Not much to report today, beyond getting in the correct mindset for school this weekend. Here are a few things I checked out today…
This is a scary article about a scary new Pentagon program. “What?” you say, “What’s so scary, Matt? Comfort us!” I’m sorry, but there’s nothing I can do about this one. DARPA is working on genetically modified “organisms” that are theoretically immortal, in the sense that their cells will not age. Scared yet? Okay, how about this one: they’ll have “kill switches” embedded in their genetic code to murder them if they try to take over the world. Say hello to your new masters…as soon as they can hack their own kill switches? We’re in trouble. With a capital “T”, that rhymes with global annihilation, etc.
Also, here’s a picture of a prehistoric shark. Alive. In cahoots with the immortals, I wouldn’t doubt.
What ain’t one?
Michael Steele’s the Chairman of the Republican Party. Want a great Michael Steele quote? Here you go: “Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money.” Really, Mr. Steele? Really?
While I’m fired up about that last one, check out this quote from David Axelrod: “We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses.” Yeah, that’s absolutely true. Wish more people realized that before going to teabagging soirees and pretending they’re doing something that matters to anyone but themselves.
Like whiskey? Like old, musty whiskey? Then you’ll be ecstatic to find out that five crates of 100+ year-old alcohol left behind by an explorer have been found buried in ice not too far from the South Pole. Good quote here, too: “Mr Fastier said the trust was confident the crates contained intact alcohol, given that liquid could be heard when the crates were moved. The smell of whisky in the surrounding ice also indicated full bottles of spirits were inside, albeit that one or more might have broken.” I.e. you think this is a huge scientific discovery, but you’re basing your findings on (a.) sloshing the crates back and forth and (b.) smelling the ice the crates were buried in. Great science, guys. Keep it up.