Celebrating quirky

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Quirky news links for the week of March 15th

The week started with the Ides of March and just got more interesting: You have a unique bacterial signature – did you even want to know that? 116 year old wisteria vine is world’s largest flowering plant When Star Trek geeks get time and fancy equipment you end up with the world’s smallest Enterprise The [...]

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The next, next Star Trek generation

Maybe it’s all in the astrological timing, but have you noticed that this year’s Star Trek movie is generating more tangential quirky stuff?  Or maybe it’s all just escaped from the conventions that most of us aren’t brave enough to visit.  In any event, there’s more out there now than ever and I think you [...]

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There is now an ETA on first contact

I like people that are confident enough in what they’re predicting to say it’s going to happen within two decades – whether it’s meeting aliens or predicting the end of the world. This time though, it’s the aliens (read the story at the Daily Galaxy.)  So it’s time to start figuring out the appropriate etiquette, [...]

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Feng shui for outer space

Even if it’s not your thing, it would be hard not to know that feng shui was out there.  For the Western world this fad turned trend has grown and twisted into all kinds of unpredictable permutations.  There is feng shui for your cat, feng shui for your office cubicle, and just about everything else [...]

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