Bizarre Blog Day: Green Glow-in-the-Dark Pigs Are Just the Start

Maybe the fact that today is Friday the 13th has something to do with it, but blog discussion has kind of a bizarre tone today.

Starting with today's second most-cited news story in the blogosphere: green glow-in-the-dark pigs in Taiwan. That's right, folks. Taiwan researchers have brewed jellyfish DNA with pig DNA to create pigs that are fluorescent green, inside and out. "I do not like green eggs and ham," jokes the blogger at Barking Moonbat in response. Bloggers already have names for them. Rave Pigs. Glow Pork. Porci Fluorescentes! One offers a poetic tribute to "the other green meat."

JC in the news
I'm not watcher of ABC's "Lost" drama, but the fact that the phrase "Jesus Stick" showed up as today's burstiest person (hey, sometimes text-mining algorithms get confused, too) obviously means that a reference in this week's episode to Mr. Eko's "Jesus stick" is resonating through the blogosphere. Jesus is in the news elswhere, too, as the Rev. Pat Robertson is trying to take back what he said (No. 7 news story) about the ailing Ariel Sharon to mend ties with Israel (where he wants to build a Bible theme park). Elsewhere, an anti-ACLU movement is having fits over lawsuits about Christian prayers and Wiccan priestess lawyers fees and lawsuits over what's appropriate at official government meetings.

There go those paradigms again
First, Kodak announced plans to de-emphasize its photographic paper, and now Nikon (today's No. 5 top link) is signaling a fuller shift away from 35mm/film to digital cameras. Bloggers wonder: the end of an era?

A new map of the world...
Finally, today's fourth most-cited blog post presents a new Prejudice Map of the world, created by using Google's search engine with the terms "(named residents) are known for" in the search box. Go a head. Take the tour. And see what Virginians are known for. (I tried "Ohioans," who apparently are known for "shooting the curl," (huh?) generosity, wearing layers and being hard-working folks. Whatever.