Take back the Bananas, Motherfucker.

Bananas’ days may be numbered

Expert says
seedless fruit
needs a boost
from biotech.

Reuters
LONDON, Jan. 17 — It is one of the world’s favorite fruits, but the banana hasn’t had sex in years and its days may be are numbered. Without scientific help, the sterile, seedless fruit could disappear with 10 years, according to a Belgian plant pathologist.
EMILE FRISON, the head of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain in Montpellier, France, said the fruit lacks the genetic diversity to fight off diseases and pests that are plaguing banana plantations, and only biotechnology and genetic manipulation may be able to save it.
“Frison sees it as the only hope for the banana,” the magazine New Scientist said in this week’s issue.
Without assistance banana production could drop and mark the beginning of the end of the fruit.
“We may even see the extinction of the banana as both a lifesaver for hungry and impoverished Africans and as the most popular product on the world’s supermarket shelves,” the magazine added.
Since modern-day bananas do not possess viable seeds, the plants must be propagated vegetatively by planting stems or sucker sprouts. The black seedlike specks sometimes seen within the fruit are actually aborted ovules that do not mature into seeds.

Take back The Who, Motherfucker.

1 year.

Betsy, I miss you.

I wonder if nationalized health care extends to Avians

Drunken birds cause crackups
Waxwings get smashed after eating fermented berries

ASSOCIATED PRESS
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 15 — Thousands of drunks are smashing into windows at Karlstad University, but it isn’t students blowing off steam. Instead, birds feasting on fermented berries are getting drunk and playing chicken with the glass.

THOUSANDS OF WAXWINGS began gathering in the trees outside the university late last week to feast on ripening rowanberries. The birds haven’t learned to say when.
“So far, some 50 drunk birds have lost their lives when crashing into the university’s big windows,” university spokesman Hans Jensen said. “But the worst is over, the berries are beginning to run out.”
None of the windows at the university, 140 miles (225 kilometers) west of the capital, has been broken.
It’s not the first time that birds and beasts have become inebriated in this Scandinavian country of 8.9 million.
In December, police in Karlskoga in central Sweden had to kill an intoxicated big-horned elk after it charged an 8-year-old boy.
The elk got drunk by munching on fallen alcohol-filled apples that fermented on the ground.

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when something comes out of the doing category and moves into the now playing category and then goes onto the done page, does it make a sound of beauty?

It's great to be the boss

I'm sitting in a web site meeting that's hurting my brain, and instead of completely checking out, I'm writing my blog and looking interested and productive.

I sure hope that after all this Roger Daltrey is a 'real' boy scout.

on the stream :Thievery Corporation

there is this moment in in 'brain candy' where kevin mcdonald is in this old ladies house, and a a cat jumps on him sand he runs around for a few moments screaming "cat on my head! cat on my head!"

interpolate as you wish.


other than that, Amy and Aarons wedding was (big surprise here) perfect.
yay!