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A digital clock and calendar powered by food! This fruit powered digital clock and calendar combines micro-electronic technology with the natural electrical potential of a fresh fruit or vegetable. The Fruit Clock uses the original scientific principles on which all modern electrical storage batteries are based. Just add a fresh orange, apple, lemon, lime, pear, banana, or any another convenient fruit or vegetable to the supplied components in this kit and you have the perfect synthesis of nature’s own electrical power resource and the accuracy of a digital clock.
The Cockeyed staff have created a listing of a bunch of liquids available in normal or specialized stores. There you can see the prices from water (about $0 per gallon) to penicillin (round $300 per gallon)…
Seems that the most expensive is scorpion venom.
The definitive collection of audio tapes on the net.
Go and remember those not so far away times -as some of us still use them- when every song sounded blurry after the first week of use…
Apparently homeless children across the country have developed a complex mythology. Here is a taste of what some believe, from an article in the Miami New Times by Lynda Edwards (via Monkey Filter):
On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious demon attack — a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust his palace of beautiful blue-moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives. No one knows why God has never reappeared, leaving his stunned angels to defend his earthly estate against assaults from Hell. “Demons found doors to our world,” adds eight-year-old Miguel, who sits before Andre with the other children at the Salvation Army shelter. The demons’ gateways from Hell include abandoned refrigerators, mirrors, Ghost Town (the nickname shelter children have for a cemetery somewhere in Dade County), and Jeep Cherokees with “black windows.” The demons are nourished by dark human emotions: jealousy, hate, fear.
One demon is feared even by Satan. In Miami shelters, children know her by two names: Bloody Mary and La Llorona (the Crying Woman). She weeps blood or black tears from ghoulish empty sockets and feeds on children’s terror. When a child is killed accidentally in gang crossfire or is murdered, she croons with joy. “If you wake at night and see her,” a ten-year-old says softly, “her clothes be blowing back, even in a room where there is no wind. And you know she’s marked you for killing.”
This article was originally published in 1997. It would be interesting to find out how the myths have developed since then.
I hope. Via Big Fun.
It’s part of the Space Setlement Homepage project and refers to the designs made by NASA artists back in the 70s. There’s an annual contest about the space colony designs.
It’s 1.65 metres high and completely built with chocolate bricks. After 23 hours of build time, the igloo was shown in the Eurochocolate fair in Perugia, Italy.
Link to the photo gallery – Via The Chocolate Obsession
