Word: ostrichized
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...most of them are not pretty. If you get dressed to go to the theater, why shouldn't you have a nice gold stick to go with your gold jewelry?" The Trigere collection, making its debut online next week at goldviolin.com also features such practical items as a red ostrich box for pills and a matching purse to hold hearing aids. More ideas are on the way. "If you are in a wheelchair sitting down, I want to make something to cover your knees. I'm sure you can buy lots of little blankets somewhere, but I would want mine...
...variable in Kiely's work is which "victim" gets to be on the canvas. One series has ostriches, while the other depicts battered stuffed animals. Kiely instructs us that she is speaking to the victims of society. The ostrich and the bunny rabbit are to Kiely misused symbols of fear and innocence. The only misused anything, however, is the canvas she wastes on what is simply boring and ugly painting...
...operating in a world that is filled with a variety of threats," Albright said. "But that doesn't mean that we can crawl into an ostrich-like mode. We are eagles...
Then they start fiddling with it--turning on old pseudogenes; knocking out the genes for feathers and putting back in the genes for scaly skin; tweaking the genes for the skull so that teeth appear instead of a beak; shrinking the wings, keel and wishbone (ostrich genes would be helpful here); massively increasing size and sturdiness of the body; and so on. Pretty soon they have the recipe for a big, featherless, wingless, toothy-jawed monster that looks a little like a cross between a dodo and a tiger...
...just about any DNA recipe and read off a passable 3-D interpretation of the animal it would create. After a massive amount of digital trial and error, the nerds reckon they have a recipe for a creature that would closely resemble a small, running dinosaur like Struthiomimus ("the ostrich mimic"). The rest is as easy as Dolly the sheep: call up a company that can synthesize the genome, stick it into an enucleated ostrich ovum, implant the same in an ostrich and sit back to watch...