HAHAHA....oh yeah. This is not work safe...unless you have headphones:)

::ill Will Press:: NEUROTICALLY YOURS CARTOON: FAT-KINS DIET

] Because of growing cases of drug-resistant strains of
] gonorrhea, the government is expected to announce this
] week that common treatments against the sexually
] transmitted disease no longer work and other drugs should
] be used, top experts said Monday.

This is definitely *not* good news.

CNN.com - New drug needed for resistant gonorrhea - Apr 26, 2004

] Grad School Barbie is anatomically correct to teach kids
] about the exciting changes that come with pursuing a
] higher education. Removable panels on Barbie's head and
] torso allow you to watch as her cerebellum fries to a
] crispy brown, her heart race 150 beats per minute, and
] her stomach lining gradually dissolve into nothing.
] Barbie comes with specially designed eye ducts: just add
] a little water and watch Grad School Barbie burst into
] tears at random intervals. Deluxe Grad School Barbie
] comes with a "Snap" button, bendable arms and legs, and a
] small vibrating motor. Press the button to watch Barbie
] crumple into the fetal position and tremble
] uncontrollably. Fun for the whole family!

This is just damned funny......(/me bursts into tears)
;)
Nano

Grad School Barbie

] And, using a downloaded A9 toolbar for Internet Explorer,
] users can also tag their own notes to web pages and block
] popups. All these extras have impressed Chris Sherman, an
] editor at SearchEngineWatch. "I like the idea of
] personalisation," he told New Scientist.

This guy seriously needs to see memestreams. :)

New Scientist - Amazon's search engine impresses experts

] A new type of Blu-Ray digital video disk made largely
] from paper has been developed by Sony and Toppan Printing
] in Japan. The two companies say such paper-based disks
] will be cheaper to make and less environmentally harmful

I wasn't aware that the plastic that is used to make DVDs comes from crude oil. This is interesting though....using paper and some other polymer instead of the plastic. Paper DVDs....what will they think of next;)

New Scientist - New Blu-Ray video disk is made of paper

] A group of children hunting for Easter eggs Saturday
] during a church event found two loaded handguns outside
] an elementary school.

This is horrible....but the headline was far too great not to be memed

CNN.com - Children on Easter egg hunt find guns instead - Apr 11, 2004

] Orbital Development will provide a lunar spacecraft that
] can be packed with personal paraphernalia. While en route
] to the moon -- taking 4 to 5 days -- and before smashing
] into the lunar terrain, the moon probe would return
] digital photography as it approaches the near side of the
] moon, right up the moment of impact.

Is it just me, or is this overpriced and dumb? Stupidity of others can be so humorous sometimes

CNN.com - Personalized moon crash for sale on eBay - Apr 9, 2004

So, I don't know about any one else, but nothing in this memo screams that on 9/11, four planes would be hijacked and used as bombs. I mean, its not really that suprising that our gov had some sort of information that some sort of terrorist attack on US soil was being planned. I am glad that they knew that something was coming....it means that we are not *completely* blind to people plotting against us. But I dont think that anyone reading this memo would be able to stop what happened on 9/11. As much as I don't like Bush, I have to say that not even the person holding the most powerful position in our government can stop *all* evildoing....regardless of whether that person be a Dem., a Republican, or anything else. Just because they knew that something was up, doesn't mean they knew the details or could guess the details. Hindsight is 20/20.

Declassified Memo pre-9/11

] To see what might happen if buckyballs got into the
] environment, Eva Oberdörster, an aquatic scientist at
] Southern Methodist University, put some into a fish tank
] at a concentration of 0.5 parts per million, along with
] nine largemouth bass. The buckyball-breathing fish
] experienced significant brain damage after 48 hours.
] Brain-cell membranes were disrupted, an affliction that
] has been linked to illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease
] in humans.
]
] Oberdörster's unpublished study, which was released last
] week, is one of the few completed studies looking at the
] potential risks of nanomaterials. There is some cause for
] concern. Two recent studies documented lung damage in
] animals after they inhaled a type of buckyball called a
] carbon nanotube. Another showed that nanoparticles can
] get into the brain if inhaled.
]
] They're also small enough to cross cell walls and leak
] into the nucleus, the home of an organism's DNA. And, in
] the case of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, they can kill
] bacteria. That's good news in a hospital, but bad news in
] the environment, where bacteria are extremely important
] for maintaining soil fertility, among other things.

Wired News: Big Concern for Very Small Things

] The latest human activity to be mastered by robots was
] demonstrated recently when Sony's QRIO bot successfully
] conducted an entire orchestra.
]
] The 58-centimetre-tall humanoid robot led the Tokyo
] Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of
] Beethoven's 5th symphony during a concert held at the
] Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on 15 March.
]
] A video of the robot conductor in action can be viewed on
] Sony's website here (RealPlayer required).

New Scientist - Humanoid Robot conducts Beethoven symphony