August 2008
37 posts
WatchWorld Record snail balancing - Chester Chronicle
Italian priest organizes beauty contest for nuns →
Update: contest stopped.
Barbie rod hooks record-breaking catfish →
:-)
WatchWind Turbine explodes in high wind.
This, and another view of the same event is here: snopes.com: Wind Turbine Explosion
Great Olympic moments on YouTube →
(Via Daring Fireball)
"How I Stole Someone's Identity" →
The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online
If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been... →
Bees Help Track Criminals
Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter →
Outrage over pregnant shop dummy →
I don’t get it. What could possibly be offensive about it?
Snake slithers into reporter's pants on live TV →
EMPTY CONDOM PACKET & A PHOTO OF 'THE TART'S'... →
Now there’s something you don’t see every day, even on ebay. Bidding is almost at $32,000 as I type this, and there have been 450,000 + views. :-)
“A Note to the Anonymous Man Sitting in the Bathroom Stall Next to Me Earlier...”
– John Scalzi
GRAIL: Projects →
More awesome stuff done with computer algorithms understanding 3-D scenes from a large number of haphazardly collected real-world photos (e.g. public flickr collections). I especially like the second example in Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections (windDohs media required).
WatchUsing Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene
This is truely neat! That’s waht I call a clever use of technology.
Gnome returned after worldwide tour →
Lord protect us! Now even the pulpit in a... →
Melbourne university gives doctorate in study of... →
“Drug Mimics Exercise’s Effects”...
A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is... →
Magnifying Taste: New Chemicals Trick the Brain... →
11 children found in squalid rural house - The... →
What is this, a child abuse by neglect epidemic?
The girl in the window - St. Petersburg Times →
Child abuse story - makes me feel sick at the abuse, yet hopeful for the girl now. I’m almost cyring as I type this.
She was rescued at age 7 from her biological mother - who had not looked after her beyond giving her baby food in all that time.
