Oct
25
Naomi Campbell’s Turtle Attack
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[From: Environmental Graffiti]
Ecology — Robert
Naomi Campbell is no stranger to controversy. The supermodel is perhaps best known recently for legal issues including a number of assaults on her employees. But her most recent controversy involves not her temper, but a turtle.
Campbell and her boyfriend, Renault F1 team head Flavio Briatore, have submitted a proposal to [...]
Oct
23
[From: Newsday.com]
BY BRETT KRUTZSCH
Brett Krutzsch is an administrator at New York University and a freelance writer. His essays about gay life have appeared in The Advocate, New York Press and The New York Blade.
October 23, 2007
Larry Craig’s much-anticipated interview with Matt Lauer last week brought the country’s attention back to the senator’s airport bathroom scandal, [...]
Oct
19
[From: MAKE: Blog]
Steve Lambert posted a great Instructable on creating signs to parody and confuse “enemies” (aka corporations and governments). Steve is my upstairs neighbor so I will have to be on sign lookout from now on. Link.
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Oct
17
[From: Popular Mechanics]
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By Logan Ward
Video by Virtual Beauty
Video Produced by Allyson Torrisi
Diagram by Dogo
Published in the November 2007 issue.
Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional [...]
Oct
16
Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools
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[From: Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools]
Be(a)ware of how your belongings could track you
This book will make you look at every store-bought item you own or debate owning with a curious skepticism that — after reading the book — won’t seem too unwarranted. It was published two years ago (a cheap paperback came out in the [...]
Oct
12
Atheists on the rise
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[From www.kansascity.com]
Those who don’t believe in God are finding strength in numbers in public and political arenas
By JACQUELINE L. SALMON and MARY JORDAN
The Washington Post
In England and its offspring, the United States, a legion of the godless is rising up against the forces of religiosity.
“People who were ashamed to say there is no God now [...]





