Saturday, May 28, 2011
"Eau de Toilet": Artist Made Perfume Out of Own Urine
Conceptual artist Cherry Tree has a scent of mystery about her. And the smell of urine. Her urine. And it’s intentional.
For the last five years, Tree, who splits time between Missouri and Spain, has been turning her own urine into perfume.
'I am very much into recycling,' Tree, born Charity Blansit, told AOL Weird News. 'And urine is something I’ve thought needs to be recycled, since it’s something that gets eliminated.' [...]
'I was fascinated by how the smell changes depending on what you eat,' she said. 'For instance, it smells really good after you eat a lot of honey and it smells terrible after eating chicken.'"
via Neatorama
Kitten hugging video is instant online hit
A short clip of a sleeping kitten being soothed by its mother with a hug has become an overnight internet sensation.
Friday, May 27, 2011
War crimes committed in Croatia should be added to Mladic indictment
Mladen Bajic
"Croatian State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic said on Friday it was of extreme importance that the crimes which took place in Croatia be added to the Hague war crimes tribunal's indictment against Ratko Mladic and that this be treated as a whole."via Daily - tportal.hr /read more
Ratko Mladic, "God of Genocide," arrested
Mladic sheltered there with a relative, and lived under a false name. For years on end he hid like a house-mouse, and was arrested with a similar meekness.
Old, docile, with one hand crippled, the formerly ferocious warlord lived peaceably and invisibly in a house that had been searched repeatedly by the Serbian police. This long-wanted war criminal and exceedingly successful fugitive from justice had a 10 million euro award on his head.
And yet, recent polls say that, despite the suffering and ignominy he brought them, 51 percent of Serbian citizens would not have given him up to the international war tribunal in the Hague. No, not for any money. Serbian stubbornness has gone beyond the period of Mladic's bloodstained hero-worship. Nowadays the Serbs have grown indifferent to Mladic while actively resenting the European Union, whose economic disorders have made Serbian life miserable.
And yet it appears that somebody did betray Mladic for the reward: someone among his circle of close friends. Some years ago, an entire group of people, who were all accused of actively sheltering Mladic, were released from a Serbian court through lack of evidence."
By Jasmina Tešanovic
Boing Boing /read more
One Liners
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Drink 'till she's cute, but stop before the wedding.
I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week.
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough!
Mental backup in progress - Do Not Disturb!
Mind Like A Steel Trap - Rusty And Illegal In 37 States
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
If I worked as much as others, I would do as little as they.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
Excuses are like asses everyone's got em and they all stink.
I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... So does having no medical insurance.
I really think the Mars Rover is scouting for the next Wall-Mart Superstore site.
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
Mason the miracle dog
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Air India Pilots Caught Flying With Newspaper-Covered Windows
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First images from Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets
NASA art remembers 50 years of space exploration
"NASA's art collection holds 50 years' worth of works by renowned artists. Opening this Saturday, an exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC features more than 70 of the agency's best pieces."
In this mixed-media work, Tina York explores fluid dynamics, a concept she researched at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Created in 1995, the piece conveys the movement of gases as a solid body passes through them.
(Image: Tina York/NASA Art Program)
Gallery - NASA art remembers 50 years of space exploration - Image 6 - New Scientist
Fluid Dynamics
In this mixed-media work, Tina York explores fluid dynamics, a concept she researched at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Created in 1995, the piece conveys the movement of gases as a solid body passes through them.
(Image: Tina York/NASA Art Program)
Gallery - NASA art remembers 50 years of space exploration - Image 6 - New Scientist
Is this the worst case of animal cruelty ever?
The crossbreed mongrel, which was named Star by his rescuers, was found near the city of Birzebbuga by animal welfare officers investigating an unrelated case.
After hearing whimpering coming from beneath a wooden board with a tree stump placed on top of it to weigh it down, officers were confronted with the distressing sight of a dog's face buried in the dirt. "
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Animal Mating Tips Revealed
Well, maybe you should read a study published in The American Naturalist that examined how males of hundreds of animal species alter their strategies for finding a mate depending on the competition they face."
via Discovery News/continue reading
Somerton Man's poetic mystery
ON A warm summer's night in 1948, witnesses saw a well-dressed man lying on the beach in Somerton, near Adelaide, South Australia. By 6.30 the next morning, the man had not moved. He was dead.
An autopsy revealed organ damage consistent with poisoning, but no foreign substances in his body. He carried no identification. Fingerprint and dental-record searches came back with nothing. His clothes had no labels and were heavy for a night so balmy, suggesting he was not a local.
Thus was born the legend of the Somerton Man.
via New Scientist/continue reading
Ratko Mladic arrested
Serbian President Boris Tadic confirmed the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb army chief at a news conference.
Gen Mladic is accused of a key role in the massacre of at least 7,500 men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
He was the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008.
President Tadic said work was under way to extradite Gen Mladic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague."
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Frida Kahlo miniature could fetch $1m at auction
The startling thing about the latest Frida Kahlo self-portrait to come up for auction is its size. The Mexican artist's Autorretrato en miniatura – self-portrait in miniature – measures just 5cm by 4.2cm.
Despite its lack of size, it is being sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday night with an upper estimate of $1.2m (£740,000).
The locket-sized picture – thought to be the smallest painting Kahlo made – was originally a gift to one of her many lovers, the Catalan artist Jose Bartoli."
via The Guardian/read more
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
17 lost pyramids found by satellite
The astonishing results have been confirmed by archaeologists with picks and shovels, who have located two of the pyramids found from space.
"I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me the 'aha' moment was when I could step back and look at everything that we'd found,' Dr Sarah Parcak told the BBC.
"I couldn't believe we could locate so many sites all over Egypt."
The team analysed images from satellites orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, equipped with cameras so powerful they can pinpoint objects less than a yard in diameter.
via Telegraph/read more
Cops Scramble Helicopters and Tranquilizer Teams to Take Down Stuffed Tiger
via Gizmodo/read more
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