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POPSTurning Bacteria into Plastic Factories Cost will be the ultimate factor in whether this someday becomes a widely used plastic-making process; Genomatica says it's not sure how much its E. coli–produced BDO will cost, noting that results thus far have been confined to the lab.
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POPSDrug tries to offset 10,000 years of evolution Gene therapies, expected some time between 2015 and 2020, promise to correct this genetic problem caused by nature, but many obese people do not want to wait. They are hoping that Nastech’s new nasal spray can provide a solution now. Within 20 to 35 minutes after taking a whiff, this new drug moves quickly through the nasal lining and into the bloodstream, sending a message to the brain that our tummy is full. So far the drug has had no negative side effects. PYY is undergoing clinical trials now, and is expected to be in drug stores by 2009 or 2010. Obesity is the 2nd leading cause of preventable death in America, so this drug offers a great chance for more people to improve their health and get ready to enjoy our “magical future”.
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POPSBennigan's, Steak & Ale Files For Bankruptcy Protection
Usually, I do not cover business news, I mean, where is the weird and strange in that? Yet everyday I go from site to site looking for inspiration for my writing and if I find it warrants it, or maybe does not but I like it anyway, I clip it. This was sent to me by a friend in Dallas and it made me start wondering... My Muse can go bonkers at times and give me ideas that seem even to wild for me, but heck, let's give it a try. Here are roughly two fairly successful restaurants. Seems that "success" does not always add up to Moola. After the expenses are paid there will not be enough left to pay 49 creditors... well, that is weird, why not almost 50 creditors? Could there be a "secret creditor?" My Muse giggles creepily as she whispers in my ear that Faust & Co. do not normally collect for services owed in a legal court... and that is when my brain went screaming into the night! I guess, much like certain rare species, Muses are better off if you never, ever feed them after midnigh
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POPSRacing Toward Super Seeds Methinks it would be a humanitarian gesture to charge these giant unethical corporations with crimes against the planet.
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POPSVirtual Ant Farm for your Desktop The Ant's Life Studio from Bandai in Japan is a virtual interactive ant farm for your desktop. It let's you create colonies of ants who build, create, maintain and survive in 100 different types of nests.
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POPSCharter Boat Bikini Girls Run out of Town Maybe the girls would be better off with a different part of the world where the attitudes are different - the French Riviera where toplessness is a way of life, or Australia’s Gold Coast where bikini-clad ‘parking police’ feed your parking meter in case you’ve forgotten.
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POPSSomebody Should Do Something About All the Problems
DNA fingerprinting—that's what they're doing now. And still strawberries at Bergmann's are $2.99 a quart. It's ludicrous. It's as if we live in the Dark Ages. Cloned genes and fiber optics, but the cat still goes into heat and scratches up my new mahogany coffee table. I kicked that thing as hard as I could with my good leg and it still came back screeching and wagging its fanny like a Broadway showgirl. Isn't there something someone can do about that? I'm sure with all the vaccines and hybrid cells and carbon dating equipment we've got today someone can take a minute to whip up a pill I can force down Pumpkin's throat so I have one decent thing in this shoebox house that I worked like a dog at the phone company for 27 years in order to afford. These are the good years for me? Huh! I'm still watering my flowers and hosing off my driveway. Where is the fiber optics in that? How's superconductivity helping me when my new cotton housedress shrank up to nothing the first time I pu
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POPS The End of U.S. Imperialism? Global hedge funds are not the only byproducts of U.S. policy that are turning on their creator. The International Monetary Fund (created by the U.S. largely at the end of WWII and controlled completely U.S. finance as the world’s capitalist currency was pegged to the U.S. dollar until the early 1970s, when the acquisition of dollars by European and Middle Eastern interests made that impossible to continue) is now openly criticizing U.S. deficits, trade policy, and for that matter, the lack of universal health care in the U.S. Additional coverage: Podcast #72 - A New Deal for America PA Editors Blog * No hobbits! * National Call-in Day on Diplomacy with Iran * C-SPAN Discussion of HR 676 Tuesday Night Subscribe to this Feed Headlines by FeedBurner As few U.S. politicians understand, and as the insurance and pharmaceutical company health care complex goes to great lengths to keep them from understanding, the private insurance based health care system here ma
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POPSSweet Deal:Economical Biodiesel Chop up sugarcane. Feed it to bacteria. Produce diesel fuel. Bacteria will begin pooping out Mack-truck grade diesel fuel in test amounts next year and in commercial amounts in 2010 under a new joint venture announced today between a Northern California biotech company and a Brazilian sugarcane processor. Unlike ethanol, which draws the bulk of alternative biofuel attention, the bacterial fuel can be distributed through existing infrastructure, according to Amyris.
