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"Chinese scientists have created the world's first glow-in-the-dark pigs that emit a fluorescent green light" [^].
Glow little piglet, glimmer, glimmer,
Shine little piglet, shimmer, shimmer,
In the sunlight you may grow dimmer,
But, oh, how tastily you'll be: simmered
Oink.
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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Bacon Bacon Burning Bright
In the fridges, late at night
Buttered bread so thin a slice
Could frame thy delicious artifice.
(Apologies to William Blake)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You have the gift !
"All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap." William Blake
one of the "Proverbs of Hell" in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Blake was vegetarian, as was Milton, Newton, Shelley, Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells.
No, I do not advocate vegetarianism.
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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I knew a "vegetarian" once who made an exception for bacon sandwiches. It's bacon, I understood. 
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Dont quit your day job! LOL 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Yeah I want me some of that? When I go to the fridge late at night for a bacon snake and the fridge light goes out I won't have any problems spotting the goods.
Why in the hell would they do that?
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Mike Hankey wrote: Why in the hell would they do that?
Maybe they have a big problem with Bacon Butty thefts - and this way they just have to look for a telltale glow around the perpetrators teeth, tummy, and whatnot?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Because they can.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Mike Hankey wrote: Why in the hell would they do that?
Simple, actually. Pigs are reasonably similar to humans physiologically-speaking. Apart from giving us the bacon, they're subjected to all kinds of test on our behalf. There's been a number of efforts over the past few years to introduce genes from other glow-in-the-dark animals to pigs, I actually thought it was a repost of an years-old news item, until I realized the whole animal had been affected, rather than just the snout and feet(perhaps ears, I forget). After I read the similarities that we have and why testing on pigs made sense, it stopped sounding perverse and moved over into the odd category for me.
Or, as the article says: "The ultimate goal of the research is to introduce beneficial genes into larger animals to create less costly and more efficient medicines."
OT: Hope the BBB turns out to be as much fun as it sounds, sorry to hear about the wait.
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enhzflep wrote: OT: Hope the BBB turns out to be as much fun as it sounds, sorry to hear about the wait.
Thanks I'm sure it will but you know how it is the wait seems forever. 
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:chuckle:
(emphatically) _yes_!
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Electronic Toolbox[^]. Good God is this program awesome! Anyone with an iPad with iOS 5.0 or later OR Windows 8[.1] who likes to work with electronics (including Arduino and Raspberry Pi) should take a look at it.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Awsome it is. I've had that little tool on my iPod for the last couple of years.
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I find it quite easy to use. I am really just starting to get into electronics, and I think this application will really be useful. Now I need to find a components database.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: components database.
A reference?, or a way to keep track of components? If the later try [insert shameless link] WinHeist[^]
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Yeah, I meant a way to keep track of them.
Oh, and thanks for the link. I will look at it later when I get my 'Electronics Computer' set up (It's an old eMachines desktop I am planning to put at my electronics workshop area when I get that set up.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Looks really neat, but why a Windows Store app? I don't even mind buying it, but I don't have W8. I guess it uses W8 features? 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess it uses W8 features
My wife's laptop is a touch-enabled Windows 8 machine. I have yet to see any Win8-specific functionality that's a 'must have' or even a 'that's cool'. Most of it is a resounding 'meh'.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess it uses W8 features
Yes. I guess it does not work on Windows Phone 7 either.
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Exploring CSS 3D transforms[^]
Cool stuff.
(While it says use the < and > keys the navigate the pages, this does not mean literally the less-than and greater-than keys. I had to use the cursor left/right keys. Ironic, for somebody who's put together a clean and interesting website, to screw up so badly on the simplest of instructions.)
Marc
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Very  indeed.
Pity most of it will be used to make websites harder to use... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: Pity most of it will be used to make websites harder to use...
Agreed, all I see is blank white boxes and I'm on the most recent version of Chrome, what more do they want!
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The cursor keys don't seem to work in Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m. 
They do now.
OK, so I wasn't drunk. They work sometimes.
/ravi
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