The real life of Tom and Jerry
Quote of the Day: “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” – Jay Leno
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Amazing Mobile Mini House
Mobile Mini House
John Lautner’s villa Chemosphere has inspired this modern version of a spaceship house. The only difference is that John’s version was stationary and this one’s a trailer. The beauty of this house-on-wheels lies in the fact that its compact and yet boats of ample living quarters. You will find a bathroom, living room, bedroom, kitchen and an office in the 252° Living Area: Mobile Mini House. (Pics)
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‘Growing Jewelry’ – a wearable urban farm
“Growing Jewelry”
What would happen to our city gardens if space ever became scarce? Hafsteinn Juliusso, a jewelry designer, has shrunk these gardens and made them wearable. Juliusson’s line of “Growing Jewelry” holds active living plants.
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Homeless and addicted to Google Goggles in the year 2029
Quote of the Day: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – – Oscar Wilde
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Site files DMCA takedown notice on blog it plagiarized
Stories about a disgraced researcher get pulled by WordPress.
A crazy story came to light after a DMCA takedown notice last week. The story involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats. The site, Retraction Watch has followed the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher’s career (among the many other issues they follow), found a lot of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. Why did this happen? It turns out that a small site in India copied all of the posts and claimed them as their own. They then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the original posts pulled from their source. The original posts are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.
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The P45 – world’s tiniest car makes the driver look like a LEGO astronaut
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Jeremy Clarkson, host of the BBC show Top Gear, unveils the world’s tiniest car, the P45, which he apparently designed himself. A takeoff on the Peel P50, the P45 has the drive train of a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle, but all the turn signals, lights, and license plates needed to make it street-legal in the United Kingdom. With a helmet for a roof, a visor for a windshield, and no side doors, the contraption calls to mind a Cozy Coupe crossed with a LEGO spaceman, and turns out to be only slightly more roadworthy.
Women in Paris are now legally allowed to wear pants
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A 200- year old law forbidding women in Paris to wear pants has been revoked.
In January, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France’s minister of women’s rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital.
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…and in a blink of an eye, daddy was lying on the floor crying
Quote of the Day: “I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” – Victor Hugo
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Soccer nom!
Quote of the Day: “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” – – Carl Gustav Jung
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Bitcoin-based casino rakes in more than $500,000 profit in six months
Bitcoins are completely digital, so you can’t spend actual ones like these (non-digital ones) at a digital casino.
As various tech companies report their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings numbers this week, so are two gray-market, Bitcoin-based casinos—and one is turning profits in the hundreds of thousands of dollars after only six months of being in business
Recently, both SatoshiDice and bitZino released their financials. If these self-reported earnings are to be trusted (and the companies say they are, given that a Bitcoin block chain can be read by anyone), then running a Bitcoin-based casino yields a tidy profit.
“These tiny startups are hitting some major online casino pain points, they’re crushing it on those fronts and as an entrepreneur, I think that’s rad—they are leveraging a disruptive technology to try and kick a large-scale industry in the balls,” said Peter Vessenes, the CEO of CoinLab, a Bitcoin-based business, which got $500,000 of venture capital last year.
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Harvard geneticist looking for ‘adventurous’ woman to give birth to a Neanderthal baby
Recreation of Neanderthal child.
Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School is looking for an “adventurous” woman to give birth to a baby Neanderthal. It sounds like the plot of another Jurassic Park sequel, but the request is actually part of Professor Church’s real-life plan to bring our long-extinct relative back to life.
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Tiny women are so hard to care for, but they do like Chiclets!
Quote of the Day: “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln
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