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Just read this interesting piece on CNN.  It actually makes sense but still sucks.  I’ve have nothing but bones showing on my hands from washing them so much…Guess I will just walk around holding my breath!

“The flu virus isn’t very stable on the hand,” he said. “The virus has a lipid membrane that flattens out when it’s on your hand, and it gets inactivated.”

The rhinovirus, on the other hand, which causes the common cold, can live quite nicely on someone’s hand. “It has a different architecture than a flu virus,” he said. “It’s much more stable.”

The flu virus thrives in droplets of water, such as the kind that come out of your mouth when you sneeze or cough. “The lipid membrane stays intact when it’s surrounded by a droplet of water that’s ten times bigger than the virus itself,” Palese says.

Infectious disease experts and the CDC agree the flu is more likely to be transmitted through airborne particles than through hand contact. However, they disagreed on the extent to which flu is caused by hand contact compared with inhalation of particles.

Some doubt hand washing stops H1N1 – CNN.com.

Jaice and I have been working on our first scare crow and should have pics coming up soon.

We’ve been sewing, cutting, hammering and creating.  Its been a lot of hard work, but we have finally got a face on it and its is starting to come to life now.

He stands about 10 feet tall or even taller with a nice creepy look.  Instead of using straw, I’ve decided to use some rope that’s been laying around for a long time.  We have been untwisting it to make smaller strands and then stuffing it where needed.

The best thing about it is that scarecrows don’t have to be perfect so the less cleaner it looks, the better!

Anyway, that’s the update and I will be taking some photos to post up this weekend.

*We still need to do some shopping for a big hat, corn stalks and an old lantern…if anyone has anything like this to donate, hit me up!

For some reason, I have been thinking about Halloween for the past few months and I just can’t get it out of my head! Its one of my most favorite times of the year and it brings out the kid in me.

This year, the idea has been slated with a Scarecrow theme for the yard and I may possibly get started this weekend.  My wife and daughter already dug out the annual Halloween nic-nacs and scattered them around the house…now I feel like I am running behind with my Halloween deco.

So I have just about everything that I need to start working on my scarecrows…posts, fake straw, tree branches and flannel shirts.  I just need to get my hands on some burlap for the faces.  Things that I still need are hats, trenchcoats and some corn stalks.  Thankfully, I don’t have a utility pole around or I will be attempting this giant scarecrow…isn’t that awesome?!  Mine will hopefully end up more like this but without the pumpkin head…just want it to be better than the last year or years before that.

Anyway, enjoy the new Halloween edition of WebTurd.com and I will be back later to post photo updates, etc.

Facebook’s user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.
Facebook now has 300 million users — almost as many as the population of the United States.

Facebook now has 300 million users — almost as many as the population of the United States.

That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site’s users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

“We’re just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone,” Zuckerberg wrote on the company’s blog.

“Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect, one of the things we think a lot about is how to make Facebook perform even faster and more efficiently as we grow,” he wrote. “We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the Web.”

The social networking site, while popular with its exploding user base, has struggled to turn a profit.

But Zuckerberg said the company became profitable last quarter, beating its goal of getting out of the red by the end of 2010.

Article Source: Facebook nearly as large as U.S. population – CNN.com.

I call it “treebranch” because I ran into one the same night that I made this. Freakin’ hurt!

Didn’t put much time in to it…just hit record and went for it so that we could have something to listen to later that night. I guess you could say is more like a party/dancing mix. Again, nothing professional.

Track List:

