Jaggers Unite!
Mick Jagger joins his little brother Chris onstage in a pub. It’s safe to say the 40-odd people in attendance at the The Bull’s Head pub in southwest London were more than a little surprised to see the pair performing "Dead Flowers."
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Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women
A preachment dear friends, you’re about to receive, on John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the temptations of Eve, from the Good Reverend Peter Sellers and his Muppet friends.
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Silk Road: “West of Yang Gate there’ll be no old friends.”
Silk Road links: Silk Road Seattle, The Silkroad Foundation, The British Library’s Silk Road site, The Ancient Way of Trading, Lost Cities of the Silk Road and some pictures
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Grand Theft Delorean
Back To The Future, Hill Valley is a "from the ground up" conversion of the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, with the goal being to re-set the game in the world of Doc Brown, Marty McFly & Biff Tannen. Sample videos of the progress so far. Please note that Hoverboards don’t work on water. Via.
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Graffiti Research Lab comes to Barcelona
The Graffiti Research Lab, creators of the LED throwie and inspiration for the mooninite signs that destroyed the city of Boston in January, went to Barcelona with their amazing laser guided graffiti project system. Here’s a video of the event, which has a good shot of the pedal-powered projection system.
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Canadian gent oozes green blood
The medical journal The Lancet reports on the case of a hospitalized man who was discovered to have green blood.
“It was sort of a green-black. … Like an avocado skin maybe,” said the patient’s doctor, Dr. Alana Flexman.
The patient may have had a condition called sulfhemoglobin, caused by a drug interaction that makes sulphur bind to red blood cells, preventing oxygen from binding. Warning, the article loaded with Mr. Spock jokes about the incident
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MIT students demonstrate wireless power transfer
In an experiment, a team from MIT were able to power a 60W light bulb from two meters away. Calling their demonstration “WiTricity” the researchers believe that a system is possible that could send electricity to your battery powered devices within a room sized space.
It’s a Tesla-dream come true.
“WiTricity” is based on using coupled resonant objects. Two resonant objects of the same resonant frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently, while interacting weakly with extraneous off-resonant objects. A child on a swing is a good example of this. A swing is a type of mechanical resonance, so only when the child pumps her legs at the natural frequency of the swing is she able to impart substantial energy. Another example involves acoustic resonances: Imagine a room with 100 identical wine glasses, each filled with wine up to a different level, so they all have different resonant frequencies. If an opera singer sings a sufficiently loud single note inside the room, a glass of the corresponding frequency might accumulate sufficient energy to even explode, while not influencing the other glasses. In any system of coupled resonators there often exists a so-called “strongly coupled” regime of operation. If one ensures to operate in that regime in a given system, the energy transfer can be very efficient.
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So, you like the brownie edge, eh?
Heck of an edge, brownie! The perfect tool for making sure all your brownies have edges.
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High spirits in Heiligendamm
The Heiligendamm G8 summit just ended. While some stuck to alcohol-free beer, fresh French President Nicolas Sarkozy clearly had something a bit stronger before his press conference.
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evolution of dance
The Dance, historic illustrations of dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. A Project Gutenberg ebook. Brief, illustrated history of dance in India. Vintage belly dance YouTube videos.
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“The house wine of the South”
Where the South Really Begins [Flash] Forget the Mason–Dixon Line. The South really starts at the Sweet Tea Line.
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May the Force Be with You, Dude!
Han Solo’s Axe is a Gibson 335 with covered humbuckers. Jar Jar on Banjo, of course. Perhaps you’d rather have Yoda on your beast instead of in your band. Maybe when you rock out you just need a little extra force in your pick, knob, or guitar case . Just remember, Darth Maul throws the horns 24/7.
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Along came a spider …
"… straight out of Down-Under, explosive stuntman-editor-producer-writer-actor-director Nash Edgerton delivers his latest effort, "Spider", a 9-minute action-thriller that gives an all-new meaning to old Peugeots, stunning blondes and love-jokes."
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Scrambler ride as drawing machine
Artist Rosemarie Fiore converted an amusement park ride called The Scrambler into a giant drawing machine. The specially-outfitted Good-Time Mix Machine produces huge geometric paintings that resemble the output of a Spirograph.
From the project description:
I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned.
Link to project page, Link to video.
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City fights illegal gig posters with CANCELLED stickers
The city council of Glasgow is fighting illegal handbills with science: they’re paying city workers to go around and stick “canceled” stickers on all the illegal gig posters put up around town.
Staff who patrol the city every working day spotting new posters and marking them are now a central part of the council’s �100,000 a year war on flyposting.And other workers have been issued with “canceled” stickers which make it clear the ad has been banned by the council.
And they have already had an impact on some rogue promoters who have been inundated with complaints from music fans.
People who have bought tickets to some of this summers big gigs have complained, thinking that an event, rather than the advert, had been canceled.
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Bloggin’ ’bout my generation
XKCD, the great nerdy comic strip, is in fine form today, with a danceable twist on “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation.”
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Super-easy baggie ice-cream
Here’s a pretty damned simple ice-cream recipe: combine ingredients in a baggie. Fill a bigger baggie with ice, salt and the baggie of ingredients. Shake for five minutes. Ice cream. Who knew?
1. Fill the large bag half full of ice, and add the rock salt. Seal the bag.
2. Put milk, vanilla, and sugar into the small bag, and seal it.
3. Place the small bag inside the large one and seal again carefully.
4. Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes.
5. Wipe off top of small bag, then open carefully and enjoy!
An even cooler way to make ice cream – especially on a hot day with a pack of kids – is to put the baggie with the ice cream ingredients inside a small can, and then put that can and the ice and salt in a coffee can. Tape the lid on securely and ask the kids to kick it around the back yard.
Here’s a soccer-ball-shaped thing: put all the ingredients in, kids kick it around for a 15-20 mins.
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Calling All Meatbeards
Scientists are testing a new diet pill that expands to the size of a tennis ball in your stomach. When taken with two glasses of water, the slow-growing ‘gelatinous blob’ gives one the feeling of having eaten a plate of food. Although it’s no replacement for diet and exercise, it could help some people control their urges.
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Swearing Encouraged
Can I Borrow Your Fucking Pen? A fucking single link fucking YouTube post about some motherfucking viral ad for some really shitty beer. Swearing encouraged – let’s get fucking drunk today.
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Waste your employer’s time
Submachine (Future Loop Foundation) You are trapped in your cube a padded cell, and you need to escape. Another fine Submachine game from Mateusz Skutnik. You can probably escape well before lunch and still have time to push some of that paper out of your cell cube.
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