More experiments with drugs on insects

You might remember I posted about bees on cocaine, here's some more testing they've done on spiders. (Yes I know spiders aren't insects but close enough.)

Vigilantes and police in Nigeria detain goat for stealing a car

Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante
group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change
shape.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigeria police hold 'robber' goat

Hair weave saves woman's life

"I've invested a lot of money in this weave and now it done saved my life."<br /><br /><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=12180986">http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=12180986</a><br /><br />

Big Melons (PG)

Probably NSFW.

Bike Parking in Japan

This is amazing. Because bicycles are the main form of transport in Japanese cities, there is a huge parking shortage. They just pile them up together at the bike racks. This video shows an alternative initially, which is basically a bike garage like a parking garage, then shows the new automated structures, which have to be seen to be believed!

Pirate Bay guys about to go on trial

The Associated Press: Pirate Bay file-sharing trial to start in Sweden

Holy Cow!

India to launch cow urine as soft drink - Times Online

This is why you're fat

Not all of these look tasty....

This is why you're fat.

Apparently it's impossible to live in NY on a $500k salary

Trying to Live on 500K in New York City - NYTimes.com

Maps of War

Maps of War is a great site that shows via flash expansion & contraction of various empires over history. The Middle East one is great, as is this one, the history of religions:

Transformers 2 Superbowl Spot

I know a lot of people didn't like the first movie, but I thought it was OK, and this one looks pretty good too. Some great transforming sequences!

(2009) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Official Movie Site

Extinct animal resurrected (briefly) by cloning

So there's this goat species, and they all died in 2000, so they take some DNA from skin samples and clone it, just like they did Dolly the sheep. And just like the many, many Dolly the sheeps with lung problems, and Dolly the sheep who also had lung problems, the cloned goat dies withing 7 minutes due to lung defects. The scientists that did it think this is great and we can bring back lots of extinct species. Can these cloning scientists see a pattern here? That maybe, oh, I don't know, cloning doesn't work? That maybe they should back off before we really do have a Jurassic Park? And how is it a clone if it's got defects? Isn't a clone meant to be a clone?

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning - Telegraph