By The Way...

Thursday, January 18, 2007
10:03:00 AM EST
Hearing World Where You Live -- Crowded House
I feel like dumping a whole bunch of random links in your lap. Hope you're ready:

* How many shopping carts do you have to put together to make a circle? Lots.

* Everything you ever wanted to know about the presidential limo -- what they can tell you, anyway. There's other stuff to know. But if they told you, they'd have to run you over with it.

* A cure for cancer -- that's already a drug used for other things? It's possible, and if it's useful it'd be cheap, since it's already in the "generic" category.

* Also in science: Physicists are closing in on the elusive Higgs boson! Just a couple more rounds of "Marco!" "Polo!" and then we'll have it. Then we'll know everything and wrap this whole science thing up and go have some pie. Mmmm. Pie.

* To accentuate the above, Popular Science has a guide to what you can expect in science in 2007. Although, you know, the year is more than 5% done, and I still don't have my rocket car to the moon. Get a move on, science!

* The 100 top advertising campaigns of all time. This list is Mmm! Mmm! Good!

* Someone has decided to rank the attractiveness of the official pages of every state in America. It's interesting and yet you feel like you want to give this fellow a hug and the suggestion that he might, you know, want to go outside sometime.

* Like planes that can turn you into a fine particulate haze when they're pointed at you? You're going to love the brand-new F-35 Lightning II.

* The bra celebrates 100 years of lifting and separating. Radar Magazine has an illustrated history. Be aware the very first picture in this article is neither much about bras or safe for work (it's not nudity, but only just barely not)

* Normal people have birthday parties for their kids that don't cost $25,000 a pop. These are not normal people.

There, that should keep you happily linking. Enjoy!


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• #5 Comment from skyline89gts 
  1/21/07 2:39 PM | Permalink

  what the hell
• #4 Comment from dpoem 
  1/19/07 8:07 AM | Permalink

  I think that cancer-cure thing will lead to a lot of talk, and hopefully a complete redesign of our current pharmaceutical industry.  Do you honestly believe that any drug maker is going to want to develop this since there's no money in it for them?  Curing cancer is the Holy Grail for these companies, and because it is cancer, they can pretty much set the price of their medications as high as they wish.  And, if a cheap and effective treatment already exists, I don't think anyone will ever see it.  After all, if you think the oil companies are corrupt and greedy, you should look into the pharmaceutical industry.  They are downright inhumane.  
  
  Anyway, to add to your links, here's a potential cure for the H5N1 (Bird Flu) virus using Icelandic cod guts:
  http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=257558
  
  Well, enjoy the ConFusion.  
  
  -Dan
  http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/
  
• #3 Comment from fisherkristina 
  1/18/07 8:11 PM | Permalink

  Wow, I am astounded that there may be a cure for cancer.  
  
  Krissy
  http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink
• #2 Comment from onestrangecat 
  1/18/07 2:18 PM | Permalink

  hope it's ok that I put these in my links journal.  i will link back to you.
  
  Kathy
  
• #1 Comment from laughingcoyote6 
  1/18/07 10:52 AM | Permalink

  Do they still make the Pres' limo just north of Cincinnati?