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Pillows Dangerous for Your Health
Roland Piquepaille writes "I guess we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that our pillows are miniature zoos containing millions of fungal spores, with some species able to cause diseases and even death. Researchers at the University of Manchester have studied the fungal contamination of our pillows for the first time in seventy years and discovered that these pillows were hot beds of fungal spores. After dissecting both feather and synthetic pillows in regular use between several months and 20 years, they've "identified several thousand spores of fungus per gram of used pillow -- more than a million spores per pillow."
Just as I turned in disgust from the latest Dan Lyons OSS flamebait (nominally about MySQL but mainly about his fear and loathing of Open Source) I thought to myself "What to I want to read now to get the taste out of my metaphorical mouth?"
I Dvorak flamebait? No, we just had one of those, and anyway reading two flamebaits in a row is bad for my blood pressure.
I know what would hit the spot! A Roland Piquepaille troll! We haven't had one of those for a while.
It's as if the gods heard my plea.
Darn those gods to heck anyway. I never thought I'd say it, but I miss Jon Katz!
--MarkusQ