For a second there, I thought I was the only one who saw this as a link between organism and machine.

I've been saying this for over a decade... Though my logic was simply - if all stars eventually die, and black holes eventually suck up anything and everything, wouldn't that create a zero-point mass that wold simply have to give?

who see this as a potential for a nasty weapon? If it involves some type of energy ray, or simply a chemical compound (which the article DID say that the scientists are trying to improve upon, but did not specify how it's done), then I'm sure it could be made into a weapon. Just imagine the possibilities...

I have a Nokia 6010 that has survived the years, including being thrown into a stream, two lakes, tossed from 3 or more stories on multiple instances, been ran over twice, and countless hand-drops onto cement. Still works, and holds its charge for days. (My last recharge was last night, before that was actually about two weeks ago with just using it for the Alarm clock. Also, an LG VX8500 (Chocolate). Ran over once, dropped countless times, twice in the toilet, and still works (mostly). Sadly, although it does function, some of the programs are now missing on this one (VCAST, Sync, and a few others...) Bluetooth, and Cellular access still work, as well as the music player, and all of the tools and stuff.)

No, Bonzi Buddy does not run under Linux. Most likely because a lot of the computer-crippling code found in Bonzi Buddy would need to be run as root. That, and Bonzi Buddy was intended to crash one's computer and make it slow down to a consistency equivalent of molasses. Then, PC repair places would get money, but more importantly other downloadable programs that claim to "Fix your computer's problems" would get the money needed to supposedly fix, but not fix your computer.

Although I do not think it's being produced anymore, you can still search for him, and run it under wine. But to do that.... makes me shudder. I've seen PCs lose their email, password history, even their desktop contents and registry file trying to remove Bonzi Buddy. Not to mention when my school had suspended 3 students for downloading him, and made their parents pay for the repair of the PCs of the malicious purple bloat-coded monkey.