The caffeine might have played a role though…
 by in Health |
So after this, I have been reading more on the condition called Cluster Headaches, and the more I read, the more I recognise. Initially I couldn’t remember being woken up by these headaches, but I have. The memories of more days in agony came back. I even remember the day I had such a headache [...]
So, it wasn’t the caffeine after all…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, “Hey that actually tastes & feels good.“.
Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting up on me after drinking [...]
There’s a finch on the top of my roof…
| by in Animals & Nature |
For the passed few days there’s a finch in da hood and it’s whistling it’s little feathery bum off.
It’s is now sitting on the top of my house whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and I wonder where it gets all that energy from… The [...]
I’m a freak: I got calculi in my salivary glands
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
I have got calculi in my salivary glands and it sometimes acts up.
You know, if you had biology in school, there are 2 tiny little holes on the floor of your mouth, about where your tongue attaches, where your saliva comes into your mouth.
Basically, what happens is that sometimes — and this is [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
:(
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
I just read the news that earlier this week, Alex the Parrot has passed away.
I quote:
She recalls the bird said: “You be good. I love you.” She responded, “I love you, too.” The bird said, “You’ll be in tomorrow,” and she responded, “Yes, I’ll be in tomorrow.”
Touching…
Cat and Rabbit
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Cats |
Yesterday, I could photograph our cat licking our rabbit; something that does not happen very often…
We Are Here…
| by in History, Space & Beyond |
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
Poisoning the Masses, part 2
| by in Conspiracies, Health |
A few years ago, me and my girlfriend started to become more aware of what food we are eating; specifically noting the various additives the industry puts in them.
As you may have read before we now stay away from products that contain aspartame and have stopped using toothpaste that contains fluoride.
At that time I hadn’t [...]
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
A colleague and friend of mine whose name I won’t mention to protect the innocent, told me some stories about Sea Shepherd, an organisation whose mission statement it is to protect and conserve marine wild-life — and does this very actively by basically stalking and irritating the hell out of whale-hunters, et cetera.
A couple [...]
Her cruddy chin is gone!
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, The Netherlands |
As mentioned earlier, one of our cats had ‘cat acne’, or ‘cruddy chin’ a while back, and my girlfriend came home with two homeopathic fluids, one for internal and one for external use, which we started to apply.
These fluids I guess are only available in the Netherlands, as its home page suggests.
The internal stuff, a [...]
Poor little rabbit :(
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Health |
Last night, at about 22h, we had a scare, again: one of our rabbits wouldn’t eat. Having a history of ‘gastronomic’ problems, we always keep an eye on this lil’ fella and noticed that he couldn’t lie down comfortable — twisting and turning, not being able to find a comfy position.
And it really hurts to [...]
I always knew that the egg was first!
| by in Animals & Nature |
Reading this — a realisation I had as a kid for fucks sake. Pure logic led me to that conclusion but nobody would take my words serious. But now because a professor says so, it’s true.
Oh well, better late than never.
Gen-tech contaminated rice found in Dutch supermarkets
Earlier this month results from research by Greenpeace indicated that a certain brand of rice that is sold in Dutch supermarkets is contaminated with genetically modified crops. (I wouldn’t have caught this if I didn’t check Indymedia.)
According to the article, it’s contaminated with a type of modified rice that can survive a certain weed-killer. [...]
One of our cats has got acne…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Indeed: cat acne (sometimes called ‘chin acne’ or ‘cruddy chin’). Symptoms: weird black spots start appearing on the cats chin.
Although rarely heard of (Google search — at the time of this writing 606 hits) it’s not an entirely uncommon condition though. Iterating through these results I hit this guys experience with the disease which [...]
The fallacy of male birth-control
| by in Health, Random Rantings, Visions |
You might have noticed that I don’t want to have kids (the reasons as to why are beyond the scope of this little blurb though — but I’m sure you’ll believe me when I say that, to sum it all up, it’s really best for the kid). To accomplish this my girlfriend uses some method [...]
To sit upright or to not sit upright…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In my profession, I have always sat behind a computer — I have never done any work that didn’t involve one.
