ODD: 10 Strange Ways to Predict the Future

Mental_Floss had an interesting article about the 10 weirdest ways to predict the future.
Crystal balls and palm reading too mundane for your tastes?
Spice up your fortune telling shop by divining the future from the knots on a baby's umbilical chord!

Squeamish about all the blood? No problem! Just head on down to the local deli and pick up a block of cheese! Who knows what mysteries that age-old crucolo holds?

10 Weird Ways to Predict the Future

1. Anthropomancy - divination by the entrails of men.
2. Armomancy - divination by the shoulders of beasts.
3. Belomancy - divination by arrows.
4. Gastromancy - divination by stomach noises.
5. Gyromancy - divination by walking in a circle until the subject falls over from dizziness.
6. Myomancy - divination by movements of mice.
7. Omphalomancy - divination by knots on the umbilical cord.
8. Onychomancy - divination by fingernails.
9. Rhapsodomancy - divination by random selection of a line of poetry.
10. Tyromancy - divination by cheese.

ODD: WTC Hero to be cloned

Okay so this is creepy, but awesome nonetheless ...

Apparently, scientists planning to clone "Trakr," a German shepherd who was one of the dogs sniffing out survivors trapped in rubble following the World Trade Center disaster in New York in 2001.

Here's a snippet of the Associated Free Press's report:

Trakr, a German shepherd who lives with his owner James Symington in Los Angeles, was picked by BioArts International as the most "clone-worthy" canine in a competition offering an owner a free chance to replicate their pet.

In the next month, BioArts said it would transport a sample of Trakr's DNA to the South Korean lab of its partner, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, and the clone could be ready by the end of this year.

"Trakr means the world to me," Symington said. "To know that part of him is going to live on is just beyond words. It's the greatest gift I've ever received."

That's sweet and all, but I have to admit I'm about this close to going into panic mode.

What if an army of cloned, pissed off sniffer dogs break free after years of experiments in some "Area Bow-Wow" and start to run amok in our streets? EVERYBODY PANIC.

Odd: Sulu goes country -- career collapses at warp 9.6

George Takei made an appearance on CBS' new "Secret Talents of the Stars" Wednesday night.

In case you missed it, the video is linked here.

I found it particularly interesting that our old friend Sulu "finds love making music with his friends," but I was a bit puzzled by this CBS promotion, which features a painfully oblivious Takei warming is vocal chords before a confused Enterprise crew.



This one's for you Leonard!!