High tech and cute too...

The Richardson ground squirrel uses ultrasonic frequencies to provide a warning to fellow members of its group, the first time an animal has been found to use high-frequency sound this way.(AFP/File/Paul Richards)  

Sunspots aimed directly at earth may have a devastating effect on satellites ans comms links if they result in large CME's (coronal mass ejections)... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16616 

Didnt Arnie blow up this bridge?

Didnt Arnie blow up this bridge? A separated trailer, from a tractor-trailer truck, dangles off the Channel 2 bridge on the Florida Keys' Overseas Highway near Islamorada, Fla., Monday, July 26, 2004, following an accident with a disabled vehicle. The tractor portion of the rig remained on the bridge. One person was taken to a local hospital with unspecified injuries. (AP Photo/Monroe County Sherifff's Office, Aviation Unit)  

Tonights Forecast: A Freeeeze Is Coming!

Hey,   Oh yeah... I never thought Id see the day I became a fully-fledged integrated cloro-floro carbon coolant based food storage unit owner... in laymans terms... I bought a fridge... on eBay... for $91! Bargain. Its a pitty I didnt forcast this cold snap! Who needs a fridge, just put your food outside! ;-)

MetoLeague Round 4

Yeah so I came 3rd in my division (a poor effort I know) ;-p I obtained top points for our team but once again we lost by one lousy point! I have a big decision now... do I do the MTBO or MetroLeague event on the 30th? Is this running "crap" taking over the biking!? What have I become!!!??? :) 

Hello Kitty!

Hello Kitty! Actress Sharon Stone poses in this photo, released in New York Thursday July 15, 2004, to accompany a Rolling Stone Magazine interview, in the issue on sale Friday July 16, 2004, about her role in the upcoming movie 'Catwoman.' (AP Photo/Roling Stone, Tony Duran)  

Soother for otter : An otter carries a soother in its mouth, after it was thrown in its pool by a child, at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia) 

How do you write *your* name?

pee-mail.com

Medical Rookies

Ok, so the world is over... Medical Rookies is a new "reality" TV show that documents medical "professionals" on their first few days at work. Basically, the deal is that you watch the show in the hope that something will go "horribly wrong". Sort of like watching car races for the crashes. Lets not forget that the people on the slab (unlike racecar drivers) most likely have no training and certainly dont have roll-cages. These are human beings and we watch hoping they will suffer... and thats fucked.

Hippopotamus mother 'Petra' and her one week old offspring are seen at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, July 8, 2004. The unnamed baby hippo was born on July 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer)  

A Thai waiter wears a condom over his head while serving a cocktail as a patron looks on at the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Bangkok on July 8, 2004. The restaurant, founded by Mechai Viravaidya, better known as 'Mr Condom', aims to educate the public about safe sex.  

Show me you doodle...

Doodles

Grape Juice Study Debunks Wine's Health Claim

...i thought so... In the last year wine sellers and their willing accomplices in the medical and news media fields have tried to sell us on drinking wine as a way to help our hearts. Those in the Prohibition Party and other temperance groups immediately said that any benefits in wine would come from the grapes, not from ethyl alcohol which is a poison. Now a new study has appeared in most newspapers which shows that we were right. Note especially that the benefit of grape juice is about 66% greater than that of wine without the harm caused by ethyl alcohol. As we have noted before there are a number of insurance companies which offer lower rates to abstainers. None offer lower rates to drinkers. They know the bottom line financially and realize that alcohol users die earlier and have more illnesses than abstainers. The information on this new study follows: Toasting the day with a glass of grape juice may be an especially good start for the heart. A study found that 8 or 10 ounces a day of the purple variety has a potent effect on the blood cells called platelets, making them less likely to form clots than can lead to heart attacks. In fact, purple grape juice might be even more potent than aspirin, which is widely recommended as a way of warding off heart attacks. The researchers compared grape juice with orange and grapefruit juice and came to the conclusion that grape juice is better, at least for the heart. The study was led by Dr. John D. Folts of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. His research has been funded for several years by the Nutricia Research Foundation of the Netherlands and the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation of Madison, Wisconsin and more recently by Welch's, which makes grape juice. Folts noted that 10 companies make purple grape juice in the United States, and all probably work equally well. Purple juice appears to be more potent than white, Folts said. Heart attacks occur when blood clots stick to fatty deposits on the walls of the heart's arteries, choking the supply of blood. Folts presented his latest findings recently at a conference of the American College of Cardiology. Experimenting on 17 volunteers, himself included, Folts found that both aspirin and red wine slow the activity of blood platelets by about 45 percent, while purple grape juice dampens them by about 75 percent. "His data are very convincing," said Dr. Arthur L. Klatsky of Kaiser Permanent Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., who studies the benefits of alcohol on the heart.

See... I *told* u I needed that GPS phone...

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/06/0418230.shtml?tid=137&tid=193&tid=215

iTunes iSbogus

iTunes iSbogus ...not everyone loves iTunes...

MTBO Cessnock

Gday, MTBO Cessnock was ok... there was *heaps* of sand and my tyre selection was too aggressive for those conditions. I finished about 6th but only narrowly... 4th and 5th and 6th were only 2 minutes apart! I made several navigational errors and had one off. Checkpoint 8 was the biggest waste of time as I did a parallel error and ended up at the wrong track junction. It was a good day in any case! Goos to see my times encroaching on the "big boys"...

No, you cant stop the music, nobody can stop the music... 

www.com: the web starts here...

Ok, so my mum is a jackass... she is suing telstra for some reason or other and was crapping on about how they told her to check out the details on "www.com"... My brother and I laughed it up... until... we actually typed "www.com" and found that it does exist... we havent found the telstra info that mum is after tho ;-) www.com: the web starts here...

The first images transmitted from the Cassini spacecraft during its orbit of Saturn are shown during a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California July 1, 2004. The image shows the sunlit side of Saturn's rings. Hours after it completed a journey of nearly seven years to Saturn, the spacecraft Cassini sent its first pictures back to Earth, showing sharp edges and ripples of energy in the planet's enormous rings. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)