Der Mäuserich in der Mitte, zweieinhalb (!), meinte heute im Streit zu seiner Mamma, rechts im Bild, "Du bisch aasträngend!" Angesichts seines Alters und der sprachlich-kognitiven Leistung, die hinter diesem Satz steckt, müsste die Gemeinte dies eigentlich als Kompliment an ihre erzieherischen Fähigkeiten verstehen. Find ich.

Seit etwa einer halben Stunde wird der arme Abderhalden mit allen erdenklichen Fuzzys bombardiert. Der hier war erst der Anfang:

infamous Chat wird mit Apples iChat aufgezeichnet.

Den Ton des Tages haben wir Steve aus dem Jam Pack gemopst. Der wirds verschmerzen. Da: 1- world bongo 06 (audio/x-aiff, 795 KB)

(Washington Post) Ian Wilmut, who oversaw the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was granted a license yesterday by British regulators to create cloned human embryos for research. (...) The plan is to make embryos that are clones, or genetic replicas, of patients with a family history of Lou Gehrig's -- a disease whose genetic roots remain largely unknown. Those embryos will be made by taking a single cell from a patient -- such as a skin cell -- and fusing it with a human egg whose own DNA has been removed. When stimulated with electricity or chemicals, the fused cells grow into an embryo genetically identical to the patient. Once extracted from those embryos, the stem cells will be treated in a way that forces them to mature into motor neurons -- the kind of nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to muscles and that mysteriously degenerate in Lou Gehrig's patients.

The DEA Northeast Laboratory (New York, New York) recently received a submission of thirty one lollipops with loose wrappers, suspected to contain heroin. The pops varied from 3/4's of an inch to one inch in diameter, and (unusually) consisted of a candy shell surrounding a powder interior (see Photo 14, below). Analysis of the powder (total net mass 520.1 grams) by GC/FID, GC/MS and FTIR confirmed 64 percent heroin hydrochloride. usdoj.gov/dea --