"Because it's my birthday... and I wants it."
-- Smeagol

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

February 27, 2008 -- Your fate is in your hands and anyone who tells you otherwise is not to be trusted. Despite what some might say life is not a meaningless jumble of unrelated events - there is a purpose and a plan to everything that happens. If you can find that purpose and join with it there are no limits to what you can do.

You know, for kids!

It's okay. We'll all just head to the Arctic.

Not that anything's going to happen, mind you, but it's real nice that we're taking precautions...

Tomorrow is the unveiling of The Doomsday Vault. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - secured behind an airlock door - will hold 4.5 million batches of seeds. All the planet's main food crops. You know - should something happen to our stuff.

If only we'd come up with a Bee-Vault...


I'm actually a huge fan of brussels sprouts, and welcome any apocalypse that will force this unheralded food into the spotlight.

Click on the rendering of the "homey", nuclear blast-resistant bunker for the story.