Two cups of tea and water - $212,000,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7342774.stm
At least there is one place where the dollar is weaker than our own - Zimbabwe.

This could happen here if all trust in the dollar is lost - it too could spiral out of control... Bush, just keep doing what you've been doing...

Robonaut - our tax dollars at work.

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

First point is how do they have a photo of it on Mars already? In the upper right corner of the article they have a little photo of this thing on Martian terrain... Oh well...

I think that they should have come up with this for applications around the world now instead of for Mars in the future.

The hands and arm could have been used to help disabled people - maybe Iraqi injured "war-fighters" coming back without such appendages anymore.

or Why not use this to help out in hazardous situations where we shouldn't be sending people?

Does anyone else see a link to the Cylons from the original Battlestar Galactica or is just me?

Two extinct plants found again in Queensland

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/12/2214961.htm

http://www.theage.com.au/news/energy-smart/sunshine-states-poor-resource-record/2008/04/12/1207856890510.html
How does one miss a meter and half tall plant???

Good news for these two plants, but that doesn't mean that the world is any less in trouble than before...

The God Particle may have been found.

The God particle is the last of the sub-atomic particles to be located... It is the last of the bosons and this 78 year-old physist thinks it should be found soon... He's only been looking for 40years!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210402.htm

Can a company own a color?

Cadbury Schwepps has been in court arguing that a competitor cannot use the color purple for their candy bar wrappers since 2005.

An Australian Federal court recently ruled that they do not own the color and that others can package their products in purple as well...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2214362.htm

Cadbury did not like the ruling so they have filed an appeal... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2214856.htm

We'll see what happens...

Finally, a REAL minivan?

I don't like minivans - never had, never will. But this would be the closest to being like as a minivan in my mind.

Designed by Porsche, and co-built by Porsche and VW, it will have the VW name...

VW Routan
http://www.vwroutanminivan.com/routan/

Puppy?

LadyBug was a Kumpi! Kumpi - a friend upon who's life you depend. I'm really going to miss her! :( I just wish that there was something more that we could have done for her.

I hope she has enough of her Kumpi Senior food and treats where-ever she ends up... Mari and I are really going to be lonely without her in our lives!

It was only less than 2 years we shared with her, but it is difficult to think of a time without her lying next to the couch with us or putting her head in our laps to be taken out or rubbed...

To you LadyBug - we'll forever love you!