"If Shvarts did indeed preserve the blood and freeze it immediately after it was collected, it could be tested for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the hormone produced during pregnancy. If she failed to carefully preserve it, however, the hCG could have degenerated over time, making it untraceable.

"Another option would be a DNA analysis of the blood. 'If you could take a sample of her blood and determine her genetic material, then test the [menstrual] blood against it, if there’s any genetic material there that’s not hers, that would indicate a pregnancy,' says Dr. Michael Ross, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Northern Virginia. 'Or you could do a test for Y chromosomes, on the 50/50 chance that [the fetus] was a boy.'

"Still, either test might not be conclusive: 'If the [blood] has more than one genetic program, you could say there’s an overwhelming likelihood that she’s pregnant—or just that she had sex before collecting the blood,' says Ross. Plus, once again preservation remains an issue, since DNA specimens are notoriously easy to contaminate."

Ball's in your court, Yale Monster. Give us her genetic material!

When not writing boring-ass Little Women, Louisa May Alcott penned (quilled?) a short story called "Perilous Play" in which one character "If someone does not propose a new and interesting amusement, I shall die of ennui!" So some helpful soul busts out the pot bon-bons. These and other helpful marijuana facts are available at your local library. Or, at The Chicago Tribune.

• Ew, sweet Asian Cyclon—Don't kiss Quantum Leap!
• The Cyclons are split down the middle. Can I have the half with Xena in it?
• Chief Fatty Q. Workingstiff is having an identity crisis coz he's a secret Cyclon. Waaah!
• Miami Vice is reading to President Lady MacCancer? You gotta get dead, lame lady. You gotta get dead now.
• Blonde tomboy space girl! Blonde tomboy space girl!
• Don't give her guff, doubting pussies! She stands on top of you and talks down to you through a grid. You know coz why? Coz she's the fucking blonde tomboy space girl. That's coz why!
• Bye, bye Council of Hottie Cyclons. ::sniffle::
• Old Eyepatchy to Chief Fatty Q. Workingstiff: "The last thing we need is for your Cyclon hating wife to find out that there's a bunch of skin-jobs on this ship and that one of them is her husband." Then maybe you shouldn't'a said that out loud just now, jobby.
• Wrench to the face! Wrench to the face!
• Don't put the baby in the space chute! Nooooes!
• Uh-oh. Bye-bye nice lady.

"The surge in online content is at the center of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today," he said. "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today."

"Cicconi, who was speaking at the event as part of a wider series of meetings with U.K. government officials, said that at least $55 billion worth of investment was needed in new infrastructure in the next three years in the U.S. alone, with the figure rising to $130 billion to improve the network worldwide. 'We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the Internet by 2010,' he said."

He also took a moment to kick all you Matrix geeks in the ass. "There is nothing magic or ethereal about the Internet—it is no more ethereal than the highway system. It is not created by an act of God, but upgraded and maintained by private investors." [CNET News]

"The comments also contradict Clinton's previous statements praising this year's elevated Democratic turnout in primaries and caucuses, and appear to blame her caucus defeats on newly energized grassroots voter groups that she has lauded in the past as "lively participants" in American democracy."

And, hey, wasn't MoveOn.org founded to defend Bill Clinton against impeachment? "MoveOn's Executive Director Eli Pariser reacted strongly to Clinton's remarks: 'Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim. Senator Clinton's attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points.'" [via Time-blog.com]