The stunt king is dead. Rather than write an obit, here’s a link to the third Lunch Hour Veg we ever did. Lots of great comments and clips of the Man himself, the legendary Evel Knievel….
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This doesn’t say much for the impartiality of game reviews at gamespot does it?
If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize. Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.
The program, part of Google Labs, works like this:
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing …
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This is a really cool video of a water balloon being dropped. It does some crazy stuff.
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It must be one of the most stomach-churning medical treatments ever devised.
A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her.
Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium Difficile.
But she was saved after receiving a “faecal transplant” from her daughter, Winnifred.
The treatment involves liquidising a sample of faeces from a close relative of the patient, and feeding the liquid down a tube into the stomach.
The treatment restores the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process.
Source: Telegraph
Tags: Ethel McEwan | Poo | Faecal Transplant | Superbug | Medicine
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From the Daily Mail article: “…the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock. The first time the police came it was over alleged tax evasion and still the temples lay undiscovered. But a year later the police swooped on the community demanding: “Show us these temples or we will dynamite the entire hillside.” Stunned by what they had found, the authorities decided to seize the temples on behalf of the government.” Link…
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Stanford University’s Vectormagic converts raster images into vector images. You can select high, medium, or low level processing. This is my kid’s eye, on the low setting. Link (Via Finkbuilt)…
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A Wall Street Journal blogger describes how the UK manufacturer of Monopoly produced special “loaded” editions of the game for distribution to Allied POWs during WWII, complete with files, escape maps, and real money. n 1941, the British Secret Service asked the game's British licensee John Waddington Ltd. to add secret extras to some sets, which had become standard elements of the aid packages that the Red Cross delivered to allied prisoners of war. Along with the usual dog, top hat and and thimble, the sets had a metal file, compass, and silk maps of safe houses (silk, because it folds into small spaces and unfolds silently). Even better, real French, German and Italian currency was hidden underneath the game's fake money. Departing allied soldiers and pilots were told that if they were captured they should look out for the special editions, identified by a red dot in the Free Parking space. Any sets remaining in the U.K. were destroyed after the war. Of the 35,000 prisoners of war who escaped German prison camps by the end of the war, “more than a few of those certainly owe their breakout to the classic board game,” says Mr. McMahon. Link (Thanks, Marilyn!) (Image credit: Monopoly, a Creative Commons Attribution-only image from Creepus's Flickr stream)…
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Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine (1910) – larger pic at Library of Congress
Bowling is an ancient sport – archaeologists have discovered primitive bowling balls and pins in an Egyptian tomb dating to 5200 BC.
But before the mechanical pinsetter was invented by Gottfried Schmidt in 1936, how did bowling alleys reset the pins? Why, with pin boys, …
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Looking for an eco-friendly and convenient alternative to charging your cell phone, camera, or laptop? The Brunton SolarRoll beats out solar-powered bags and backpacks and, certainly, the hassle of trying to find an electrical outlet when you’re traveling with mobile devices in tow. All you need is a little sunlight, and you can …
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In this geography game, click as close to the prompted location as you can, but remember, speed counts! I scored 353,403 points through ten levels, not high enough to play the last two levels. Link -via Militant Playtpus
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New York magazine has compiled a great collection of vintage NYC videos featuring the likes of Grandmaster Flash, the construction of the Empire State Building, Andy Warhol, and Union Square, circa 1896.
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The DCist posts these great photos from a DC local. Hard to believe we haven’t seen something like this before.
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A REPORT ON the world’s most powerful railgun: The lab version doesn’t look particularly menacing—more like a long, belt-fed airport screening device than like a futuristic cannon—but the system will fire rounds at up to Mach 8, drawing on tremendous…
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Naval fleets once were the largest painting canvases in the world.War has inspired many great artistic moments but how often have artists returned the favor? Once, as far as I can tell. During World War I Modernism descended on Allied naval planners with a bang (sorry about that), turning fleets into the largest painting canvases in the world.
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