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Anyone know what language that is? I want to know what it says.

This is what a hadron collider looks like. I want one. 🙂

It’s one of those pictures that lets you zoom around and see a full 360 degress in any plane you like.

`A sapling germinated earlier this year from a 2,000-year-old date palm seed is thriving, according to Israeli researchers who are cultivating the historic plant.

“It’s 80 centimeters [3 feet] high with nine leaves, and it looks great,” said Sarah Sallon, director of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center (NMRC) in Jerusalem.

Sallon’s program is dedicated to the study of complementary and alternative medicines. The center is also interested in conserving the heritage of Middle Eastern plants that have been used for thousands of years.’

Mount a camera on the wing of your ultralight then fly it into a tree. Why not? 🙂

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They’re right you know, she doesn’t.

`there is lots of porn on the inter-net but i could not find any BLOCK STRUCTURE porn. until now!!! this is the official web page for BLOCK STRUCTURE porn and below are some series of pictures. the image files are sort of big so if you do not see anything it means your computer is retarded and probably has extra chromosomes somewhere!!’

Block structure apparently means Lego. Who knew those little yellow men had such huge penises?

`Over a long enough period of time Pong might well be re-visioned into just about anything, but our new favorite to date is the Pong clock. It plays a random game of Pong that goes on for 24 hours at a time — right side wins every minute, left side wins every hour. We’re scratching everything else off our list this year — this is the only thing we want.’

`Pinball is all about a spherical object rolling around on a smooth surface, so the thought of building a pinball game from Lego doesn’t immediately seem like one of the better ideas.

But that’s exactly what Gerrit Bronsveld & Martijn Boogaarts from The Netherlands have achieved.’

With lots of pictures.

First, choose your orifice type, then the texture of the inside. You can also choose a colour.

You can also get Sex in a Can.

Women will soon be obsolete. 🙂

I put a link to the crazy Trading Spouses woman a while back. Here’s a longer and crazier version of the clip. Absolutely hilarious.

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Mr T is not only a great actor, he’s also a wonderful musician.

[sings] Mother.. There is no other like mother.. So treat her right..

Mother.. I’ll always love her.. My mother.. So treat her right..

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Who knew the wife of the British Prime Minister was so hot.

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‘Franz Reichel, a mustachioed Austrian tailor, was killed leaping from the first deck in 1912 to test a tent-like parachute coat he had invented. He is said to have died of fright before hitting the ground.’

Nothing particularly gory. Grainy black and white footage of some guy wearing some strange looking thing hesitating for a few minutes before leaping off the tower and experiencing a rapid acceleration towards the ground. The parachute coat doesn’t appear to have any effect whatsoever on his descent.

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Playing with numbers. Organizing them into a spiral and looking at all the patterns you end up with.

`A man walking home after his 55th birthday party because friends and family believed he was too drunk to drive was struck and killed by another vehicle, police said.

Benjamin A. Wright’s keys were taken at the party, and he was told he should stay at his son’s place.

He said he was going outside to smoke, but apparently began walking home instead. He was fatally struck by a car about 10 p.m. Sunday in the eastbound lane of U.S. 2 in this town about 40 miles northeast of Seattle, Police Chief Fred Walser said.’

This is a page of with a bunch of optical illusions. I’ve blogged a bunch of optical illusions before, including many of the ones on this page. However, I couldn’t resist posting this when I saw, down towards the bottom of the page, a button with the text “Warning: Do not click on this button if you are subject to seizures”.

I clicked the button and haven’t had a seizure yet, but maybe you’ll be lucky and it will trigger a fit for you. 🙂

`A man accused of a shooting spree at a crowded shopping mall told authorities to “just follow the screams” when he called them shortly before opening fire with a pair of assault weapons, according to court documents released Monday. [..]

According to the court documents, Maldonado told detectives he had been humiliated during a troubled childhood and that recent problems made him want to be “heard.” A text message to his ex-girlfriend minutes before the rampage said he was about to show the world his anger, the woman said.

Six people were injured, one critically, in Sunday’s attack. Maldonado surrendered about four hours after he ducked into a music store and took four hostages, all of whom were released unharmed, authorities said.’

A long list of proxies. I haven’t tried any of them, so I don’t know if they work, but I use proxies from time to time, so it’s good to have a list of them about the place.

`President Bush announced today that he will sign a bill providing an additional $2.8 billion for private organizations that emphasize the importance of hoping for change.

“This bill acknowledges the immeasurable role of hope in envisioning a better world for everyone,” Bush said during a press conference. “Starting today, I ask all Americans to hope together as one nation that the difficult problems that grip our nation will go away someday.”

The president’s move will help direct federal funds to such groups as the National Hope Foundation, which has been hoping for a cure for cancer for nearly two decades.’

`Villagers who protested that a new housing estate would “harm the fairies” living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again.

Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000. [..]

He said: “A neighbour came over shouting, ‘Don’t move that rock. You’ll kill the fairies’.” [..]

“Then we got a series of phone calls, saying we were disturbing the fairies. I thought they were joking. It didn’t go down very well,” Mr Salter said.’

