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In last night’s news segment, there was an article about a female Hammerhead Shark who gave birth to a baby shark, without sperm from a male. By fertilizing her own eggs in a process called parthenogenesis, she pretty much punched me in the face in a proof that evolution works.

Now, I don’t know if you know this, but I’m not follower of the whole evolution thing. I never believed that drastic changes can occur, even in a time frame of millions of years. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t buy creationism either. But for the first time I lived through something that shows pretty much how survival changes a lifeform.

If you may, I think I have a list of possible bodymods for humans; evolution, it’s your turn now:

• Cancer-proof blood cells
• Knowing when your cellphone rings, even if muted and not in eyesight
• Breathe underwater
• Release of Endorphins during stress periods
• (I can go on forever)

So, evolution, where are you now?

It has been announced today on techcrunch that Myspace has acquired photobucket.com for $300 million. That’s three hundred million dollars for a site that hosts images (mostly for myspace users anyway.) Don’t get me wrong, photobucket is great. It’s free, it’s used a lot (top 10 alexa, I think,) and is quite friendly (never heard of people kicked out due to too much bandwidth usage.) BUT — it completely lacks the creativity of flickr, which I’m fond of. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo a while back for a ridiculously low amount. As far as I know, only estimation has been made public, but it was well below the $50 million. Flickr has loyal registered users (at least 8 million of us, each pays $24 a year!) while photobucket is all about people with 69 suffix to their nickname and glittering gif animatios (yuck!). Flickr is recognized as mother and father of the modern web (aleck web 2.0) and every comparison I will make between these two websites will be in favor for flickr.

So it’s sad (for me) that it wasn’t the other way around. I would have liked to see Cal Henderson (L) swim in a pool of golden coins like Scrooge McDuck!

Well, gotta be positive though. At least the buyout Yahoo didn’t go as planned, and I’m not a Microsftr Photr Sharingr user.

A little bird at Feedburner tells me that I have 6 readers. That’s 6 people reading this blog through rss (not including those who read it via web.) That’s kinda impressive, considering I’m not subscribed myself

Spread the sperm…^Wlove! I said, spread the love!

Wow, haven’t posted anything in a week. It’s been quite a busy one, so I’ll note quickly what I’ve been doing.

First, I’ve been to two concerts. One if of Haavalim, and a couple of days later, of Berry Sacharof (picture below.) I have to stay I returned home crippled after the Berry show. Not because of jumping and yelling (I didn’t do those much.) It’s because of all the tall fucks that were standing before me. There’s that poem for short people, I tried looking it up on youtube but couldn’t find anything. Who the hell invented tall people? And why do they always have to stand before me? Is it some kind of sick joke? Next time I’m coming on stilts!

What else. Oh well, same old consultant work, development, and lots of sitting in cafe’s and pubs and hacking my own stuff. I recently started on myspace and on twitter (friends don’t let their friends join myspace!) I’m just trying to understand what the fuss is all about on myspace. It still seems weird that a web 1.0 loaded with bugs catches on like this. I still don’t understand why. Flickr is 100 times more creative, and a 1000 more elegant, and it wasn’t sold for 580,000,000 and doesn’t have 200,000,000 users. So now I’m a proud myspace user and I check my profile several times a day.

I hacked around with myspace and now I have a wrapper class in php that handles friends, profiles and can recursively list all users of myspace. I tried it and it rocks, it just takes ages If you don’t know, myspace was created by a guy with special issues, called Tom. Tom adds himself to every user (and 99.9% of them won’t delete him, I’m in the last percentile.) There’s a t-shirt with a text saying “Tom is not my friend.” Tom has roughly 174,000,000 friends.

I can totally dig twitter. This site is wonderful; I wanted to do something like that myself ages ago but never got to it. I’m amazed how simple it actually is, and how addicting you quickly get. Twitter lets you simply write a one-liner with what you’re doing now. Simple as that. People say which movies there are watching now, which friends they are visiting, and some people even SMS in, saying that they are waiting for a green light This one is truly crazy, and to keep you further insane, it has a cool feature that urges you to write something by sending you an email once a day.

.. Now .. How do I monetize all of this? $$$ …

Photo by leshemania.