Having actually grown up with a great deal of exposure to Dr Seuss, I can appreciate the odd green eggs and ham pun here and there, but material like this, http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
40,000 dead form morbidly fascinating sculptures and artwork; skeletons meticulously fashioned in 1870 by a wood carver. This is Sedlec’s Church of All Saints ossuary in the Czech Republic. http://www.artgraphica.net/art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm This just made my list of places to go before I kick the bucket.
.. that stands for the ‘Encyclopedia of Lesbian Movie Scenes’. If you think this is even remotely safe for work, you deserve all you get for clicking it at your place of employment. http://www.clublez.com/movies/index.html It’s fairly tame, but I am impressed and somewhat disturbed by the attention to detail shown here.
The journal Nature said patent 6,960,975 was granted Nov. 1 to Boris Volfson of Huntington, Ind., for a space vehicle propelled by a superconducting shield that alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft in a way that counteracts gravity. hehehe… really! Maybe you could use it to put in bra’s!
Our most beloved dictator du jour, not satisfied with kicking out all the farmers (who happened to be white) in his country, then blaming it on the Americans, launching a massive famine, has found the solutions to his problems: kick out the city dwellers too! est. 10,000 people dehomed in the space of 24 hours… Read more about Zimbabwe, that crazy place![…]
A UK company – Discount Licencing – has figured out that there are some software licences that are, in fact, transferrable through sale. Currently, they have approached MicroSoft and asked them if they would raise a stink if they went and brokered these second hand licences and MS agreed! Anyway, you have to buy in Read more about Second Hand software[…]
The blue ball machine is a blue ball factory you can happily keep watching. The site has quite a few more of these weird little things on it as well, also worth checking out. Such as Paris Hilton or for pure strangeness, we have Batman ualuealuealeuale Wikipedia explains what a ytmnd is – You’re The Read more about Blue Ball Machine[…]
There must be a plan, but when it involves a) sacking 40 of your ambassadors b) sacking 8 heads of your biggest banks c) having your stock exchange plummet 25% in 4 weeks time d) choosing two candidates to head your oil exports, who know nothing of the oil business whatsover, and having the first Read more about Iran going mad?[…]
Using a collar, release smells in peoples faces and train them to associate the smells with orders. It’s silent, but sounds very doggy to me.
BBC and el Reg are running great stories about some guy who read Day of the Jackal and decided to find a dead baby, take his birth certificate, open a bank account, get a passport – and live as this baby for 23 years! Of course, he had to go and take a fictional title Read more about ID Fraud Lord Buckingham[…]
NASA has added high res images of the moon to their world wind software (kind of like Google Earth) allowing you to use it to explore our moon as well as our planet. Nice!
The clever cloggs at IBM have managed to find a way to slow down light to 1/300th its normal speed, which allows it to be manageable enough to use it to impart information inside computer chips. They still need to find a way to mass produce the opticals, and of course for these new architechtures Read more about IBM on the way to light based computing[…]
Attach some electrodes to your head, whisper in one language and the system will talk for you in another. Or at least, currently from Mandarin to English. Hopefully they can make this system a bit smaller and less borg looking, but very very cool! – from wemakemoneynotart where they have more links
The bastards! Mark’s Sysinternals was playing around with RootkitRevealer and discovered that Sony installs its own media player on your PC, reroutes windows systems calls and hides itself to limit the amount of copies that can be made of the disc. Now you could call it DRM I guess, but if you try to remove Read more about Sony installs a rootkit on your system[…]