People always noted my sitting position: I was either hanging backwards in my chair (hey the monitor is at eye-height then, too), or I’m sitting behind a desk at a slight angle (i.e. my [...]
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
OMFG this is amazing
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Yesterday I discovered these two posts on CuteOverload: a real life Bambi and Thumper.
Amazing…
Animals, Bambi, Thumper, Rabbits, Deer
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
A first for everything: I passed out
| by in Health, The Netherlands |
Last week I was minding my own business sleeping, only to wake up with a slight irritation in my eye. I vaguely remember trying to get something out of my eye and possibly scratching my eye-ball with my finger-nail. (At least — that’s what I think as I was still a bit drousy.)
I didn’t give [...]
It’s official: Vulgar lyrics linked to early sex by teenagers
Wow, these guys really deserve a Nobel-prize or something.</sarcasm>
Sheesh — did they really have to research this? When will they realise it’s the nakedness on TV too?
Dumb shit like MTV showing a too-young-a-girl crawling over the floor singing “I’m a slave — for you”, people think that doesn’t influence a childs’ mind?
In Holland we got [...]
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
Bird-flu: It’s baaaaaaaack..
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
Apparently, bird-flu broke out again (Dutch) here in the Netherlands. While driving home yesterday, I did notice the signs like this, but hadn’t heard any news that day:
Sign that prohibits the transport of mammals, poultry, eggs and manure.
Coming home, I checked the news to find out that a new case of the bird-flu was discovered [...]
On the ever-changing world around us…
For many years, I have spent time studying / reading up on History, Religion and the Ancient Philosophers. I have always found history, in general, to be intriguing, enlightening but most of all inspiring. If you read how these old guys viewed the world around them — you know how the saying goes — although [...]
This’ll send a mixed signal…
Ironically, some well-known anti-smoking guru called Allen Carr died of was diagnosed with cancer this weekend.
It’s like yelling `Saddam Hussein is an evil man and he harbours terrorists and he has weapons of mass destruction and we need to rid the world of that evil!‘, to find out that he, well, actually didn’t, and [...]
Writing in water!
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
Researchers have discovered a way to write characters in water using waves.
Pretty amazing stuff.
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment.
It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, just [...]
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
So it’s my holiday…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, General, Health, Sad Stuff |
…and as with every start of a holiday, some shit happens to one of our animals. Every year it’s the same story, but with a different animal each time. We got four in total, 2 cats and 2 rabbits.
So we were sleeping and in the middle of the night, last friday, we heared a *bang*, [...]
I’m drinking some sage-tea at the moment…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History |
I am an alternative medicine nut. Well, actually I just distrust commercial pharmaceutical industry — but nowadays it seems one must either with or against something and I think I can only make myself worthy of happiness if I place myself in this position.
My girlfriend is basically with me on this and she has got [...]
Our cat’s crazy :)
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats |
Our cat thinks she’s grass — she just barely fits in this pot. I caught her doing this before, but only recently I was also able to make a picture of it:
Images, Pictures, Cats
On the Theory of Evolution…
So, I was watching Discovery Channel’s Monkey Business when suddenly the following ‘revelation’ hit me, a thought that never had crossed my mind probably because it was staring me in the eyes all along.
See, in order to prove that we descend from monkeys (’mere animals’ as some tend to think), scientists are on this quest [...]
My rabbit was making faces at me
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, The Netherlands |
And I could just catch him the act!
(Well, actually, he was just cleaning himself and I had a lucky shot. )
Rabbit, Images, Pictures
Wired: UFO-hacker tells what he found
I discovered through Darknet that Wired is running an article with an interview with Gary McKinnon, the guy that hacked NASA to find proof for the existance of UFO’s.
WN: Some say that you have given the UFO motivation for your hacking as a distraction from more nefarious activities.
McKinnon: I was looking before and after 9/11. [...]
‘Rabbit week’ at CuteOverload.com
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Don’t know if you noticed — let alone care — but the last week some Japanese rabbit store’s website is being featured on Cuteoverload because of its dangerously high content of cute. Well, the images of the rabbits anyways.
