Gecko + Ants = 0
And for this one, maybe turn off the sound. It’s much more majestic without the cloying narration.
Add comment | Added by Brown on December 2nd, 2008
I was swayed recently by a story of which I am sure many of you have now been forwarded by some friend or work colleague like me who thought this story was hilarious. It’s the one about the spider. It made me think, how agreeable it would be if we could trade pictures of 7 legged spiders for electricity and gas and other utilities.
And then I read this article in the paper this morning about a monthly local veggie swap whereby one can trade fruit and veg grown in the garden. So I could take my new harvested red tomatoes and trade them for some else’s broccoli for example - this is all so romantic really, is it not. I think perhaps I should try this one on the rotten scoundrels at AAMI who are trying to make me pay them to fix some goof-ball’s car that I DID NOT roll into. And if it so happens that I must exchange goods, perhaps I could trade some of my tomatoes with him, they would match his red Mercedes with the dint.
Add comment | Added by Pearls on November 25th, 2008
I’m torn: Dale looks honest, but Gabriel promises change.
Add comment | Added by Creaky on November 21st, 2008
The New York Times reports that for as little as $10 million it may be possible to create a real, live whoolly mammoth. African elephant DNA is actually quite similar to the mammoth’s, so the idea is that scientists may be able to insert the mammoth’s DNA into the elephant DNA, but only in the sections where genetic differences occur.
If the genome of an extinct species can be reconstructed, biologists can work out the exact DNA differences with the genome of its nearest living relative. There are talks on how to modify the DNA in an elephant’s egg so that after each round of changes it would progressively resemble the DNA in a mammoth egg. The final-stage egg could then be brought to term in an elephant mother, and mammoths might once again roam the Siberian steppes.
But there are further implications to this technology. DNA has an effective age limit of 60,000 before it becomes too damaged or contaminated to be useful. So the question begs then, what else could we possibly bring back to life?
The same would be technically possible with Neanderthals, whose full genome is expected to be recovered shortly, but there would be several ethical issues in modifying modern human DNA to that of another human species.
Anticipating the ethical backlash, the scientists have already thought about a workaround.
Dr. Church said there might be an alternative approach that would “alarm a minimal number of people.” The workaround would be to modify not a human genome but that of the chimpanzee, which is some 98 percent similar to that of people. The chimp’s genome would be progressively modified until close enough to that of Neanderthals, and the embryo brought to term in a chimpanzee.
Science. Wow. Link
Add comment | Added by Brown on November 21st, 2008
All (or at least most) dominoe related world records smashed. Best bits, possibly 2:29 or 2:54.
Add comment | Added by Creaky on November 20th, 2008
Leigh Bowery was a performance artist and designer in the 80’s. This clip is a short interview with snippets of his band Minty. Originally born in Sunshine, Victoria, he moved to London to hone his craft. Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons has sighted Leigh as a major influence. He also styled for Boy George and posed for Lucian Frued among many other things. He was an unsung master of his time. You can learn more about him here.
Add comment | Added by Jerome on November 20th, 2008
Before there was Blow Wave there was No Wave. Here Byron Coley and Thurston Moore discuss their book and the movement in a room with a two dollar table and a lovely lime green background.
Add comment | Added by Jerome on November 20th, 2008
