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It's probably of little concern to most, but another language has bitten the dust with the death of the Andaman Islands' Boa Sr. I don't know why, but this depresses me more than the loss of Hollywood starlets to drugs or some such thing. Shit happens. 99% of all species that have ever lived on this planet are extinct. It's just the way it goes. Nothing lasts forever, including clichés such as these.. Au contraire, MiB. Taxes and syphilis, for example. And Clive Dunn for that matter. QED.

Kids are supposed to be ungrateful little shites, aren't they? Maybe. Im still fucked off tho. EDIT: Im more hurt than fucked off. Spill the beans: Paraphrase the related conversation and why you are angry.

Scientist wants a giant squid of his very own. He's going to web-cam it too, so we've got to get a live link sorted when he does.

I humbly apologize for my use of the ubiquitous lol, Hopkins' scourge. GP's post did make me actually laugh out loud, though. G-Force. lol indeed! I didn't bother reading the link, though. "his Jeep swerved off a steep embankment and hit two trees at about 8:30 a.m. Mentell was not wearing a seatbelt." Coroner's verdict: Death by stupidity. Windscreen 1, Brain 0.

Watched Super-Psyched today. The rider is "live death to the fullest" and it does. Watch it here. Got to be up for an Oscar for best short film, surely?

Does anyone else think Steve Jobs looked decidedly unwell at today's iPad launch? Compare this with this image two years ago

I heard it was, "Hey, why don't we let one of the women drive?" (let the flaming begin...)

Play Penguin Bow Golf. It's an addictive little sucker this one. Sorry in advance.

Hmm. I want to ask why you ended up on a polygraph and, specifically what you lied about, but I'd never know whether your answers are truthful. Bugger.

Take a ride through Chernobyl with Elena. Sobering stuff.

Do some shredding with The Monster. The action starts 1 min into the clip. You definitely don't want to fall in there.

This was the weather here between Xmas and the New Year. Hot, humid and wet. I nipped out at lunchtime with my tripod and camera and took this photo just around the corner from where I "work".

No more unsavoury than last time...

He's more alive than your keyboard skills, numbskull.

Ah, here we go again. Every time someone drops off, some douche yells out "Ya missed that one, didn' ya? LOLZ." The aim of the game is how many on the list are correctly picked. Not how many that aren't on the list die in the year. So now you know how the game is played, I hope to hell you're not going to drop in to point out every death that didn't make the list. You may not have anything better to do, but other DL members probably do.

Don't worry, the future is in photosynthesis. It pays my bills yet if I tell you any more, I'd have to kill you Please tell us more. I'm really interested in photosynthesis. Could it be changed if chlorophyll were genetically engineered (could clorophyll be genetically engineered?) to be less green? If, for instance, plants could be engineered to absorb light across the full spectrum, would that make them white? If it did would that help reflect sunlight, thus counteracting global warming? I'm sure this is a dumb proposition but I would appreciate some informed analysis of the dumbness. Absorbing more light would make them black. White would suggest they absorbed nothing. [which, incidentally also accounts for why black coffee is hotter than white coffee, and Jennifer Lopez (JLo) is hotter than Susan Boyle (SBo)] Isn't it the milk that does that? [tongue firmly in cheek] No, I don't think milk would account for the difference between JLo and SBo. [/tongue firmly in cheek]

Don't worry, the future is in photosynthesis. It pays my bills yet if I tell you any more, I'd have to kill you Please tell us more. I'm really interested in photosynthesis. Could it be changed if chlorophyll were genetically engineered (could clorophyll be genetically engineered?) to be less green? If, for instance, plants could be engineered to absorb light across the full spectrum, would that make them white? If it did would that help reflect sunlight, thus counteracting global warming? I'm sure this is a dumb proposition but I would appreciate some informed analysis of the dumbness. Absorbing more light would make them black. White would suggest they absorbed nothing. [which, incidentally also accounts for why black coffee is hotter than white coffee, and Jennifer Lopez (JLo) is hotter than Susan Boyle (SBo)]

Global warming, meaning warming on a global scale may not result in local warming for some areas. As the Gulf stream is warmed, its flow is altered, meaning that the UK might not get its previous current of "warm" water to help keep things as they used to be. Look at the UK's latitude on a map or globe and compare its usual mean temps with other locations of a similar northern latitude. They're more like what the temperature would/should be like without the gulf stream. If you don't like snow now, you'd better start to, 'cause there's more coming. But then again, if you're a climate change skeptic then there's nothing to worry about, 'cause none of this is happening. Monoclinic likes this. Monoclinic will love this then... "Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze". It was triggered by the slowdown of the Gulf Stream, led to the decline of the Clovis culture in North America, and lasted around 1300 years." Taken from a New Scientist article here. To paraphrase; It took less than 12 months for Europe to freeze solid around 12,800 years ago due to a slowdown of the Gulf Stream. The freeze lasted for 1,300 years. But then again, if you're a climate change skeptic then there's nothing to worry about, 'cause that didn't happen.

Yes there are.

The sooner we all grow up and stop squabbling over who's imaginary friend is better than the other then we can all play nicely together. Unless, of course, people are naturally xenophobic and warlike, and we find something else to fight over, like political ideals, or oil, or land or something. Not that that'd ever happen.

Global warming, meaning warming on a global scale may not result in local warming for some areas. As the Gulf stream is warmed, its flow is altered, meaning that the UK might not get its previous current of "warm" water to help keep things as they used to be. Look at the UK's latitude on a map or globe and compare its usual mean temps with other locations of a similar northern latitude. They're more like what the temperature would/should be like without the gulf stream. If you don't like snow now, you'd better start to, 'cause there's more coming. But then again, if you're a climate change skeptic then there's nothing to worry about, 'cause none of this is happening.

I didn't know you were famous enough to be picked. Are you ill?