters in diameter. Freaking small. This photo was magnified 17x. Precursors to these little dudes being injected into your body, preprogrammed, to fight viruses? Let’s hope so (and hope that Putin doesn’t shift his attention to nanotech). Yesterday’s NanoPhoto of the […]

NanoPhoto of the Day
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Posted in Science on 27 March 2007
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Email your guesses as to just what this is…

Hershey’s Cacao Reserve Candy Bars Are Tasty (but their marketing isn’t)
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Posted in Food on 26 March 2007
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So I was waiting for my passport photos to be developed at Walgreen’s yesterday. While kicking it at the magazine rack (does Oprah have an insatiable ego or what?) I was trying to swallow paying out 10 bones for a copy of the Official U.S. Playstation magazine and another $5 for a copy of Men’s […]

Revel in some eye candy with electron microscopy
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Posted in Internet on 24 March 2007
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Occasionally the web reveals a real gem. Months ago I stumbled across this web site based in Germany that produces electron microscopy photos of things on the micron level. Want to see what a dust mite really looks like? Or why people with hay fever honk so much? Wanna dig what those tiny little flecks […]

The Evil of Acronyms or How Some Amway Distributors Got The Karmic Boomerang
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Posted in Uncategorized on 22 March 2007
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So P&G wins a case against some boneheaded Amway Distributors (see: lying sack of weasels willing to lie to their dying grandmothers to place another brick in their crumbling, stunted pyramids) for spreading rumors about P&G being part of the Church of Satan.  It took 12 years of litigation which means that both entities have […]

Winepress for the home to satisfy gadget freaks and Oenophiles
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Posted in Gadgets on 21 March 2007
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So Biz 2.0 has a top 10 cool gadget article up here. By first blush (heh), it seems like something that should be offered in one of the aging Sharper Image stores or an in-flight magalog. But…some dang designer made it look cool. Must stop the Troglodytic impulse to buy now….ergk! The name could use […]