Jason Freeny does it again with his latest toy dissection of one of the most nostalgic medical games of our childhood, Operation. In production since 1965, Operation tests a players’ steady hand as they attempt to pick out iconic ailments and anatomical parts without buzzing and setting off Cavity Sam’s red nose. Jason recreated the game board and replaced Cavity Sam’s fake innards with real anatomy. Not such an easy game anymore huh? — via Street Anatomy
Expertly handcrafted borosilicate glass cuttlefish pendant. It measures 1.25 inches wide, 2 inches long and come with a fancy adjustable cord/lace necklace — via Etsy
Triple purpose… main lamp, soft light, candlelight, or any combination. This lamp measures approximately 4′ across. Each detachable tentacle has lights inside and would be about 30? long if you stretched it out straight. Recently SOLD, but I am making another soon. $18,000 — via Mason’s Creations
Revell Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant — via Steve Niles Tumblr
This gigantic Cthulhu is made from old clothes in tones of green. He is quite heavy (4.5 kg) and is more an element of interior design than a toy — via Etsy
Mario and Fafa review stuff that has been seen on TV — via Youtube
A central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data centre — via Wired.com
Photo: Connie Zhou
It seems like another life. At the height of his corporate career, Tom Palome was pulling in a salary in the low six-figures and flying first class on business trips to Europe.
Today, the 77-year-old former vice president of marketing for Oral-B juggles two part-time jobs: one as a $10-an-hour food demonstrator at Sam’s Club, the other flipping burgers and serving drinks at a golf club grill for slightly more than minimum wage.
While Palome worked hard his entire career, paid off his mortgage and put his kids through college, like most Americans he didn’t save enough for retirement. Even many affluent baby boomers who are approaching the end of their careers haven’t come close to saving the 10 to 20 times their annual working income that investment experts say they’ll need to maintain their standard of living in old age.
For middle class households, with incomes ranging from the mid five to low six figures, it’s especially grim. When the 2008 financial crisis hit, what little Palome had saved — $90,000 — took a beating and he suddenly found himself in need of cash to maintain his lifestyle. With years if not decades of life ahead of him, Palome took the jobs he could find — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When surveillance and national security supporters look back on the last three years at some remove, one of the lessons they may learn is that the reflexive obsession with secrecy cruelled the capacity of security institutions and governments to obtain any sort of social licence for surveillance, or even of basic trust.
The obsession of the United States government with secrecy has long since reached Kafkaesque proportions — but if you’re the victim of one of its campaigns, it is nightmarish.
Two weeks ago the US Department of Justice sought and obtained a gag order to prevent American journalist and sometime Crikey contributor Barrett Brown and his legal team from discussing his prosecution. Brown, who revealed many connections between the US government and the growing cyber military-industrial complex in the US, faces an array of charges with sentences totalling over 100 years in prison, including for sharing a link online.
At the point where even the US mainstream media had worked out that the prosecution of Brown was another example of the Obama administration’s war on investigative journalism, the administration decided enough was enough and secured a gag order to undermine the growing profile of Brown’s case. The prosecution argued the gag order was necessary because Brown was manipulating the public
. This is Barack Obama’s America, where telling the world about your Kafkaesque prosecution for sharing a link is manipulating the public
.
The gag order is symptomatic of the way this administration does business: it imposes secrecy requirements on others, while of course retaining the right to reveal whatever secret information it feels is in its own interests. An Obama administration gag order is routine in cases where it has pursued journalists and whistle-blowers, or its agencies have demanded the co-operation of IT and communications companies to spy on Americans, or provide back doors into their products to allow spying.
One of the genuinely amusing moments in the Obama administration’s hysterical overreaction to Edward Snowden was when Obama claimed in all seriousness that he had been planning to initiate a debate about the extensive powers that enabled the National Security Agency to spy on both Americans and the rest of us, but Edward Snowden came along and ruined his plans by revealing the true extent of surveillance — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What manner of creatures lurk in the deep and uncharted depths? I’m not sure, so grab your crochet hook and cuddle up to the unknown! — via Etsy
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals makes more than 1,000 foster placements a year, said Gail Buchwald, the ASPCA’s senior vice president of adoptions.
Fosters are an indispensable component for shelters, but there is a lot of turnover, she said, because of so-called foster failures — people who fall in love with their foster pets and adopt them.
When a foster becomes an adopter, no one minds, Buchwald said, but it does leave shelters on a constant lookout for new fosters.
