Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once
A great recipe-oriented blog with very good accompanying photography.
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18 People Stuck On Roller Coaster
This is why I dont do Roller Coasters
Strong winds brought a roller coaster to a halt at the top of its loop at a fun park in Anhui province in east China, leaving 18 people hanging upside down for about half an hour with six of them falling ill, an official said.
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Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life’s most extraordinary molecule. Until recently, however, even the most sophisticated laboratories could make only small snippets of DNA — an extra gene or two to be inserted into corn plants, for example, to help the plants ward off insects or tolerate drought.
Now researchers are poised to cross a dramatic barrier: the creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA.
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Czech hackers on trial for nuke blast on the weather channel
Members of a Czech art group who hacked into television broadcasting with images of a hoax nuclear explosion were charged and will have to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday.
The six members of the Prague-based Ztohoven group were charged last month with spreading false information and face up to three years in jail if convicted, said Dusan Ondracek, the state prosecutor in the northern town of Trutnov, who is in charge of the case.
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A theory on why we really dream
Dreams: Night School “The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations.”
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Copyright liner-notes for the future
SomethingAwful’s Bob “BobServo” Mackey has created this fantastic (and eerily believable) set of RIAA liner notes for this year’s CDs. I personally Love the 3rd one.
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Rule 1 of Burrito Project: You do not talk about Burrito Project.
Burrito Project
is an organization which helps feed the hungry and homeless in cities
around the world. The organization encourages people “to get together
with friends and build burritos to take to the streets”. Anyone can
start a Burrito Project and the organization encourages everyone to
help feed the hungry in their local communities. Haven’t heard of the Burrito Project? There’s probably a good, albeit very strange, reason why.
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Hello Kitty for Men
Sanrio is launching a line of Hello Kitty stuff for men. Wait, those little pencil-boxes weren’t unisex?
An Sanrio Co. employee shows Hello Kitty products targeted at young men
at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. The
cuddly white cat, usually seen on toys and jewelry for young females,
will soon adorn T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting
young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday. The feline
for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold
soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
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2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened
So many memorable things happened in 2007. We’d better start hiding the evidence, now.
Seriously, there’s a whole lot of shit that went on this year that we’d rather not have to explain to our children and grandchildren. Let’s do our best to destroy every record of it. If that fails and if you’re, in fact, reading this in the year 2107, we’ll do our best to put it into context. But, really, you had to be there.
Not safe for work.
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WhatsItsColor: Find the complementary and primary color
Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.
Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image.
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Altered Books
Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This site is a chronicle of a very specific set of collaborations between the artists listed…working on the titles listed…
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We regret the following:
Once again, The Year in Media Errors and Corrections.
Correction of the year:
“Following the portrait of Tony and Cherie Blair published on 21 April in the Independent Saturday magazine, Ms Blair’s representatives have told us that she was friendly with but never had a relationship with Carole Caplin of the type suggested in the article. They want to make it clear, which we are happy to do, that Ms Blair “has never shared a shower with Ms Caplin, was not introduced to spirit guides or primal wrestling by Ms Caplin (or anyone else), and did not have her diary masterminded by Ms Caplin.”
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The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007.
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Death of a Browser, End of an Era
RIP Netscape browser, 1994-2007. AOL, who acquired the groundbreaking browser as part of a $4.2 billion deal in 1998, announced the end today. Good-bye or good riddance?
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James Bond stamps to be launched
The centenary of the birth of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is to be marked next month with six extra-long UK stamps, Royal Mail has said.
Each stamp has been lengthened to show a number of different Bond novel covers, with first-class stamps featuring Casino Royale and Dr No.
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New Jersey to block sex offenders from internet, computer use
A new law in New Jersey gives authorities the right to take away computer and internet access from convicted sex offenders, regardless of whether computers or the internet played a role in their crime. Snip from Ars Technica:
According to one of the law’s backers, state Senator John Girgenti, the law makes it easier for sex offenders to stay on the straight and narrow, “reducing the risk of them being tempted to be a repeat offender.”
Bill S1979 gives the state broad authority to regulate a sex offender’s computer and Internet usage so long as the person remains on parole. And the law is tough: anyone who uses a computer to help commit sex crimes will be prohibited from using computers or the Internet at all. The State Parole Board may also impose restrictions at its discretion on offenders even if they did not use computers to plan their crimes.
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Why 2008 Will Be An Awesome Year For Movies
In August of last year we ran a controversial look at 43 reasons why 2007 would be a great year for movies. Now that 2007 has nearly come and gone and almost all of those 43 movies have been released, it’s time to look ahead at 2008. The last 12 months have played a major part in building the hype for most of the movies mentioned and I can now say that 2008 looks way more appealing at this moment than 2007 did at the same time last year. This could be the year that we see revolutionary new changes in Hollywood, not only as the Writers Strike ends but as we encounter films like Cloverfield, Speed Racer, and The Dark Knight. Let’s take look at 54 reasons why 2008 will be an awesome year for movies and an even better year than 2007…
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2007
Hardly week goes by without a major archaeological discovery or the publication of a radical new theory about the human past. Reducing a year’s worth of these stories to the 10 most important was a tall order, especially since our intent was to go beyond the headlines and select those we thought made a significant impact on the field–ones that will be talked about for decades.
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Man Stabbed ‘After Opening Present Early’
A wife stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife following an argument sparked when she accused him of opening a Christmas present early, US police say.
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The beer crisis: Trouble brewing
Just as the festive season gets going, drinkers in America are finding their favourite beer suddenly more expensive or even—horrors!—not available at all. Hit by price increases and shortages, many breweries, particularly the small “craft brewers” and the even smaller microbreweries, are being forced to raise prices, make do with modified recipes or shut off the spigots altogether.
The humble hop, the plant that gives beer its distinctive flavour, is the main problem. Many farmers in the Pacific north-west, where America’s hop production is concentrated, have turned to more profitable lines—especially corn, which can be made into ethanol.
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The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS
Set of 81 (and counting) screenshots. Tags include episode titles, actress names and characters’ names.
http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?set_id=72157602965392887
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Egypt to copyright pyramids
Uh.. can you say public domain?
In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.
Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP on Tuesday that the move was necessary to pay for the upkeep of the country’s thousands of pharaonic sites.
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Drug promises end to migraine misery
I get killer migraines, and i’m insanely scent sensitive, so the following news is very important to me.
A British doctor is leading a drugs trial that could spell the end of the misery endured by thousands of migraine sufferers. John Chambers, a consultant cardiologist at Guy’s Hospital London, says that when, on a mere hunch, he tested clopidogrel [Plavix], a simple clot-busting drug, on five patients plagued by migraines, it worked, in some cases, “spectacularly well”.
Now a wider trial on 280 patients is under way with the results expected next year. If the drug proves similarly effective, it could mean an end to the throbbing head, nausea and flashing lights that characterise a typical attack…
Currently, migraines are treated with beta blockers, to lower blood pressure and regulate the heart, as well as anti-depressants. Other treatments include aspirin, paracetamol and stronger pain killers…
Dr Chambers’s treatment is based on the hypothesis that migraines can be caused by tiny blood clots that form in the heart and travel to the brain, disrupting the blood flow and causing the typical symptoms of one-sided headache, nausea and photophobia….
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