Milking it for all it’s worth

Published 11:07 pm Sunday, August 10, 2008

Researchers in California have discovered that if cows ruled the world, they’d hog the shower. When allowed to control the water, some bovines relaxed under a cool spray for seven hours a day. They also drank straight from the carton, always took the last cookie and refused to share the remote.

Instead of breakfast for dinner, try breakfast for dessert. A candymaker in Santa Cruz, Calif., is selling chocolate-covered bacon. f you serve it with Cocoa Puffs, chocolate milk and chocolate Pop-Tarts, you might come down from the sugar high sometime next month.

Like something out of Harry Potter: Scientists are inching closer to creating materials that can make people invisible. The Buzz could have used an invisibility cloak last summer, when we encountered an angry raccoon like the ones terrorizing people in Snohomish County.

Unlike Harry Potter, however, we had neither a cloak nor magical powers, which is why we ran away instead of turning the raccoon into a kumquat.