ats:
"The original source appears to be Elbrecht, A. 1987, "Lab Hints: Irish Cream Liqueur as a Blocking Agent for DNA Dot Blots." BM Biochemica, 4:12-13. [...] I wonder what the motivation was! Maybe this way you can order liquor using grant money?"
Well, I think it's worth noting that there are parallels from the field of CS...
ats:
This is the project that's just found a "super-Earth" planet on a budget...
... but I was particularly taken with the ring-tailed cat pictures at the bottom of the page.
ats: "To illustrate just how you can safeguard your camera from the crippling effects of Camera Loss, here are the pics that I always keep on my camera."
This is slightly more elaborate than Rob Cockerham's implementation of the same idea. But, I suspect, more likely to get the camera back.