Topic: STRANGE - on October 8, 2009 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
Fake boobs battle in Miss Plastic contest
While most beauty contests celebrate women's natural good looks (as well as their ability to express a desire for world peace), that's not the case with this bizarre beauty contest - in which only women with fake breasts and facelifts can take part.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2009 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
DEA vs. 'House'
Does the DEA control what we watch on TV? Active tvsquad.com commenter bruce is stirring up controversy with recent accusations about the TV show 'House'.
We have not been given, nor will we be given, an adequate explanation for why House's chronic pain is suddenly manageable without painkillers. Keep in mind House had a legitimate, verifiable medical condition (infarction leading to muscle death) in his leg, so it's not like fibromyalgia or bad headaches some other painful condition that is hard if not impossible to medically verify.
The DEA has been writing letters to Fox complaining about House's "flagrant use and abuse of narcotics without consequence" for years now, and finally the network, writers, and producers all caved in to the government's demands... in the worst possible way. They decided to make the vicodin House had been taking for over a decade into a sudden hallucinogen, causing him to see dead people. They showed him going through the painful detox, and now he's just fine and dandy, no reference to his pain at all. And there won't be any further reference to his pain, other than "it's all manageable."
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2009 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2009 at 9:49:00 AM CEST
Carl Sagan on Pot
This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.
It all began about ten years ago. I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life - a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my social consciousness and amiability, a time when I was open to new experiences. I had become friendly with a group of people who occasionally smoked cannabis, irregularly, but with evident pleasure. Initially I was unwilling to partake, but the apparent euphoria that cannabis produced and the fact that there was no physiological addiction to the plant eventually persuaded me to try.
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 8, 2009 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
Berlusconi's immunity-for-me law overturned
Italy's Constitutional Court has overturned a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office.
The move opens the possibility that Mr Berlusconi, 73, could stand trial in at least three court cases, including one in which he is accused of corruption.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 7, 2009 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
Look through the AR window
“Augmented Reality is your window to the world,” suggest some companies who have released applications for the iPhone 3G S and Android handsets over the past few months. As we have witnessed since the launch of Layar in June, the world needed another “window.” Or, perhaps we needed another browser? Have you heard about the World Surfer by GeoVector?
oreilly.com Mobile Social Networks: An Interview With Christine Perey perey.com
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Topic: FUN - on October 6, 2009 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Rubik’s $150 TouchCube Available Soon
The Rubik’s TouchCube first surfaced back in February earlier this year, and the “available sometime in the Fall” release date that was given translates to very soon, if not already. The official Rubik’s TouchCube website claims the cube is already available at Best Buy, though a quick search of their online store returned no results, while The New York Times Gadgetwise blog claims it will be in stores on October 18, just a few weeks away.
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Topic: FUN - on October 6, 2009 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
21 Shoes That Every Geek Would Love
This selection of 21 shoes can be appreciated by the geek within all of us.
thetoyzone.com Alexander McQueen's tall order: Towering 12-inch boots on Paris catwalk that were NOT made for walking...
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Topic: FUN - on October 6, 2009 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
Meine Nippel explodieren vor Lust: 40 Jahre Monty Python
Die Headline habe ich ganz schamlos bei AICN geklaut, oben der Alcohol Philosophy-Song, vorgetragen von drei australischen Bruces, die auch gleich noch den besten Witz über amerikanisches Bier erzählen: „Why is american Beer like making love in a kanu?“ – „It’s fucking close to water.“ Kommen wir nun aber zu etwas völlig anderem.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 6, 2009 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Samenflüssigkeit soll Alterung bremsen
Eine Substanz aus dem Sperma kann angeblich das Altern von Zellen aufhalten. Euphorisch sprechen einige Forscher vom "heiligen Gral der Altersforschung" - auch wenn sie ihre Erfolge bisher nur bei Zellkulturen und Organismen wie Würmern und Mäusen erzielt haben.
Graz - Spermidin findet sich in unterschiedlichen Mengen in allen Körperzellen, vor allem aber - der Name legt es nahe - in männlicher Samenflüssigkeit. Wenn ein Organismus altert, nimmt die Konzentration der Substanz stetig ab. Das vermuten jedenfalls Forscher um Frank Madeo von der Universität Graz in Österreich. Sie glauben, dass die Verbindung außerdem dabei helfen könnte, geschädigte Zellen zu reparieren.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 6, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
80 Millionen Jahre alter Kieferknochen entdeckt
Ein Unterkiefer lässt Südkoreas Paläontologen jubeln. Der Knochen soll zu einem riesigen Pflanzenfresser aus der Kreidezeit gehören. Möglicherweise handelt es sich um eine bisher nicht bekannte Art.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 6, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin
An Italian chemistry professor named Luigi Garlaschelli likes Jesus's burial cloth so much he made his own. Carbon dating prove the original Shroud of Turin was made in the Middle Ages.
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