Lazy Sunday Morning :)

Will be going out this afternoon to catch a movie - either Garden State or I Heart Huckabees I think, but this morning will be the usual laziness and quietly websurfing...



This one I think for starters - China has a Miss Cosmetic Surgery LOL - surprised that America, with it's Extreme Makeover kind of crap TV, didn't come up with this first. Oh, well I just thought of how much of their original skin the Miss America kids have LOL, maybe they brought in the Stealth Beauty Pageant already, mmm B2 Stealth Bomber :)



And staying on the fake life theme, this link is about a virtual island in one of those multi player online roleplaying games being sold in the real world for $26 K - US dollars as well that one. Ooh, he will be able to charge tolls and lease land in the same fake world. Although all up, the economies of fake online worlds are the equivalent of the real world GDP of Namibia LOL. Reminds me of a Tad Williams series actually, Otherland, where some people lived their entire lives in fake online worlds - coming to a reality near you I am sure :)



Not sure whether I had previously linked this one over the last couple of weeks, but hey, a runaway hippo, what's not to love about the story and who cares if it is linked twice LOL - just as long as there is a good break between the two. Two years old and already 800 kilos, no wonder it took the South Africans ten months to capture it :)



Here's a good idea - genetically modified plants that identify the chemicals in landmine explosives, and turn red. I think it's a good idea - the comments in the link page half of them seem to be against introducing frankenstein plants to the environment, but the company states it has made the plants so that they don't reproduce - always things that can go wrong, but hey it's landmines, the cure would SURELY be better than the disease. How many people daily around the world are killed and maimed by landmines? If we in the blogosphere lived in landmine infested countries like Cambodia or Afghanistan, then we would have the right to wonder aloud whether we should use the plants or not, but I don't know about you, but Brisbane isn't in the middle of a warzone of the past fifty years LOL...



This link is a wrap up of the year so far, from a British internationalist viewpoint (the Guardian of course LOL). Not so much the straight reporting that I enjoy, but the bits and pieces of humour that crop up...



Pauly