I need to KILL someone.
I do not need to start my mornings like this. Goddamned *&$#higher ups changing rules and not telling us. If my ass gets nailed to the wall for this one, I'm taking a few others out with me.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Apr 26, 2005 4:46:32 am PDT #8872 of 10001
JZ - Apr 26, 2005 5:06:00 am PDT #8873 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
From tommyrot's cookbook story.
Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.
Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up resistance to it.
But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.
Great. Faaaaabulous. "We can only spray one poison at a time all over our crops! We wring our hands in despair!... But, wait! If we infuse our crops with essence of human liver, we can dump metric shitloads of poison all over them! We're brilliant!"
Stephanie - Apr 26, 2005 5:09:55 am PDT #8874 of 10001
Trust my rage
Fiona, that's great news about the baby girl! I am wishing much ~ma your way for a cooperative placenta and baby.
I know it's unusual, but a friend of mine (16 years ago) was all set to have a c-section due to a placenta covering the cervix and in the last 48 hours before she was due to be induced, the placenta moved up the uterine wall. I'm sure it's unusual, but I guess it can happen.
sumi - Apr 26, 2005 5:11:17 am PDT #8875 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Harry Hamlin interviewed by TV Guide. . . non-spoilery for North American viewers of Veronica Mars.
Gudanov - Apr 26, 2005 5:12:51 am PDT #8876 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Viel Gesundheit zu Fiona
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2005 5:14:17 am PDT #8877 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Great. Faaaaabulous. "We can only spray one poison at a time all over our crops! We wring our hands in despair!... But, wait! If we infuse our crops with essence of human liver, we can dump metric shitloads of poison all over them! We're brilliant!"
Perhaps one of the researchers is a mad-scientist-in-the-making....
They probably won't realize their mistake until the giant mutant livers attack....
Kate P. - Apr 26, 2005 5:15:10 am PDT #8878 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
When does The Inside premiere?
Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2005 5:15:55 am PDT #8879 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
No official date yet - not even over at Fox.com. Just a "coming soon".
Cashmere - Apr 26, 2005 5:20:10 am PDT #8880 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Lots of -ma, Fiona.
JZ - Apr 26, 2005 5:20:14 am PDT #8881 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Much, much -ma to you and your wee one and your placenta, Fiona. I'm all worried and happy for you at the same time and channelling it all into big waves of -ma.