What do monkeys and sheep have in common? They’ve both been unnaturally reproduced via cloning. Wow!

Politicians and “analysts” will have their typical reactions to stories that involve cloning; some of them saying “What the bloody earth, this is such an outrage and undermines the very concepts that constitute life”, and others saying “Oh goody, this is probably a good thing, and shows why science education is so important and merits a tax increase.”

To either stereotypical reaction, I have nothing to offer except a long and inflated yawn. Politicians don’t do the actual cloning; rather, it is the cloners who do the cloning. Since cloners can be more interesting than politicians, let’s talk to one of them instead.

So what will be cloned next? Humans? Laptop computers? Cars? Maybe food? Yeah, maybe food.

Meet Sigmund. He is a cook at a franchise Mexican fast food restaurant in the frontier village of Boston, Massachusetts. He wishes to become a cloner, so he is quite fascinated by the concept of cloning. So, accordingly, I am quite fascinated to have an opportunity to interview him about his fascination about this fascinating topic.

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There are two ways to “experience” an image-editing program such as Adobe Photoshop. The first way is to actually sit down and use the software for its intended purpose — to manipulate images. That’s easy enough. The second way, on the other hand, involves a significant amount of pain: you get used by the software, when some antisocial hater finds a picture of you, digitally defaces it, puts it online, and lets it spread virally. After something like that happens to you, life can really suck for a long time.

Anyway, while reading the news over a cup of chilled guava juice this morning, I was stunned to learn that Adobe plans to revamp Photoshop’s interface to make it easier to use. Well, kudos to Adobe! Simplicity is a good thing. Or so they say.

But when something becomes easier to use, lo and behold, guess what happens? It also becomes easier to misuse. So naturally, there must some people with out there with less-than-noble intentions, who must be absolutely thrilled to hear about this announcement from Adobe.

So members of the sauhard.com team tracked down Stacey, a girl who broke up with her boyfriend yesterday after a bitter argument. She agreed to talk to us about what she plans to do in the near future. Her plans do indeed involve Photoshop. I might warn you, they are not particularly pretty. Reader discretion is advised.

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General Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, is the attention-grabber-of-the-week, after declaring a state of emergency in his country, in which basic civil liberties are suspended. This basically means that if I were in Pakistan right now, I could be jailed for saying something like “OMG, Musharraf is total suckage!”

While a large number of people are condemning Musharraf’s decision to impose a state of emergency, there are some who approve of his decision. The sauhard.com management team managed to find such an individual. His name is Trevor.

But wait a minute. Trevor is not Pakistani. He is not a politician. He is not a human rights worker. Most of the time, Trevor isn’t even remotely interested in what’s going on in the rest of the world, or even in the rest of his neighborhood.

Instead, Trevor prefers to get buckets of chicken wings from a fast food restaurant, and then sit down in front of his computer to multitask furiously: he eats the chicken with his left hand, while killing virtual opponents with his right hand, in an adrenaline-filled session of Unreal Tournament.

Obviously, with a lifestyle like that, Trevor has little time for distractions. So why has he suddenly become so interested in Pakistan? I’m every bit as baffled about this as you are. Let’s talk to him and find out what the scoop is.

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Recently, some folks have been gossiping about an Egyptian monarch, who, at several points in his life, was between 9 and 19 years old.

We are talking, of course, about King Tut. After 3300 years in an underground hermitage somewhere in the Egyptian desert, he’s become rather disenchanted with the inhuman climate, as well as the lack of buddies with whom he can socialize.

So he’s moving to a new, air-conditioned chamber, which provides him with an interface with the public. He’s a happy camper now, his main concerns having been appropriately handled.

Patty recently visited King Tut. She is the editor of a historical beauty magazine, a magazine which focuses primarily on the underexplored intersection of history and beauty.

Unlike many who have visited King Tut at his new location, Patty was not particularly thrilled to see him. Accordingly, she decided not to feature his picture on the cover of an upcoming issue of her magazine.

I was very surprised to hear about this, so I invited Patty to the sauhard.com headquarters to have a little chat about her decision.

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