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Why rap has become the music of choice for city high-flyers - Times Online

Why rap has become the music of choice for city high-flyers - Times Online: "

Sydney Morning Herald

Why rap has become the music of choice for city high-flyers Times Online'- 22 hours ago Urban birds perform a form of avian rap whereas those in rural areas prefer gentler country music, a study shows. Birds in towns eschew many of the traditional, more melodious songs to blast out new tunes ... Urban songbirds raise their voices to be heard New Scientist (subscription) Why birds sing up when they move to the city Guardian Unlimited Telegraph.co.uk'- Independent'- BBC News'- Toronto Star all 20 news articles

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(Via Google News - Sci/Tech.)

posted by Haseman at 1:47 PM | Permalink |

Real VR...

It sounds like there is some very interesting research coming out of Nokia. They've stuffed a camera phone with a bunch of location detection gear for a single purpose: overlaying information on top of the video capture screen. In a sense, they are doing real-time VR through the camera on the phone. Want to know what's on the menu at an eatery? Point your camera at it from the street and see the information in real time. If this is the future of cell phone use...I'm a happy guy.

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posted by Haseman at 1:23 PM | Permalink |

Don't hug me...

Tired of being grabbed on the subway by that creep with the fish breath and the lousy toupee? Now you can commit assault with style! Behold, the No-Contact coat in its 80,000 volts of glory. Jump for the product page.

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posted by Haseman at 9:57 AM | Permalink |

The War on Drugs

Law Enforcement against Prohibition. These guys have the stright dope on the war on drugs. Tens of billions of dollars each year for what? More people in jails that can't hold them? Pardon the political stint here, but hearing this information should make you a smarter person.

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posted by Haseman at 2:26 PM | Permalink |

Where no poster has gone before.....

Someone with a little too much free time put together a series of motivational posters. But hey, their obsession is our gain. A great series of mock posters made with Trekkie love.

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posted by Haseman at 4:39 PM | Permalink |

Too fast? To furious?

For those of you who can't get enough ground lighting on your car now have a way to turn your average budged polution machine into a discotech. Take your average Scion and add colerful ground lights...you know...for the children.

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posted by Haseman at 8:36 AM | Permalink |

Tagged?

In what may go down in history as the most expensive hoax ever attempted...Marc Ecko, (maker of those Rhino clothes I keep seeing everywhere) painted the left half of a jumbo jet to match Air Force 1, hired some actors with scary guns, "snuck" onto his own property, and spray-painted something illegable on one of the engines. The hoax was so good, the Air Force was starting to check their fleet of airplanes for splattered 300 pound spiders. Link to the video on the jump.

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posted by Haseman at 12:02 PM | Permalink |

String...

Crazy Dutch artist Paul Veroude has suspended every part of a Honda F1 race car from a series (read: a metric crap-load) of metal wires.

You too can appreciate his obsession from a safe distance (read: over the internets) at the link that follows hereafter.




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posted by Haseman at 9:57 AM | Permalink |

Pong!

A clever AMEX ad throwing back to the 80s. When can I play some real tennis with a floating pong paddle?






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posted by Haseman at 12:46 PM | Permalink |

New Playboy ad needs no explanation

From the cool hunter

posted by Haseman at 12:08 PM | Permalink |

Borac learns to football

Nothing I could say can capture the amazing akwardness of this video. Just go watch it. Remember, sex explosions are not part of football!

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posted by Haseman at 10:34 AM | Permalink |

Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep little trauma patient...

Doctors are toying with ways to turn Demolition Man into a reality show.
The process includes allowing patients to 'bleed out' while replacing their blood with cold saline solution. This extreme hypothermia can hold wounded pigs in suspention for 3 to 4 hours. No word yet on weather the pigs can still be made into bacon when they wake up.
Doctors are requesting authorization to begin doing this in truama wards.

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posted by Haseman at 7:40 AM | Permalink |

Poly want a c--what?!?

Proving once again the people who live in the UK not only pronounce things wrong, but they're just as weird as their pronunciation of 'Basil' and abuse of mayonase would portend.

Chris Taylor became suspicious of his girlfriend when he heard his parrot yelling "Yes Garry" in a fairly good imitation of his girlfriends voice.

The girlfriend's take?

"I am surprised to hear he got rid of that bird," she added to The Guardian newspaper. "He spent more time talking to it than he did to me."

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posted by Haseman at 6:16 PM | Permalink |

The Gallery of Regrettable Food

Lileks.com brings us The Gallery of Regrettable Food, a treasure trove of Dark Ages cookbooks. And by Dark Ages, I of course mean the United States from the 50's to the 70's.

As Mister Lileks describes the cover page before leading us into the Knudsen's official cookbook,

"Flattened penile midsections in the upper right-hand corner are just a hint of the dairy-based nightmares contained within."

The Knox Gelatin cookbook is also well worth a gander, though not on a full stomach. Meat! Meat! Meat! is also another chilling glimpse into why baby boomers are such moody cry-babies.

And for a special treat, try 7-Up mixed with milk! I bet you have to drink it in one shot before it curdles... Fun for the whole family!

Stop reading and go!
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posted by Sir E. D. W. Lynch at 11:13 AM | Permalink |

Inform is the latest attempt at giving you exactly what you want from a news source.
You know exactly what kind of news you want...right?
Good, neither does anyone else, but at least this thing will go fetch you 'stuff' based on articles that you've read and like.

If the point of reading the news is to read only about stuff you know about then...uh...well... wait a second...
Regardless of your definition of 'News' check out 'Inform.' It's fat free.

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posted by Haseman at 12:27 PM | Permalink |