Archive for December, 2006

D-List celebrities with guns? Reality TV has officially gone too far

(that’s Latoya Jackson in the picture)
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Erik Estrada and other lesser celebrities have been sworn in as reserve officers of the city police department here, allowing them to carry badges and guns as part of a reality television series.

About 200 people packed into a Muncie City Hall auditorium for the Tuesday ceremony to swear in the former "CHiPs" star, along with La Toya Jackson, Jack Osbourne, Wee Man and Trish Stratus.

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Foto Del Dia 12.7

Maj. Michael Clavenna returns to Osan Air Force Base, South Korea, from the last operational reconnaissance flight in the U-2S Dragon Lady, Block 10, aircraft. Major Clavenna is wearing the full pressure suit required for wear by U-2 pilots because of their high-altitude reconnaissance missions. Major Clavenna is the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron assistant director of operations.

from livephysics

what a [GREAT] waste of time

so, this site, JacksonPollock.org, is incredibly addictive, and will kill at least 20 minutes of your day…probably more. I call this piece ‘1:30 to 2:15 Thursday morning, while watching late night NBC’. go to town ninjas.

Ninjariffic! Mobile phones don’t give you cancer!

Niiiiiiice - looks like all those fears of cancer were unfounded:

Long or short-term mobile phone use is not associated with increased risk of cancer, a major study has found.

Mobile phone antennas emit electromagnetic fields that can penetrate the human brain. But a Danish team found no evidence that this was linked to an increased risk of tumours in the head or neck as had been feared.

Story via BBC

Super-low emissions, 0-60 in under 5secs, and 92MPG!!!

Yet another ‘green’ supercar. Running off fuel vapors instead of liquid fuel, the ale achieves an incredible 92 miles per gallon and is still able to get to 60mph from a standstill in under 5 seconds.

This bad-ass whip has only three wheels, enabling it to corner like you could only imagine - it pulls 1.7g’s on the skidpad, almost double what a Lamborghini Murcielago can pull!

Even better, the ale has already achieved ultra-low emissions without using a catalytic converter! Once they add on one of those, this will be one clean burning ride. Don’t get too excited because you can’t buy one yet. Good news though is that this is more than a concept, and its creators hope to find some investors that will enable them to put this car into production soon.
Check out the car in more detail at the Fuel Vapor Technologies website.

via Hugg.com

arch.mnp today

here’s another update from the new microsite [first of many?], architecture.myninjaplease. we’ve got everything from big tobacco funded green skyscrapers to razor blade moguls schemes for master planning, bamboo bridges to crazy bog-oak interiors. There’s a lil something for everyone. bring the fam, tell your friends and neighbors…

check us out daily for new updates on everything architecture/design related. I’d say make us your home page [with MNP, of course], but you should at least be following that link up there in ‘the dojo’. peace ninjas.

Water on Mars?

Dramatic new photographs of Mars have revealed the possible existence of water on its surface. The images - released for the first time on Wednesday by the US space agency NASA - were taken earlier this year in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet.

Story via Daily Mail

The Executioner

interview and tv correspondence of a Saudi executioner, Abdallah Al-Bishi at liveleak

transcript of tv from memritv

The Darkside [Social Design] of Digg

article at bokardo