I thought this was pretty cool. I always kinda wondered how they did this, never thought it was done so quick though.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Friday, December 15, 2006
World's tallest man saves choking dolphins
World's tallest man saves choking dolphins
Dec. 14, 2006. 11:22 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — The long arms of the world's tallest man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media reported Thursday.
The dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning Province, had fallen sick after swallowing the plastic from the edge of their pool, and attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because of the contraction of the dolphins' stomachs in response to the instruments, the China Daily newspaper reported.
Veterinarians then decided to ask for help from Bao Xishun, a 2.3-metre (7-foot-8) herdsman from Inner Mongolia.
Bao, 54, was confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man.
The official Xinhua news agency said Bao was able to reach deep enough into the dolphins to pull out the plastic.
Photographs showed the jaws of one of the dolphins being held back by towels so Bao could reach inside the animal without being bitten.
"Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphins' stomachs," Zhu Xiaoling, a local doctor, told Xinhua. "However the dolphins will be able to digest these and are expected to recover soon."
Chen Lujun, the manager of aquarium called the Royal Jidi Ocean World, confirmed the report to The Associated Press.
"When we failed to get the objects out we sought the help of Bao Xishun from Inner Mongolia and he did it successfully yesterday. The two dolphins are in very good condition now."
Bao Xishun, at 7-foot-8 the world's tallest man, observes one of the dolphins he was asked to help.
Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishung uses one of the world's longest arms to reach into the gullet of an ailing dolphin and remove pieces of plastic that were sickening it.
Dec. 14, 2006. 11:22 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — The long arms of the world's tallest man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media reported Thursday.
The dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning Province, had fallen sick after swallowing the plastic from the edge of their pool, and attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because of the contraction of the dolphins' stomachs in response to the instruments, the China Daily newspaper reported.
Veterinarians then decided to ask for help from Bao Xishun, a 2.3-metre (7-foot-8) herdsman from Inner Mongolia.
Bao, 54, was confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man.
The official Xinhua news agency said Bao was able to reach deep enough into the dolphins to pull out the plastic.
Photographs showed the jaws of one of the dolphins being held back by towels so Bao could reach inside the animal without being bitten.
"Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphins' stomachs," Zhu Xiaoling, a local doctor, told Xinhua. "However the dolphins will be able to digest these and are expected to recover soon."
Chen Lujun, the manager of aquarium called the Royal Jidi Ocean World, confirmed the report to The Associated Press.
"When we failed to get the objects out we sought the help of Bao Xishun from Inner Mongolia and he did it successfully yesterday. The two dolphins are in very good condition now."
Bao Xishun, at 7-foot-8 the world's tallest man, observes one of the dolphins he was asked to help.
Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishung uses one of the world's longest arms to reach into the gullet of an ailing dolphin and remove pieces of plastic that were sickening it.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Saturday, December 9, 2006
The Scopo, by Mitsubishi
The first mass market wearable display It's basically a tiny wearable LCD screen that you can plug into a cellphone, laptop, PDA, or DVD player
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Separated at birth? John Kerry & Lurch
Former Presidential candidate John Kerry and Addams Family butler Lurch.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
COMPUTER RAGE
It's time to tell the truth: What do you do when your computer crashes? Curse the computer? Give the grey box a kick? Or even smash the keyboard? If you answer 'yes', you had a bout of computer rage, and you are not alone. A survey conducted by Mori, aptly entitled "Rage against the Machine", suggests that four out of five computer users have seen colleagues hurling abuse at their PCs. Three quarters admit that they swear at their computers. And nearly half of all people working with computers feel frustrated or stressed
World's Smallest Windows XP Computer
The OQO model 01+ ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-featured Windows XP computer. The OQO has a 1GHz processor, a 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a color transflective display, and integrated wireless, as well as FireWire and USB ports. fits in your pocket Just 4.9 inches long, 3.4 inches wide, 0.9 inches thin, and weighing only 14 ounces, the model 01+ can fit in a pocket or purse and go with you anywhere. For easy typing and cursor control it has a complete thumb keyboard with TrackStik and mouse buttons as well as digital pen and thumbwheel. connects to your networks and peripherals
Connect to wireless networks with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. Connect all your peripherals including monitors, projectors, full-size keyboards, optical drives, printers, and speakers to the OQO docking cable and the model 01+ is your desktop computer. the only computer you need With an OQO model 01+ you can move throughout your day and enjoy constant access to all your information and Windows XP programs. You can use the same computer for high-powered applications at work, sending email at home, listening to music on a train, or watching a movie on an airplane. It is the only computer you need.
Visions-of-Sugar-Plums Pizza
If you got here thinking that we had anything to do with cookies, you were wrong. However do to this festive season we have added one Christmas Cookie Recipe.
