Although we try desperately to stay away from actual, relevant news here at ES, there’s no doubting that our general love of pork, death and google apps makes the looming swine flu pandemic completely irresistable, and this latest development absolutely perfect – that’s right, you can now track those poor dying Mexicans in real time, courtesy of the ever-lovin Google Maps.
This latest mashup comes from the misery-guts over at lifehacker, And while the we are generally a portal of doom, ES is taking the view that “Hey-if everyone is dead, we can finally move into the Tower of London!”
Worry yourself stupid here.
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January 16, 2009 – 1:49 pm
As if we needed further evidence that pigs want us to gobble them up, new research shows that domestication is the reason our porcine friends come in so many lovely colours. It seems back in days when monstrous dino-porkers roamed free, this didn’t happen; according to Greger Larsen of Durham University:
“Every time a gene mutation arose in the wild causing coat colour to change, it was eliminated immediately,so if a black piglet showed up, that was the one picked off by a predator.”
But we humans, being the fickle masters we are, like different colours and shapes, and if a particularly striking piggy turns up, we’d give it more food. So, yet more evidence that mother nature does what the hell we tell her to (Until we get eaten by pigzilla anyway).
LINK (New Scientist)
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