Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Cats will never taste the sweet life...ahhhhh...
Cats may like ice cream, but it is not the sugary taste that appeals to them because they are genetically unable to taste sweet flavors, researchers reported on Monday.
Domestic cats and big cats alike have a slightly different version of the sweet receptor gene than other mammals, the British and U.S. scientists found.
Any cat owner knows that cats have individual preferences, but cats will turn their noses up at sugary treats that do not contain some other ingredient such as butter or gelatin.
"One possible explanation for this behavior is that felines are unable to detect sweet-tasting compounds like sugars and high intensity sweeteners because their sweet taste receptor is defective," said Xia Li, a molecular geneticist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research institute in Philadelphia, who helped lead the study.
Simeon Says:
HA-HA! Sussed Cats!
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Hot Coffee mod - Decaf Fix Version
In a statement on Wednesday, News.com reported that Rockstar claimed it is not responsible for the so-called widely available Hot Coffee mod. Instead, the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary said the mod was the result of "the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game".
Senator Maxwell House has also apparently decided to take on the Hot Coffee debacle, for bringing Caffiene into disrepute and will call on the Federal Trade Commission to launch an inquiry into the mod, sources have told GameSpot.
An anonymous religious pressure group has released its own fix for parents to apply to the modded software. "Buggy 1" the fix is possibly available here.
Simeon Says:
For those misguided, blinkered, one-eyed parents out there (Of course unlike holier than thou!), the game merely joins the ranks of adolescent sex, dope-smoking, underage drinking and a long list of other things that "teens" shouldn't do but try to get away with anyway - like we never did eh?. Despite the misogynistic nastiness that turns my gut over more violently than a ride on a flat bottomed barge, travelling in a storm across the straits of Gibraltar, it should be the bottom item on the list of bugbears threatening the moral values that many of us hold dear in this crazy age. Arsebiscuits.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Tokyo governor Ishihara sued for insulting French
French teachers and researchers in Japan sued outspoken Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara on Wednesday for calling French a "failed language", demanding compensation and a public apology.
In a suit filed at the Tokyo District Court, the 21 plaintiffs, many of whom run language schools or teach French, said Ishihara's remarks had disgraced them. According to the suit, Ishihara said last October: "I have to say it is no surprise that French is disqualified as an international language because French is a language which cannot count numbers." The governor made his remarks at a gathering in support of a new university in Tokyo, apparently to explain that there was no point to pursuing French, said plaintiff Brendan Marcus, who teaches at a private French school in Tokyo.
Simeon Says...
Je ne sais pas ce que voulez dire vous au sujet du Français étant un tel baisé vers le haut de la langue, vous devrais essayer le japonais. Translated directly by Babel Fish as "I do not know what want to say you about the French such being kissed to the top of the language, should test Japanese to you." Go Figure! Actually it read "I do not know what you mean about French being such a fucked up language, you should try Japanese."
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Former WorldCom Inc. founder Bernard J. Ebbers gets 25 years
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Monday, July 11, 2005
Scientists Create Zombie Dogs
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
Point of Discussion: Will they give birth to Slush Puppies??
SHIT HAPPENS in various religions....
CONFUCIANISM: Confucius say, "Shit happens".
ZEN: (What is the sound of shit happening?)
JESUITISM: If shit happens and when nobody is watching,
is it really shit?
ISLAM: Shit happens if it is the will of Allah.
COMMUNISM. Equal shit happens to all people.
CATHOLICISM: Shit happens because you are bad.
PSYCHOANALYSIS: Shit happens because of your toilet training.
SCIENTOLOGY: Shit happens if you're on our shit list.
ZOROASTRIANISM: Bad shit happens, and good shit happens.
UNITARIANISM: Maybe shit happens. Let's have coffee and donuts.
RIGHT-WING PROTESTANTISM: Let this shit happen to someone else.
JUDAISM: Why does shit always happen to US?
REFORM JUDAISM: Got any Kaopectate?
MYSTICISM: What weird shit!
AGNOSTICISM: What is this shit?
ATHEISM: I don't believe this shit!
NIHILISM: Who needs this shit?
AZTEC: Cut out this shit!
QUAKER: Let's not fight over this shit.
FORTEANISM: No shit??
12-STEP: I am powerless to cut the shit.
VOODOO: Hey, that shit looks just like you!
NEWAGE: Visualize shit not happening.
DEISM: Shit just happens.
EXISTENTIALISM: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
SECULAR HUMANISM: Shit evolves.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: Shit is in your mind.
BUDDHISM: Shit happens, but pay no mind.
SHINTOISM: Shit is everywhere.
HINDUISM: This shit has happened before.
WICCA: Mix this shit together and make it happen!
HASIDISM: Shit never happens the same way twice.
THEOSOPHY: You don't know half of the shit that happens.
DIANETICS: Your mother gave you shit before you were born.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST: No shit on Saturdays.
JEHOVAH's WITNESSES: No shit happens until Armageddon.
MOONIES: Only happy shit really happens.
HOPI: Corn fertilizer happens.
BAHA'I: It's all the same shit.
STOICISM: This shit is good for me.
OBJECTIVISM: Our shit is good for you.
EST: If my shit bothers you, that's your fault.
REAGANISM: Don't move; the shit will trickle down.
FASCISM: Shit makes the trains run on time.
CARGO CULT: A barge will come and take all the shit away.
EMACS: Hold down Control-Meta-Shit.
DISCORDIANISM: Some funny shit happened to me today.
RASTAFARIANISM: Let's smoke this shit.
CHARISMATIC: This is not shit and it doesn't smell bad.
MASONIC: Shit happens, but we can't discuss it during Lodge.
RED CROSS: Shit happens - send money.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Todays Random Thoughts
Cats are so selfish, they suck in attention and give back fleas, i am really not a cat fan.
How will i ever get rid of the bags under my eyes?
I am hanging for a pint of cool numbers, correction, another pint of numbers.
What is the matter with these people, do they have no shame, will anyone else ever buy a round???
Bollocks im off home.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Highlights Of My Day
- Discovered lifesize cardboard cut-outs of Chewie...must have one for the office.
- A girl in Dulwich SE London sleep walked 130 foot up a crane and had to be rescued. Irshaad Ebrhim, of the London Sleep Centre, said he had treated people who had driven cars and ridden horses whilst asleep. He said one patient "even attempted to fly a helicopter"......At last the perfect excuse for getting away with drunken antics!
- Mr Chirac's bad timing on comments regarding English cuisine - ha, hows the humble pie tasting now? Served cold eh?! (BTW- This is not an anti French blog...dont you just love it when people piss in the wind though?)
- Discovering how to blog. Hmmm...wonder if my productivity will suffer.
- London winning the Olympic bid and me realising i will be mid forties by the time it gets here so the sprint double is out.