there once was a bruce with some letters
left aspiring poets in fetters
seasoned cellarites failed
but a lurker prevailed
and he earned the respect of his betters

Well, yeah...but you have to do that with the flowers that you cut and put into food coloring, too. :3eye:

Applause, applause, applause. :p
Betters? Not around here.

Another, and much cooler, example of cutting and pasting DNA from one organism to another is Glofish Glofish. Glofish are zebrafish(1) that have had a fluorescent gene from jellyfish pasted into their DNA.

As far as the ethical concerns for GM organisms goes, I tend to think that Montesano is overstepping our knowledge of how organisms actually work, the redundancy built into organisms to allow reproduction after damage, and the fact that plant DNA is damaged in the field by pollution and UV light from the sun. GM is going to be given a bad name by these early trials with supposedly sterile plants, because they're trying to do more than add a single protein into the plants; they're messing with things that aren't understood yet. In terms of glofish and purple roses, however, I don't think there's much (if any) harm that they could do since they're genetically nearly the same as non-GM organisms, but slightly less competitive in the wild due to the extra protein they are making.

[edit: Making the link work]

a few letters from tic-tac-toe
tacked in front of a name that you know
has great dodads to share
but no shelf space to spare
still his collection continues to grow!

nah, just a couple hours. anyone with celery at home can try this...or, go buy a light colored carnation. with the celery, use the pieces in the middle with the leaves, cut the bottom off and immediately stick it in a cup with some food coloring in water. obviously fresh celery works best. post your prettiest in the images thread. try putting in 1 color for and hour, than another etc. turns out neat! if i had a dig camera, i 'd show you. carnation works the same. cut the stem right before putting it in the food coloring and *whalah* streaked flowers. again, try different colors if you want.

the plants take up the food coloring with the water as it transpires out of the leaves. cut the celery stalk perpendicularly [ ( ( ( shapes ] then note the little colored dots...these are the water transporting xylem of the plant, now stained by the food coloring.

i think he meant that in order to HAVE the flowers to put in the cup, they have to (take a couple of weeks)grow, too, yes?

you'd better say it. i can't decide if it's gonna be a hippie weirdo crack, or an evolution/creator correction. probably the latter, but.....I don't know if you are christian this week or pagan, or what.

Just in case anyone missed that... :D

A MAN NAMED XOXOXOBRUCE
thought that his name did not ryhme
then this poem showed, in time
itself an oh, so, ipso facto truce.

yeah, i know its a stretch

So I'm browsing Mike's List and what do I find?...

Ho, Hum. Another 3-Megapixel Camera Phone

http://english.chosun.com/media/phot...7110024_01.jpg
Samsung launched this 3-megapixel camera phone, called the SPH-2300, Sunday [July 11, 2004]. Unlike other camera phones, this one looks as much like a camera as does like a phone. (Girl with acne not included.) Casio shipped its 3-megapixel camera phone last month.

OK. So how long does it take to e-mail a 3 megapixel image over the cell phone? Like a day or something? Or are they improving the infrastructure too?

Or am I just not getting it? Are you supposed to take it home and put the card in your card reader?

I think you can take a low-res image to transmit over the phone, or a high-res image to take home.