Today’s image is really cute (check the ears).
You might want to check the others out if [...]
Growing ‘rabbit-food’…
| by in Animals & Nature, History |
A couple of weeks ago I was giving one of our rabbits some food, rabbit pellets. These usually consist of different types of grass-seeds and pellets made of dried grasses. Not that interesting at all I know.
But there is this other thing in the rabbit pellet mix that I couldn’t put my finger on [...]
On the LA urban farm and the future of self-grown crops
That LA urban farm business, after reading Chomsky, shows some parallels with US foreign policy: as a government, you cannot have a successful self-sustaining model where people make ends meet and actually are living happy because that happiness and peace is viral, and it may spread to other places, so the government looses its political [...]
On the Belgium kidnapping…
| by in Health, Security & Privacy |
So, a couple of days ago, a couple of young girls went missing in Belgium. Immediately, it was all over the media that some pedophile or whatever may have taken them.
The moment I heard that I was thinking: and they jump to this conclusion because… ? The guy’s missing? Cellular phone data implicated him in [...]
A few more selected images of my pets…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Cats |
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Native Google Earth for Linux — beta, of course ;)
A colleague send me a link to this post telling there’s a (beta) Google Earth for Linux now!
Finally, no more tinkering with Wine, which doesn’t really enhance stability and stuff….
You can download it here.
Google Earth, Linux
On invisibility…
| by in Space & Beyond |
Yesterday and today, a lot of talk about two independent groups of researchers having published a new theories on the possibilities of invisibility.
Really, I don’t see anything ‘new’ about this at all — the general concept anyways. Anybody that has ever theorised the possibilities of invisibility must’ve thought about this too (not specifically using some [...]
This wasn’t my choice and definitely not theirs….
Every weekday morning, like many other slaves in this day and age, I fill up a big mug with some fine coffee and get into my car to drive to work.
It’s Spring-time, a new beginning, the start of a lot of new life: all types of birds are returning from their stay in warmer locations. [...]
‘Green’ black holes
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
Reuters reports on Black holes turning out to be ‘green’ (as in environmentally-friendly):
Just how efficient? If a car could use this kind of engine, it could theoretically go about a billion miles (1.6 billion km) on a gallon of gas, said Steve Allen of Stanford University in California.
Pretty impressive. Also,
These supermassive black holes are “green” [...]
Chernobyl: 20 years later…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History, Space & Beyond |
BBC NEWS reported yesterday about wildlife defying the radiation still there after the disaster with the, now infamous, Chernobyl nuclear facility in ‘86.
“Animals don’t seem to sense radiation and will occupy an area regardless of the radiation condition,” says radioecologist Sergey Gaschak.
“A lot of birds are nesting inside the sarcophagus,” he adds, referring to the [...]
Animal-rights activists extremists terrorists
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
The Register has a story on ‘drug-industry backed’ online animal-testing petition, to..
[..] encourage the public to show their support for animal testing. The Coalition for Medical Progress hopes to mobilise what it calls “the silent majorityâ€.
Ah, I can see where this is heading: they are obviously trying to find support to be able to easily [...]
Wow — a 20p bounty on rabbits…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Sad Stuff |
I just accidentally hit this BBC article here telling of a 20p bounty for every rabbit killed on Shetland.
They aren’t responsible for that situation.
Mr Ratter, who is also a Shetland Islands councillor, added: “The damage they can cause is huge, especially in an area like the south end of the island which is sandy. Rabbits [...]
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
The Scotsman reports on the sighting of an over-sized rabbit in Felton, Northumberland:
Jeff Smith, 63, spotted the black and brown animal two months ago. He said: “This is no ordinary rabbit. We are dealing with a monster. The first time I saw it I thought to myself: ‘What the hell is that?’ I have seen [...]
Ice-caps melting faster than forecast
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links |
According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
[..]
The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert [...]
I’m looking outside of my window at work…
| by in Animals & Nature, The Netherlands |
…and I have to say the weather looks awfully nice — seems like the spring-season really has started.
