Apologies again for the lack of updates - studying for the New York Bar Exam has severely cut into my internet time.

Anyhow, here are some of things of recent interest:

#1: Someone has invented a reflective spray that works to make an individual unphotographable to electronic cameras. Instead of seeing your face in the picture, all that comes out is a white blur.

#2: There's finally an internet series worth watching. Michael Cera (George Michael on Arrested Development) has a new show called Clark and Michael that can only be found online. There's only two episodes so far, and they're both relatively short and in the vein of The Office.

#3: Japan has apparently been marketing non-alcoholic beer for children for years:

Sangaria started their line of fake alcoholic drinks for kids with Kodomo no nomimono (Children’s drink), and has been successful enough to offer it in bottles, cans, and even six-packs. They also expanded the product line to include children’s versions of wine, champagne, and cocktails. The beer, flavored like apple juice, even foams at the top when poured into a glass!

#4: This week, President Bush announced the United States would place tough sanctions against Sudan for their support of militias terrorizing non-Arab citizens in Darfur. In response, the Sudanese ambassador to the United States held a press conference where threatening to cut off the world's soda supply in retaliation:

I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country," the ambassador said after raising a bottle of Coca-Cola.

A reporter asked if Sudan was threatening to "stop the export of gum arabic and bring down the Western world."

"I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this," Khartoum Karl warned anew, beckoning to the Coke bottle. "But I don't want to go that way."

The press conference may have been the most surreal since the days of Baghdad Bob (ah, the good ol' days in the Iraq war). Here's a sample:



#5: Battlestar Galactica's upcoming season will indeed be it's last. From the show's producers:

"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and finally, an end. Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end and we've decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms," Eick and Moore said in the statement. "And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace themselves for a wild ride getting there –- we're going out with a bang .