Myrtus

My Pee Pee Bottle, Hello Kitty, Boogie Wipes and such

Hello Kitty was made to attract, yes....but I thought it was meant to attract young girly girls expressing their sense of playful cuteness or something like that.  I mean come on, it's a toy kitty for goodness sakes!  Turning it into a national icon all dressed up in her adult-size kimono and making her pose next to (that man with the very long title) Mr Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, could possibly backfire into something kinky and give Japan a very bad name. Hey I'm just saying....

Hello Kitty will represent Japan in tourism campaign

Hello Kitty, Japan’s ubiquitous ambassador of cute, has built up an impressive resume over the years. Global marketing phenom. Fashion diva. Pop culture icon.

Now the moon-faced feline can add “government envoy” to the list.

My Pee Pee Bottle™......hey come on, don't be silly, it's meant for your tot's pee pee on-the-go of course!   

And if that wasn't enough, we also have some Boogie Wipes for crusty boogies....ewww is right!  What were they thinking?

Whatever floats your boogies I guess.

Boogie Wipes - Home - Snot Your Average Wipe

And just to add a finishing touch to this nutty fun bunch, I'll give you two more videos.

Enjoy!

You can now grow body parts with "pixie dust"

God forbid it happens to anyone of us, but if you lose a limb, a recent scientific breakthrough now makes it possible to regrow body parts. 

Scientists hope that within 10 years we'll be able to regrow arms and legs.  And the US military is all ears, recognizing the tremendous potential for restoring body parts of injured soldiers. 

The miracle powder, or "pixie dust" that does the trick, is made by scraping the cells from the inside of a pig's bladder. 

BBC NEWS | Health | The man who grew a finger (watch the video)

"I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."

It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.

"We don't know where the piece went."

The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.

Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.

'Pixie dust'

How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.

Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.

For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.

"The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.

"It took about four weeks before it was sealed."

Now he says he has "complete feeling, complete movement."

The "pixie dust" comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.

Drugs in the air

They should have tested the air in Amsterdam too. (;

ABC News: High Times in Rome: Cocaine, Pot Is in the Air

Researchers may have figured out what makes la vita so dolce in Rome. A report from Italy's National Research Council released Thursday found that there are traces of cocaine and cannabis in the air of the Eternal City.

How about that e-cigarette?

Kick the habit with an 'e-cigarette'

It feels like a cigarette and looks like a cigarette, but it isn't bad for your health.

A Chinese company marketing the world's first "electronic" cigarette hopes to double sales this year as it expands overseas and as some of China's legions of smokers try to quit.

Golden Dragon Group's Ruyan cigarettes are battery-powered, cigarette-shaped devices that deliver nicotine to inhalers in a bid to emulate actual smoking.

Real Invisibility Cloak is in Our Grasp

OK, so this is why I find this creepy. The world is growing increasingly more interested in everyone's business. You Tube ... blogs ... camera phones ... people are spying on, and talking about, each other like never before. Now consider that along with the following ...

... scientists have finally come up with a workable design for an invisibility cloak.

Physicists figured out the complex mathematical equations for making objects invisible by bending light around them last year.

A group of engineers at Purdue University in Indiana have now used those calculations to design a relatively simple device that ought to be able to—one day soon—make objects as big as an airplane simply disappear.

...

"It looks pretty much like fiction, I do realize, but it's completely in agreement with the laws of physics," said lead researcher Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue.

Who knows how spyware is gonna be cloaked in the future. Get my point?

Read the details at Seed Magazine

Women Sperm

Is this a new scientific weapon designed to threaten the male species with extinction? 

The prospect of all-female conception

Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today.

Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue.

What's Under YOUR Bed?

A survey of the things people find under their beds turned up some bizarre results, from sweaty socks to sex toys.

And one man looked underneath his bed - to find his wife's secret girlfriend, reports Sky News.

The survey, by hotel chain Travelodge, said people also found dirty plates, guitars and a mouldy Chinese takeaway.

One of the 2,000 adults questioned returned home to find his wife under the covers and a 'rustling sound' coming from under the bed. It turned out to be his wife's girlfriend.

One woman feared a gas leak only to discover the source of the stench came from a pair of her husband's sweaty football socks left festering for two years.

Another man was helping his mother-in-law move her bed only to find her collection of adult toys.

Oh man, I definitely don't wanna know what's under the beds of our readers, hehehe ...

Goodness gracious great balls of fire!

Ground breaking news, people!

WOW!!!  I don't remember if I ever enjoyed reading a news article word for word all the way, but in the end I'm left totally clueless about the subject matter.

I think its author definitely deserves some kind of award.  Enjoy!

But protons are bags of smaller particles called quarks and gluons, and their collisions tend to be messy and wasteful. Because electrons and positrons have no innards, their collisions are cleaner, so they can be used to create and study with precision whatever new particles are found at CERN.

Country for Sale: Asking Price 65M£

A country is up for sale to anyone who can stump up the £65 million asking price.

The Principality of Sealand is a self-proclaimed mini-state on a former Second World War fort, seven miles off Harwich, Essex.

It has its own passports, currency and stamps, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Here's more info. on the Principality of Sealand

Hey everyone, let's take up a collection and see if we can raise enough money to buy it and rename it the Republic of Myrtus. Whatd'yall think? :)

Good News From Iraq

Ancient marshlands in southeastern Iraq drained by Saddam Hussein have rebounded to nearly half their former area, and progress should continue despite turmoil currently rocking the nation, U.N. officials said on Thursday.

The marshlands, believed by some to be the location of the biblical Garden of Eden, once totalled an area nearly the size of Wales and provided a resting spot for thousands of wildfowl migrating between Siberia and Africa.

"Good news out of Iraq is not very common these days," said Robert Bisset, press officer for the United Nations Environment Programme, at a news conference announcing the results of the first phase of a marshlands restoration project funded by Japan.

"Everything isn't perfect in the marshlands, but there are some very positive stories," he added.

Read more here ...