Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the .com domain, according to VeriSign. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com was the first domain to register via a ".com" address. Though it took another decade for .com to really catch on, there are now 80 million .com Web sites, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 1.8 million sports-related sites, and 4.3 million entertainment Web sites.
People leave unique trail of germs: (Reuters) - People leave more than fingerprints when they touch stuff -- they also deposit a tell-tale trail of germs that could help investigators solve crimes, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — A potent new inhibitor of HIV, derived from bananas, may open the door to new treatments to prevent sexual transmission of HIV, according to a newly published University of Michigan Medical School study.
Brain chemical is reward for psychopathic traits
3/15/10
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3/11/10
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Help Us Review Google Maps for Bikes
Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome
Mysterious Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Tracked Deeper Into Universe
Deceptive Model: Stem Cells of Humans and Mice Differ More Strongly Than Suspected
Quantum Dots Spotlight DNA-Repair Proteins in Motion
Boost for Technology: Huge Step Toward Mass Production of Coveted Form of Carbon
3/8/10
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11/18/09
digital goodness... reality's simulacra in a digital universe
One of the things I like about gmail is that it will save your chats. There's nothing that offers a fresh perspective on a situation other than time. I'm one of those people who is right about everything, and nothing has ever been my fault. I'm happy I can reinforce it through rereading notes from the past.
I've been online a lot more to chat with my cousin Dick Goodness. Being online is a slippery slope. In the past I've taken years off of aim, chatting, etc. But, without the Internet such a light wouldn't have come into my life. On the upside, communication via Internet can be extremely reassuring. I have hundreds of friends on social networking websites. Clearly, people care?
Obviously, when I actually have things going on in my real life, I shy away from being online, because being present in reality is more reassuring. I was surprised when people said I'm back when I started going on aim again. I'm not back. Also, I never left. I never disappeared into a parallel universe.
I hate being online. I hate the Internet. I hate that it can make me feel things. It makes me jealous cause everyone's happier, better looking, and richer than I am. My narcissistic personality disorder is only aggravated from being online. 2 nights ago I had cybersex with the first guy I ever fell in love with. Err I should say I sent nasty pics in order to illicit a response, and fucked around with him now that the tables have turned.
Yet at the end of the night, I wasn't able to cuddle up with someone, kiss the back of his neck, put my arm around him and sleep beside someone. Somehow, the false sense of connection one can get from the Internet does nothing but play with emotions worse that a drugged out boyfriend desperate for sex.
10/29/09
10/14/09
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Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad for November
Growth of Facebook leaves MySpace in dust
Acer: We'll pass Dell 'very soon'
I have been thinking about getting one, just because they're so cheap. Just like me...
8/24/09
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8/5/09
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Oiling the digital society
Deet bug repellent 'toxic worry'
-> unfortunately I have used products with this chemical in it! I guess it makes sense that if it kills something, it might not be good for humans as well.
New Strain of H.I.V. Is Discovered
A Chinese teenager sent by his parents to a rehab clinic for Internet addicts was allegedly beaten to death by counselors, The Global Times, a Chinese newspaper reports.
-> probably one of the easiest (and cheapest) things to become addicted to. I know that sentence is gramatically incorrect...
7/1/09
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Global Gaming snaps up Pirate Bay
Do people really still pay for music?
NASA: Space shuttle fueling test looks successful
Human heart master cells identified
Celiac disease four times more common than in '50s
It seems like everyone already has some sort of digestive disorder...
Super-colony of ants rivals human society as population stretches around the globe
6/24/09
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How to Avoid Facebook and Twitter Disasters
Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up
The plumes of gas and ice shooting from the south pole of the Saturnian moon Enceladus contain sodium salts, which is the best evidence so far that the satellite harbors a liquid water ocean.
Shares of Osiris Therapeutics Inc. fell in Wednesday trading after the biotechnology company reported a stem-cell drug has failed to show improvement in patients with lung disease.
The Columbia-based company said the drug, Prochymal, met its primary goal of demonstrating safety among patients enrolled in the clinical trial.
-> someone close to me was in a double blind study through Osiris Theraputics... but turned out to only receive a placebo. The drug was specifically targeting Crohn's disease.
6/22/09
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Great whites 'plan' seal attacks
FTC to crack down on undisclosed "sponsored" blogging: Do your favorite mom and pop blogs secretly accept cash or gifts in exchange for product mentions? They might, and the FTC wants to make sure they disclose their conflicts of interest with a new set of guidelines that it hopes to implement later this year.
I guess this would be a good time to mention that I have never gotten any money for this website... in fact spent $10 on it, so this blog already has me in the negative.
