Nelly Furtado insists
Earth Hour For one hour tonight, turn
off the lights and help conserve energy. Supporters of the plan say it is the
equivalent of taking nearly 50,000 cars off the road for an hour. Critics say
it’s equivalent to taking 6 cars off the road for a year, and claim that
media coverage of the effects is greatly
exaggerated.
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Notstalgia vs Hindsight?
With revolutionary
graphics, a classic score, and creative platforming gameplay, the Donkey
Kong Country series was one of the most
popular games for the SNES, outsold
only by the packaged Super Mario World. After another decade, however, the
games are considered among the most
overrated of all
time.
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Books of art
ABC3D is an elegant pop-up book featuring the letters of the alphabet. Plus: a flip book that generates a rainbow.
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Pig bladder powder regrows human finger
A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His
brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing
powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger
tip. It grew back — “flesh, blood, vessels and nail” — in four weeks. Mmm Pigs, is there anything they cant do?
Sorry about the ad on the start of the video, damn cbs.
That powder is a substance made from pig bladders called extracellular matrix. It is a mix of protein and connective tissue surgeons often use to repair tendons and it holds some of the secrets behind the emerging new science of regenerative medicine.
“It tells the body, start that process of tissue regrowth,” said Badylak.
Badlayk is one of the many scientists who now believe every tissue in the body has cells which are capable of regeneration. All scientists have to do is find enough of those cells and “direct” them to grow.
“Somehow the matrix summons the cells and tell them what to do,” Badylak explained. “It helps instruct them in terms of where they need to go, how they need to differentiate – should I become a blood vessel, a nerve, a muscle cell or whatever.”
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William. Wegman. Weimaraner. Watch. Wag. Word.
Dressing a dog up as a person is I think not a very good thing. But when I do it, it’s fine. illiam Wegman’s Early Videos. Short Films. Trio/Metropolis/Guitar. Clips from his feature, The Hardly Boys.
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Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual + “Stunning”: Calpernia Addams.
Calpernia Addams is the star of the subversive new competitive dating show “Transamerican Love Story“, this seems like an apropos moment to point to her hilarious how-not-to video about rude questions transgendered people are often asked. The video’s a little long, but it’s full of great material, and highly edumacational. Thumbs up.
When you’re done with that — brace yourself, whore, you’re about to get a stunning
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Jesus Shaves
“He nice, the Jesus. He make the good things, and on the Easter we be sad because somebody makes him dead today.” Enjoy a little short story about cultural differences and Easter from David Sedaris.
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Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies
Last of the Summer Wine and Porridge actor Brian Wilde has died aged
80.
Wilde played Foggy in the long-running comedy series Last of The Summer
Wine and Barraclough in prison sitcom Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker.
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Lindsay Lohan in sex tape?
Lindsay Lohan has made it onto the small screen, the small screen allegedly being that of a naked Calum Best’s mobile phone.
Reports claim that footage has been ‘circling the internet’ which
shows someone who resembles Lohan performing oral sex on a man that is
allegedly George Best’s lothario son, Calum.
One website claims that Ms. Lohan is now ‘freaking out because she can’t remember it being filmed.’
I’d just like to say that I find this disgusting and horrible… if anybody has the clip please, let me know.. i’d like it for.. uh.. archive purposes…
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This is why I dont goto Newfoundland in the winter.
A Marine Atlantic passenger ferry finally broke free of pack ice off
Cape Breton on Thursday, after a Canadian coast guard icebreaker helped
clear the way. It had been trapped in the ice since Tuesday, prompting at least one serious anxiety attack that resulted in a really dramatic air rescue.
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Fifty years of peace
Wow! The “peace” sign is fifty years old today. Here’s a great article about its history and origins.
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Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey has died at the age of 90.
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Ice ice baby
I didn’t know until this morning that icebergs could be striped. However, apparently that’s just one of many variations. Here’s where to find some and learn more.
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Handmade mechanical dragonfly
Etsy seller JesseDanger’s $15,000 “Anax Imperator Machina” is a
hand-made, precision clockwork dragonfly whose wings flap — made from
gold and silver.
Modeled after the largest modern species of dragonfly, this is a
functioning creation whose wings flutter up and down when the very tip
of the tail (really the abdomen, but tail sounds cooler) is turned. The
inspiration for this complex mechanical insect originated from many of
the fantasized gadgets of Leonardo da Vinci and other mechanical
creations once thought futuristic in times long before our own.
Inspired by these designs I set out to recreate nature using classical
engineering and an elegant form. My intentions are to develop and
continue making more of these mechanical insects.The internal mechanisms, gears and moving parts were painstakingly
hand-milled and hand-calibrated with absolute precision from 14k gold.
The body, mechanical frame and wings were handcrafted from Argentium
Silver, far superior to Sterling or fine silver. The body opens up to
reveal the intricate inner movements, and fine details that just could
not be left forever covered up! The eyes are each large 10 carat Swiss
Blue Topaz cabochons and the 14k gold bezel on the tail contains a 4mm
Amethyst bullet shaped cabochon.
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Adventures in Rechargeable Batteries
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Elfquest! heh.
ElfQuest for free…gradually.
The complete ElfQuest comic oeuvre (about 6000 pages) is being released
online in batches every friday. The first five issues (a complete 150
page arc in itself), along with some other EQ series’s first issues,
are already up.
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Isles of Scilly
Castles, shipwrecks, smuggling and mystical lands buried deep beneath the sea. Scilly’s history is crammed full of amazing facts, folklore and fantasy.
So, where does the name ‘Scilly’ come from? It is thought although uncertain, that the Vikings called the islands ‘Syllorgar’ and the Romans ‘Sully’ (meaning the sun islands). The ‘c’ was added to the name some time in the 16th Century.
My family’s hometown of Winterton was orginally called “Scilly Cove” named after the islands, I think I’d like to visit there sometime.
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Watercolor sketches of late 19th/early 20th cen. Japanese toys
Here’s part of the Ningyo-Do Bunko database of late 19th/early 20th century watercolour sketches of Japanese toy designs. There are more than 100 albums all told.
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Vintage photography from China and Australia
Two historic photography collections from Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum: The Tyrell Collection – glass plate negatives from the Sydney studios of Charles Kerry and Henry King from 1884-1917 depicting a local record of the times; and the Hedda Morrison Collection – photographs from China, 1933-1946. The collection also includes personal papers and objects, such as Chinese papercuts, belt toggles, and photos from a 1930s-era folk festival in Germany.
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The Wonderful World of Snus
This Is ‘Snus’. Snus is a form of smokeless tobacco with a very long history in Sweden. Snus is gaining a bit of popularity in America; both Camel and Marlboro are launching their own brand. It is touted as a more discreet way to use tobacco in the wake of increasing bans on smoking, especially bacause it does not require spitting. A few Swedish compaines, such as Northerner and BuySnus.com ship it worldwide affordably. The Anti-Tobacco crowd is already manning the trenches and claiming that Snus is as dangerous as any other tobacco. However, the science that has been done to date appears to reach a very different conclusion.
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