Steaming Turd

Dear author,

Regarding your paper,

Evolution of repressilators using a biologically-motivated model of gene expression

We are very happy to inform you that your submission to Alife X has
been reviewed by referees and the conference organizers and accepted
for publication in the proceedings AND oral presentation at the
meeting in June 3-7, 2006 at the campus of Indiana University in
Bloomington, Indiana.

This article (by way of Fox News - eat that, my liberal friends!) notes that bats have big nadgers or big brains, but not both. Kind of like in human nerds! I guess such is the natural order of things.

Edit: In an almost related note, women tend not to perceive themselves as engineers. They tend to rate young, cool, attractive women as being peers, with uncool men being ranked more as engineering types. They also indicate that they would prefer to have uncool-yet-attractive men as professors.

A few months ago, I bought some ink cartridges for my Epson printer, but because Epson charges you way more than what the ink is worth, I instead opted to buy my ink through the Laser Monks. Anyway, inside the ink cartridge box was an instruction insert. Surprisingly, there was almost no detectable Engrish. Usually these things are hilarious to read, with my personal old favorites including a mouse featuring “crisp click of microswitch”, some slot-inserted device whose instructions prominently mentioned the “golden finger”, and a CPU fan that “achieves synergy with your processor”.

In this case, though, the insert was fairly reserved in its self-assessment… right up until the last paragraph. Whoever these people are, they have some of the biggest cojones in the business.

Rice isn’t just a food. It’s a religion.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man from Arkansas scaled the fence surrounding the White House Sunday while President Bush was inside and was immediately captured by Secret Service officers.

Okay, so it wasn’t really Bill!