Coyote GPS
Would-be illegal immigrants planning to cross the desert and enter the United States on foot are to be given hand-held satellite devices by the Mexican authorities to ensure they arrive safely.
article at thestandard
maybe they’ll be using these?
at giftconga
Posted: January 6th, 2007
at 4:58am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: life,weaponry,fo' real?,real life news
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Spaceship Bogus
"Spaceship Earth" has crashed to the ground.
Barely three months after the $1 million sculpture was unveiled at Kennesaw State University, it collapsed in the middle of the night a€" all 175 tons a€" perhaps because of faulty glue.
article at ajc
For Hobo Travelers and Wacky Marriages
this was the empty vessel, it was bought for one dollar and currently resides somewhere in Brooklyn
an arts space/educational environment/screening locale… really we just want to hold alternative weddings on our roof…We are changing her name so that she isn’t mistaken for the Empty Vessel Project and it’s specific goals/intentions/owners. But we still don’t have a proper name, perhaps we’ll hold a boat naming contest. Currently we’re more concerned with running a capable heating system before we move aboard.
info at gridskipper and curbed and gowanuslounge.blogspot
Posted: January 3rd, 2007
at 2:45pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: home,fo' real?,real life news
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Find it Online
the only place that you can find the world’s oldest newspaper, [the] Post-Och Inrikes Tidningar (Post and Domestic Newspapers) is on the internet effective January 1st.
at thelocal
Posted: January 2nd, 2007
at 5:50pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,fo' real?,real life news
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It’s a Pigeon Lunch
PARIS: Hundreds of people emerged from tents beside this city’s Canal Saint-Martin to greet the chilly New Year with a hot lunch from a nearby soup kitchen. But not all of them were homeless.
In a statement, Roger Bonnivard, the group’s president, said: "After weeks of dirty manoeuvres, intimidation, harassment, all kinds of pressure, and despite a new ban, the Paris police authorities now have to adhere to the decision. There are no legal grounds allowing anyone to ban pig soup."
at guardian
When the letter came from City Hall threatening punishment if he continued to serve foie gras at his North Side restaurant, Doug Sohn framed the warning and set it beside his cash register.
And he kept serving the fattened duck liver without a care.
"We displayed it proudly," said Sohn, owner of Hot Doug’s, a gourmet sausage eatery where the daily special can include smoked pheasant topped with foie gras chunks. "My customers and myself enjoy foie gras."
and at consumerfreedom
Posted: January 2nd, 2007
at 4:26pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: politricks,fo' real?
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Turtles
With its miserly metabolism and tranquil temperament, its capacity to forgo food and drink for months at a time, its redwood burl of a body shield, so well engineered it can withstand the impact of a stampeding wildebeest, the turtle is one of the longest-lived creatures Earth has known. Individual turtles can survive for centuries, bearing silent witness to epic swaths of human swagger. Last March, a giant tortoise named Adwaita said to be as old as 250 years died in a Calcutta zoo, having been taken to India by British sailors, records suggest, during the reign of King George II. In June, newspapers around the world noted the passing of Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise that died in the Australia Zoo at age 176 a€" 171 years after Charles Darwin is said, perhaps apocryphally, to have plucked her from her equatorial home.
Brunei’s Wings
gallery at funny-machines.blogspot
Posted: January 1st, 2007
at 10:40pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: not ninja-worthy,photo,fo' real?
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Tire Paths
Cheri Heramb with the Chicago Department of Transportation said the aim of the initiative is to become the "greenest city in the world."
Chicago is taking one more step toward that goal with new green infrastructure technology.
The DOT has kicked off a pilot program to test 550 feet of recycled rubber sidewalk over the next year, right across the street from the Chicago Center for Green Technology on the city’s West Side.
Water Travel
designed by prolific Bay Area yacht designer Jim Antrim
You have to be slightly more gangster than us to own one of these things, but they are indeed prolific.