SPIEGEL Surfs the Web Not so Home Alone
It's Friday night. You're home alone and surfing the Internet. You're staring forlornly into your monitor wondering why you don't have any friends. Perhaps you think to yourself: "There must be someone else somewhere on the planet looking at a classic David Hasselhoff video right now. I sure wish I could share this special moment with them." Well, lament your pitiful plight no longer. The people at Chatsum have created a browser extension that allows you to chat with other users that happen to be looking at the same Web site that you are. The program effectively turns all of cyberspace into a huge chatroom! We'll leave it up to you to decide whether that's a good thing.
Hitler Hears a Who
Long before he gave the world "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," "Horton Hears a Who," and "The Cat in the Hat", Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss , worked with decidedly more adult subject matter as a political cartoonist. During World War II, he drew in his unmistakable trademark style for the left-wing New York newspaper PM. Oddly, while he railed against fascism and anti-Semitism, he also came up with some horribly racist caricatures of the Japanese. Hitler, however, is instantly recognizable in the cartoons by the son of German immigrants.
Glow-in-the-dark Porkers
What do you get when you cross your average pig with a jellyfish? Well, a glow-in-the-dark porker, of course. Scientists from National Taiwan University have announced that they've made fully fluorescent green animals by injecting genetic material from jellyfish into pig embryos. Apparently, there have been partially green pigs before, but the creators proudly claim these are the only ones green inside and out. "Even their hearts and internal organs are green," Professor Wu Shinn-Chih told the Reuters news agency. That will certainly please fans of the Dr. Seuss classic "Green Eggs and Ham" but they're not the only fluorescent animals out there. Does anyone remember the glowing fish or glowing bunny?
