THIS DUDE IS MY HERO | spaceghetto - 0 views
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François Dongier on 29 Mar 10Nice kid in wolfland having fun
Let's Go Grocery Shopping at a Chinese Wal-Mart! | Offbeat Earth - 0 views
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"Let's Go Grocery Shopping at a Chinese Wal-Mart! 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Loading ... 欢迎光临沃尔码! With the rising popularity of Coffee, Western music, Buicks, and dozens of Wal-Marts opening around China, America just might be catching up in the culture war. Now the land of the Dragon can enjoy marginal quality products at awesome prices too! Fortunately, the products they sell are just slightly different than the ones we get over here. Like tasty, tasty alligator: tn3"
Feds charge trendy sushi restaurant for serving whale meat - CNN.com - 0 views
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The misdemeanor charge carries a federal prison sentence of up to a year and a fine of up to $200,000 for the company, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. Lawyers for Typhoon could not be reached for comment. But the restaurant told the Los Angeles Times it accepts responsibility and will pay a fine. The investigation began in October when two members of the team that made "The Cove" visited The Hump, officials said. "The Cove," which exposes the annual killing of dolphins at a Japanese fishing village, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary on Sunday. The restaurant, located at the Santa Monica Airport, is known for its exotic fare. Its Web site asks diners to surrender themselves to its chefs for "a culinary adventure ... unlike any that you have previously experienced." Armed with a hidden camera, the two women captured the waitress serving them whale and horse meat and identifying them as such, a federal criminal complaint said. A receipt from the restaurant at the end of the meal identified their selection as "whale" and "horse" with the cost -- $85 -- written next to them. The women snuck pieces of the meat into a napkin and later sent them for examination to a researcher at Oregon State University. He identified the whale sample to be that of sei whale, prosecutors said.
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Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that was spurred by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove." Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of The Hump, and one of its chefs -- Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45 -- with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. While it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whale -- an endangered species -- is illegal to consume in the United States.
mental_floss Blog » How to Tell When Fish is Fresh - 0 views
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a fish market should smell like “a clean beach.” However, if the “fish smell” smell is intense, that’s a warning sign — it could mean that the fish hasn’t been stored properly, or the market isn’t particularly clean.
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well, DUH.
Urban Velo - Bicycle Culture on the Skids - 0 views
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Green-er MACHINES By Marci Blackman Photos by Ed Glazar In a four hundred square foot studio in Red Hook, the hinterland of Brooklyn, a botanist, an engineer, anthropologist and bike messenger mental away the hours putting the finishing touches on a bicycle that could save the world. Okay, maybe not the whole world. Perhaps not even a block of it. And twenty-somethings Justin Aguinaldo and Sean Murray would probably never refer to themselves as an anthropologist and botanist even though bike messenger Aguinaldo majored in anthropology in college, and Murray once taught the plant science to children with learning disabilities at the Churchill School in Manhattan. Mostly, along with Marty Odlin of Columbia University's Earth Institute (our engineer), they are a brainy trio of bike geeks who-like the rest of us-get excited over things like black-rimmed wheels with matching black spokes and black high flange hubs, gear ratios, and lightweight composites. And none of them is ever likely to profess that he could save the world. But the bicycle the three are developing along with the streamlining of its manufacturing process could help put a dent in a few of our problems: rural world poverty, health and well-being, greenhouse gases. Plus, as a bonus, they might even win the awesome wicked cool award while doing it.
Official Google Blog: Collaborative bookmarking with lists - 0 views
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Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we want to help you share them with your friends. To use lists, visit Google Bookmarks at google.com/bookmarks or by clicking “Manage all” in your Google Toolbar. From there, select the links you want to share and click “Copy to list.” Lists are private by default, but once you’ve created one you can share it with specific friends or even publish it to the web. For example, if a friend of yours is visiting Seattle for the first time and you have some local attractions bookmarked, you might want to create a new list for “Seattle attractions” and share it with your friend.
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Google will algorithmically analyze your list to identify other potentially relevant links, such as the Seattle Aquarium. Similarly, when we detect that a list is relevant to a specific region, we provide a map of those places and relevant info for each place, such as addresses, hours and reviews.
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You - 0 views
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"Kneading on you - your cat is checking your internal organs for weaknesses"
How Tech Will Change Our Future - Forbes.com - 0 views
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Globalization and the rise of China owe much to undersea fiber optics and computers capable of managing complex supply chains.
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The most exciting part of this phenomenon is that it is just starting. Broadband is beginning to become pervasive in the developed world. Moore's Law will keep crushing the price of computation, communication, transmission and storage. And cheap sensors are about to be thrown on to everything. If it seemed like this already changed much of the world as we know it, get ready for what is coming.
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Privacy: By 2020, you will have to go to a museum to understand what it meant. Privacy eroded, due to cameras everywhere and increasing sophistication of data analysis. Most people, considering themselves good at heart, traded it away for the sake of better search results.
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160 Megapixel Camera! - 0 views
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Just for the FishMan!
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WOAH!!! Now that's a new year's resolution!
Make Drool-Worthy Bacon Cups for Your Holiday Party - Holidays - Lifehacker - 0 views
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When it comes to party appetizers, pigs in a blanket are yesterday's news. If you really want to wow your guests, we have two words for you: bacon cups
Cops: Man too drunk for snowblower - Weird News - Canoe.ca - 0 views
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BARRIE, Ont. - A man who decided to help clear the street with his own push snowblower ended up with a public intoxication ticket. Police in Barrie, Ont., north of Toronto, say it was for the man's own protection as he was too intoxicated to operate the machine and was almost struck twice by passing vehicles Tuesday evening. Officers out on patrol noticed him. Police arrested the 41-year-old man and held him until he was sober. Sgt. Doug Henderson said he doesn't know if the man had an explanation for his actions. A public intoxication ticket runs $55.