Patients Often Not Told About Abnormal Test Results
I've been saying the whole time that doctors have been using psychology against people, which is usually not a bad thing... when people don't know they're sick they usually get better...
Free HIV testing this week in L.A. County
New map finds HIV rates are highest in the South
MONDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- A radical new therapy could improve treatment of people with HIV-AIDS by destroying the viruses circulating in the body as well as those hiding in immune system cells, according to a new study.
A team of American and Canadian researchers have high hopes for a combination of targeted chemotherapy and what's known as highly active anti-retroviral (HAART) treatments.
Final countdown: Big Bang collider to restart in October
Darwin's 'evolution' moth changes back from black to white thanks to soot-free skies
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun
'This is save-the-world science. This is the energy holy grail'
6/16/09
6/8/09
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Mystery of "Dark" Star Explosions Solved?
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Obama administration renews its health care reform effort on Capitol Hill, a top Democrat is calling for speedy action on a years long effort to create generic competition for costly biotech drugs.
An anonymous reader points out that Congress has quietly begun dismantling NASA's manned space flight program. "Other recommendations contained in the bill include a $77million reduction in NASA's proposed space operations budget, which includes the space shuttle and international space station; a $6 million reduction in science; and a $332 million shift in funds from the Cross Agency Support account to a new budget line-item included in the subcommittee's mark. Dubbed Construction and Environmental Compliance, the new account would be funded at $441 million. Congressional aides said the new line item and accompanying funds are aimed at consolidating NASA's various construction efforts into a single pot of money."
95 % of blogs are abandoned!
-> I'm not someone on whom others can depend (just like my dad lol) and although I ignore you from time to time, I'll never abandon you, dgoodness.blogspot.com! We've already been thru so much, had makeovers, and even different names, but I'll always write on you... until I die!
6/2/09
sexdecoy.com
Last night, my friend Solitaire told me about this really amazing new reality tv series on fox reality channel called Sex Decoy: Love Stings. This is the same genius network that brought us Solitary! Right after finishing Charm School and New York Goes to Work, we went online to watch the first 2 episodes on hulu and they were amazing! Solitaire had described it as a mix between Keeping Up With the Kardashians, mixed with Cheaters, mixed with Maury... and it did not fail to let me down in any respect! The characters are some of the best I've ever seen, and the mom seriously has so many wig changes that for that simple reason alone, this show is not to be missed!
On top of that, a new episode of Paris Hilton My New BFF is going to premiere tonight!
I recently watched the entire series (minus the first 2 episodes) of Paris Hilton: My British Best Fried on youtube a few days ago, and although it was good, I guess the Britsh are just still overall too... maybe I mean to say that they're not LA enough to make captivating American reality television.
5/18/09
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Spacewalkers tackle final Hubble fix-up tasks
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Prop. 215 challenge
Wow, what a huge victory for us! I love good news.
New Stem Cell Lab for Horses Opens at UC Davis Veterinary School
I never thought about it before, but I guess we'll see technologies like this a lot more used on animals before they get used on people...
2 more interesting evolution articles:
How the Neanderthals met their grisly end 30,000 years ago...we ate them
Coming to a town near you, the new breed of 'super rat' with poison-resistant DNA
http://www.wolframalpha.com- I just read an article about this website, then went on it, and it's really great! Finally a search engine that doesn't spit back a million irrelevant matches!
5/15/09
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West Antarctic ice threat revised down; still dire
A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.
... but it says you can't get fucked up from breathing the air- bummer! I can't believe drugs have become part of pollution.
UPDATE 1-Spacewalkers struggle with Hubble steering system
*NASA settles for spare set of gyroscopes
*Telescope battery replacement under way (Updating with problems during spacewalk)
The James Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble in 2014.
Craigslist: It's hard to be a pimp in 570 cities
The Web's biggest classified ads service is cleaning up its act -- or, at least, making a show of it -- by swapping "erotic" ads for "adult" ones. But will anything really change?
Will Craigslist Ban Boost Street Prostitution?
Twin European telescopes launched to study birth of the universe
European Space Agency looking to unravel mysteries behind the Big Bang theory
How human genes become patented
5/13/09
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Craiglist to drop "erotic services" ads
The Android smartphone platform is poised to grow nine times over by year's end, if new predictions from Strategy Analytics are correct. While that growth rate may dwarf those of heavies like Apple and RIM, Android's base is presently much smaller. Even with dramatic growth, will Android sales ever approach BlackBerry or iPhone numbers?
Do DNA patents spur science or stifle it? Both
Do you have Facebook flab? Computer use could make you eat too much, warns professor
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