] Clone High bravely tackles challenging teen issues, such
] as sleep deprivation, catching ADD from toilet seats, the
] evils of litter, and having the guy you like not like you
] back the same way you like him.

This is pretty whacky. Evil government scientists clone famous figures from world history. We find them as high school personality archtypes. Its strange and funny. Good break from predictable TV.

There is a robot that says "bling bling" and a number that lies. Thats really all you need to know.

[I definitly recommend this show as well. At first I was skeptical, but its pretty rad:) -Nano]

Clone High

Shuttle Columbia has been lost durring reentry.

Update: That is now confirmed by NASA. A large explosion has been reported in the Dallas FtW area. NASA is saying to say away from any wreckage found.

A sad day:(

TURN ON THE TV, RIGHT NOW, ANY CHANNEL

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!

"ENFIELD, Conn., Jan. 24 -- LEGO Company today announces one of only two existing scale replicas of the famous Stanley Cup is missing since the close of the annual Super Show that took place in Las Vegas earlier this week."

Those bastards!

Just what is this world coming to?

LEGO Stanley Cup Stolen

] A new smart bandage, designed to selectively pinpoint and
] absorb destructive enzymes oozing from non-healing
] wounds, may soon become a staple in hospital supply
] cabinets.

What *will* they think of next?:)

Wired News: What to Do About Nasty Boo-Boos

] His theory is that Americans like to make lifestyle
] changes the easy way. We'd rather eat low-fat food than
] eat less. We prefer Prozac to psychotherapy. The newest
] passive solution, he says, will be his three-tiered
] cigarette series - the Quest 1, 2, and 3. The first two
] deliver 17 and 58 percent less nicotine, respectively,
] than the average light cigarette by blending regular
] tobacco with Vector's genetically modified, nicotine-free
] product. Quest 3 contains only the nicotine-free tobacco.
] Try as you might, it won't give you a buzz. But, as
] Vector execs admit, all three still contain almost all of
] the carcinogens present in other cigarettes. They'll give
] you cancer and heart disease just like regular smokes.

An article found in this months issue of Wired about a new way to stop smoking by smoking. They genetically modified tobacco so that it doesn't generate nicotine, so you can work on cutting your addiction to nicotine before working on your addiction to the habit of smoking. Sounds pretty interesting....now, where do you get these smokes?

Wired 11.02: Come to LeBow Country

] I am a Breakout Bat.
]
] I am an abstract sort of creature, who dislikes any sort
] of restraint. If you try to pigeonhole me, I'll break the
] box, and come back for more. I don't have any particular
] ambitions, I just drift, but I am adept at keeping life
] going along.
]
] (If you were not a Breakout Bat you would be an
] Asteroid.)

What Pre-1985 Video Game Character are you?

What Video Game Character Am I?

] Even though roads were clear of snow, sleet and ice
] Friday, schools around Georgia closed because of brutal
] cold.

Southerners are WEAK!!!

Georgia schools closed because its too cold...

] Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with
] whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his
] grande Caffe Mocha in a crowded Starbucks, and then he
] gets back to explaining how much he wants HIV, the virus
] that causes AIDS. His eyes light up as he says that the
] actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV,
] will be "the most erotic thing I can imagine." He seems
] like a typical thirty-two-year-old man, but, in fact, he
] has a secret life. Carlos is chasing the bug.

Wow, this is really fucked up. I can't believe that someone would think that living with AIDS is anything like living with diabetes. This made my stomach turn.

[THis is definitly one of the most fucked up things I have read in a long time. These people are incredibly selfish and ignorant. First of all, having HIV isn't like having diabetes. When you get HIV, you are given a heavy cocktail of drugs that you have to take throughout the day. You have to adhere to a very specific schedule of taking these drugs, and its not just three times a day (at every meal)...its many more times then that...its a few different pills almost every hour of the day. Then, after a few years of doing that every day, eventually, the HIV starts to gain resistance, and you have to switch to a totally new cocktail of drugs. Side effects for these drugs arn't pretty either. Some people are lucky, and their immune systems stay ok. But most aren't so lucky...their immune systems eventually are compromised by the HIV because the virus hides out in places like your lymph nodes and fuck up immune cells. Then, if that person contracts even little diseases such as the flu, there is no immune system left to attack the new disease, and that person dies. These bug chasing people not only are providing the virus with an environment to grow and evolve into more resistant forms, making it impossible to eradicate this virus (if that is even possible at this point), but they are probably also contributing a major expense to the medical community. Its not cheap at all to develop new drugs when the drugs we have now become useless due to resistant strains of virus. It is just disturbing to me to think that there are people out there that would strive to contract a virus such as HIV. I studied HIV in Virology, and by far, its one of the scariest viruses I learned about. Its a very complex virus that knows how to hide out and use human genes and proteins to reproduce itself. These people are very stupid, and I guess they will figure that out sooner or later. Hopefully, sooner. -Nanochick]

RollingStone.com: News: Bug Chasers

] In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium,
] The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge,
] Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven %u201CMillennium
] Prize Problems.%u201D The Scientific Advisory Board of
] CMI selected these problems, focusing on important
] classic questions that have resisted solution over the
] years. The Board of Directors of CMI have designated a $7
] million prize fund for the solution to these problems,
] with $1 million allocated to each.

Solve one of these math problems, and win a million dollars. All you computer geeks should check out the P versus NP problem.

Clay Mathematics Institute - Millennium Prize Problems