I wanted to remind every body that Friday is Bob Barker's last day as host of The Price is Right (I have my calendar marked).
Then I saw this article: Bob Barker Offers to Fill In as Host of 'Price Is Right'
I didn't realize they took the summers off so now I guess we have to wait until the fall to see who will be hosting. Super exciting stuff!!! (you can see my standards for exciting have kind of fallen off).

Glen has a subscription to Wired magazine and they had this little mini article in the catagory "Japanese Schoolgirl Watch" about a gadget that curls and then kind of hairsprays your eyelashes. I thought the catagory just referred to the fact that this sounds like something that Japanese schoolgirls would use, but the product is indeed super Japanese. Check out its webpage.The company's other products are on the left and they are even funnier.

And finally, I saw on the wikipedia "Current Events" section that a new strain of Bartonella has been discovered. Normally, who would really care? But a couple of days ago I got a QBank practice question that described the symptoms of what turned out to be Cat Scratch Fever (Bartonella henselae) and then asked me which of given choices was caused by the same pathogen -- and every single answer choice was a disease caused by a different strain of Bartonella. So I take particular offense that scientists have decided to burden me with learning a sixth strain of this microbe.