Thursday, March 09, 2006
Day 8: Of Mice, Men and nasty shrubs
In today's post: Horror continues to unfold in New Orleans, Bush 'is syphilis', and mice glow green.Last night I dreamed that: I was being trained for some secret mission at a little run-down house out in a swampy forest. During our training (or was it part of the training?) we were attacked by punk vampires, who seemed easily beaten as soon as we made the sign of the cross with our index fingers. (We showed them!) Then, while gardening out back, I discovered a shallow pit in which was living a creature the looked like a huge rock with a mouth. It tried to eat whatever came too near, and my fellow trainees (which included my dad and Seth, my friend from Michigan) kept taunting the damn thing. As if this all weren't weird enough, walking through the vegetable garden I myself wasn't almost devoured by a Venus-fly trap-style plant (think: Audrey from Little Shop, but much more evil-looking).
The bad news is: Bodies continue to be found in New Orleans, reports the AFP. "The official door-to-door search of New Orleans ended October 3 with a death toll of 972. Since then, at least 131 more bodies have been found - some by officials, some by horror-struck friends and family members, some even by insurance inspectors," the article says. The whole Katrina response has been disgraceful and tragic.
(Via Sploid)
The good news is: Kurt Vonnegut diagnoses U.S.'s problem -- "George W. Bush is the syphilis president." According to an article from the Columbus Free Press, the writer blasted Bush in a speech at Ohio State University, saying that Bush stole and the election and that it happened in Ohio." Here here!
(via Raw Story)
May you live in interesting times: Mice engineered to have 'glowing' hearts. Every beat, they glow green. No, it's not some twisted Christmas decoration. Rather, it's all in the name of science: "it could improve our understanding of irregular heart beats, known as arrhythmias, as well as open doors to observing cellular processes to better understand basic physiology and disease.
(Via Digg)
Boom level: Something wicked.
Tags: star trek, Bush, dreams, lab mice, heart disease, research,New Orleans,Kurt Vonnegut,