Ingredients
2/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg
2 tablespoons mild-flavored molasses
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-3/4 cups halved small and/or cut-up large gumdrops
1/2 cup white baking pieces
1-1/2 teaspoons butter-flavor or regular shortening
2/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg
2 tablespoons mild-flavored molasses
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-3/4 cups halved small and/or cut-up large gumdrops
1/2 cup white baking pieces
1-1/2 teaspoons butter-flavor or regular shortening
Directions
1. Lightly grease a 12- or 13-inch pizza pan or a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, ginger, baking soda, and cinnamon. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg and molasses until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour.
3. Spread the dough evenly into the prepared pan.
4. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 12 minutes. Sprinkle partially baked cookie with gumdrops. Return to the oven. Bake about 8 minutes more or until edges are browned (do not overbake). Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
5. In a heavy small saucepan melt white baking pieces and shortening over low heat. Drizzle over cookie. Let stand about 20 to 30 minutes or until set. To serve, cut into wedges or bars. Makes 16 wedges.
1. Lightly grease a 12- or 13-inch pizza pan or a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, ginger, baking soda, and cinnamon. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg and molasses until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour.
3. Spread the dough evenly into the prepared pan.
4. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 12 minutes. Sprinkle partially baked cookie with gumdrops. Return to the oven. Bake about 8 minutes more or until edges are browned (do not overbake). Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
5. In a heavy small saucepan melt white baking pieces and shortening over low heat. Drizzle over cookie. Let stand about 20 to 30 minutes or until set. To serve, cut into wedges or bars. Makes 16 wedges.
Wavy beans
Look at the above image. As your eyes move around the image, it appears to move in waves. This is not an animated image; it’s just your eyes playing tricks on you
Robo-Legs
A double-leg amputee and his high-tech prosthetics are blazing a trail into able-bodied sports. Will they be welcomed?
The jaw-dropping performance of a teenage sprinter from South Africa named Oscar Pistorius is raising a question once barely imaginable: can a double-leg amputee run fast enough to qualify for the able-bodied Olympic Games?
And if he did, would he be allowed to compete?
Oddly enough, the first question may be easier to answer: "I have no doubt that Oscar will eventually run fast enough to compete in an able-bodied world championship," says U.S. sprinter Brian Frasure. "He could be ready to qualify for South Africa in time for the 2008 Olympics," Frasure adds, pointing out that Oscar, barely 18, is at least 10 years away from his physical peak.
No one—perhaps not even Pistorius himself—is in a better position than Frasure to assess the young athlete's potential and just how far he might go. It was Frasure's world record that Pistorius shattered in the 200-meter dash at the Athens Paralympics last September, becoming the first leg amputee (congenital or otherwise) to run the distance in less than 22 seconds. What is more, it was Frasure, a 34-year-old clinical prosthetist, who fitted and helped design the high-tech carbon-fiber "feet"—as athletes call their artificial running legs—that Pistorius wore while streaking past him on the track.
"I should have waited until this year to make them," Frasure, who has since retired from competition, says with a rueful smile.
Pistorius, born with a congenital disorder that left him without feet, has been competing for little more than a year. "I went from a time of 24.8 seconds in March 2004 to 21.97 at Athens," he says, an improvement that Frasure described as "unheard of." The able-bodied world record for 200 meters is 19.32 seconds, and the bottom-bracket qualifying time for a sprinter going to the Olympics would be 20.75 seconds, just 1.22 seconds more than Pistorius's Athens time. "I can go a lot further—my times should get a lot better," Pistorius said in Athens.
The jaw-dropping performance of a teenage sprinter from South Africa named Oscar Pistorius is raising a question once barely imaginable: can a double-leg amputee run fast enough to qualify for the able-bodied Olympic Games?
And if he did, would he be allowed to compete?
Oddly enough, the first question may be easier to answer: "I have no doubt that Oscar will eventually run fast enough to compete in an able-bodied world championship," says U.S. sprinter Brian Frasure. "He could be ready to qualify for South Africa in time for the 2008 Olympics," Frasure adds, pointing out that Oscar, barely 18, is at least 10 years away from his physical peak.
No one—perhaps not even Pistorius himself—is in a better position than Frasure to assess the young athlete's potential and just how far he might go. It was Frasure's world record that Pistorius shattered in the 200-meter dash at the Athens Paralympics last September, becoming the first leg amputee (congenital or otherwise) to run the distance in less than 22 seconds. What is more, it was Frasure, a 34-year-old clinical prosthetist, who fitted and helped design the high-tech carbon-fiber "feet"—as athletes call their artificial running legs—that Pistorius wore while streaking past him on the track.
"I should have waited until this year to make them," Frasure, who has since retired from competition, says with a rueful smile.
Pistorius, born with a congenital disorder that left him without feet, has been competing for little more than a year. "I went from a time of 24.8 seconds in March 2004 to 21.97 at Athens," he says, an improvement that Frasure described as "unheard of." The able-bodied world record for 200 meters is 19.32 seconds, and the bottom-bracket qualifying time for a sprinter going to the Olympics would be 20.75 seconds, just 1.22 seconds more than Pistorius's Athens time. "I can go a lot further—my times should get a lot better," Pistorius said in Athens.
