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A travel pillow for those long flights (since you won’t have enough time to inflate it during a short distance flight). Measuring 17x15x14x19 inches and priced at $29.95.
Exploit the Earth or die. It’s not a threat. It’s a fact. Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials—such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms—and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, and the like; he must seize nature and use it to his advantage. There is no escaping this fact. Even the allegedly “noble†savage must pick or perish. Indeed, even if a person produces nothing, insofar as he remains alive he indirectly exploits the Earth by parasitically surviving off the exploitative efforts of others.
The fact annoys some people. But it shouldn’t: Hence our “Exploit the Earth or Die†campaign.
Place a link on your blog or website; wear an EED T-shirt; drink from an EED mug. The good guys will smile. The bad guys will snarl. And the battle for civilization and against “environmentalism†will be brought to the fundamental alternative whereupon the matter ultimately must be decided: life or death.
Link. Direct link to t-shirts. Via GeekPress.
*Update: I deleted a comment that was mere profanity. Please don’t reduce the conversation to mere insults and profanity. I’m interested in hearing why this t-shirt is so inflammatory, and I’d like to hear something other than “Randians are fools” (or worse).
**I’ve closed the comments. Thanks for your thoughts everyone.
There’s a neat flight simulator easter egg in the latest version of Google Earth.
Link – via Google Blogoscoped
Bwahahahaha! This is so awesome: here’s how you should order at Taco Bell next time!
Check out this video clip, made by Jonathan Fin: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Travis W!
See also: Rapping Your Fast Food Order at the Drive-Thru
Neatorama reader Reechard pointed us to another terrorism-inspired musical: The Beastly Bombing: a Terrible Tale of Terrorist Tamed by the Tangles of True Love"
The musical’s story begins with two white supremacists, who want to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, run into two Al Qaeda terrorists who want to do the same thing. Inevitably, they fight only to knock each other’s bombs off the bridge …
Link (with songs) – Thanks Reechard!
Remember Ram Bomjon, the Boy Buddha of Nepal? Mystery continues to swirl around the 18-year-old, which according to some is the reincarnation of Buddha.
Last month, Bomjon (who is also known by his official Buddhist name Palden Dorje) gave his first preaching. His message? "The only way we can save this nation is through religion."
Links: Bomjon [wiki] | United We Blog article | Video at the Palden Dorje official (?) website – Thanks raju!
Previously on Neatorama: Nepal’s Boy Buddha | Nepal Boy Buddha Burst Into Flame? | Nepal Buddha Boy Missing | Nepal Buddha Boy Found (with a Sword!)
Add this to the long list of weird USB gadgets out there: the fragrance oil burner USB gadget!
Link – (There’s even a travel version!) – Thanks kristofer!
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… or this one: a USB-powered mini-greenhouse! The greenhouse comes with adjustable growth light, soil, and even a computer software to monitor your plants’ growth rate.
Link – Thanks cuimnhe!
The Angelo Family of New York won the state’s lottery twice in 11 years. And if that’s not lucky enough, they won both times with the same numbers!
And no, they’re not going to tell us the secret…
Here’s a video of CNN’s Tony Harris interviewing the couple: Link – Thanks David R!
Panbanisha, a bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, has given names to two swans nesting at the center:
The latest project began in the spring when the swans were released on the trust’s lake. It took months of work to motivate Panbanisha to name the birds.
Researchers made references to the swans while communicating with the bonobo — showing the ape they were interested in giving them names. They displayed pictures of the swans, played videos of them and took Panbanisha on a walk to find them. [...]
And finally this month, Panbanisha made her choices: Morgan and Olivia.
Kyle Garchar, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in Columbus, Ohio, wanted to do something silly for his school’s big football game against rival Darby High School.
He persuaded Darby High fans to hold up placards, saying that it would read GO DARBY. Instead, it spelled out WE SUCK.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] to see the prank | See also an interview with Kyle and his accomplices [YouTube] – Thanks CheeseDuck!
After 9/11, Skip Storch contracted sarcoidosis after inhaling contaminated debris. To raise awareness of this potentially debilitating inflamatory disease (and money for Mount Sinai Hospital’s sarcoidosis program), the 50 year old marathon swimmer swam three times around Manhattan. Skip completed the 85.5 mile swim in just under 33 hours, breaking the prior record by 37 minutes. Link [Gothamist]
A newly discovered bright red "reporter protein" called Katushka is set to fill in a crucial gap in advanced imaging technologies:
Katushka solves a major problem in the field of fluorescent reporter proteins. Fluorescent proteins have become invaluable research tools for labeling specific genes and tissues. This labeling permits researchers to follow gene activity visually or to track cellular development. However, there is no tracer that glows brightly in a particular "window" of the far-red spectrum favorable for maximally penetrating living tissues. Thus, such proteins were not practical for optically imaging tagged genes, cells or tissues in whole animals.
Katushka apparently solves this problem. But the interesting thing for the lay reader is how Katushka was developed in the first place:
The development of the red fluorescent protein . . . reported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute international research scholars Andrey Zaraisky, Sergey A. Lukyanov, and their colleagues August 26, 2007, in the online version of Nature Methods. . . might never have happened had it not been for the shrewd bargaining of Lukyanov. Visiting a Moscow pet shop, Lukyanov saw a brilliant red sea anemone among the denizens of the store’s aquarium. Sensing that the vivid red coloring in the anemone might provide the blueprint for a new biological tracer, he tried to buy the anemone. He was told by the shopkeeper that it had already been sold, and the buyer was expected shortly. Unfazed, Lukyanov persistently outbid the buyer and procured the creature. Back in Lukyanov’s laboratory, Chudakov and his coworkers isolated the red protein from the anemone and then developed an enhanced version . . . .
Via MedGadget
If you’re looking for something to do this Labor Day weekend, head down to Morgan City, Louisiana for the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival!
Deep in the heart of Cajun Contry, every Labor Day Weekend, tens of thousands of people celebrate at Louisiana’s oldest chartered harvest festival. The festival has been honoring those who have worked tirelessly through rain and shine…and sometimes even hurricanes, to provide the area’s economic lifeblood for over half a century.
Link -via Everlasting Blort
Maps for Us is a site where readers can submit maps for Americans who don’t have maps. It doesn’t matter what kind of map. They have a map of the Hundred Acre Wood, a map of the game Clue, a map showing how many deer were hit by cars in Kentucky, and even a map of the Voyager mission! From the “About†page:
From South Africa to Iraq, the world is alarmed at the recent polls that show a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a world map. We personally believe that it a crisis of epic proportions that US Americans are unable to do so, because some people out their in our nation don’t have maps.
And we believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere…like. Such as. And we believe you should donate maps to this cause.
Link -via the Presurfer
PS: I am keeping a list of links inspired by Lauren Upton at Miss C Recommends.
