Sinfest

[Kitten]

"he thought the prenatal detection of homosexuality meant that most parents would abort any gay child. What effect would that have on society? He thought for a moment and then said, ‘Less ballet.’ "

what a fucking jerk.

http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/10/19/nobody-likes-james-watson/

[Dro]

My father was reading Craig Venter's autobiography. I flipped it open to see if there was anything interesting about sequencing the genome. I read, "My Ph.D. committee was amazed by the length and rigor of my thesis". Put down book.

[mouse]

a little thesis envy there, dro?

wish i could remember where i saw it - back when venter was sequencing the human genome, someone put up a poll on "who is the unidentified individual whose dna is being sequenced?" - and the choices were a) craig venter; b) craig venter or c) craig venter.

man doesn't seem to have any self-esteem problems.
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"Don't look back, regret's a knife, you can't change nature, and can't frog life"- rogues of wool

aka: neverscared!

[Lasairfiona]

[E-boy]

I just started "The Omnivore's Dilemma" By Michael Pollan. HOLY SHIT! This book grabbed my attention from the get go and just keeps getting better. Although when I tell you why you might be put off. LMAO!

First of all, I thought I really knew all the interesting bits about corn already. Boring as corn sounds it's a pretty miraculous thing all things considered. In the first 30 pages of this book though I've learned things both fascinating and shocking about corn. All I can really say is pray to god you never develop a corn allergy because it's contained in everything from the wax they spray on cucumbers to keep 'em shiney to twinkies. Out of some 45,000 items in your average modern grocery story over a quarter of them contain corn in some form or other. Also because corn has a unique carbon signature, you can detect how much of it a given population eats by the types of carbon isotopes accumulating in their tissues. Americans might as well be walking corn stalks. Of course there are other ways to accumulate those same isotopes. Lots of sea food will do it too if I'm not mistaken, and there are one or two other plant species that share corn's almost unique efficiency at converting gaseous carbon into biomass. I think you get the point though.

Before I get too much into this one little example, I should say that the book is about the pitfalls of being an omnivore (particularly a human one in america), and what the author refers to as America's national eating disorder. This is great stuff people, I highly recommend it. In fact, I think so highly of it so far that if it continues to be this fascinating I'll ship my copy to whoever wants it when I'm done just to share the experience.
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"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid" ~ SGT John Stryker from "Sands of Iwo Jima".

[E-boy]

I just started "The Omnivore's Dilemma" By Michael Pollan. HOLY SHIT! This book grabbed my attention from the get go and just keeps getting better. Although when I tell you why you might be put off. LMAO!

First of all, I thought I really knew all the interesting bits about corn already. Boring as corn sounds it's a pretty miraculous thing all things considered. In the first 30 pages of this book though I've learned things both fascinating and shocking about corn. All I can really say is pray to god you never develop a corn allergy because it's contained in everything from the wax they spray on cucumbers to keep 'em shiney to twinkies. Out of some 45,000 items in your average modern grocery story over a quarter of them contain corn in some form or other. Also because corn has a unique carbon signature, you can detect how much of it a given population eats by the types of carbon isotopes accumulating in their tissues. Americans might as well be walking corn stalks. Of course there are other ways to accumulate those same isotopes. Lots of sea food will do it too if I'm not mistaken, and there are one or two other plant species that share corn's almost unique efficiency at converting gaseous carbon into biomass. I think you get the point though.

Before I get too much into this one little example, I should say that the book is about the pitfalls of being an omnivore (particularly a human one in america), and what the author refers to as America's national eating disorder. This is great stuff people, I highly recommend it. In fact, I think so highly of it so far that if it continues to be this fascinating I'll ship my copy to whoever wants it when I'm done just to share the experience.
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"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid" ~ SGT John Stryker from "Sands of Iwo Jima".

[Azmoten]

About 36 hours ago I picked up the first book of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I'm now about 50 pages shy of finishing the second.

I am eating this shit up, and need to buy more. MOORE.
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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Solid Jackson (From Jingo, by Terry Pratchett)

[Arc Tempest]

The Dresden files are evil man. And fair warning: they only get better from Storm Front.
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"And I apologize for my repeated graphic descriptions of horrific trucking accidents."

- John Bailey, Professor of Wildland Fire Ecology

[Him]

I just re-read Critique of the Gotha programme by Karl marx and Friderich Engels. I also read the letters Engels and Marx sent to Bracke, Kautsky and Bebel.
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[Sam the Eagle]

[Martian Kyo]

sooo I went with
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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Oop ah!

[Azmoten]

[Arc Tempest]

Just wait until you get to Dead Beat and Proven Guilty.

As for me, Peace Like A River by Leif Enger.

It's weird to say this about assigned reading for a class, but this book is damn good.
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"And I apologize for my repeated graphic descriptions of horrific trucking accidents."

- John Bailey, Professor of Wildland Fire Ecology

[Kitten]

james watson writes like an asshole.

[Kilgore]