If you like Flash puzzles like Samorost, you’ll probably like NFCTD’s eye-candy collage Flash puzzle. (Hint: For the first one, click on a flower, another flower, the heart, and an owl’s face.)
Scott Elder wrote a very useful review of the best locks for your bicycles:
… I always feel a twinge of fear when I leave my bike on the street, worried that upon my return, I’ll find nothing more than a busted U-lock.
… —in the fall of 2004, bicyclists discovered that many round-key U-locks could be picked with the plastic barrel of a Bic pen. Kryptonite, which caught the most flak from the scandal, exchanged more than 380,000 locks for pen-proof, flat-key models free of charge, and lock competitor OnGuard, which had already phased out round keys, got a big sales boost. Today, flat keys are the norm.
… To find out which locks work best, I pitted nine locks against each other from Kryptonite, OnGuard, and Master Lock: five U-locks, two woven steel cable locks, and two heavy-duty chain locks.
If only you can give your Mom this heart-shaped potato for Mother’s Day …
Ellen Anderson said when she opened a bag of potatoes she purchased from a stand on North Main Street, she found the heart-shaped spud at the bottom of the bag.
"Only one person could make this potato like this, and that’s God," Anderson said.
Anderson said she does not plan to eat the potato.
Meet Lola, who’s at the top of her class of bomb-sniffing rats being trained to sniff out landmines in Colombia.
The smartest rat among the first six that the government is teaching to locate explosive devices planted by leftist rebels, she has a 90 per cent success rate in locating explosive material in her laboratory training maze.
Police animal trainers, tired of seeing their explosive-sniffing dogs blown up by stepping on mines, hope the white-furred, pink-eyed creature will lead her classmates through upcoming open field tests and then into the Andean country’s live mine fields before the end of the year.
At about 220 grams Lola is too light to detonate landmines that guerillas set to protect crops used to make cocaine, which they sell to fund their four-decade-old revolution. It takes about 400 grams to detonate a mine.
Fire-retardant foam accidentally filled an empty hangar in Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania.
"Our foam system appears to have malfunctioned," said Craig McDivett of West Mifflin Emergency Management. "High expansion foam is really nothing more than glorified dish soap.”
The foam kept coming and coming.
Officials estimate a little less than a million cubic feet of foam filled up 150 x 150 foot Corporate Air hangar.
Posted by Alex in Fashion on May 14, 2006 at 1:52 am
Shoe maker Asics Corp. has developed some special super-light shoes for Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, who will join a US space shuttle mission in 2007.
"In an environment of no gravity, human muscles become atrophied and astronauts need to train themselves on machines," said Takehiro Tagawa, who developed the far-out footwear.
The first samples, with a soft heel and flexible sole, weigh only 130 grams (4.6 ounces) each and incline slightly upward toward the toes.
"By having the slant, the shoes would stretch a wearer’s calf muscles even in the no-gravity environment," Tagawa said.
They also include a gap dividing the big toe from the others, similar to traditional Japanese socks known as tabi which are often worn with sandals.
"The divider makes it easier to stand firm," he said.
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