Category Archives: Science

you say tomato, I say tomahto; you say botox, I say botulinum toxin type A

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Botox, yo

A doctor in Las Vegas has been arrested for injecting into the faces of his unsuspecting patients a derivative of the deadly botulism toxin.

He has admitted injecting the patients, who came for Botox treatments, with paralyzing shots of botulinum toxin type A instead of the Botox for which they had paid. Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, eh?

Except for one thing: Botox is botulinum toxin type A.

It’s just the trademarked version, the brand name version. It is the same exact substance.

So what this case comes down to is, they paid for the paralytic facial neurotoxin version of Louis Vuitton and instead got the paralytic facial neurotoxin Louis Vutton. How embarrassing, to have a knockoff face!

I cynically predict it will not go to court when the patients realize their names will be part of the public record. Charges dropped in exchange for free treatments, you’ll see. Hey, counterfeit youth is addictive, as John Wyndham knew.

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lollemur!

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Oh, why not? Like you’re surfing the internet looking for Protagoras and Meaning, eh? They’re over at Manhunt.

lollemurbaby

Also, bonus “hey, rare lemur triplets born” story tacked on to pathetically justify lollemur blog filler.

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quiz: what part of the immune system are you?

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I’m totally psyched; this is SO me.

The immune system has many distinct parts that perform their own functions. They each sort of have a unique personality.

Are you a member of the body’s defence system? Do you have what it takes? Which one are you? After a few questions, you could be a certified body cell!

Which part of the immune system are you?

Your Result: Memory T cell

 

 

You make note of what infection attacked and provide immunity against later attacks. You’re normally good at remembering things and sometimes bring up an event everyone else forgot. You’re also a survivor fan, aren’t you.
Helper T cell

 

 
Macrophage

 

 
Killer T cell

 

 
Suppressor T cell

 

 
Phagocyte

 

 
Antibody

 

 
B cell

 

 
Which part of the immune system are you?
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Congratulations on becoming a member of the wonderful disease fighting team! Whether you are making antigens or cleaning up afterwards, you perform an important part in a defence and your personality is important to society!

Also: if only I knew how to make these damn Myspace quizzes work. What’s up with this HTML?

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it’s snowing in Vancouver RIGHT NOW

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That is all.

June 24, 2007.

Jayzuz.

UPDATE: okay, a few details…

We’ve had a thunderstorm this afternoon, which we get maybe once every two-three years. And it’s raining now, just tiny drops, but two minutes ago it was FLAKES, for maybe a couple of minutes (that I noticed, I mean, Lotusland cliches aside, I don’t spend ALL my time looking out the window. I spend most of it looking at Fark). Wait, it’s snow again, or slush. This is bizarre. And the sun is shining.

Hail Cthulhu, smoke ’em if you got ’em! The end times are upon us and all of the Lower Mainland is consumed by the question “will there be enough for Cypress to open?”

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intellectuLOLs

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Who says Lolcats can’t be intellectual? Take a look for yourself, and resolve to feel less guilty in the future:

Schrodingers lolcat

and

Pluto Lolcat