The Oldest Bottle of Veuve Cliquot Champagne Discovered » Global brands » POP... - 0 views
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A bottle of the oldest Veuve Cliquot dry champagne was recently found at Torosay Castle on the Isle of Mull (Scotland). The unique and priceless drink was discovered by the new owner of the castle, Chris James, in the personal drinks cabinet of Arbuthnot Guthrie, the original owner of the estate. The sideboard wasn’t opened since his death in 1897. The bottle of the Veuve Cliquot dry champagne, featuring the brand’s trademark yellow label, was in perfect condition and ready to be opened. Still, the new owner decided to keep the bottle from the table and called Veuve Cliquot in Reims, France to tell about his discovery. The bottle was transported to the company’s visitor centre in Reims for the display. “The bottle is literally priceless. It is a one off and therefore unique. We would never consider selling it as it is far too important to us. It is a unique piece of champagne history. It was amazing to find this bottle and it’s really an extraordinary story all in all,” noted Fabienne Huttaux, head of communications for Veuve Cliquot.
BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere - 0 views
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Remnants of the Biosphere Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert. [Image: Biosphere 2, photographed by Noah Sheldon].The largest sealed environment ever created, constructed at a cost of $200 million, and now falling somewhere between David Gissen's idea of subnature—wherein the slow power of vegetative life is unleashed "as a transgressive animated force against buildings"—and a bioclimatically inspired Dubai, Biosphere 2 even included its own one million-gallon artificial sea.
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this was such a big deal when they started it. sad.
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat - 0 views
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(NaturalNews) If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
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mmm windex
Mosquito killer « Bits & Pieces - 0 views
GRC | ShieldsUP! - Internet Vulnerability Profiling - 0 views
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Please take just a moment to read and consider these three points:Your use of the Internet security vulnerability profiling services on this site constitutes your FORMAL PERMISSION for us to conduct these tests and requests our transmission of Internet packets to your computer. ShieldsUP!! benignly probes the target computer at your location. Since these probings must travel from our server to your computer, you should be certain to have administrative right-of-way to conduct probative protocol tests through any and all equipment located between your computer and the Internet.NO INFORMATION gained from your use of these services will be retained, viewed or used by us or anyone else in any way for any purpose whatsoever.If you are using a personal firewall product which LOGS contacts by other systems, you should expect to see entries from this site's probing IP addresses: 4.79.142.192 -thru- 4.79.142.207. Since we own this IP range, these packets will be from us and will NOT BE ANY FORM OF MALICIOUS INTRUSION ATTEMPT OR ATTACK on your computer. You can use the report of their arrival as handy confirmation that your intrusion logging systems are operating correctly, but please do not be concerned with their appearance in your firewall logs. It's expected.
Soda Pop « Not Dabbling In Normal - 0 views
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"Ginger Ale Mildly sweet and spicy with a hint of lemon (prepare 3 days prior to drinking) * 2 Tbsp + 1 tsp cream of tartar * 1-1/2 cup sugar * 3 inch portion of ginger club, grated * 1 lemon, juiced and grated for zest * 1 small piece sassafras root (approximately 1/4 tsp) *optional* * 1 Tbsp yeast * 1 gallon water 1. Boil water. Add all ingredients except yeast and let steep for 2 hours. 2. Once water is between room temperature and 100F, add yeast and stir. 3. Cover liquid and let rest for one day. 4. On the next day, strain liquid with cheesecloth or fine mesh strainer. 5. Pour liquid into clean, sterile bottles and close tightly. 6. Store in cool, dark place for two days. 7. Chill to stop fermentation and enjoy over ice! **sassafras contains safrole which has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats when consumed in high doses. You can purchase safrole-free sassafras extract or use the leaves which do not contain safrole if you have concerns."
They were all in love with life, drinking from a fountain... - 0 views
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a cool photoshop tool demo
kristoffer myskja: interference machine - 0 views
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"kristoffer myskja: interference machine 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009 norwegian artist kristoffer myskja specializes in creating small machines that perform a variety of tasks, including playing the rim of wine glasses. 'interference machine' sits a top a small pedestal and slowly spins in circles, rubbing the top of two glasses to create a high-pitched noise. the machine is made from small brass and other metal components that are powered by a motor. the motor spins the main gears and this triggers the two arms to swing around. each arm is counter-weighted and rubs the glass rim with a soft piece of material. http://www.kristoffermyskja.com 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009 'interference machine' by kristoffer myskja, 2009"
Prism Makes $1 a Watt Unique Solar Hybrid of Holographic Thin-film Strips AND PV : Clea... - 0 views
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"Here is an innovation borne of the need to make solar modules that are more able to capture more sunlight in regions like New York (or Germany) that have relatively low level insolation. Normally that means that it takes more panels to make the same power, which means it simply costs more to make the same electricity in upstate New York than in the Southern California desert. Prism Solar Technologies in Highland, NY has innovated a breakthrough holographic thin-film (Holographic Planar Concentrator™) that makes possible a very parsimonious use of crystalline PV cells to counteract that problem for Northern region"
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