That gives me positive feelings. (Believe me, I haven’t had those for a while now — guess it’s some ‘winter-depression’-style thing).
This weekend the clock will be adjusted an hour ahead (daylight savings) — meaning it’ll be lighter [...]
Slackware 10.2 + WINE 0.9.10 + GoogleEarth = OK ;)
| by in Software, Space & Beyond |
I tried it earlier, to no avail, but today I downloaded the latest version of WINE to try again to see if Google Earth works.
I didn’t have to go through this hassle of re-installing everything. I just upgraded the WINE package and started up Google Earth, using:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n” wine Google/Google\ Earth/GoogleEarth.exe
As you see, there are some [...]
Another fine non-working solution to a non-issue
| by in Animals & Nature, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
The Dutch local government in Limburg has decided, some time ago, that all the people that illegally grow marijuana will be publicly ‘burned at the stake’ by posting their name and address on an internet website.
The name of the website is ‘www.hetgroenegoud.info’ (tr: www.thegreengold.info). Yeh, as if that is really going to work. Can these [...]
Nice way to start the spring..
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
If there’s one thing us humans can do, collectively, it must be fucking up this planet. The Register also reported it yesterday, and in case you missed it, the UN released a report on how recent human activity has messed-up the planet we live and depend on. To quote The Register:
As much as 80 per [...]
HamsterTracker™
Via CuteOverload I discovered this guy’s home-brew electronics project:
Have you ever wondered:
What your hamster is doing while you sleep?
What distance has your hamster ran in her treadmill today?
How fast a hamster can run?
This is why I have developed the HamsterTrackerâ„¢ system.
Check it out, it’s definitely worth a read.
Animals, Pets, Hamsters, Treadmill, Electronics, Projects
Peppers kill cancer
| by in Animals & Nature, Health |
The Telegraph reports on chillies having a substance that is able to kill cancer-cells:
The substance in chillies that causes the tongue to burn also drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, according to research that could pave the way for new treatments. The pepper component capsaicin makes the cells undergo programmed cell death or apoptosis, [...]
On rabbits that rattle the bars of their cage…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies |
I was checking my site-statistics when I noticed this Google query that brought someone to this website:
preventing my rabbit rattling the bars of his cage
Although I don’t know whether that person will visit this site again in the future, I did want to let people know that rabbits like playing with noisy toys, throwing things [...]
German bird-flu fears cause people to get rid of their cats
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Apparently, because of the fears of the bird-flu going around and the fact one dead cat was found suffering from it, German cat-owners are massively dropping their cats at animal-shelters, causing those to overload.
What kind of pet-owners are these people?
I mean, when those people were sick, their cat probably kept them company the whole [...]
Another bunny picture
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies |
I just discovered an old but quite high quality image a friend of mine made of my rabbit last July:
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Rabbit, Pictures
Cat has had her drains removed — and the labresults are in…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
OK getting her in a travelling-basket, or a box, or anything was a nightmare. Because of the stupid collar around her neck she panics when we close it and starts twisting and shaking to get out.
Not nice to look at, so quickly opened the basket again. Cat totally stressed out, as one can imagine.
We [...]
Cat has to go for a check-up later today…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Later today, our recovering cat, Mimi, has to go to the vet again for a check-up. They’re gonna check if it is all healing OK.
Additionally, they are going to remove the drain that stick out of the stitch. (Apparently, these drains are there to prevent the wound from closing up, so that any pus and [...]
Some more bunny-pics
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies |
While I had to use digikam to download the images of the Kodak camera anyways, I found some more cute, recent, images of my bunnies.
And here they are:
Rocky — looking like he runs the place.
Chico in his home-made castle.
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Rabbits
Cat’s had something to drink now, too.
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Yay — she finally had something to drink late last night.
I tried giving her some water before, yesterday simply by shoving my wet finger in her face so she was forced to lick it. So at least a bit of fresh water in her system.
Catfood, from a can, usually has this juicy, fatty fluid in [...]
