`It’s a good thing Huntington didn’t need to close it’s flood gates as the Ohio River flooded this week because some of the equipment used to do so has been stolen.
When a floodgate is closed, aluminum beams are stacked on top of each other to the desired height, said Dave Maynard, the floodwall’s superintendent. [..]
About 70 aluminum beams have been stolen from storage buildings along the floodwall over the past 18 months, Maynard said.’
`An Iranian woman, beaten every day by her husband, asked a court to tell him only to beat her once a week, [..]
“Just tell him to beat me once a week … Beating is part of his nature and he cannot stop it,” Maryam told the court. [..]
“If I do not beat her, she will not be scared enough to obey me,” the husband said.’
`Astronomers have found a cloud of frozen sugar near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, it was revealed today.
The discovery heightens the possibility of early building blocks of life originating in interstellar space.
Molecules of a simple sugar, glycolaldehyde, were detected in a cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2 about 26,000 light years away.’
`”All of the major automotive manufacturers are struggling to find new ways to meet ever-increasing European and North American emissions and fuel-economy standards, and it appears that biodiesel is the most tangible option available right now,” according to Dan Kahn, road test editor for automotive website Edmunds.com.’
`Soviet scientists considered the Moon to be a very good place for a strategic headquarters as nuclear strikes on its surface would lose most of their destructive force. As the moon has no atmosphere, no shockwave could spread there and the radioactive dust would immediately fall out back on the surface without an atmosphere to carry it.’
`Recent hurricanes like Charley, Ivan, Frances and Jeanne have been bad for homeowners but they could be a real trip for hippies.
According to ethnobotanist Clark Heinrich, psychedelic — or “magic” — mushrooms commonly crop up when areas receive more rain than usual.’
`Several persistent researchers finally have proof for a theory they have held for more than a decade, despite dissent from the larger scientific community: Morphine occurs naturally in the human brain. [..]
Meinhart Zenk [et al.] found that human cells grown in a dish synthesized morphine.’
`The man allegedly took an engine, transmission, compressor and a bucket for a front end loader early Sunday, said Deputy Chief Brian O’Keefe. The equipment was worth about $4,500, he said.
The suspect apparently made several trips to his house about five blocks away, pulling the goods by a cable, leaving grooves in the road, O’Keefe said.
Detectives arrested him Sunday.’
`Participants in the human experiment were deprived of the web for 14 days, and found themselves quickly succumbing to “withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness”.’
‘His medical records pointed out that he arrived at the clinic in a hysterical situation, due to the cruelty of the torture he went through. “I remember that at a time while I was being forced to drink the urine, I told the soldier to shoot me because I didn’t care anymore.”‘
by Paris Hilton.
`There is no sin worse in life than being boring � and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I was one of the few heiresses to walk the runway as a model. A lot of people thought that was shocking. Why did I do it? Was it a desperate cry for attention, like the papers said? Hardly.’
`A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times said on Wednesday.’
`The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese government sources said on Thursday. [..]
North Korean military vehicles, soldiers and possibly missile engineers were converging on several Rodong missile bases in the northeastern part of the isolated communist state, they said.’
`I received this stupid pen on my birthday years ago from my ex-wife, and even before I divorced her flabby body, I hated the pen. [..]
My current wife, who is way more beautiful and way more cool that this pig could ever choose to be, hates the pen too. [..]’
`Miscarriages of justice are “almost certainly” taking place because of a mistaken belief [you can calculate] how many tablets somebody swallowed before they died, a group of eminent scientists and doctors says today.
[..] The Hutton inquiry heard from a forensic toxicologist that Dr Kelly could have swallowed between 29 and 30 tablets of a strong painkiller called Coproxamol which he had been prescribed for back pain.
But, say the authors of the BMJ editorial, the measurement of toxic substances in the blood after death is a very inexact science.’
`An armadillo kitted out with a toy pistol holster, cowboy hat and sheriff’s badge has been detained by Customs officials enroute from Texas to Adelaide.
The stuffed animal, which was mounted on its hind legs on a timber board, was detected while Customs officers screened international cargo in Sydney recently.
It is illegal to import armadillos without a permit.’
`”We had just put black stockings on our heads and were carrying plastic handguns needed for the scene, when about 30 policemen surrounded us with pistols pointed at us,” actor Aleksandar Gajin told the Vecernje Novosti newspaper. [..]
Police released the crew shortly thereafter, Gajin said, adding that the “police used no brutality … they just warned us that we should have informed them in advance.”‘
`Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized Wednesday for saying in a televised worship service that he would kill any gay man who looked at him romantically. [..]
In the broadcast, Swaggart was discussing his opposition to gay marriage when he said “I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.”
“And I’m going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m going to kill him and tell God he died,” Swaggart said to laughter and applause from the congregation.’
more here:
`”I can see how the homosexual community would be offended by that, and I won’t say it any more,” he said in a telephone interview.’
`Pongmechanik is an electromechanical conversion of the classical game Pong. [..]
Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components.’
with video. (10 meg Quicktime)
`goatse.cx used to be the best shock site in the world until it was abusively shut down. This page is a tribute to this amazing piece of Internet folklore. [..]
The following pictures and animations have been taken here and there on the Internet. I have not yet given proper credit to the various authors, but this will come when I have some time. Enjoy.’
`Here are some words that have been going through my head lately
| * Manipulative * Self absorbed * Fussy * Cranky * Wanting * Angry * Confused * Moody | * Sad * Critical * Controlling * Needy * Jealous * User * Playing Games * TEMPER’ |
In 1954 Scientists built a model of what a computer would look like 50 years later.
`With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use [..]’
My computer looks just like it, except the Australian model is right-hand drive.
Update: Apparently, the caption is innacurate and it’s a mock-up of a submarine control panel. Oh well. :)
`This is an online viewer, with which you can view PDF and PostScript files as browsable images and Word documents as web pages. Given a URL on the net or a file on your computer, the viewer will try to retrieve the document, convert it and show it to you. No plugin software is required.’
`The third annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show was held in New York City this past weekend, and it showcased some of the best and most creative applications of modern robotics that make or are themselves art.’
more artbots.
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