Ro0m with a mo0se

Scientists throw mother nature off balance... again. This time with cats that GLOW!

2007-12-14T07:57:00.000-08:00

I was welcomed this morning to an interesting link (thanks Mykal!) about scientists in South Korea that have decided to clone cats AND also throw in a very odd twist, they have made them glow in the dark!

When I saw the images my first thought was, "Woot! I can't wait to get one of my own". It would be awesome to show off my glow in the dark cat to everyone!

I haven't read up enough on cloned animals, but does this mean that I can cross breed a glow in the dark cat with a standard house cat and then have some interesting hybrids running around my house? The possibilities might be endless... but, would these hybrids need to be charged in the light in order to make them glow in the dark or do they automatically glow once the lights are out?

The cats that the scientists cloned glow under fluorescent lights which definitely means I will have to buy some more black lights for my room. ;) I was intrigued by what the scientists had to do just to make this possible.

Here's what the researchers say they did: They took skin cells from Turkish Angora female cats and used a virus to insert the genetic instructions for making red fluorescent protein. Then they put the gene-altered nuclei into eggs for cloning. The cloned embryos were implanted back into the donor cats, which effectively became the surrogate mothers for their own clones.
Four kittens were born by Caesarian section, but one of them died during the procedure, according to the Korea Times. The fact that the kittens' skin cells glowed under ultraviolet light served as evidence that they were really gene-altered clones.

I am going to add this to the strange scientific creations list... This glowing cats story made my day.

SEO Quiz - Are you a deity, a novice, or somewhere in between?

2007-12-07T12:09:00.000-08:00

Hello Bloggies,
Recently there has been a buzz in my office about seo quizzes and whether or not you really know what you're doing. I must admit I am far from being able to say, "I know what I am talking about..." when it comes to search engine marketing. I have some of the basics down, but if I tried to pull this off by myself i would start sinking instead of being able to swim. It just takes me awhile to absorb things, that's all. We all have our faults, right? (You're lying if you answered no to that btw) =p

Anywho, while looking thru the different rss feeds I have on my igoogle hp, i noticed a post from SEOmoz.org about Whiteboard Friday called "Say It Ain't Sullivan" Part III. As I was trying to get the video to load on IE i was redirected to SEOmoz.org's home page by mistake. One of the topics that caught my eye was a small icon that read, "seoquiz - show what you know about seo". I figured i would take a look and see just how far behind I really am ( lol), so I clicked.

I came across the following verbiage on the next page:

So, you think you know your SEO inside and out, eh? Well, here's the mother of all SEO Expert Quizzes, designed to test your mettle with 75 action-packed questions covering all corners of the SEO universe from beginner knowledge, to sneaky tricks only true Dark Lords of the SERPs will know. Take the next 25-35 minutes and see how badass you truly are, then share in your triumph (or tragedy) by slapping your SEOmoz SEO Quiz badge on your site to let the world know how hard you rock the SEO game.
Test your SEO Expert knowledge to earn your knowledge level.
91% - 100% - SEO Deity
81% - 90% - SEO Master
71% - 80% - SEO Professional
61% - 70% - SEO Newbie
0% - 60% - SEO Novice

I immediately looked at the last title and new that my score would be in that range. Sad isn't it? Oh well, some of us just hopped on the SEO band wagon way before us noobs. O__o

Anyway, I'm so busy right now I barely had enough time to post this info, so I haven't had a chance to find out just how bad my score is.

In the meantime, how bout you give it a whirl and post your results for me? I would love to see how everyone else is doing out there.

You can take this quiz by clicking on the following link: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-expert-quiz.

Happy Quizzing!

Hello Bloggies!

2007-11-30T12:42:00.000-08:00

Watch out now... i got a blog and i'm afraid to use it! lol, probably not what you expected.. but this blog will have a lot of that.

I plan on uncovering the truths to the mysterious mysteries of the world right here in blog land. Feel free to share any secrets that you have uncovered or maybe just some great recipes for a kick ass pb&j sandwhich... Whatever goes. Enjoy!