Hulleye Comes By!

don’t you hate it when people buy q-tips, they save the extra 50 cents and buy the cheap ones. the cotton on which just rolls off the second it even approaches any human ear and you find yourself stabbing yourself with blunt plastic in the ear drum.

if you’re done with the shampoo bottles, THROW THEM OUT! those last five drops at the bottom are never going to come out of there no matter how hard you try.

if the bar of soap can no longer be gripped on first attempt of a body scrub, it’s finished. THROW IT OUT! buy some more for crying out loud. it’s just soap. you won’t go bankrupt. you don’t have to finish it till it’s last suds. don’t try merging it with a brand new soap either. that just ruins the next soap too.

for all you north american’s (students mostly) who don’t have the facility of a muslim shower or a bidet, use something bigger than a paper cup for a lota. it’s annoying for visitors.

always leave good reading material for your visitors.

oh and by the way, the Q in q-tips stand for Quality. johnson & johnson have a half decent brand as well for the europeans who are reading.

weird that i find this on the daily times, but anyway they’ve got this article on how picture warnings on cigarette packaging in canada (rather horrific if i may add due to first hand experience), are now being considered art and are now on display at MoMA.

Now this is super weird.

A mysterious marine microbe, half of whose individual cells eat algae like animals while the rest perform photosynthesis like plants, has been discovered, a University of Tsukuba research team said.

The discovery, the first of its kind, will be carried in the U.S. magazine Science that will be published on Friday.

“I think the discovery of the ‘half-animal, half-plant’ microbe shows part of the process of single-cell marine microbes evolving into plants,” Prof. Isao Inoue, a member of the research team, said.

The research team happened to find the single-cell microbe, a kind of flagellate, on a beach in Wakayama Prefecture, and called it “hatena” (”mystery”).

The microbe is originally green and is made up of algae. When it divides into two cells, one takes over the algae from its parent and remains green and the other turns colorless.

The animal-type colorless cell develops an organ like a mouth and uses it to eat algae, while the plant-type green one uses algae it has in its body to perform photosynthesis and produce energy, according to the team…