Living on the edge…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
After having my finger seriously bitten into by my cat I didn’t really take it no mind.
Hell, I’ve seen people bitten by even dirtier animals and they survived without going to the doctor.
For fun, I just started Googling a bit. On familydoctor.org I found this:
You have a cat bite. Cat bites often cause infection. [...]
UK: Smoking banned in public places
Today a lot of talk about the UK ban on smoking in public places.
The anti-smoking lobby will be happy — and a lot of those nagging mofo’s as well. And only a matter of time because those health-zealots find something wrong with some other product that they’re too big a pussy to handle to want [...]
Cat’s recovering now, kinda…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Holy cow — yesterday was a terrible day. The cat went to the vet for some heavy cancer-surgery thing and we got her back with a big fat stitch across her belly with 2 tubes sticking out, so that excessive fluid can leave her body. The big fat stitch is there because her milk-glands, nipples [...]
Cat’s back from the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
And *gulp* does she look shitty.
Big fat stitch across her belly, almost from armpit to her hind-legs, a drain in it which drips some fluid and blood every now and then.
Not a pretty sight at all…
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery, Cancer
Cat’s at the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
So, the cat is at the vet now for the big surgery-thing to remove half of her milk-gland tissue stuff from her belly where the tumours are growing.
I hope the procedure’ll be a breeze for the vet and she’ll be OK in 2 hours.
Hang in there, Mimi.
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery
Low-fat diet doesn’t decrease chances of cancer or heart-diseases
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
It is official — low fat diets do not decrease the chances of one getting cancer or any heart-related diseases.
In other news: Smoking itself doesn’t cause cancer, only the constant nagging about it does.
Smoking, Cancer, Fat, Diet
The long-term effects of short-term short-sighted selfishness
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
OK, so we have two cats, a male and a female. The male has been neutered for quite some time. The female wasn’t spayed because me and the girlfriend thought we’d like to have kittens at some certain point in life.
The female of our two cats, Mimi.
The Cat Pill
So we did give her the ‘cat-pill’, [...]
New research indicates near-lightspeed-travel seems possible
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
PhysOrg.COM reports that, this February 14th, Dr. Franklin Felber will present a new exact solution of Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equation. In plain English, this means that physical objects might travel at a speed near the speed of light after all. This was always deemed impossible by many:
Felber’s antigravity discovery solves the two greatest engineering challenges [...]
So AIDS is man made after all…
| by in Conspiracies, Health, History, Interesting Links |
Reading around in the Guerrillafunk Though Box archive I was rather amazed by the article entitled “AIDS man made origins”. (There’s a lot of other juicy stuff there but for now we’ll focus on this.)
I heard this theory before that the US might have been behind it, but any substantial references were always lacking. (And [...]
Health: Who’s responsible if you choose for alternative medicine?
| by in Health, On The Road..., The Netherlands |
In The Netherlands we had this row a couple of years ago when some ‘famous’ Dutch TV-person got diagnosed with breast-cancer and she went to a ‘medium’ (i.e. a psychic healer) to cure her, in stead of letting a real doctor lead the cure-process.
Anyways, this medium had a leading role and advised the doctors that [...]
Rare animals (re-)discovered in New Guinea, and then some
The Los Angeles Times reports on a trove of unearthly species that have been uncovered in New Guinea’s ‘Eden’:
The naturalists also obtained the first photographs of the golden-fronted bowerbird, a species previously known only from a few skins collected by local hunters.
The bird is so rare that at least a dozen expeditions in [...]
Nice Greenpeace commercial (2003)
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
Last weekend I was watching John Culshaw’s Commercial Breakdown on BBC television where I saw this commercial by Greenpeace and I couldn’t resist to go and look for it on the web.
Although being an oldie (about 3 years old now), its topic is still current so it’s fun to watch. Really.
You can download it right [...]
Harvey the Herder
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, History, Humour, Interesting Links |
I today discovered this story about a rabbit called Harvey the Herder. Check out the link to find out why.
Rabbits, Animals
Buckyballs? No — buckytubes!
When I was a kid, popular science magazines were already having wet-dreams about nano-technology and all the possible good it will bring.
