I’m only 64% good, according to the Gematriculator.  (hat tip: Jeff Nolan)

Apparently I should stay on focus, I’m doing better when I talk only about software:

Oh, well, at least I’ve made no promises to do no evil… look at the guys that did:

But somebody else fares a lot worse:

 

Tags: gematria, evil, google, george bush

What has the world come to?  NBC has Janet Reno singing karaoke at a fundraiser on video. (only works in IE)

I have a hard time picking the “better” singer: Janet Reno or William Hung. 

The vote is open – may the best performer win  

(I believe dpolls does not work in the feed, please click on the title to vote at my site)   

  

Tags: fundraiser, american idol, janet

reno, william

hung, karaoke

Seth Godin reports:  The 83 year old inventor of the Kalashnikov rifle (which has probably killed more people than the atomic bomb) traded his name for 30% of a company that makes umbrellas.

The new Kalashnikov-branded umbrella is believed to be un upgraded (2.0) version of the well-tested reliable model:

SecretIntel.com has the details:  As for spy gadgets, these have been many and varied over the years, with perhaps the most famous being the KGB’s so-called “umbrella gun”. This relatively low-tech but highly effective device utilized a compressed gas cylinder to fire a tiny metal pellet containing ricin, a highly toxic poison. The umbrella gun first came to Western attention in September 1978, when KGB agents used it to liquidate Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. Markov, who was “accidentally” jabbed in the leg by a stranger on London’s Waterloo Bridge, had been broadcasting the abuses of Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhikov over BBC Radio.

This may not be the weapon  of choice in California… or  Arizona

 

I just have one question: if we eat them, do we start to glow green?

 Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs (BBC)

Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that “glow in the dark”.

They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.

The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.

Continue reading here.  (that is if you still want to…) 

Tags: Humor, Science, Stem Cell, Stem Cell Research, Cloning

By Underwatertimes.com News Service  (via Nova)

The power of love Photo: Joe Kot

Eilat, Israel (December 29, 2005 ) Till death do us part? An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old dolphin, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.

The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin reef, met Tendler 15 years ago, when she first visited the resort. The British rock concert producer took a liking to the dolphin and has made a habit of traveling to Eilat two or three times a year and spending time with her underwater sweetheart.

“The peace and tranquility underwater, and his love, would calm me down,” the excited bride said after the wedding.

After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin. Last week, she approached Cindy’s trainer Maya Zilber with the extraordinary request.

Zilber accepted the challenge and “talked the idea over with the fellow,” who apparently consented.

‘I’m not a pervert’

And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.

Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and kissed him in front of the cheering crowd.

After the ceremony was sealed with some mackerels, Tendler was tossed into the water by her friends so that she could swim with her new husband.

“I’m the happiest girl on earth,” the bride said as she chocked back tears of emotion. “I made a dream come true, and I am not a pervert,” she stressed.

Tendler said she and her newly wed husband will probably spend their wedding night bowling.

“But what kind of children would they have?” one of the children in the crowd asked his father.

 Video: British Heiress Marries Dolphin

(after numerous attempts the NBC site told me the video would only work on IE.  What a joke, in 2006)