By caitlindowling

When she's not ice-fishing or making her own shoes, Caitlin Dowling leads a quiet life, as a masters candidate at the school of Journalism at UBC. Okay, the first two aren't true, but she does love research, and finding the news and quotes that make us laugh or intrigue us:)

A COLLECTION OF ‘OVERHEARDS’ FROM THE PAST YEAR

“I really want to actually see the gun that’s been supposedly aimed at my head for four years.” Jack Campbell, CEO of DVForge, who organized a contest to design a Mac Virus for his company’s computers, then cancelled it after realizing it might actually invite trouble. – – – “If some people decide that they want blind children and white rice, it’s their choice. I’m offering the possibility of yellow rice and no blind children. But the decision what people want to eat is theirs.” Ingo Potrykus, the creator of controversial GM “golden rice”, in 2001. He launched the 2nd…