Barrier Broken:: South Africa's Oscar Pistorius set a new world record during a men's 200-meter race at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games on 21 September 2004.True to his word, in February Pistorius shaved more than a tenth of a second off his newly minted record. Equipped with new and improved prosthetics, he was expecting to run even faster in mid-May at the inaugural Paralympics World Cup in Manchester, England, where he will also compete in the 100-meter dash [for results of that event, see http://www.paralympic.org/].
In both events he will come up against U.S. Paralympic superstar Marlon Shirley, the only athlete in disabled sports to have a dollar income from corporate sponsorships that's counted in six figures and the only leg amputee ever to run the 100-yard dash in less than 11 seconds. Shirley admires Pistorius but does not think they should be running in the same race, even if technically they are competing in different disability categories. "The length of his legs"—and the fact that they can be adjusted, adding distance to his strides—"gives Oscar an extreme advantage biomechanically over the other [single amputee] athletes in the field," Shirley comments. As a single-leg amputee, Shirley cannot augment his height.
Cy the One-eyed Kitty
Cyclops kitten no hoax
A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little scepticism when it turned up on various websites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition.
"Holoprosencephaly" causes facial deformities, according to the US National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute's Web site.
Traci Allen says the kitten she named Cy, short for Cyclops, was born on December 28 with the single eye and no nose.
"You don't expect to see something like that," the 35-year-old Allen said from her home in Redmond, Oregon.
Allen said she stayed up all night with the deformed kitten on her recliner, feeding Cy a liquid formula through a syringe.
She says she cared for the kitten the next day as well, until it died that evening.
Allen had taken digital pictures that she provided to The Associated Press.
Some bloggers have questioned the authenticity of the photo distributed on January 6.
AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax.
Stathis had Allen ship him the memory card that was in her camera.
On the card were a number of pictures - including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed kitten.
The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.
Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually impossible, Stathis said.
A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little scepticism when it turned up on various websites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition.
"Holoprosencephaly" causes facial deformities, according to the US National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute's Web site.
Traci Allen says the kitten she named Cy, short for Cyclops, was born on December 28 with the single eye and no nose.
"You don't expect to see something like that," the 35-year-old Allen said from her home in Redmond, Oregon.
Allen said she stayed up all night with the deformed kitten on her recliner, feeding Cy a liquid formula through a syringe.
She says she cared for the kitten the next day as well, until it died that evening.
Allen had taken digital pictures that she provided to The Associated Press.
Some bloggers have questioned the authenticity of the photo distributed on January 6.
AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax.
Stathis had Allen ship him the memory card that was in her camera.
On the card were a number of pictures - including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed kitten.
The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.
Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually impossible, Stathis said.
Monday, December 4, 2006
Science has shown that smiling really IS good for you
The truth is that smiling makes you look happy
and everyone knows happy people are more desirable.
and everyone knows happy people are more desirable.
Mac Users Are Old, PC Users Young - Study
Apple sells Macintosh computers by portraying them as tools for young, hip, creative people in their 20's. But a new study shows that about half of Apple's Macintosh users are OVER THE AGE OF 55, whereas only 25 percent of PC users are over 55.
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Britney Spears Crotch Pics
The day has finally come when the whole world can see what she looks like down there. Apparently partying with Lindsay Lohan means falling for one of her biggest blunders. Britney, pictured here with Paris Hilton, was caught on film partying pantyless with Paris and Lindsay,I just wish Britney started partying with Paris when she was still hot.
Saturday, December 2, 2006
JAVELIN TOSS
Track and field line judge Lia Mara Lourenco is helped after a javelin hit her in her foot during ‘Brazil Trophy,’ a national track and field competition, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Jonne Roriz, Agencia Estado)
JAVELIN TOSS GONE WRONG
JAVELIN TOSS GONE WRONG
Barbie can use her included pooper scooper
What little girl doesn't love Barbie? What little girl doesn't love to glam herself up, just like Barbie? And what girl doesn't love to pick up dog shit, just like Barbie?
We shit you not (pun definitely intended), Barbie now comes complete with a dog (named Tanner) and treats that you can feed Tanner. Within seconds, Tanner poops out the treats and Barbie can use her included pooper scooper to clean up the little turds!
We shit you not (pun definitely intended), Barbie now comes complete with a dog (named Tanner) and treats that you can feed Tanner. Within seconds, Tanner poops out the treats and Barbie can use her included pooper scooper to clean up the little turds!
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Cactus Building
Rotterdam's Urban Cactus housing project (UNX Architects) uses ingenious staggered terraces to make huge, sunny spaces, and a building profile that seems to have been parachuted in from 1945's future.
They placed the 98 residential units on 19 floors, using the pattern of outdoor spaces to determine the overall appearance of the project.
The slightly irregular pattern alternates these outdoor spaces to create what are in effect double-height spaces. Each unit then receives more sunlight than a typical stacked composition.
Friday, December 1, 2006
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