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Not all Chinese are studious workaholics

This is a great collection of videos from the Back Dorm Boys of China, a pair of bored college students with a weird view of the Back Street Boys. Just click on the photos for quite a laugh….]]>

Wilma in the Chesapeake Bay

Hurricane Wilma’s outer bands are blowing across the Chesapeake Bay today. We’ve had some pretty good waves, some as high as four or five feet out by the end of the sand bars. I went down to the seawall to ensure that everything was tied down and ready for the storm. Who knows what the night will bring…]]>

FTA Satellite for me

A day of football

Crossing the bridge with a victim

Crossing the bridge with a victim
Originally uploaded by 603sabre.

This is a photo of the tragedy in Pakistan caused by the Earthquake. This is a moving photo I found while going through Flickr’s collection of on-the-spot photos.
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Dumb

Angry commuters torch their train when they learn it is being delayed. That will get them there faster, no?]]>

Random

Navy prank

The Navy prank against Air Force]]>

Go Navy – Beat Air Force

Navy midshipmen paint an F-4 Phantom on static display at the Air Force academy Navy Blue and Gold (like a Blue Angel). Just part of the pranks for the big game upcoming this weekend (I’ll be there). ]]>

Yeah, but can they bring back my dead cat?

The Post has a neat article on how a 1918 flu virus was brought back to life thanks to genetic researchers. Traces were found in a corpse frozen in Alaska, and using “reverse genetics” the scientists were able to recreate the virus. I have a dead cat buried in my sandbox back home. Maybe he is next in line? Fascinating stuff… Taubenberger’s team sequenced genome information recovered from a female flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost in 1918. Then, they shared the data with researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Using a technique called reverse genetics, the Mount Sinai researchers used the genetic coding to create microscopic, virus-like strings of genes, called plasmids. The plasmids then were sent to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where they were inserted into human kidney cells for the final step in the virus reconstruction. “Once you get the plasmids inside the cell, the virus assembles itself,” said Terrence Tumpey, the CDC research scientist who assembled the virus. “It only takes a couple of days.”]]>