It took an awful long while before the technology is now finally used!
IT week reports Nantero will soon be shipping DIMMs built with a new technology. It will contain so called carbon nanotubes, [...]
Xena: A 10th planet after all…
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
When first discovered, a lot of scientist were still sceptical as to if this planet really could be considered a planet because of its relatively small size, et cetera.
According to Scientific American, this 10th planet, dubbed Xena, proves to be bigger than Pluto:
When astronomers announced the discovery of UB313, the so-called tenth planet, a little [...]
No-weed-smoking-signs already stolen
| by in Health, Humour, The Netherlands |
As reported last month, new signs were going to be placed in the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in order to prevent that people are smoking marijuana in public, as the smell of it may be a nuisance to some people:
They were placed yesterday, but already stolen. Now that doesn’t really come as a surprise [...]
Check Your Testicles!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
If you still need reasons to play with yourself, all over Dutch media passed couple of days the following advice:
Men, after their puberty, should regularly check their testicles for weird lumps, et cetera, as that might be an indication of cancer.
So there…
Cancer, Testicles, Men
For your daily dose of ‘cute’
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
In these hard times something soft can brighten up your day.
C|Net reports on the site Cute Overload being…
[...] nominated for four Bloggie awards, including Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best New Weblog and Weblog of the Year.
I just love bunnies.
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Cute
Bush lied about Katrina
We all know that Bush is a lying son-of-a-bush, but it’s always nice to see these kinds of things confirmed. According to the Washington Post, it now seems that the White House got an early warning on Katrina:
The documents shed new light on the extent on the administration’s foreknowledge about Katrina’s potential for unleashing epic [...]
When activists become terrorists, rebels become activists and the innocent become suspects…
This is a trend that I, and probably many others with me, had seen coming — Indymedia reports on Operation Backfire, an FBI operation to silence environmentalists and animal rights activists.
The nation-wide sweep of arrests, dubbed “Operation Backfireâ€, has been declared by the FBI as a major hit to environmentalists and animal rights activists who [...]
Uranium run on 25th January 2006
| by in Health, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff, Space & Beyond, The Netherlands |
On Indymedia there’s an article explaining how, on the 25th of January this month, a train will be shipping Uranium Hexafluaride (UF6) from Germany to The Netherlands, and from there to Russia:
German and Dutch nuclear opponents plan to disrupt a consignment of depleted uranium hexafluoride they say is due to run Wednesday, 25 [...]
The Salamander Man
| by in Animals & Nature, The Netherlands |
Man claiming to lost his pet steals wallets and loose cash.
Pets offer health benefits, even robotic ones
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Interesting Links |
As also noted on Slashdot today, the Star-Telegram reports that Robotic pets offer health benefits, too:
In a recent study at the University of Missouri, for example, levels of the stress hormone cortisol dropped among adults who, for several minutes, petted AIBO, Sony’s dog-shaped robot that responds when stroked, chases a ball and perks up when [...]
Navy denies killing Gonzo
According to the Times, UK navy denies killing Thames whale
NAVY sonar and military explosions have been blamed for disorientating the bottlenose whale that died on Saturday after two days in the Thames.
All in all the used depth-charges and explosions might have caused the whale to get confused and swim up the river Thames.
To continue [...]
Gonzo’s dead…
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
During the rescue attempt, he passed away.
Update 2006-01-23 12:23: Added link to Yahoo! article.
Gonzo, England, Whale
Outlook for Gonzo looks promising…
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
In case you haven’t yet heard of it, a whale, nicknamed Gonzo, had reached London through the river Thames. The outlook for the poor bugger was bleak.
A rescue operation is currently still underway and a transcript of all events can be found here. Luckily, things look promising:
Experts say Gonzo’s condition is ‘resonable’ and the likelihood [...]
Dogs save life of diabetic owner
| by in Animals & Nature, Health |
Cool, another one of those animal-hero stories: Dogs save life of diabetic owner.
