Food scientists have developed a dried food ration that military troops can rehydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water, or even by peeing in it. The idea is to reduce the amount of water soldiers trekking for miles have to carry. Developed by the same organisation that created the indestructible sandwich
, the new rations can lessen a soldier’s load by 3.1 kilograms
Two Britons, Gregory Graham and Kaye Chapman, were found guilty on Wednesday of an elaborate plot to smuggle cocaine into the country by surgically implanting packets of the drug inside two Labradors. The scum managed to murder one of the dogs when a packet burst in transit
Pilgrim, a supplier for Kentucky Fried Chicken, suspended a worker without pay and is investigating three others after an animal rights group released video of workers kicking, stomping and throwing birds against walls at a West Virginia plant
I have the weirdest lump stuff from my sister.
She was in town on the weekend and near this place that makes bullseyes and humbugs. I asked her the grab me a stick of rock.
I thought what came back was a giant green heart shaped lollipop, but it seems to be the end of what they make boiled lollies out of. One end it sort of stretched out about thumb thickness, but the other was probably a good 10cm across before it got pounded flat.
I think I’ll need to take a hammer to it to break bits off. Tasty, but strange.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to drop Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the eastern United States, despite the fact that the removal of protections would likely preclude the return of wolves to their historical range in the Northeast. Although wolves in the upper-Midwest have made many gains, and now number more than 3,000 in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, wolf experts believe that the Northeast has prime wolf habitat and could support a population of the canines. The new plan would make it difficult to either reintroduce wolves in the Northeast, or protect those that naturally migrate from Canada
A number of start-ups are tinkering with technology that could enhance or replace hard drives, flash memory cards and other storage devices. The new technology will benefit consumers, but, just as important, reduce the onerous capital budgets facing manufacturers. The only question is which approach will work best — using molten silicon, designer molecules, or maybe protein globules?
Five big US power companies were sued for creating a public nuisance on Wednesday, accused by eight states and the city of New York of being the largest global-warming polluters in the country
A rather unusual crop formation has appeared in a Wiltshire field. The Hello Kitty crop circle was created by Circlemakers and New York artists surface2air to celebrate her 30th birthday and is approximately 60m in diameter. The photo is by Steve Alexander, whose web site includes a lot of impressive aerial photos of crop formations.
You can bet the wingnuts from Crop Circle Radius will be insisting that it’s all the work of aliens — via Pagan Prattle
Charleston City Council apologised to two protesters who were arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts to the president’s 4 July rally at the West Virginia Capital — via Meta-Roj Blog
The directors of escrow services provider Trade Secure are considering closing down the company after discovering that several fake Web sites are using the company logo and address and deceiving customers all over the world
Law enforcement agencies that have been using a reverse white pages
directory found to breach Telstra’s copyright will face a more cumbersome and expensive procedure each time they search for details of phone number owners. Melbourne-based Desktop Marketing Systems, publisher of a reverse-white-pages CD-ROM, is winding up after losing a legal battle with Telstra
70-year-old Aldo Busato, a retired Italian farmer, died on Saturday when a World War One bomb, part of his collection of military memorabilia, exploded while he was showing it to a friend in his garden
Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime, young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar. For mystified, read can’t figure out what to charge them with yet, but their definitely up to something
. Photos should be up soon on BMEzine
Apple Computer has created a fourth-generation iPod that offers a slimmer case, click-wheel navigation and significantly improved battery life
Britain’s Science Museum says it is considering a radical way of paying its hefty energy bills by using visitors’ excrement. The central London museum said it was considering taking the waste from its 14 toilet blocks and converting it into electricity
Noticing that the typical meat packing plant produces 7 tons of blood a day, Russian at the Voronezh State Technological Academy have come up with a process to convert the proteins in the blood into the basic ingredients for milk, yogurt, chocolate, and coffee
— via BoingBoing
A Sydney public relations firm, led by a former Labor staffer, has taken responsibility for a contentious web site critical of John Howard. But despite howls of protest from the Government, johnhowardlies.com appears to be gathering momentum, with its subscribers now numbering in the thousands
A sophisticated skimming device designed to steal the personal details of ATM users has been uncovered in Sydney
Bitoogle is a front-end for Google that finds BitTorrent files
Goldfish could be banned as prizes at fairs and children prohibited from buying pets under a new UK draft animal welfare bill. Ministers believe children under 16 are not mature enough to have pets
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