Thoraxic Cavity Cake

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6 April 2004
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Thoraxic Cavity CakeIf you’re going to make a Halloween cake then why not go all out make a replica of a Gray’s Anatomy illustration of a complete thoraxic cavity.

The plan was for each organ to be made out of a different kind of cake and to secrete a different color of fluid when it was cut into. Previous heart cakes have bled fresh, homemade raspberry sauce. This year I made raspberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, and blueberry sauces. Sadly, the organs didn’t bleed as well as I had hoped when I cut the cake, as each organ was relatively small and couldn’t hold much sauce. Also all the moving around after filling the organs made it hard to keep the sauce contained in the little cavities I hollowed out. The heart bled pretty well, but the other organ fluids weren’t very dramatic.

Of course, with all the organs on top of it, virtually no one ever actually saw the fact that there was a complete spinal column underneath all the cake so some might say there was a bit of wasted effort there, but I say if you’re going to make an edible, anatomically correct chest cavity dessert tray, you might as well do it right!

Social-Engineering a Mobile Thief

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6 April 2004
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An Ohio teen whose mobile phone was ripped off called the number, found herself speaking to the thief’s girlfriend, and social-engineered the bimbo into giving up the crooks’ address, busting a notorious mobile-stealing ring in the process

Suicide By Guillotine

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6 April 2004
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DIY fan Kevin Brunie built a guillotine — then beheaded himself in his back garden. The keen carpenter spent weeks making the device out of wood with a metal blade. He told relatives it was a toy car. Dad-of-two Kevin, 42, was said to have been in good spirits and was laughing and joking with his mum Lynda Nelson, 62, days before he died. She said: He had not talked to me about killing himself. I have no idea why he died. He was always good with his hands — via Die Puny Humans

San Francisco Flashmob Attempts Supercomputer

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6 April 2004
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Hundreds of area technophiles wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world’s strongest supercomputers. Organizers hoped to break into the ranks of the world’s top 500 supercomputers through the event, which they called Flashmob I

Vampire Bats Kill 13 People in Brazil

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5 April 2004
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Rabies-carrying vampire bats killed at least 13 people in a remote Amazon town in Brazil’s northern state of Para last month. The state health care department said the thumb-sized creatures had attacked about 300 people — an unusually high number — since 2 March in the riverside Portel area, next to the world’s biggest estuarine archipelago of Marajo. Government scientists suspect the attacks are linked to a change in the bats’ migration pattern caused by deforestation — via Oft Quoted

Real Akira Motorcycle

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4 April 2004
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At the Tokyo Motorcycle Show, the official licensed model of the Akira motorcycle is displayed. This Kaneda bike is not a mere replica, but a full working model. On its cockpit is DVD-navi-system + trackball & ten-key + custom computer-controlled LED meters — all licenced by the author and the publisher of Akira. Though at the show only miniature figures are sold and real price or release date is unclear, you can check out the manufacturer for later info

Manhole Covers

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3 April 2004
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Manhole CoversA gallery full of photographs of wonderfully ornate French manhole covers.
Some amazing metalwork from a time where the simple things in life were created with great beauty.
It seems a shame that since these photos were taken some of the manhole covers have been removed.

Fucking With The Fundie Wankers

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2 April 2004
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The American Family Association is trying to orchestrate a campaign of complaints about an episode of That ’70s Show which had a big, grown-up wanking joke in it. To this end, they have provided a link to send the complaints to the relevant authority. Of course, anyone can use it, so Larry did:

Dear FCC Commissioners,

I want to say that the AFA does not understand the import of the first amendment. Furthermore, I am tired of people trying to protect me from things that they don’t want their children to see. I am opposed to censorship in any and all forms, especially the ridiculous crackdown that has recently been implemented by the FCC.

If you want to fulfil your mandate and improve the utilisation of the electromagnetic spectrum to the benefit of the people of the United States, then break up the broadcasting monopolies and encourage diversity in radio and TV programming.

Go on, give it a try, you know you want to — via Pagan Prattle

Noam Chomsky Blogs

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1 April 2004
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ZMag are hosting Noam Chomsky’s blog, Turning the Tide. It will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from mail and other outlets — always from Noam Chomsky — via Die Puny Humans

Google Joins Webmail Fray

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1 April 2004
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Internet search company Google has announced plans to enter the free web-based e-mail market which is currently dominated by online giants Yahoo and Microsoft’s Hotmail. Google says it is testing a preview release of its product, named Gmail, which it says will allow every user to store up to 1GB of information, or about 500,000 pages of e-mail

Greens Call for Review of Capsicum Spray

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1 April 2004
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Greens MP and justice spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has called for a review of the use of capsicum spray by police after a group of up to 20 students were sprayed today while protesting against fee increases at Sydney’s University of Technology. People have a right to protest in our society and the use of capsicum spray by police today on students should be condemned, said Ms Rhiannon

Telstra Cuts Wholesale Broadband Prices

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1 April 2004
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Telstra has caved in to pressure from the ACCC over the wholesale pricing of its broadband Internet service. The competition regulator had accused Telstra of cutting its retail prices to a point where some of its wholesale customers could no longer compete. Telstra announced discounted wholesale packages offering a 40 per cent discount compared to retail prices

Wacky Transportation and Mechanical Things

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31 March 2004
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Who doesn’t need a mini Nautilus? Pat Regan build his own personal replica of the Nautilus submarine from Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Coaster Dynamix is taking pre-orders for a roller coaster model kit. The coaster kit has an electric lift-hill and an inverted train. They attached a camera to the train and included this footage in the video that is on the site.

SawStop technology works on all types of power woodworking tools. They have video demos illustrating the operation of the SawStop technology on a table saw, a band-saw and a pneumatic up-cut saw, in which they are cutting a sheet of plywood and place a hot dog in the path of the blade to simulate a user’s finger. The SawStop system detects contact between the hot dog and the blade of the saw and stops the blade in approximately 5 milliseconds or less, resulting in only a small nick in the skin of the hot dog.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Hoover manufactured a line of flying-saucer-shaped floating canister vacuums that rode on a cushion of their own exhaust, hovering over your carpet. This vacuum cleaner fan site has great photos, scanned ads and details for several of Hoover’s most futuristic vacuum cleaners.

The Scubadoo is an AU$17,500 underwater motorcycle that looks like something off of Space: 1999’s aquatic habitat ship, shipping soon. It does 2.5 knots and carries an hour’s worth of air.

Alistair Cooke

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31 March 2004
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Alistair Cooke, the urbane and erudite journalist who was a peerless observer of the American scene for almost 70 years, died at his home in New York. He was 95. A veteran foreign correspondent and a successful and productive author, he was celebrated for his Letter From America, which was broadcast weekly by the BBC to more than 50 countries

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