Archive for March, 2007

Dude’s Guilty.

Which basically means Cheney is guilty too.

For links and info on the Scooter Libby fiasco, visit our politricks page.

Reversible Destiny Lofts

A collaboration between Japanese artist Shusaku Arakawa and the French poet Madeline Gins, the projects try to enliven spaces through the use of organic shapes [spherical], bold colors, and just generally mixing everything up - going so far as to purposefully place things like light fixtures in odd places, forcing residents to search for them, and other deviations from ‘typical’ design sense like making doors too short so that people will be conscious of having to crouch slightly.

Check out the full article on our architecture page.

"104: Ill Communication"

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(rats PC only!?) 3B via mateloc.blogspot

Osaka Steamship #2

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British Crack Down on Ninjas

The sale of imitation samurai swords could be banned by the end of the year, the Home Office announced today.

Importing or hiring the weapons could also be made illegal following a string of samurai sword attacks in recent years.

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Throwback yachts

Admittedly, it’s not really a throwback… in fact it’s a might bit cutting edge.AA This is from 2004, but the pictures are so 2007.AA I want a Yacht that looks like a stealth bomber, don’t you?

If the Gotham City branch of Ikea ever gets into designing flat-pack boats, this is what theya€™ll look like. But this first foray into motoryachts by Luca Bassania€™s Wally Yachts is not just an exercise in styling. Far from being a marketing exercise, it is in fact driven by some of the most demanding technical challenges ever taken on by a boatbuilder.

Luca Bassani and the Wallypower 118 from Power & MotorYacht

Only in America, Baby

from ocregister

By SCOTT MARTINDALE

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

ORANGEAAa€" April Branum went to her local emergency room Monday night complaining of stomach pain and emerged with the biggest shock of her life. She was pregnant with a full-term fetus.

Doctors, who discovered the baby when they took X-rays of her abdominal area, immediately sent Branum to UCI Medical Center in Orange for prenatal testing.

The fetus’s lungs were fully developed, the heartbeat was strong, and no defects were detected. The baby was ready to be delivered.

Two days later, the first-time mother gave birth by C-section to a healthy, 7-pound, 7-ounce boy named Walter Scott Edwards III.

"Usually you can tell if you’re pregnant, but with me, I couldn’t tell," the 39-year-old Garden Grove resident said Thursday, pointing to her belly and explaining that, at about 420 pounds, she was so large that no one a€" including herself a€" could tell she had carried a baby to term.

13 Things that dont make sense

Like this:

Ok, well, maybe not.AA But, among these things:

1 The placebo effect

Don’t try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.

This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it’s not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared.

Check out the list at newscientistspace