Man gave birth to a upper jaw.
Grow your own spare parts. At last we’re regenerating properly. Scientists took stem cells from patients fat tissue, cultivated bone cells from them, crafted a nice comfy titanium cage where to grow and put the cage into man’s abdomen. After 9 months, install new upper jaw.
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NO FATTIES
Mississippi considers banning people with a BMI higher than 30 from eating in public. Though its author doesn’t expect it to pass, House Bill 282 attempts to draw attention to the obesity epidemic, exaggerated or no. Predictably, some are upset.
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Sony’s Real Life Holographic Water Monster in Tokyo Bay
To promote an upcoming monster movie, Sony Pictures installed a holographic rig in Tokyo Bay that projects the monster onto a haze of water. What you’re seeing in the video wasn’t added after the fact–that’s actually what it looks like in real life.
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Isabella Rossellini Does Bug Porn
Isabella Rossellini has made a series of short films in which she
dresses up like insects (always the males, for some reason) and acts
out bug sex. You’ll find a quartet of stills at the link.
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Love at first smell, and what stinky t-shirts tell us about attraction
But sometimes the tastes and scents can trick us, or other factors, such as the “divorce pill” make us think something is right for us when it may not be so. These insights found in a pile of stinky t-shirts.
Cover stories this month in both Psychology Today and Time magazine reveal why we kiss, why we flirt, why women’s menstrual cycles sync, and many other keys to attraction. It’s all so…romantic.
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BMW M5 Crashes, Kills 5
A BMW M5 crash that occurred in Ocala, Florida over the weekend. (video – with a car advertisement opening, ironically). The five teenagers in the car flew 200 feet off an airport runway, then hit a tree, splitting the car in half. The driver, Josh Ammirato, was an active member of m5board.com, an online BMW M5 forum community. He was known as AmericanM5, he had posted only a day before the crash, asking about rough shifts when exceeding 140MPH. The thread about his crash.
Edmunds Inside Line has full details of story, including map of the accident.
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Casas’s ballpoint pen artwork
Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas creates his large artworks using just a blue ballpoint pen.
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American Code Words
Would you vote for an articulate horizontal-thinking Canadian? Race and religion in America defined through obfuscation.
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Canadian Songwriters propose $5 licence fee for P2P
A proposal for the monetization of the file sharing of music from the Songwriters and Recording Artists of Canada.
“Most Canadians are aware that the Internet and mobile phone networks
have become major sources of music. What they may not know is that
songwriters and performers typically receive no compensation of any
kind when their music is shared or illegally downloaded… We believe
the time has come to put in place a reasonable and unobtrusive system
of compensation for creators of music in regard to this popular and
growing use of their work.”
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Kitschy French Postcards
Popcards.fr
is a collection of kitschy French postcards from the 50’s, 60’s and
70’s. Kitschy barely does justice to this collection. Categories
abound, including pets, humor (and I use the term loosely), lovers, cuisine and perhaps the two most interesting sections, guys and gals.
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Nasty, Nasty Scrabble Gram
The Washington Post publishes a fine array of puzzles. You are given four sets of seven tiles-each of which
spells a six or seven letter word.
The following Scrabble Gram ran last week on Friday. Can you find
the hidden word in the first set of tiles? (You can click on the image
to make it larger, if you need).
The set of first tiles seem to suggest a very dirty answer. I’m
not sure how it got past their editor. (The real answer, of course, is
entirely G-rated). Click here to get the “real” answer.
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What? No “Muskrat Love”?
The 25 Greatest Duets Of All Time (with embedded YouTube videos of each). Duets,
by nature, are a corny type of song. Sure, there’s a handful that we
recognize here that are also some of best tunes ever recorded, but
there’s something inherently cheesy and fun about duets that make them
a fun guilty pleasure for millions to enjoy.
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8-bit Graphics and Lego for the win!
Lego wrangler Lwelyk
has put together a little blog featuring his video game Lego creations.
Each piece is an exact recreation of the original 2D sprite artwork
where one pixel equals one square Lego block. Aside from Mother Brain
we also get Phanto, Mushroom Block, Flying Shy Guy, Tingle and tons of
others. The Mother Brain is by far the most impressive but the Twinrova
piece definitely gets an honorable mention.
…as seen on Kotaku.
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Southern racists adopt “Canadian” as a euphemism for “black”
The National Post looks on with mild horror as American
linguists report on the growing trend in the American south to use
“Canadian” as a masking euphemism for black people, so that white
racists can say socially inappropriate things without tipping listeners
off about the cancer in their souls.
Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name
CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had
recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. “She told me
a story of when she was working in a shop in the South and she
overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always
waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn’t understand what they
were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone
else,” the blogger wrote.“After this happened several times with different patrons, she
mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian’ was
the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using to describe
persons they would have previously referred to [with the N-word.]”A similar case in Kansas City was reported last year on a
Listserv, or electronic mailing list, used by linguistics experts. A
University of Kansas linguist said that a waitress friend reported that
“fellow workers used to use a name for inner-city families that were
known to not leave a tip: Canadians. ‘Hey, we have a table of
Canadians…. They’re all yours.’ ”
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Lego Steampunk Star Wars
The rules of the contest are simple: create the best Steampunk version of a Star Wars vehicle. Out of Legos.
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Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in 17GB BitTorrent Download
A 17-gigabyte file purporting to contain more than half a million images lifted from private MySpace profiles has shown up on BitTorrent, potentially making it the biggest privacy breach yet on the top social networking site.
The creator of the file says he compiled the photos earlier this month using the MySpace security hole that Wired News reported on last week. That hole, still unacknowledged by the News Corporation-owned site, allowed voyeurs to peek inside the photo galleries of some MySpace users who had set their profiles to “private,” despite MySpace’s assurances that such images could only be seen by people on a user’s friends’ list.
“I think the greatest motivator was simply to prove that it could be done,” file creator “DMaul” says in an e-mail interview. “I made it public that I was saving these images. However, I am certain there are mischievous individuals using these hacks for nefarious purposes…”
MySpace Bug Leaks ‘Private’ Teen Photos to Voyeurs (Wired, 17 Jan 2008)
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last.fm gets major upgrade
Note: Each track may be played thrice. Tracking method likely by IP.
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How to win at the internet.
Horse mask? Check. Wild mushrooms? Check. Improbable thongs and partial nudity? Check. Dancing? Check. Craziest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen on the internet? Absolutely. As if I even need to say it, this isn’t safe for work, for human consumption, or retaining what few shreds of sanity you believe that you may still cling to.
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It’s that time of year – free games all around.
It seems that everyone wants to post their toplists for free game recommendations at the moment. First up is Gnomes’ Lair with 100 excellent free games in bloom. Can’t forget 1up with 101 Free Games 2008. And last but still well worth checking out is Indiegames’ Best Freeware Arcade Games 2007 and Best Freeware Adventure Games 2007. If that isn’t enough for you, also worth taking a gander at is Javet’s Freeware Game of the Day thread on Tigsource.
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Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human?
Science Daily reports that new research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever
way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create
people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Social scientists call this tendency “anthropomorphism.” As a research
topic, the phenomenon carries important therapeutic and societal
implications.
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Steampunk collages of Stephen Rothwell
Collage artist Stephen Rothwell makes astounding steampunk-scented Victorian apocalyptic fancies that tickle me to my toes. I could look at this stuff all day.
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