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Brain-eating amoebas. Amoebas are common to any open body of fresh water, and attacks like this are rare. Apparently it takes a lot of swallowed water to get these amoebas into your system. Never smart to swallow lake water, I think.
Update: This story appears to have gotten popular again, so I’ve updated the previously dead link to something more updated — this paper on brain-eating amoebas, and a CNN news story on increased amoeba-related deaths in Summer 2007.
Summer busker pounds out a beat on plastic drums and shopping carts near the National Mall.
Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP.
Okay, who else did NOT recognize Fred Savage (yes, that Fred Savage) as “The Mole” in Goldmember?
Interesting quote on the problem of God and evil, from Outland…
“Then you do mean to sink the ship with the other hand?”
“Yes.”
“It’s not like you.”
“How do you know that?”
If it is God’s will that a baby be stillborn, does that make Him guilty of murder?
MT hack for the Trackback hash-mark problem, courtesy of Phil, the ultimate Blogger support altruist.
I’m blogging this from my laptop via Wi-Fi, on a wireless PC card borrowed from my boss so I can test if remote CVS runs on this thing. It was really easy to set up, and it works up to 300 feet away. Dude, I’m like, totally wireless, man. Almost 200KB/sec. This is so kewl!
Okay, back to work.
(And no, you may not park outside the house and start leeching off our bandwidth.)
Cla has an article on ups and downs in the Filipino movie industry. What truly amuses me is that, while pornographic and over-violent Tagalog cinema continues to shovel brainless dreck into the minds of the Filipino masses, a Filipino Catholic women’s movie review board is saying that the Powerpuff Girls Movie is “violent and morally disturbing.”
The Powerpuff Girls.
What, no harsh words for local productions like Huwag Po Lolo, Masakit na Masakit, or God forbid, any movie with Kris Aquino and/or Robin Padilla?
I looked out my window last night to see the light atop the Capitol Dome shining, and I wondered what Congress was doing up so late.
