Friday, February 25, 2005
- Get Smarter: Shaq rolls out a size-22 shoe phone, nearly 40 years after Maxwell Smart put one in his loafer. [via Gizmodo]
- Detailed instructions on how to rotoscope realistic light saber visual effects into your home movies; and Classic cartoon themes as .mp3's! [via BoingBoing]
- I'd love one of these snazzy computer rear-view mirrors designed by Luca Trazzi, from Vice Versa, in ectoplasmic green, of course - because you never know who's sneaking up on you while you're barreling down the Information Highway
- The official USB drive of Papa Moai [via Boing Boing]
- Real Chicago political news headlines: Dead Candidate Does Not Win in McHenry County
- Ow, ow, ow: from Anchorage, Alaska, a Lorena Bobbitt story redux, but worse: she flushed it down the toilet. Amazingly, medical personnel retrieved the victim's amputated member from the Anchorage sewer system and reattached it. Now stop for a moment, and read that sentence again: exactly how does one find severed genitalia in a municipal sewer? And I wonder - would paramedics go to such lengths (pardon the pun) to retrieve, say, an amputated finger from the pipes? [NBC5.com]
- In something of a blow to reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on sex toys, which prescribes a jail term of up to one year and fines up to $10,000 for their sale. Looks like the "Which State is Loonier: Alabama or Virginia?" race isn't over yet. [via feministing]
- Scientists in Japan have developed a synthetic form of tooth enamel that can be used to repair small cavities, without drills:
Kazue Yamagishi's team at the FAP Dental Institute in Tokyo has found that a fine paste of hydroxyapatite crystals, the material of which natural enamel is made, can repair small cavities in just 15 minutes. The paste fills cavities with long crystals that bond with the tooth's own structure. [NewScientist]
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