Matthew LaVelle’s weblog

It’s been a very hectic week at work for me. So, I haven’t had a chance to read any real news or current events lately. I have however had time to trip up on a few interesting links from the Blogdex.

Where shall we begin. Ummm…ok, The Darth Side. This is one of the newer weblogs [...]

Japanese researchers Genetically modify rice with human genes
In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals.
For those of you who don’t know what Soylent Green is…it’s people. Really. The term comes to us from a 1973 [...]

Is this really what we have to look forward to when we go under the knife? I consider myself and my family very lucky that we have a decent health insurance plan. I say that but the truth of it is that we in the middle class get it the worst!

The lack of proper insurance [...]

Over at Something Awful I stumbled upon a list of movie posters that were originally written in Japanese and then translated back into English for some interesting grammar. This is not however a new idea. There is a huge archive of products, posters and clothing over at Engrish.com that are sure to provides hours of [...]

I heard it from two friends today. I kinda didn’t believe it at first, but then I read this on Adobe Inc. website and well, yes, it’s true, Adobe is sweeping Macromedia under what is becoming one of the largest software companies rugs south of Redmond. I’m going to go ahead and bet that this [...]