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Look-a-likes

You’re out to dinner, and you’re sitting there with a friend. There’s an old couple sitting nearby, and you quickly glance over. Sure, they look cute, but did you also notice how similar they look? There’s always that floating question, “Why do married couples end up looking like each other?” The question was simply answered by researchers at Stanford University, “the reason longtime companions begin to resemble one another may be because they spend so much time mimicking each other's facial expressions. Experts believe all the contortion causes their faces to take on similar shapes.” But is that all? Owners looking like their dogs may have been more easily explained, but just by mimicking someone’s facial expressions year after year you end up looking like them? That’s a hard one to grasp.

Similarities between owner and dog: http://www.maddogproductions.com/ds_dogs_owners.htm

Married Couples, a simple explanation: http://www.boston.com/partners/whdh/3/7healtharchives.html

Via Suzanne

Us Vs Them

So think about this....Its the year 2050 and you are enjoying your hydro vodka tonic at your your buddies Jetsonesque sky lounge piano bar and you see the girl of your dreams.  She is poise, has beautiful silky skin and speaks 8 languages.  You take her home and she blows your mind...you think you are in love and shortly profess it!

Then one night the b**** starts short circuiting and electricutes your ass. This can happen to you, thanks to Japanese scientist for developing the most human looking android yet, Repliee Q1.

Check out this BBC article and let your imagination run wild....

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

Talking in Tongues

TizzleTalk.com

Tizzle Talk is software that translates any of your AIM or Yahoo! IMs into funky, flava' full fun. You can choose Ebonics, Redneck, Pirate, even Michael Jackson translations. It's all at a click of a button and you can turn it off after you've had fun messing with your friends.

Via Debra Gail

This is Nuts!

Foetus in Foeto....whow!

Ok, so this posting has hardly anything to do with fashion or art, but this is nuts and I wanted to share it with all of you little freaks that would find this as interesting as I did.  I first heard this mentioned over a casual Sunday brunch .... I thought it was some freakish urban legend from the East and an awesome choice of table talk.  But, after reading this article on BBC, I see that foetus in foeto is an actual phenomenon.  So the deal is that a young kid of about 16 had apparently given birth to a baby, and…read the excerpt from the original BBC article:

“Sixteen-year-old Abu Raihan was admitted to the Bangabandhu Medical University hospital in the capital, Dhaka on Saturday. "After the operation we found a dead foetus weighing two kilograms (4.5lbs) in his abdomen," Doctor MA Mazid said, the AFP news agency reports. "Apart from the head, all other limbs of the baby were developed." The condition is known as "foetus in foeto", or inclusion twin. "In this case the foetus of the baby entered into the foetus of the boy and continued to grow like a tumour in the boy's abdomen," gynaecology specialists Nurun Nahar said.  The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.”

-BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4624307.stm