It's an eternity of laughter, and eternity of madness . . .

The scientists took the words of the song It's a Small World and translated it into a code based on the four "letters" of DNA. They then created artificial DNA strands recording different parts of the song. These DNA messages, each about 150 bases long, were inserted into bacteria such as E. coli and Deinococcus radiodurans.

It's bad enough that scientists now want to turn me into a giant disk drive, for God's sake, but really?  It's a Small World?I  Don't get me wrong, I like the "Small World" ride, precisely because it is just short enough to bring you to the precipice of madness, although now and then Disney gets an outlier who runs from the boats, hands cupped over bleeding ears, screaming, "I HAVE SEEN FOREVER!!"  If you don't know what I am talking about, go to Disneyland, take the ride, and see if you're not lying in your bed later that night, thinking, it's a orld of laughter, a world of tears, it's a world of hope, and a world of fears, there's so much . . . make it stop, for the love of God, MAKE IT STOP!.

So now I am goin to eat some bad kimchee, and the E. coli virus starts rampaging through my body, and the last bloody thing I will hear is that song.  Only this time, it really is in my mind, literally.

Side note:  best episode of "Courage the Cowardly Dog" was when he's on the boat and they keep singing, "It's Doc Gerbil's world, it's Doc Gerbil's world . . .: