I've heard of sniffer dogs. They are dogs used by the police to trace
people buried beneath rubbles or those that sniff out bombs and drugs
in airports. But I've never heard of cancer sniffer dogs. These are
dogs trained to detect bladder cancer by smelling urine. Apparently,
cancer cells give off compounds that has a distinctive odor that dogs
can detect. Even skin cancers can be detected by these dogs by
(persistently) sniffing moles.

This is a breakthrough and it will further develop cancer detection.
Cheers to man's best friend!

Forbes released its 2004 list of America's richest people! Bill Gates
tops the list with a mind-blowing $48 billion net worth. If you care
to know, Forbes also has a list of richest FICTIONAL characters. In
2002, Santa Claus tops the list. He's net worth is infinite. At number
two is Richie Rich with $24.7 billion. Imagine that, Bill Gates is
richer than Richie Rich.

As for this day's photo: Meet the 7th richest man in the fictional
world - BRUCE WAYNE, chairman of Wayne Enterprises. Net Worth: $6.3
billion. Not bad.
(from left to right: Animated Bruce Wayne, Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne,
and Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne)

In late August, I purchased my last five (5) Lord of the Rings action
figures. Two reasons why I have to drop the line from my collection:
1) Massive scalping of characters who are considered to be of more
value than the others; and 2) as a result of reason 1, the line became
costly! Sad.

But that's just me and my little toy problem.

I bet it's not as devastating as finding out that one of your city's classic icons has got to go! I'm talking about the Routemaster Double Decker buses in London. They are forced to retire in 2005 because they are costly (sounds familiar). Although i'm not from England, I'm glad that I was able to ride on one of those \"expensive antiques\". I didn't really appreciate it much then, but I know I appreciate it now.

The Routemaster Double Decker buses will be replaced by a fleet of single-deck buses that can accomodate as much as 140 passengers.

At least London will still have new buses. Me? I will not have new LOTR figures.

Photo caption: double decker bus joins red phone booth in retirement house

Bilbo and Gollum in happier times...

Fast forward to Amazing Race 5:
I can't believe that the team I wanted to win actually won! This has
not happened before! Now, I can't wait for the AR 6.

My friend, Rosette, was not able to watch the live telecast and she
refused to know who won until the primetime telecast tonight. So,
between now and 8pm, she will be struggling. If she overcomes her
"check-the-amazing-race-website" demons, then I am happy to say that
her EQ will substantially increase to 10.

Meet Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine. Bounty hunters. Bored and short of cash.

I've always thought that bounty-hunting business would be profitable
here. I just know a place where there's a large concentration of bad
guys...those of the plundering kind...

Toyrant note: Spike and Faye are from the action-packed anime series
Cowboy Bebop.

Let the (toy) ranting begin...