A sheriff was on a rural road when he spotted a light shining from the brush. He found Butch was holding a flashlight in his mouth like a bone. Meanwhile, Dusty was stretched across Bill, keeping him warm.
Animals, Pets, Dogs
Concrete kills!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In local news, it is reported that a guy died after a big piece of concrete fell on top of him.
Well, it could’ve been worse — they could’ve left the body there and continue the work.
Pretty sick stuff…
Concrete Kills
Cat saves people from fire
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Humour |
Reported yesterday, an article about a grandmother and baby being saved from a fire because the cat started meowing:
Jean Poole and her nine-month-old granddaughter were dozing yesterday in Poole’s mobile home in York County, Pennsylvania, when Poole’s seven-year-old cat, Princess, woke them up, meowing loudly.
Poole got up, smelled smoke and heard the crackling of flames. [...]
Poisoning the Masses
Aspartame and fluoride are bad.
How talking parrot spilled beans on owner’s cheating girlfriend
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour |
An interesting article in the Guardian, on how a talking parrot spilled the beans on owner’s cheating girlfriend.
Somewhere in Yorkshire, there lurks a proverbially nauseous parrot. Ziggy, an eight-year-old African Grey, had provided Chris Taylor with years of companionship until the fateful day when he opened his beak to mimic his owner’s girlfriend and squawked [...]
On Nostradamus…
Last night, there was this silly TV quiz on which asked a question on Nostradamus — which actually contained mis-information.
The question they asked was `Who predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York & World War II?‘
Funny thing is: the thing about 9/11 is totally wrong:
Anyway, quibbling over words is futile, given that Nostradamus didn’t even [...]
Dark Matter stream may have been revealed
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
A Slashdot-reader posts:
A team in Switzerland has discovered that most of the small satellite galaxies around the Milky Way’s near-twin, Andromeda, are lined up in a single plane that slices through Andromeda’s spiral disc. Using images from the Hubble space telescope, soon to be decommissioned, the researchers found that 9 of the 14 of Andromeda’s [...]
Fluorescent pigs
| by in Animals & Nature |
Today I hit the BBC News article about Taiwan breeding green-glowing pigs (i.e. fluorescent pigs):
It’s basically the same technique that’s used in all those glow-in-the-dark gadgets, a technique we in turn obviously stole from nature. Coincidentally, I was reading about Alba the fluorescent rabbit a couple of days ago and these pigs are created using [...]
Frogs probably dying because of global heating
| by in Animals & Nature |
According to Nature, the global death of various frog-species could be caused by global heating.
The mysterious disappearance of frog species throughout Central and South America has been linked to a fungal disease that is exacerbated by the changing climate.
“Disease is the bullet killing frogs, but climate change is pulling the trigger,” says Alan Pounds, an [...]
Spinning black holes leave dents in space-time
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
MIT has an article on Spinning black holes leaving dents in space-time.
Similarities seen nine years apart imply something very fundamental is producing a pair of observed frequencies, namely the warping of space and time predicted by Einstein but rarely seen in such detail.
(…)
“The fact that we found the exact same frequency of X-ray oscillations nine [...]
When doves cry and bees fly…
Scientists have figured out how bees fly!
Funny enough, this seems to be an argument for the evolution of species-theorie, or at least an argument against Intelligent Design. From the article:
Proponents of intelligent design, or ID, have tried in recent years to promote the idea of a supreme being by discounting science because it can’t [...]
Event horizon ‘proof’
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Space & Beyond |
I was already reading into all those fantastic phenomena that occur in the space-time continuum and coincidentally, this was posted on Slashdot today:
Astronomers have proven the existence of the event horizon, the ‘point of no return’ that surrounds black holes. An MIT and Harvard team said they showed its existence by looking for X-ray bursts [...]
Redshift….
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Space & Beyond |
I was researching some space phenomena, in order to better comprehend Einsteins’ writings when I hit this Redshift concept.
Quoting Wikipedia,
Redshift may be characterized by the difference between the observed and emitted wavelengths. In astronomy it is customary to refer to the relative change in wavelength, a dimensionless quantity called z and defined by the [...]
