oh we need the Falkland Islands…for strategic sheep purposes

BBC

Argentina is upset that the EU Constitution recognizes the Falkland Islands as part of the United Kingdom, because the last time Argentina tried claiming the islands went so well.

History of the Falklands War

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Not Extinct

Science

The Ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought extinct, has been sighted in Arkansas. For those of you that don't appreciate the significance of this, fuck you.

Exploding Toads

BBC

Toads in a pond in Germany have been exploding recently. I really don't what else to say.

Chat Logs

I rarely put personal information on here. The last I remember doing that was with the Cheerwine incident. But anyway, I have DeadAIM which means that all my AIM conversations are saved. I decide to see how much memory these logs were taking up today and see which people I've evidently talked to the most. These numbers will be slightly off because I don't have records of chats that took place when I was home.

Total space taken by chat logs - 26.1 MB
#1 - Robert - 1.97 MB
#2 - Helen - 1.92 MB
#3 - Celeste - 1.20 MB
#4 - Albert - 1.14 MB
#5 - Kimberly - 1.08 MB
#6 - Raya - 1.08 MB

These were the only ones over 1 MB. Combined these six people make up nearly a third of my conversations.

Single largest conversation was actually with myself at 660 KB. It happened when I was transferring files using my different screen names on two different computers. Single largest conversation with someone else was with Raya at 84 KB.

Awww, Sleeping Mice, How Cute

BBC

Scientists have put mice into near suspended animation, lowering metabolism by 90%, and they seemed to be fine after being revived. When do we start human testing?

Pirate Presidency

Fox News

NC State elected a pirate as student body president with 58% of the vote. Of course, only 26% of students even bothered to vote, so only about 15% of NC State students actually voted for him. In anycase, good job.

Holy Jumping Squirrels, Batman!

Orisinal

New game on Orisinal! You should play it.

Gelded Endurance Horse Cloned

BBC

Finally, a use for cloning.

The Genographic Project

National Geographic

National Geography has an ongoing project to map human genetic ancestry. I think their site is absolutely amazing. You can track you own genetic ancestry for the paltry sum of $99.95, that's the same price as 300 cans of Cheerwine*!

*Does not include fuel cost of driving to North Carolina to get them.

The Fate of Eric Rudolph

BBC

Rudolph has plead guilty of all charges and will serve four life sentences without parole.

Executions in 2004

BBC

There were nearly 4,000 executions in 2004. 3,400 of which were in China. Iran was second with 159.