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POPSHillary's Unappealing Path It is not enough to be vetted. The goal is to be vetted and found clean. Though it is increasingly unlikely, Clinton may still have a path to the nomination -- and what a path it is. She merely has to puncture the balloon of Democratic idealism; sully the character of a good man; feed racial tensions within her party; then eke out a win with the support of unelected superdelegates, thwarting the hopes of millions of new voters who would see an inspiring young man defeated by backroom arm-twisting and arcane party rules. Unlikely -- but it would be a fitting contribution to the Clinton legacy of monumental selfishness.
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POPSFacebook: The New Look of Surveillance Facebook users did not recognize how vulnerable their information was within the site's architecture. Social networking sites are rupturing the traditional conception of privacy and priming a new generation for complacency in a surveillance society. Users can complain, but the information keeps flowing. hy would people want to browse the web with "lightweight" surveillance broadcasting their pictures and supposed endorsements of products they happen to buy? And why do people continue to give pictures and personal information to a company that reserves the right to use their photos -- and their very identities -- to sell more advertising, products and market targeting in the future?
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POPSFaceBook and My Space release targeted advertising. I absolutely believe that social network advertising potential has only barely begun to be realized. These moves by Facebook and MySpace advance the ball. But I am much more interested in new business models that leverage good old fashioned commerce on these sites. Buying stuff. Recommending products, and heck, even supporting causes with real currency, not just piles of pixels. Beyond the rich user data available, it is even more appealing to leverage the way real-world communications, gift-giving, and general interactions are being reiinvented on social networks. Social networkers are actually among the most statistically active e-commerce participants. They are teenagers (and older people) who are indeed pulling out credit cards and cash. They just don't yet have a way to do it in the company of their online friends.
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POPSBig Bucks 101: Sell Diet Shakes to the Poor
More: Varela and Graciela Mier de Varela, are the No. 1 Herbalife distributors on the planet, with network sales topping $100 million. Their powder-pushing prowess helped make Mexico Herbalife's top market with $373.2 million in sales, besting the U.S. tally of $338.3 million. Like many Herbalife distributors, they ran out of friends and family to pitch to. Sales flattened. Strangers didn't like cold calls or the hard sell. Many couldn't afford to purchase an entire canister. Company guidelines forbid distributors from breaking up packages. To inaugurate a sales office in 2002, they hosted morning nutrition "chats" where people could sample the products on their way to work. As weeks passed, the same faces started appearing. Strangers became friends. People proved willing to pay a small fee for a single serving so they could hang around to talk. "Mexicans are very convivial," said 61-year-old Graciela, who has a degree in psychology. "People loved the social aspect."
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POPSAnother Way to Run Window on an Intel Mac - read more Here's a clip from an article by Walt Mossberg of the WSJ, it's clipped from his all things digital website. He's talking about another company's software application that allows concurrent operating systems to run both the Mac OS and Windows on the Intel powered Mac computers. Awesome. I'm a Mac guy so I know how stable, safe and fun Macs are to work on. I'm writing this on my MacBook Pro and we have a MacBook and a Mac mini which is hooked up to our SONY HDTV which is pretty cool running your MAC on a SONY 50" HDTV display. Click through to read more about it or visit my blog at http://BlogMerit.com
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POPSSkin Care Products for Men & Women (travel sizes too) Here's a company with some great skin care products and one of the cool things - they have a number of products in travel sizes, making it very handy to get on the plane without security hassles. They used to sell only to salons - now their products are available for the public at large. Good stuff!
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