A South Korean company has received an order for the cloning of a pet dog from a woman in the United States. The procedure supposedly costs $150,000 and will carried out by a team of University experts. If successful, this could spark new debate about the pros and cons of cloning. Perhaps more importantly though, the cloning of a dog could prove to be valuable for Koreans (and other Asiatic cultures), as it will enable them to cheaply and effectively regenerate tasty dog meat for their various restaurants at home and abroad. See people, it’s funny because Asians kill dogs and then use it to make “beef” lo mein. [story]
There’s a movie coming out that deals with teleportation starring the douche from the recent Star Wars movies and Life As A House. In response to the film, a website has written a brief report on teleporting and wormholes and all that junk. Basically, it mirrors the short story I wrote back in the day about time travel and teleportation. Apparently scientists have already teleported single photons. But that’s a far cry from moving a person from one place to another. The author writes that in order to teleport something, you have to measure the quantum state of the object — which almost always destroys it. If your object is a person, you basically have to kill them in order to get started. Then you’d have to “entangle all of a person’s atoms with the mass of particles you want to bring to a destination…teleporting an object composed of many parts that all interact with each other (humans are made up for more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms) would be far more complex than teleporting an isolated photon.” In other words, that movie is bullshit and you shouldn’t go see it. [story]
A bunch of eBay sellers are going to boycott the website for about a week starting on Monday February 19th. Why? I don’t remember, but I think it has something to do with changing fee structures and no longer allowing sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers. Because I inherently agree with boycotts when the target is a large corporation, I implore you not to use eBay this week. Even if that really awesome set of bookends shaped like giant clitorises has no bids on it with 15 minutes until the end of the auction, please refrain from bidding. Your purchases all serve to pad the wallets of those responsible for creating the world’s most popular online auction house, and if there’s one thing I hate more than spending money, it’s watching that money enter someone richer’s pocket. I’m not even going to put up an item for auction that I’ve been waiting weeks to sell. I’m going to wait another week. You don’t eBay this week either, okay? [story]
MSN is running an article about how eating out is becoming cheaper than cooking at home. I can’t agree with this really, but my own history with eating out and dining in is questionable because I rarely if ever eat, so both options are equally as cheap. I guess if I had to choose one over the other, I’d rather eat out every night because the options are limitless. If I stay in and eat, my options are limited by my ability to prepare whatever food I want to eat. Thus, I end up eating the same things week-in and week-out. For example, when I lived with Fawn, I would go to Trader Joe’s once each week and get a chicken cesar wrap, lobster-stuffed raviolis, a bag of bagels, meat lasagna, a pizza pie or two, a Mexican quiche and tortilla chips. That’s all I would eat for the next seven days. It was cheap. If I went out, I’d get Patra, a burrito, or a pizza. I think that, either way, it would cost me like $35 a week to eat all my meals. And the fresh foods prepared just for me always made me much happier than looking at a wilted, shoddily-prepared, pre-packaged food that wasn’t all that tasty anyway. Eat out, people. Eat out and love it. [story]
Yahoo! Travel has written a list of America’s most underrated cities. The article begins with an assertion that “everyone knows cities like New York, San Francisco, and Chicago are among the best in the United States.” Already I’m excited, because I know Los Angeles isn’t going to be on this list of underrated cities, and it’s also not on this apparent consensus opinion about the best cities in America. I guess that makes LA the worst city in the country — which I find to be hilarious and wonderful. So, what are the cities that Yahoo! Travel finds to be the most underrated? Number one is Baltimore. And that place sucks. I’ve been there. I was bored to tears in Baltimore. Number two is Fort Lauderdale. Never been there, but it’s in Florida, and Florida is for white trash and cloyingly chi chi folks who hang out in the South Beach section of Miami. Number three is Houston. Houston is a great city. I like Houston. It belongs on the list. Number four is Kansas City. Yes, that’s a great city with a beautiful ballpark that never gets the credit that it deserves for being a fun place to hang out. And number five, of course, is Louisville. You all know of my love affair with Louisville. If I had to choose three cities to live in, they would be New York, Chicago, and Louisville in that order. What a wonderful, awesome city. You should all visit. Just don’t ask the locals what they think about their place of residence. They’ll all say, “Louisville sucks,” but I know they just say that because they want to keep it a secret. Ugh! Louisville! I want to go back… [story]
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