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Tag Archive for: biology

The morning coffee and the squid

0 Comments/ in Morning Coffee / by Mr Topp
February 16, 2011

Lady squids are weird.

It seems that they coat their eggs in a rage-inducing chemical agent that turns male squid into D&D-style Berserker Dire Squids.

(There are totally going to be Berserker Dire Squids in my next D&D game.)

Hilariously, the Christian Science Monitor article about the same thing suggests that human semen could have similar effects. If true, your local pornographic film set just became much more dangerous.

Image is by Solongo Mellecker, found via My Modern Metropolis.
Webcomic is Married to the Sea, by Drew and Natalie.

The weekend coffee

0 Comments/ in Weekend Coffee / by Mr Topp
November 6, 2010
GPS units with errors and directions obtained from Google maps have been blamed for many things — trucks going down roads that are too narrow, people driving into lakes, and pedestrians being hit by cars due to walking along routes lacking sidewalks, to mention three.

This time, Google Maps nearly started a war.

Always wanted to have sex with Obama? Now you can! In a manner of speaking.

Introducing the Obama sex doll.

We hear quite a bit these days, about how the Internet is destroying traditional publishing industries — most particularly newspapers and magazines.

So it is always funny to see examples of just how little traditional publishers understand the Internet and copyright law — here’s a recent example — two little pieces from a letter sent from an editor (who had plagiarized a blogger’s material in their print magazine) to the blogger (who wrote asking for credit and compensation):

I do know about copyright laws … the web is considered “public domain”

I’ve never been a fan of the phrase “fight fire with fire”. It simply seems like bad advice.

Fight monkeys with monkeys, on the other hand? That’s a phrase I can get behind.

Everything is better with butter …

… even your brain?

There’s an owl crisis in India. Which is to say, that owls are in danger of becoming an endangered species.

Why?

India blames a children’s book. Rather than, you know, the idiot parents who think that giving their (presumably non-wizard) children owls as pets is a good idea.

Let us revisit the Tea Party.

Or, perhaps, the T Party.

The way it was meant to be.

While on the subject of the Tea Party, the Big Bad Blog would like to note that Tea Party supporters often hold signs that say things such as “God Hates Fags”.

It has been pointed out that God Hates Figs.

We assume that the Tea Party’s previous signs have actually just contained a typo, and are looking forward to seeing a correction.

The morning coffee, mad scientists and the smart phone

0 Comments/ in Observations / by Mr Topp
September 28, 2010

Stephanie Fox, Kelly Faircloth and Mary Ratliff have combed over the annals of literature and created a definitive chart of Mad Scientists in literature, noting what fields they tend to study. The maddest of the sciences? Biology.


(by Lucian Olteanu)

Google recently added Google Instant, in which they try to guess what you type while you are typing. But some search terms are off limits to Google Instant, as Google is worried you might see things that you wish you had not.

Nokia seems to have real problems. Seems that in 2004, their R&D engineers developed a prototype phone. It was internet-ready, and had a large touchscreen. In 2004. Ready to go to the production line. But the company’s management decided it was “too risky”, putting Nokia behind the competition, instead of three years ahead of it.

Links, featuring goat pathogens, antelope sex and James Joyce

0 Comments/ in Weekend Coffee / by Mr Topp
May 22, 2010
The most amusing sentence I have read this week about the recent discovery of synthetic life is from The Loom at Discover Magazine: What would Joyce have thought if someone had told him that one day that the synthesized genome of a goat pathogen would carry his words?

I have to think his response would be: “A goat pathogen?”

While we’re on the subject of biology, you should know that male antelopes will lie to get sex. So don’t be trusting those antelope boys, ladies.
A woman was fined while out walking her dog.

Was it off the leash? No.
Did she not pick up after it? Kind of. She did try, she just picked up the wrong poo.

A man spent over seven years trying to complete a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle …. which can only mean one thing. When he finally reached the end, he found that one piece was missing.
Introducing the sideburn caliper.
Want to study virtual worlds for a living?

There’s an academic journal for that.

Want to learn how to play D&D? Let a porn star teach you!
How to get rid of a debt collector.
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