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If you have blue eyes (like myself) you may find the following interesting.

A University of Copenhagen team has identified the gene which around 6-10,000 years ago underwent a genetic mutation in one individual who eventually gave rise to all blue-eyed people.

The proof that all blue-eyed people have a common ancestor comes from the fact that whereas eye colours ranging from brown to green are caused by relatively large differences in the amount of melanin in the iris, controlled by “considerable individual variation” in the area of the DNA responsible for melanin production, the variation in iris melanin levels across all blue-eyed individuals is very small.

“From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA.”
Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/01/blue_eyes_mutation/

With regards to my last post…I would like to admit muppetry on my part with both hands held high! Forget-me-not-panties is infact a hoax (which I’m sure many of you already knew).

It is just one of the project campaigns by The Pantyraiders, which include Plastic Assets, Christians against Hip-Hop and Goodbye Bitch.

Well hats off to you ladies…yet another one to add to the fooled millions!

www.pantyraiders.org

On a more serious note, and this one’s for real…

A fish at a Scottish museum has undergone surgery after visitors complained it was too ugly.
A harmless but unsightly growth was removed from the goldfish, which was on show at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 
The operation was paid for using coins thrown into the fish pond atthe popular visitor attraction. A spokeswoman for the museum would not say how many complaints had been made about the fish. 
Scientists decided to remove the unsightly growth after people expressed concern. The lump, which did not seem to distress the fish in any way, was removed along with one of its eyes.

As reported on BBC News online.

I was browsing the interweb and happened to chance upon this extraordinary website, advertising a highly advanced piece of technology, the “forget-me-not panties” (yes American).
Here’s a testimonial as featured on the site:

David:
“When my daughter hit puberty I nearly had a heart attack. She started looking like a woman and suddenly she was wearing revealing clothing and staying out late with her friends.

Rather than become an over-protective parent , I decided to try forget-me-not panties™.

They work wonderfully. My wife and I bought our Sarah several pairs so we can watch her around the clock, and if we see her temperature rising too high, we intervene by calling her cellphone or just picking her up wherever she is. My only comment is it would be great to have a video camera, maybe you can work that into V.2.

Thanks forget-me-not panties™, now we have true peace of mind.”

Highly disturbing more like.

www.forgetmenotpanties.com

“Forget about colour swatches, colour swatch mugs are the way forward. A quick and easy way to brighten the kitchen or the office.”

By W2 sold at Urban Outfitters.

£10 for a pretty bog-standard mug, but it sure screams ‘esoteric design geek-chic’ when suggestively placed on your coffee table.

http://www.plasmapong.com/

PLASMA PONG is a variation of PONG that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment.

Last night I came across Plasma PONG. This version of the coin-op Atari classic adds real-time fluid dynamics into the mix, resulting in

It’s minimum system requirements are a far cry form the MOS 6502 CPU used in the Atari 2600. A 2.0 Ghz P4 or AMD equivalent & 128MB GPU is recommended, to cope with calculating the real-time fluid dynamics.

At only 7mb, it’s well worth a download, if only to play with the various settings in the sandbox mode to produce some pretty spectacular visualisations.