Vendors head to town for Azalea Festival
“When the weather gets normal they go north,” said Donna Robbins, who chairs the festival’s arts and crafts fair this year. “Most (of the vendors) take December off. Right now they are coming from the Florida circuit – their first or second show going north,” Robbins explained. They head as far north and west as [...]
Rats on the run: plans for largest massacre ever
©Tony Martin Wandering albatrosses native to South Georgia The largest rodent eradication campaign in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the mammalian massacre – planned for 2013 and 2014 – will restore starkly beautiful South Georgia to the position it once held as the [...]
DC Universe Online update released
Sony Online Entertainment has released a major new update for its superhero-charged MMO DC Universe Online. the game’s servers were subject to brief downtime yesterday while the changes were implemented, and a long list of changes it is. Here’s the full thing: Check out our new on Duty UI! In order to provide our players [...]
Google+: In Praise of Starting Over
I joined Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2007. over the years, I built up a lot of connections on those networks, and I get a lot of value out of at least one of them. but with all the friends and followers and followed comes noise. Much as I’ve tried to tame my network, [...]
Western Stage presents campy, lighthearted ‘Little Shop’
If the state of world affairs has got you down, what better medicine is there than an apocalyptic satire? With carnivorous plants, animated puppets and a doo-wop score, The Western Stage’s latest production may be just what you need. “Little Shop of Horrors” opens Friday night on the main stage of the Hartnell College performing [...]
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
Single ‘ancestor’ language theorized AUCKLAND, new Zealand, April 14 (UPI) — Modern languages, all 6,000 or so, may have all descended from a single ancestral language spoken in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, a study says. Study author Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland in new Zealand says the first migrating populations leaving [...]
Aaron Ang’s Blog: Yuna
Finally, Yuna is here! Easy until the hair…which is annoying. I did not include her 2nd alternate costume because the texture of her skirt is messed up and I can’t fix it. megaupload.com/?d=M8R4C8UImediafire.com/?5aaf59oq2qqv90n
Wild Things: Mongooses, Bladderworts and More…
Tiny aquatic bladderworts are the world’s fastest carnivorous plants, say researchers from the University of Grenoble and elsewhere. The plant takes its time getting ready to eat: it pumps water out of its trap for an hour to create a vacuum. Then when a small crustacean taps a trigger hair, a trapdoor opens and the plant [...]
Thoughts from an eclectic goth mind.: On Still Smiling Through the Tears:
I’m not saying that my life is harder than any one else’s, only that this year hasn’t been the best so far. and I know better then most, that my hits have been on the low scale, all things considered. yet the hits keep coming. I don’t want, and never have wanted, this blog to [...]
Welcome To Our Laboratory Blog
From time to time I will be updating you on interesting crosses I have developed from my yearly seed crosses. One cross I would like to share is an interesting cross I recently discovered which I named ‘Vitiligo’. ‘Vitiligo’ was developed back in 2005 from a batch of ‘Dentate’ seed crosses, and was selected for [...]