Book Of Norm

Amazing..

Well, it's not quite Jurassic Park, but Russian scientists have brought back to life a long dead species. The species in question is not quite as bad-ass as a T-Rex drilled out of the amber-entombed body of a bloodsucker. Instead, it is actually a quite pretty flower from the tundra which was buried by a squirrel. And yes, instead of 65 million years old, this is only 30,000 years old. But still, pretty cool, seeing as the flower is quite different from its modern descendants (obviously, evolution doesn't exist, God just likes to do lots of tweaking...) I is alive. w00t w00t  The flower, a narrow-leafed Campion has since born fruit and reports it is feeling quite well, if a little bit groggy from the long sleep. The one I feel sorry for though is the squirrel, that guy must be hungry.

BREAKING NEWS! WORLD RUNNING OUT OF MEGAPIXELS! NOKIA BUYS WORLD SUPPLY!!! Ok, actually, they just released a phone (phone!!) with a 41MP sensor. Yes, that's 41 mega pixels. All your megapixels are belong to Nokia The true heir to the previous best-camera-phone-on-the-market Nokia N8, this new Nokia N808 is sporting Symbian Belle as an OS (a decent but a little dated OS), a bit of a chunky exterior, an ok screen and 2nd tier but still decent internals. But the real story of course is the camera. Seriously Nokia, wow, 41MP???? What the hell do you do with that? Already with my 12MP dSLR the only real benefit over my old 6MP dSLR is that you can crop the hell out of the image without loosing resolution. With 41MP, I am not sure what you do, crop a postage stamp picture out of a poster size print? Regardless, I am damn impressed.

Should Wyoming Build an Aircraft Carrier? http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/should-wyoming-build-aircraft-carrier --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

New clue to Neanderthal wipe-out http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17179608 --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

Americans believe in progress. They believe that the world will continue to improve. This is because in the history of America, it almost always has. For every generation after the greatest generation (my grandparents) it has always been getting better. This fundamental belief has become one of the greatest threats to America. The reason is simple, there is a large percentage of this country which now believes that we have improved so much not because of hard work, not because of American industry, but because it is simply what happens in America. They are not sure exactly why it happens, or how it happens, they have never really thought about it that way. Instead, they focus on what to do with all of this progress we have achieved. They don’t look at where we are today and say “wow, look how far we have come, lets see how much further we can go.” They look at where we are today and say “look where we are, the only fair thing to do is share this with everyone.” On its face, it is an...

Today I saw a Honda Crosstour being driven around. That means someone actually decided to buy one. This is like choosing the high school cafeteria lunch lady for your lap dance. Maybe it comes with some practical benefits – but how can you live with that decision?