1.    Run DMC – It’s Like That
2.    LMFAO – I’m In Miami Trick
3.    Outkast – Morris Brown
4.    It’s Time For The Perculator
5.    112 – Anywhere
6.    DJ Casper – Cha Cha Slide Part 2
7.    Outhere Brothers – Pass The Toilet Paper
8.    Daft Punk – Around the World
9.    Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back
10.    P Diddy ft Keisha Cole – Last Night
11.    Dj Teko vs. Timbaland- The Way I Are(Club Remix)
12.    Fatman Scoop Break Instrumental
13.    LL Cool J Feat. Jennifer Lopez – Control Myself
14.    Common ft. Pharrell – Universal Mind Control
15.    Tony Toni Tone – It Feels Good.mp3
16.    Ying Yang Twins – Drop
17.    Timberland & Magoo feat Fat Man Scoop – Now Drop
18.    Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
19.    Rob Base – It Takes Two (Bounce mix)
20.    Kelis – My Milkshake
21.    O’Neil McKnight feat. Greg Nice – Check Your Coat
22.    Def Squad – Rappers Delite
23.    Missy Elliott- Pass That Dutch
24.    Nas feat Ginuwine – You Owe Me
25.    Father MC feat. Jodeci – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
26.    Down aka Kilo – Lean Like A Cholo
27.    Keith Sweat – I Want Her
28.    Mase – Feels So Good
29.    Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance – Rap – 80′s
30.    Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
31.    Kriss Kross – Jump
32.    Naughty By Nature – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
33.    112 – Dance With Me
34.    Aaron Hall – Don’t Be Afraid
35.    Color Me Bad – I Want To Sex You Up
36.    N2Deep – Back to the Hotel
37.    Dungeon Family – Trans DF Express
38.    Bobby Brown – Every Little Step I Take
39.    Puff Daddy f. Mase – Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
40.    Lords of the Underground – Cheif Rocka
41.    Next – Too Close
42.    Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
43.    Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
44.    Kid Cudi ft Kanye West & Common – Make Her Say
45.    Fugees & Wycleff Jean – Staying Alive
46.    Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
47.    Jagged Edge and Nelly – Wheres The Party At
48.    Super Mario Brothers Theme Song
49.    A Tribe Called Quest – Check the Rhyme
50.    Beyonce Ft Jay Z – Single Ladies
51.    112 ft. The Notorious B.I.G., Mase – Only You
52.    Juvenille – Back That Ass Up
53.    Dru Hill & Jermaine Dupri – Somebody’s Sleeping In My Bed
54.    Nine – Lyin’ King
55.    The Whoridas – Shot Callin & Big Ballin

Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea.
The newly discovered rat is similar in size and weight to this one found by scientists in 2007.

The newly discovered rat is similar in size and weight to this one found by scientists in 2007.

Measuring 82 centimeters (32.2 inches) from nose to tail and weighing around 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds), the species is thought to be one of the largest rats ever to be found.

The discovery was made by a team from the BBC Natural History Unit inside the crater of Mount Bosavi — an extinct volcano in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea.

“This is one of the world’s largest rats. It’s a true rat, the same kind you find in the city sewers,” said Kristofer Helgen, a biologist from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, who was part of the expedition team.

Initial examinations of the rat — provisionally named the Bosavi woolly rat — suggest that it belongs to the Mallomys — a genus of rodents in the muridae family which are the largest living species of rodent.

New giant rat species discovered – CNN.com.

A year ago, it was a surprise to me to see the meteor shower but now I know whats going on and was reminded recently.

The Perseid meteor shower will have to fight it out with a bright moon for visibility this year, but astronomers are still predicting a dazzling show tonight.

From any vantage point in the world, you might see more than 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky during the best viewing time, when the moon’s glare will be weakest—late tonight and into the wee hours of tomorrow, local cloud and lighting conditions permitting.

The highest concentration of Perseid meteors hitting Earth’s atmosphere will occur tomorrow afternoon, when they’ll be largely invisible.

The Perseid sky show is “always the best annual meteor shower,” said Bill Cooke, the lead for NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office in Alabama.

“Visually, the best are the Geminids. But December nights are cold, and people don’t want to freeze their rears off.”

Perseid Meteor Shower Viewing Tips

The moon will provide some interference for the Perseids, at just over half full and rising around midnight. The best advice: Look away from the moon—and all other lights—so your eyes stay as dark-adapted as possible.

To see the Perseid meteor shower, bring a blanket to a place away from city lights and lay on your back, taking in as much of the sky as possible.

The Perseid meteors will appear to originate in the northeastern sky, near the constellation Perseus, and to shoot off in all directions, said Brian Skiff, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff (see animated star chart below).

Meteor Shower Tonight to Yield 80 Meteors an Hour?.