Mmmm... Angus beef... <drool> <drool> <drool>

Jack In The Box ads called misleading

"The parent company of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast food chains sued rival Jack In The Box Inc. on Friday to stop TV ads that it says suggest Carl's Jr. and Hardee's use cow anus to make Angus beef hamburgers.

CKE Restaurants Inc. sued Jack In The Box in U.S. District Court on Friday over an ad in which executives laugh hysterically at the word "Angus" and another where the chain's pingpong ball-headed mascot, Jack, is asked to point to a diagram of a cow and show where Angus meat comes from.

"I'd rather not," the pointy-nosed Jack replies.

CKE claims the ads create the misleading impression that Jack In The Box's new 100 percent sirloin burgers use a better quality of meat than the Angus beef used by Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. CKE claims the spots confuse consumers by comparing sirloin, a cut of meat found on all cattle, with Angus, which is a breed of cattle."

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There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Belgian troops deployed to battle marauding caterpillars

They will join forces with firefighters, civil protection officers and private firms already doing battle against their tiny foes.

FDA: Throw away toothpaste made in China

Whats next?

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moving forward from the jack-in-the-box/carl's jr. angus anus lawsuit (still in progress)

Energy recycled by using sound to convert heat into electricity

"...these devices could be used within two years as an alternative to the photovoltaic cells that currently convert sunlight into electricity, and could also provide a new way to cool laptops and other computers, and..."

Biggest-ever gene scan throws up new links to diseases

The widest-ever genetic probe into inherited disease has identified at least 10 new genes linked to seven major ailments, including diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, bipolar disorder and rheumatoid arthritis.

Working in 50 research institutions, the team sifted through almost 10 billion pieces of DNA, looking for telltale genetic variants associated to the seven diseases.

What they were looking for are so-called Snips -- single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) -- which are tiny flaws in the genetic code that can subtly affect the cascade of processes to make and repair the body's tissues.

"Just a few years ago, it would have been thought wildly optimistic that it would be possible in the near future to study a thousand genetic variants in each of a thousand people," the trust's director, Mark Walport, said in a press release.

"What has been achieved in this research is the analysis of half a million genetic variants in each of 17,000 individuals, with the discovery of more than 10 genes that predispose to common disease."

Probably the most interesting set of science links I've seen all on one page:
http://www.keelynet.com/indexfeb206.htm

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IBM donates software to predict spread of diseases

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) said on Friday it is releasing software that can predict the spread of infectious diseases among countries.

The software has been donated to scientists and public health officials to better plan responses to health crises like bird flu. Software developers can customize the program -- called the Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler or STEM -- to suit particular diseases and populations.

STEM is part of a global pandemic initiative formed by IBM and more than 20 public health institutions worldwide, IBM said.


AND HERE

IBM unleashes software tool for thwarting pandemics

"To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password."

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<dec pdp-11 command line> /ze
<unnamed high school student> ooops !

World's tigers on "catastrophic" path to extinction

In less than a century, Asia's largest predator has been relegated to isolated populations residing in only 7 percent of the areas they once occupied...

an off topic post http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

The question of all questions: Really? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? @:^P

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There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

nah..the ever perplexing question...which came first..the chicken or the egg? or was it magic?

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I say, it was evolution. @:^P

nah..the ever perplexing question...which came first..the chicken or the egg? or was it magic?

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There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

to be or not to be....how do you answer that?

I say, it was evolution. @:^P

nah..the ever perplexing question...which came first..the chicken or the egg? or was it magic?

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Internet search engine will sniff out early signs of disease outbreaks

...expand an existing web crawler run by the Canadian government. The Global Public Health Intelligence Network monitors about 20,000 Web sites in seven languages, searching for terms that could warn of an outbreak.

This information is assessed by a team of experts and passed along to the World Health Organization. It is the heart of the WHO's so-called 'rumor surveillance' efforts, which have picked up hundreds of global disease outbreaks.

The Canadian system is credited with detecting SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), as well as collecting the initial reports of duck deaths in China that were subsequently confirmed as bird flu.

Under his plan, the web crawling technology would search 20 million Web sites in at least 70 languages and would look for signs of impending famine as well as disease.

In the existing system, the Chinese web crawler found SARS six weeks before the English Web crawler did, said Brilliant.

But Brilliant also wants to expand access to the network so that it would be available for free to all people in their native language. He wants the network to be independent, "instead of hidden in the bowels of government."

Future of supercomputing seen

Hitachi, NEC and Fujitsu, it reports, are to collaborate on a next-generation supercomputer. The secret project is financed by the inscrutable Japanese government. Just what are they up to?

The cover story: they want to build the world's fastest supercomputer. It'll crunch 10 quadrillion floating point operations per second. Why would they want to do that? So that Japan reclaims its title from IBM, whose Blue Gene is currently the world's most super computer.

Come on, there's more to it than that. Surely.

Japan's Science and Technology ministry has earmarked 115.4 billion yen to build this monster. The three companies originally intended to compete with each other, but they've been persuaded by a higher power (shadowy public research organisation Riken) to work together.

Belgian scientists will look at the molar...

thats nothing but a blank page

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hate it when that happens! try here. reference is in the third-to-last paragraph...

Belgian scientists will look at the molar...

thats nothing but a blank page