A Peculiar Blog

The Renuzit TriScents Transform Your Home with Tanya Memme contest entries are in and now they want people to take a look at the semi-finalist gallery and view the 10 entries and vote for the one you think most deserves to win the grand prize: A $20,000 home makeover.
After looking over the entries, a mixture [...]

There’s a form of “spring cleaning” that are actually a good idea to do on a monthly basis if you can. Of course, there’s always stuff that gets in the way of doing things like this so it ends up being an annual or semi-annual event.
Cleaning out the computer case. This applies especially [...]

With weight loss becoming quite literally one of the “biggest” health issues that people are talking about all the time these days, one of the things that’s become just as big is the things that people are willing to consider doing about it. People have gone to all sorts of extremes from spending tens [...]

There’s a story at the University of Texas that I think needs to get all the attention possible. Scientists there have created a new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae), by adding cellulose making genes from another cellulose making bacterium. The resulting critter is apparently very good at taking in sunlight for an [...]

Recently I wrote about the feds wanting to collect DNA from everybody arrested. Well, I saw an EFF story that says the public comment period for this proposed rule will end on May 19, 2008. It’s important to get as much input on this topic against allowing this wholesale collection of DNA from [...]

Remember the FISA bill that the Senate tried to get passed that would have given immunity to telecoms for their participation in the illegal NSA domestic spying scandal? Well, it’s not quite dead yet. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has been talking deals with the “genius” behind that bill, Senator Rockefeller and is [...]