Artifical Meat in five years!

Meat grown in the lab has been proven, now they just need to work on flavor. Seriously, the revolution in the culinary arts this could inspire is absolutely fascinating to me. You can grow meat to order, flavoring it in new and interesting ways while still giving the human body all the stuff it needs from meat. No more cattle calamities to affect the market.
Neatherlands labs

Bacteria is capable of being manipulated and is some people's biggest fear that it will be used to create some biological end of humanity. On the other hand, as a tool, it can be used for good like the good people of University of Edinburgh. They are working to make a strain that will glow in the presence of explosives. So many uses...Full article

New Word

Republizombie (re-PUB-li-zom-bee) (n) 1. Former GOP office-holder, now undead, unkillable; see Palin, S.; Cheney, D; Delay, T.; Armey, D.; Gingrich, N. A flesh-eater, the Republizombie counter-intuitively eats the flesh of other GOP; see 23rd Congressional District, NY. 2. Former relative of a former GOP office-holder, such as the former fiance of the daughter of a former Governor; like the other Republizombies, the second-tier Republizombie is seemingly ubiquitous, appearing on The Today Show, Tyra, and naked in Playgirl.

~From The Huffington Post

The PS3, the most versatile machine around

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/700744/PlayStation-3s-Used-To-Nab-Pedophiles.html These machines are being used to crack passwords of pedophiles.  Apparently the $300 used machine is better than the $8000 rigs they were using for this.

How modern day practices screw up kids

Ahh, sometimes an article comes along that puts all these modern conventions in perspective.  This is one of those: Cracked article

Not in my backyard

So here's the deal.  Tehachipi already has a large wind farm, but like prisons people want what a wind farm represents, just not where they can see it.  Some of the concerns the people are coming up with are such common sense/already dealt with issues that makes them sound dumb for bringing up.  Look folks, people want cleaner and cheaper energy, wind is one way, and it has to go somewhere. 
Here is a link to the story that brought this to mind: KGET story

Seriously Chicago?

Come on people, do we have to over react to everything these days.  The kids in this story got in a school food fight.  It happens, kind of fun, kind of messy, but pretty harmless.  But do it in Chicago and get locked up: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/us/11foodfight.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

Fruit Juice, its not what's good for you

Hah suckers.  Just because 'they' have always said its good for you, doesn't mean it is.  Soda gets a bad rap, but where is the fair press showing that its not the only thing that deserves to be bad mouthed.  Well finally someone has looked into it.  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-juice8-2009nov08,0,1821402.story?page=1

Porn goes mainstream

Of all the places for a porn star to go mainstream, this one picks Louisiana.  If she can get even 10% of the vote in a state like that, then it should really show the country that we really are moving away from our puritan roots and that people who choose to work in such industries are part of our culture and shouldn't be shunned. 
Ok, maybe I am reading a little too much into this.  I just hate the stories where a person's life is ruined when neighbors hear about their 'day job' (adult entertainment of any kind).  It is such a huge market and I think we should be allowed to talk about it in an adult matter not whispered back rooms.

Ships being overturned by Jelly Fish

The seas are alive and fighting back.  Those with tentacles shall strike back at those who would feed off of their food.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/6483758/Japanese-fishing-trawler-sunk-by-giant-jellyfish.html

This article reminds me that no matter the age, humans will always look for the easy fix or chase the wild dream
http://www.infoworld.com/print/98248

New Bakersfield Wal-Mart a top seller

So much for all the people saying our town doesn't want or need a new Walmart.
KGET Link