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Science fiction authors offer unusual Homeland Security Advice
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on March 25, 2008
... in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants. "The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway," Niven said.” BB reader Margaret says: "From SF writer Larry Nivens’ magical, mystical fictional universe where hospitals don't ha...
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California Teacher Fired for Not Signing Loyalty Oath
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on May 03, 2008
Wendy Gonaver lost her teaching job at Cal State Fullerton one day before class was scheduled to begin, because she refused to sign a loyalty oath swearing to "defend" the U.S. and California constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."As a Quaker from Pennsylvania and a lifelong pacifist, Gonaver objected to the California oath as an infringement of her rights of free speech and...
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Saving Pvt. Ryan Beach Scene Filmed In 4 Days
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on January 13, 2008
This short film was created in 4 days by 3 Graphic Designers on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program “Bloody Omaha”. The final graphics are quite spectacular.Video: Youtube
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Scientists Invent the Blackest Material Known to Man
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on January 17, 2008
A National Institute of Standards and Technology reflectance standard (left), a sample of the new darkest material (center), and a piece of glassy carbon (right), taken under a flash light illumination are seen in an undated handout photo. Photo: Shawn-Yu Lin/Rens
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Fishtank habitrail
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 01, 2008
Octopus Studios' tropical/freshwater fish-tanks assembles into a kind of fishy habitrail, wherein bulbous spheres of water are connected by diagonal tubes. Link (via Geekologie)
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Perpetual motion contraption stumps MIT professor
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 04, 2008
Last week, Thane Heins of Ottawa took his perpetual motion device (the Perepiteia) to Boston to show it to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn at MIT's Laboratory for Electromagentic and Electonic Systems. Zahn says the device's performance was "unexpected and new." It's now Jan. 28 – D Day. Heins has modified his test so the effects observed are difficult to...
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Nicaraguan town wealthy from cocaine bricks that wash ashore
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
The citizens of Bluefields in Nicaragua (population 50,000) enjoy a high standard of living thanks to the weekly (or sometimes daily) bales of cocaine that drift ashore. The cocaine comes from Colombian traffickers who throw it from their boats when the US Coast Guard pursues them. Law enforcement in the city doesn't do anything about it, and the drug is traded openly in the streets and even...
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Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
(UPDATE: I put the wrong timestamp on this post, so it got buried. I'm putting it back at the top of the stack, so everyone has a chance to join the fun.) Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, edited by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, is an anthology of several hundred six-word autobiographies. I wish all tombstones came with stories like these:...
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Pillow Fight San Francisco 2008 Photos & Video
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
A ridiculous amount of people showed up for tonight’s big Pillow Fight in San Francisco. They were so eager to start the battle that they didn’t event wait until the clock struck 6pm. Here’s a short video I shot at the beginning of the chaos.Here are a few photos of the Pillow Fight that I shot while there.More coverage: - Pete Beck- teekuleet- Berderp- Tara B- Kevin YIf you shot any photos...
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Trevor Paglen's talk at Transmediale
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on February 05, 2008
... of art and research and is currently completing a PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley. His artistic work deliberately blurs the lines between social science, contemporary art, and other more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. He has published two books (Torture Tax...
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