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Several interesting news articles today:

Here's an article discussing the need for longer needles for fatter asses. I don't know why someone reported on this, and neither do I know why I read it. Kill time, and perhaps, it goes to show that we should all be running more! Most Americans especially will need an XXlong needle...

Here's how four women overcame their commuting problem. They married their driver! What a lucky guy. Good morals, drives well, what else could you ask for?

This one's actually interesting. I may go buy the book and read it. An article on insects as the dominant organism on Earth. Somehow as I was reading this article, I was reminded of the zerg from Starcraft. Since insects are relatively simple organisms that reproduce quickly and on a massive scale, it's easy to understand that they must be evolving much more rapidly than say, humans. It's therefore understandable why cockroaches continue to pesk us! I don't quite agree with the statement at the end though, where there is the argument that humans could potentially pose a threat to insects. Although we are destroying their natural habitats, I think they will evolve quickly enough to survive. In the end, perhaps it is us who will truly suffer, since we have destroyed nature. The Zerg will dominate!! Hopefully we'll have evolved to protoss status and thus, can populate other planets, communicate telepathically, and just be cool with those psi-blades.

Finally, a tribute to Mr. Miyagi. The revered sensei from the Karate Kid trilogy passed away recently. Wax on, wax off. 'Tis life.

So moral of the post, there's lots of junk out there in the news world, and we need to filter properly. That's why I now use RSS. There's a free RSS feeder NetNewsWire Lite for Macs. It's nice and gets me the information I need, the information that might interest me, and lots of other useless information!

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