Topic: SCIENCE - on October 15, 2009 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
New CMOS Camera Will Record Your Thoughts At 1,000,000 FPS
Scientists of the Megaframe project in Europe have developed a CMOS sensor so small that it can actually go inside a neuron channel and look at the thought signals in real time. Not to mention the fact that it can do so in 1024pixels and at a photon resolution too. This means that it can actually capture snapshots of photons. While this is an achievement on its own, a huge one, the practical uses of this CMOS camera are far more exciting.
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Topic: NATURE - on October 15, 2009 at 9:48:00 AM CEST
Lizards filmed 'walking on water'
A "Jesus Christ" lizard, filmed from above and below the water
Remarkable slow-motion footage has been taken of two lizards that seem to do the impossible - walk on water.
A high-definition film, shot at 2,000 frames per second, shows a brown basilisk lizard running across the surface of a pond in Belize.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2009 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
Hanfaktivisten beim Hanfanbau auf einer DEA Hauptquartier-Grünfläche verhaftet
Eine Gruppe von Hanfbauern und Geschäftsleute im Cannabis Business wurden bei einer Aktion des “zivilen Ungehorsams” auf einer Rasenfläche vor dem Hauptquartier der Drogenkontrollbehörde der USA (Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA), bei dem Versuch industriellen Faserhanfsamen zu pflanzen, verhaftet.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2009 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Farmers Arrested Trying to Plant Hemp at DEA Office
A 51-year-old grandfather who grows garbanzo beans and other crops in northwestern North Dakota was among the protesters arrested for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration offices.
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Topic: SEX - on October 15, 2009 at 9:42:00 AM CEST
Woman 'lured husband into woods with horny goat weed then slit his throat'
Joanne Hale, 39, gave husband Peter, 43, a natural aphrodisiac called 'horny goat weed' before she blindfolded him and led him into nearby woods.
The pair kissed, cuddled and ''rolled about on the leaves'' as part of a ''playful game'' to act out Mrs Hale's sexual fantasy.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 15, 2009 at 9:39:00 AM CEST
Sweden burns rabbits to heat up winter
Swedish authorities have found an interesting solution to keeping warm through the cold winter months - they're burning thousands of bunny rabbits from Stockholm's parks for fuel.
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Topic: Conspiracy theory - on October 14, 2009 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."
It can only get worse for him. Next month, Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 14, 2009 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Fake school bus had 5,408 lbs. of pot on board
The driver of a fake school bus was able to evade arrest after a state trooper discovered more than $1 million worth of marijuana inside the bus, Department of Public Safety officials said.
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Topic: TV - on October 14, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
O'Reilly Falafel Suit Turns Five
Happy anniversary, Bill O'Reilly! On this date five years ago, the Fox News Channel host was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit brimming with lurid details about vibrators, phone sex, threesomes, masturbation, Caribbean shower fantasies, a Thai sex show, falafel, stewardess trysts, vehicular coupling, and Al Franken. The New York State Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Andrea Mackris, a former Fox News producer, quoted O'Reilly verbatim and at length, leaving readers to believe that the TV star's dirty soliloquies were surreptitiously recorded (an impression reinforced when the lawsuit was settled within two weeks).
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 14, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
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Topic: FUN - on October 14, 2009 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Craighton Berman's Coil Lamp
We loves us some process shots, and it's cool to see Chicago-based designer Craighton Berman's Coil Lamp move from concept sketch to rendering to constituent parts to working prototype to ready-to-sell.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 14, 2009 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Microsoft releases biggest patch on record
Microsoft Corp issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
In a monthly update sent to users of its software, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, or patches, to address 34 vulnerabilities it identified across its Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and other products.
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