The Dark Side Of The Earth




Comet 17P/Holmes Dust Cloud is now bigger than the sun



I grabbed some photos of my own from my back yard, but they can't compete with NASA and ESA, except on cost, my setup cost

Most other news outlets are going all sensational on the title with phrases like 'Chinese Toys Laced With Date Rape Drug', but lets be fair more people are using GHB recreationally than anythign else, indeed the most common 'date rape' drug' is plain old alcohol.

Howeverthe story is still the same, it started with an Australian toy company which created a craft toy that consisted of coloured beads coated with a water based adhesive, you laid out your pattern and sprayed them with water and they all stuck together. In Australia they were marketed under the name 'Bindeez' and were recently awarded the 'Toy Of The Year' prize, in north america you can find them sold under the name Aqua Dots, yesterday most of the online stores were still selling them but I can't find any links now. At some point in the design and manufacturing the non-toxic adhesive was substituded with something else which contained substances that would metabolized into GHB.

But who would eat glue?

Oh yeah kids.