There is no question that saying goodbye is the most difficult part of fostering, she said, and this list might help encourage people who are considering it:
- Remember you are saving lives. Without foster homes, more animals will have to be euthanised
- Remember the goal — to help foster pets find loving, forever homes
- Learn to celebrate successful adoptions
- Don’t feel guilty. Animals are resilient and adaptable
- Start or join a foster support network
- Take a break so you don’t burn out
- Cherish the memories
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kittens always seem to be crowd-pleasers, but sometimes it takes a little while for them to venture outside. Zoo Berlin welcomed an Ocelot kitten on 16 July, and the little one has been nursing, sleeping and growing strong out of the public’s sight, until recently — via ZooBorns
This medical case may give a whole new meaning to the phrase beer gut
.
A 61-year-old man — with a history of home-brewing — stumbled into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness. Nurses ran a Breathalyser test. And sure enough, the man’s blood alcohol concentration was a whopping 0.37 percent, or almost five times the legal limit for driving in Texas.
There was just one hitch: The man said that he hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol that day.
He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime,
says , the dean of nursing at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyser.
Other medical professionals chalked up the man’s problem to closet drinking
. But Cordell and Dr Justin McCarthy, a gastroenterologist in Lubbock, wanted to figure out what was really going on.
So the team searched the man’s belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.
Eventually, McCarthy and Cordell pinpointed the culprit: an overabundance of brewer’s yeast in his gut.
That’s right, folks. According to Cordell and McCarthy, the man’s intestinal tract was acting like his own internal brewery — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, the Clouded Leopard cub Tien has a new playmate, who will hopefully become his mate one day. Sang Dao (pronounced Sing Dow), five and a half months old, arrived on 12 September from Tanganyika Wildlife Park near Wichita, Kansas. She’s been settling into her new zoo, and keepers have started introducing her to Tien, who was born May 1 at Point Defiance. These photos were taken the day after her arrival. The two cubs — and their caretakers — seem to have had a wonderful rough-and-tumble time at the introduction — via ZooBorns
Carn – Jeff Le Bars from Jeff Le Bars on Vimeo
Réalisation: Jeff Le Bars
Musique et Sound Design: Sylvain Livenais
Film de fin d’études réalisé à l’école Emile Cohl de Lyon en 2012
A backpack computer has been developed to let people test a bionic eye so the implant can be perfected for those needing it.
The bionic eye project aims to give some vision to people who have lost their sight by transmitting images from a pair of glasses which have been fitted with a video camera.
Those images go to the implant, which stimulates the optic nerve.
The prototype computer will simulate the experience for testers and help researchers develop the algorithms required for mobility and orientation.
The head of the wearable computer laboratory at the University of South Australia, Bruce Thomas, says the testing project involves equipment readily available which has been modified and made easy to use for practical medical research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A species of bee reintroduced to the UK after becoming extinct has nested for the first time in a quarter of a century.
The short-haired bumblebee started dying out in Britain in the 1980s and officially became extinct in 2000.
A reintroduction project saw queen bees brought over from Sweden.
After two releases of queens at the RSPB’s Dungeness reserve in Kent, offspring worker bees have been recorded there for the first time.
Short-haired bumblebees were once widespread across the south of England but declined as their wildflower rich grasslands disappeared.
Nikki Gammans, who leads the project, said: This is a milestone for the project and a real victory for conservation.
We now have proof that this bumblebee has nested and hatched young and we hope it is on the way to become a self-supporting wild species in the UK
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Artist Derek Yaniger created this adorable tiki-style illustration featuring Elvira hanging out in a graveyard full of zombies. He only made 80 of these great prints that are even autographed by Elvira herself — via Neatorama
When my older son discovered his first wiggly tooth, I realised that I had the chance to define the Tooth Fairy experience for another generation. As I pondered how the Tooth Fairy would collect our family’s teeth, it occurred to me that she has an awful lot of teeth to gather, especially considering the ever-rising world population. It seemed prudent to figure out a way to send the teeth to her for processing, rather than make her visit the homes of all 7,103,000,000 people on Earth. As such, I installed a pneumatic transport system (as at the bank drive-through) in my house, for the purpose of sending teeth to the Tooth Fairy, and receiving renumeration back from her.
The Raspberry Pi serves up an interface that I built using Hype, which allowed me to quickly animate the movement of the capsule on the map and the spinning tooth on the Under Review
page. I expect to eventually use the pneumatic transport system to exchange messages and objects with the other creatures that come at night
, as my son calls them, so I included buttons for Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. The HTML5 interface can play sounds, too, if it is Added to Home Screen
as a web app — via Youtube
A home is incomplete without at least a hint of eldritch horrors. The small tentacle is approximately 14.5” inches tall. The large sized tentacle is standing at about 32”. And the medium sized tentacle is about 23”. It’s reinforced with steel wire, and weighted with sand. The imagery is a screenprint made from an original woodcut illustration, copyright Camilla Taylor — via Etsy
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