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Here’s an interesting article on the current, dire, situation with our current banana the Cavindish. Basically, the same disease that wiped out the previous banana, the Gros Michel, and the impetus of the term “banana republic” and the song “Yes, we have no bananas” is on the move.

Apparently, the only reasonable way out of the current mess is genetic engineering.  Breeding is just too slow.

I was inspired by the Turd-polishing episode of Mythbusters, so i decided to polish my own turd.

Check this out Mythbusters Turd Polishing.

Okay, okay, I didn’t use turds, but I did use plain old dirt from the back yard.   Check out some instructions here.

Here’s my first attempt at dorodango:

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If you haven’t seen ‘The Way Things Go’ (original name ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’), go get it and watch it.  It’s excellent.

But this one is excellent too:

Which Dayton? Not Ohio.

Our guppy just had close to 40 baby guppies.   That after she had 19 only 3.5 weeks ago.   Good grief.   Does somebody need some guppies?

If you don’t look at ZooBorns regularly, you’re really missing some good stuff.

Touch the snail for more information.

Apparently methanphetamine helps memory in humans and rats (I guess in limited amounts).  But researchers wanted to know if it works on snails, which store there memories in, get this, a 3 neuron network.  That’s 3 neurons!  We’ve got what, a billion?  Or is it a trillion?   I think a trillion.  Snails get by with 3.  That makes it easier to study how the meth works.

Securing your products against copying & compromise is hard.  Not only does your software have to not be broken (almost impossible), your hardware needs to not be exploitable too.

Here’s an interesting article on how key recovery can be done by looking at chip power consumption.

I sure don’t want to be the one designing the next voting machine if it’s not going to be open to public scrutiny.  Yikes.

Tea-party republicans vandalize 8th grade classroom.  Nice job guys.