November 2009
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“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley
Case of the man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills
Doctors from London University have revealed details of what they believe is the largest amount of ecstasy ever consumed by a single person. Consultants from the addiction centre at St George’s Medical School, London, have published a case report of a British man estimated to have taken around 40,000 pills of MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, over nine years. The heaviest previous...
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the...
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Song of the day: “Baby Please Don’t...
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“Three things are needed for success: a backbone, a wishbone, and a funny bone.”
– Reba McEntire
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Overheard...
Young cashier: Have a nice day!
Small old lady: What's so nice about it?!
Young cashier: That you're still alive?
Scientists try to explain Homer Simpson's...
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP. In...
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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Charles Dickens
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Song of the day: “You’ve Got The...
Company invents process to turn plastic back into...
Envion has created a process that transforms plastic waste back into it’s original form - crude oil.
Envion introduced its first market-ready commercial unit at a demonstration held at the Montgomery County Solid Waste Transfer Station in Derwood, Maryland. A proprietary breakthrough technology developed and perfected over the past 15 years, the Envion Oil Generator is the first plastic...
Overheard...
Student to another: Who died and made you the butter police?
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Too Fly →
Site of the day.
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
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Song of the day: “Comptine D’un Autre...
The truth about the disappearing honeybees
A movie called Vanishing of the Bees opened in cinemas across the UK earlier this month. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “mysterious collapse” of the honeybee population across the planet - a phenomenon that has recently attracted a great deal of attention and hand-wringing.
The idea that bees are disappearing for reasons unknown has embedded itself in the public...
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“Relationships are like sharks; they move forward, or they die.”
– Woody Allen, Annie Hall
The Museum Of Online Museums →
Site of the day.
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Song of the day: “Uprising” by Muse
