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Figments of the Imagination? – washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011603134.html?referrer=digg

From the page: “Thousands of people around the world say they have a disease that causes mysterious fibers to sprout painfully through the skin, and they’ve given it a name. The spread of ‘Morgellons disease’ could be Internet hysteria, or it could be an emerging illness demanding our attention

Sue Laws remembers the night it began. It was October 2004, and she’d been working in the basement home office of her Gaithersburg brick rambler where she helps her husband run their tree business. She was sitting at her computer getting the payroll out, when all of a sudden she felt as if she were being attacked by bees. The itching and stinging on her back was so intense that she screamed for her husband, Tom. He bounded downstairs and lifted her shirt, but he couldn’t see anything biting her. She insisted something must be. To prove there was nothing there, he stuck strips of thick packing tape to her back and ripped them off. Then they took the magnifying eyepiece that Tom, an arborist, uses to examine leaves for fungus and blight and peered at the tape. “That’s when we saw them. It was covered with these little red fibers,” Sue recalls. She’d never seen anything like them. And she had no idea where they came from.”

http://www.anglingmasters.com/10-bizarre-behaviors-of-parasites.asp


The lancet fluke finds its way into snails while they are feeding on cow feces. The fluke remains in the snail until it matures into a tad-pole like creature, which is literally coughed out by the snail in a coating of thick mucus. This mucus is considered a delicacy for ants but after feeding on the infested mucus they become the new hosts. Once infected the ants leave their colony every night to attach themselves bottom side up to a tall blade of grass with their clamping mandibles. It waits in this manner until it is finally eaten by a cow. Once the ant has been ingested the parasite breaks out and swims through the digestive tract until it reaches its new home, the bile duct. From here new eggs are released and allowed to exit through the digestive tract inside the feces, which will then be eaten by snails to continue the cycle.

Now *that* is a life plan.

Is This the End of Sphinn | SEO Blog

http://www.essence-seo.co.uk/articles–blog/seo-blog/2008/1/18/is-this-the-end-of-sphinn.aspx

“What is one of the most successful tactics for destroying a community or your opposition?

Full on assault? Unbridled brute force? Slanderous speak? Libelous language?

Well all of the above have their place, but what has been proven to be perhaps the most powerful device time and time again is the implementation of divide and conquer.”

Essence discuss the “DeSphinn” button.