I am a snorathelete

December 16, 2008

Yet another BBC News headline — this time it’s personal…

Heavy snorers ‘burn more energy’

Yes, if there were snorlympics, I’d be in medal contention for sure…


If beaked whales had email…

December 16, 2008

…would they get teeth enlargement spam?

BBC News reports that “Whales’ teeth are aid to mating“.

It’s an interesting article, despite my slightly flippant comment about spam — although I felt sorry for the beaked whale when Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University in the US, was quoted in the article as saying “Beaked whales are among the least known, least understood and, frankly, most bizarre whales in the ocean.”

Bizarre?  Compared to a species that creates the internet and then uses it to send enlargement spam?  Sort of the kettle calling the pot black, no?