Scientists discover Werewolve Gene
Scientists have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for a disorder that causes people to sprout thick hair on their faces and bodies.
Hypertrichosis, sometimes called "werewolf syndrome " is a very rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases documented worldwide. But researchers knew the disorder runs in families, and in 1995 they traced the approximate location of the mutation to a section of the X chromosome (one of the two sex chromosomes) in a Mexican family affected by hypertrichosis.
Men with the syndrome have hair covering their faces and eyelids, while women grow thick patches on their bodies. In March, a Thai girl with the condition got into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's hairiest child.
A man in China with congenital hypertrichosis helped researchers break the case. Xue Zhang, a professor of medical genetics at the Peking Union Medical College, tested the man and his family and found an extra chunk of genes on the X chromosome. The researchers then returned to the Mexican family and also found an extra gene chunk (which was different from that of the Chinese man) in the same location of their X chromosomes.
The extra DNA may switch on a hair-growth gene nearby, resulting in runaway furriness. The best bet for a culprit, wrote study researcher Pragna Patel of the University of Southern California, is a gene called SOX3, which is known to play a role in hair growth.
REAL LIFE WEREWOLVE
GENE DISCOVERED?
Seems like Teen Wolf isn't just a movie anymore. Scientists found a genetic mutation that gives people way too much hair. But, I don't think anyone will be howling at the moon.
Via: MSNBC
Leah Jung in this month's issue of Inked Magazine
Yesterday I went to my local bookstore and I saw hotgirl Leah Jung on the latest cover of Inked Magazine. The spread is awesome. She looks really great. Pick it up when you stop by the bookstore! Don't miss out! Check out this interview from Sexy Riot while your at it.
Pick up latest issue of Inked magazine to see Leah Jung spread.
Via: Inked Magazine
Witches Tales - Orginal Art
WITCHES TALES
I never heard of this comic book before, but like the Vault of Horror art I posted earlier, this is the orginal art before printing. I love how you can notice the cutouts of the title and lettering.
WE DARE YOU
Normal Cat's vs Ugly Expensive Cat's
So True...
Most of the time, the cutest cats are the stray cats that you find in the street, or in some alleyway behind a Burger King or something.
I can't stand the expensive one's that look like Korean dictator's and they are too fat to run. Are they smarter or something? What's the appeal?
Source: Fuck Yeah Internetz
Ugly Ass Cats are always more Expensive.
Love is a Disco Ball
LOVE IS A
DISCO
BALL.
Nick Knight's Red Body with Green Face
NICK KNIGHT
His work is amazing.
Team Gembee takes off...
Team Gembee takes off...
"To be an Internet user is, essentially, to be part of the economics of the Internet, through innumerable commercial transactions and by being part of audiences sold for advertising. In this unit, you will come to understand the dynamics of Internet commence, including the ‘free’ services that are part of the attention economy; you will also analyse the importance for the Internet of an alternative economic form – the gift economy. Ultimately, you will understand how the Internet might, within capitalism, be associated with economic rewards and risks; and how developments on the Internet have altered business practices and approaches."
(Internet Studies 205: Internet Commerce and Consumers, 2011).
The Goal:
To review and assess a variety of Web 2.0 applications and tools designed for collaboration, publishing and production. The application with the best overall benefits and collaborative ease of use will be chosen as the mainstay for the later group assignment.
The members:
Brent Fleming
Warwick Janetzki
Tracey Ratcliffe
Lauren Rowland
Merrilee Troy
Janeene White
The applications:
http://vyew.com/s/
http://sosius.com
http://www.openzine.com/
http://wiggio.com
http://posterous.com
http://www.springnote.com
Testing, testing, 1, 2, bee...
Testing, testing, 1, 2, bee...
Madballs Bikini
I'm still waiting to see
MADBALLS THEMED BIKiNI
Audrey Hepburn in Costume
audrey hepburn
As if you didn't know.
Change post title...
Double click to add text
When you double click this text box you can change the text, style, color and fonts.
Scottie Pippen Forgets the Past
During an interview with ESPN radio last Friday, Scottie Pippen said that Michael Jordan “is probably the greatest scorer to play the game” but LeBron James “may be the greatest player to ever play the game.”
After watching James and the Heat begin the celebration early, only to blow a 15-point fourth quarter lead to the Dallas Mavericks during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals last night, Pippen may be thinking about taking back his rather questionable statement from a week ago.
And if LeBron’s un-Jordan-like performance from last night wasn’t enough to convince Pippen that M.J., among several others, is still greater than James (six rings to zero, by my count), perhaps this video will do the trick.
How quickly they forget…
Scottie Pippen's Short Memory
Via: Total Pro Sports
Dustin Hoffman on Success
"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."
- Dustin Hoffman
Bunny Machine
Bunny
Machine
One of my
favorites.
Vancouver sun warning
It's sunny in Vancouver but do not look directly into the sun. We need to be reminded of this because we see it so seldom see it. Also, ask your druggist about something called sunscreen. This has been a public service message by another fairweather (sunny weather) Canucks fan.
Forecast: Sky to turn "Canucks blue" tonight.
Quotables from Marshall Johnson:
This town ain't big enough for the both of me.
I'm on the patch. Sort of. (Bad Photoshop.)
More of Graham's stuff @ reach360.ca
My "can-u-hear-me-now?" i-phone app works great! Breadmaker app in development.
Mobile phone technology has wowed us with its many wonders. Mine serves as my appointment calendar, calculator and file folder. There are "apps" that will allow your phone to do everything except bake bread. (I understand they're still working on that one.) Problem" they've failed us in doing what mobile phones were initially intended to do. That is, make and receive phone calls.
My suburban neighbourhood is full of basement suites. Combine basement suites with cell phones and "Houston (aka Telus, Bell, Rogers, Fido, Wind), we have a problem." There is little or no cell phone signal, at least enough of a signal to send and receive actual voice calls.
We can still download our favourite apps, text, surf the web on our fancy, schmancy "smart phones." But when we want to have an old-fashioned voice conversation we must ascend from our bunkers, to find a spot to converse: the lawn, the sidewalk, the driveway, the middle of the road. (Those old-fashioned voice conversations are still better left to those old-fashioned landlines that many of us, maybe prematurely, have given up.)
At peak times, the whole neighbourhood becomes kind of an outdoor "party line." And we seem to take it all in stride. (Well, more of a zig-zag football-type move, actually.) Those who have parked their cars in spots with a good signal can even grab a little privacy. (But it's going to be a long, hot summer.)
Ain't technology wonderful? "Houston (aka Telus, Bell, Rogers, Fido, Wind), can you hear me now?
My i-phone takes pretty good photos, no? (Semiahmoo Bay, looking North to White Rock)
Sometimes it even makes and takes calls!
The Ramones Wanna, The Misfits Want...
The Ramones Wanna, The Misfits Want
Hrystia Kaminska: Photos
hrystia kaminska
LOVE THE Vairty OF PHOTOS, CHECK HER FLICKR. ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF PHOTOS.
Via: Hrystia Kaminska
Vault of Horror # 39 (Before Print) Original Comic Strip
JOE ORLANDO - TALES FROM THE CRYPT #39 COMPLETE 7-PG STORY ORIGINAL ART
Enjoy this original horror comic in it's purest form before it hit the presses in the 1950's. I added this whole comic book story for you to check out.
Via: Lewis Wayne Gallery
Marilyn Monroe - Beach Day
marilyn monroe
beach day