Beware the Leap Second!
| by in Space & Beyond |
Leap second will be inserted on 2005/12/31 at 23:59:60.
Astronomers detect possible building-stones for life on remote planet.
| by in Space & Beyond |
Dutch astronomers have detected gasses on remote planets that might be the building stones for life.
Although these elements have also been detected in other places in space, this is the first near Earth-like planets, so this is pretty exciting news….
Space, Planets, Life, Universe
Drug Survey of Students Finds Picture Very Mixed
As reported in the New York Times some new drug survey found that there’s a historic low in the number of students that smoke!
Yay!
Oh but wait — they’re abusing other drugs now….
The anti-tabacco zealots should be pleased that their children won’t get cancer, but instead, high on sedatives and barbiturates, jump off of tall [...]
‘Strange’ new object discovered at the edge of our solar system
| by in Space & Beyond |
A strange new object discovered at the edge of our solar system, nicknamed ‘Buffy’.
More rabbit pics!
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies |
I just found a directory containing some images of my bunny, Rocky. They’re a bit dated, though, but honestly, images of young rabbits are cuter anyways.
Animals, Pets, Rabbits
Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test
| by in Animals & Nature, Random Rantings |
….but maybe *that* is exactly what put humans on top of the food-chain.
Mexican Vulcano-rabbit: another species existence threatened
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
According to this article here is seems that the so-called Mexican Vulcano Rabbit is another species being threatened to disappear from the face of the earth because mankinds’ messing up their habitat.
Truly sad stuff to see nature raped and pillaged all around us.
Animals, Nature, Rabbits
Human brain cells can develop in mice
| by in Animals & Nature |
It does sound like the plot of a bad science-fiction movie, but scientists have discovered that human brain cells can develop in mice. As reported on Xinhua today;
Human embryonic stem cells injected into the brains of fetal mice can develop into functioning adult brain cells, a US research team reported on Monday.
This finding not only [...]
Sparrow killer gets 200 EUR fine
The person that shot a sparrow a few weeks back because it was interfering with an attempt to break the falling domino record attempt, today got a 200 EUR fine for not playing it by the book.
The sparrow is a protected species so, officially, to kill it, the company should’ve asked permission from local authorities. [...]
Flying rat brains
| by in Animals & Nature, Random Rantings |
You possibly already read it on Slashdot, but apparently scientists have created rodent neural cell cultures that, at the moment, are capable of flying an F-22 in a simulator.
Oh well, with monkeys for president, why don’t fight wars with rats…
Animals, Rats, Nature, Science
New Mammal Species Discovered
BBC is reporting on a new mammal species being discovered in Borneo.
So far, two images are all that exist. But they were enough to convince Nick Isaac from the Institute of Zoology in London that the animal may indeed be new.
“The photos look most like a lemur,” he told the BBC News website. “But there [...]
Who needs dogs with a rabbit like that?
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, The Netherlands |
Woman gets wakened by her rabbit which noticed an intruder in the house.
Evidence of prehistoric grass (not pot) found
| by in Animals & Nature |
Evidence found that dinosaurs ate grass.
Dead sparrow memorial site ‘hacked’
Pr0n-sites-opening Javascript inserted on dead sparrow memorial site.
My Bunnies
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies |
Some pictures of my pet bunnies.
My Cats
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats |
A few pictures of my cats.
People sometimes just don’t understand….
| by in Animals & Nature, The Netherlands |
The whole world doesn’t seem to fully understand the situation.
Another innocent animal killed
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
Yesterday, some guys tried to rob a physically handicapped person. Her handicapped-vehicle ended up stuck in a ditch and because the person didn’t have any money on her, the robbers brutally killed the dog by dangling him on his colar on a fence, effectively hanging him.
Suddenly the killing of the sparrow this monday seems less [...]
Dutch sparrow killer seeking attention on TV
| by in Animals & Nature, The Netherlands |
The guy that shot the bird obviously didn’t want all the focus to be on the bird.
Dutch domino record breakers are sparrow-killers
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
The show must go on: even if an animal has to get shot?
