h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah yes, your photo-illustrated horror story. I hope it goes OK this time then.

Let me know when you are coming, we are away on 15th for a few days.

Thanks, SEF.

OK, Kaz, will do.

Another journal entry. http://snailrind.livejournal.com/48558.html

I shouldn't be surprised, but African giant snails! How cool is that?!

And yes. That is a doppelganger.

Aha! It's good to have a second opinion. Mind you, as I've said before, I think I prefer the doppelganger to the real Gothly.

For those of you whose computers let you watch short vids: http://snailrind.livejournal.com/48814.html

Beautiful! I recognised protein transcription from RNA, but that's it...

Glad you enjoyed it too, Milla.



Londoners: I'll be in Streatham, London between Monday 11th and Thursday 14th September, if you fancy a drink / snail / sit on a park bench.

Will many snails be accompanying you then?

I like snails. Tasty with garlic...

Like, I haven't heard that one before!

Actually, giant African landsnails have virtually no taste (so I'm told) and the garlic's the only thing that makes 'em worth eating. It seems to me that people could save a whole lot of money by just eating neat garlic.

> "save a whole lot of money"

and snails! ..._@o"

PZ Myers says this about the video animation:

What you'll see is the series of events that transpire when a lymphocyte encounters a cell surface signal that triggers emigration out of a capillary and into other tissues; it zooms rather abruptly from a cellular view to the molecules on the surface interacting with one another, then into the interior of the cell to see the response. All kinds of cool stuff fly by: actin and microtubule assembly and disassembly, kinesin-mediated vesicle transport, protein synthesis on ribosomes, ER processing, vesicle fusion, etc.

Thanks, Sea Change. I might paste that into the LJ thread, for the benefit of dewimorgan. If I get round to it...

Here's my next blogly offering: http://snailrind.livejournal.com/48944.html

http://snailrind.livejournal.com/49166.html

http://snailrind.livejournal.com/49492.html

Just a funny little thing I found.

http://snailrind.livejournal.com/49719.html

A quick poll.

http://snailrind.livejournal.com/50243.html

A gruesome one.

http://snailrind.livejournal.com/50882.html