`The first hint Dale Airsman got that his morning’s chores might end badly was the unusual growl from Charlie, a 4-year old llama.

The noise graduated to a high-pitched squeal, whereupon Charlie spit, flattened his ears back and bared his teeth, including the three sets of razor-sharp “fighting teeth,” which llamas use to rip the scrotum from male competitors in the wild.

Fortunately for Mr. Airsman, an electronics technician from Jenner Township in Somerset County, Charlie went for his upper arm.’

`Physicists suspect they have created the first molecules from atoms that meld matter with antimatter.

Allen Mills of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues say they have seen telltale signs of positronium molecules, made from two positronium atoms1.

Positronium is an other-worldly mimic of hydrogen. In a hydrogen atom, a negatively charged electron moves around a proton, which has a positive charge. The electrical force of attraction between the two subatomic particles holds them together.’

`When a young man masturbates, exactly how distracted does he get? An experiment performed on students at the University of California, Berkeley aimed to find out. [..]

Having established that the topic is of value, Ariely and Loewenstein get right to the action. They explain how they recruited 35 students, offering to pay each a small fee for the effort of masturbating while answering a survey. Each student was given a laptop computer with a keypad “designed to be operated easily using only the non-dominant hand.”

Some of the volunteers had instructions to answer the questions “while in their natural, presumably not highly aroused, state”. Others “were first asked to self-stimulate themselves, and were presented with the same questions only after they had achieved a high but sub-orgasmic level of arousal.”‘

`It’s only been on sale since midnight and the Yanks are already going crazy for the Xbox 360, with many queuing for hours to get their hands on a console and some shops reporting that they’ve already sold out.

Some gamers have gone to even greater extremes – like the man who robbed an Electronics Boutique store in Stafford, Virginia in the early hours of this morning. According to US website GameSpot, he held the store manager up at gunpoint and ordered him to hand over two Xbox 360s. Presumably ones with hard drives.

Luckily no one was hurt in the incident, and police managed to apprehend the man shortly after he left the store.’

Presumably ones with hard drives. 🙂

`Water supplies in Harbin , home to more than 3 million people, were cut off last night and will not resume “until further notice”. Schools have been closed whilst many residents are trying to leave the cities because city authorities have warned that pollution is threatening the water supply, which comes from the Songhua River.

An assessment by the Heilongjiang Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau found the river had been contaminated by chemicals released by a massive explosion at the Jilin Petroleum and Chemical Company plant in the city of Jilin on November 13. [..]

The November 13 explosion in the Jilin chemical plant released highly toxic substances, killing at least five people and forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 nearby residents. It also contaminated the partially frozen Songhua River with benzene and phenyl, which can lead to hepatitis, urinary tract diseases and possibly cancer.’

`Pulsar Advanced Technologies has announced will next week launch its lead product, the Vulcanus MK4, a water heater USING microwave technology to heat water on demand. This technology with super-heating capabilities will drastically cut energy costs and totally eliminate the need to store hot water. [..]

Powered by electricity and unaffected by the volatile gas markets, the Vulcanus MK4 can heat water from 35 degrees Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit in seconds and can source multiple applications at once: showers, dishwasher, sink usages and more. The Vulcanus MK4 is the size of a stereo speaker with a sleek modern look, making it ideal for condos and apartments, while powerful enough to serve the needs of any size family.’

`VIA’s long-awaited Nano-ITX boards have been spotted in the wild in Japan, by the good folks at Akiba PC Hotline.

The boards on display (and possibly even on sale in small numbers) are a fanless EPIA N8000E running at 800MHz, and an fan-cooled EPIA N10000E running at 1GHz. Pricing looks to be around $350. [..]

The main thinking behind the board however is unchanged: Low power consumption board, 12 x 12cm Nano-ITX form factor. [..]’

`What you’ll see while visiting Koenig, at 545 West 23rd Street, is a sealed, space-hogging wooden box, the size of a small house or a pre-1970’s mainframe computer. It has two extensions; one like a cabinet, the other like a top-loading chest. You are invited to place an object, any object, into the chestlike extension. Close the hatch. A yellow light goes on. You hear a sliding sound and a clunk. Your item has temporarily disappeared into the big box, just as dozens of others have, including wallets, photographs, specially made items (artists have brought their own work) and, memorably, a 2-year-old child. (The daughter of another Koenig artist, Erik Parker, spent a few hours in the box, emerging delighted but respectfully mum about her experiences – the Gelitin team had sworn her to secrecy.)

Take a seat. Eventually – the wait can be from a few minutes to more than an hour – a light on the other extension goes on. Open the door, and you’ll find your object joined by a brand-new, handmade “duplicate,” or at least something that more or less resembles the original. [..]’

`With today marking the 42nd anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy, [The Smoking Gun] has gathered an assortment of documents and photos detailing aspects of the killing, material released by the federal Assassination Records Review Board.

The following selection of documents touches on everything from JFK’s autopsy and a cop’s notes of his post-arrest interviews with Lee Harvey Oswald to the bill for the late president’s casket and a photo of Abraham Zapruder’s camera.’