Punctuation Hero or Vandalizing Grammar Nazi?

Posted by Queuebot in Book & Lit, Odd News on August 23, 2009 at 3:44 am

Stefan Gatward has been wrestling with inner turmoil ever since the Birmingham city council began removing the apostrophes from the city’s signs this January.

Finally, his frustration was too much to bear, and Stefan took it upon himself to fix the signs. But he didn’t stop there …

He will not join the ‘five items or less’ queue at the supermarket, in protest that the sign should read ‘five items or fewer’.

He also gets annoyed when people-neglect the ‘Royal’ in ‘Royal Tunbridge Wells’, and was vexed when he saw a major chain store advertising sales with signs saying ‘until stocks last’ rather than ‘while stocks last’.

‘I fought for the preservation of our heritage and our language but some people seem happy to let that go. I’m not,’ he said.

Link – via tywkiwdbi

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Andrew Krasnow's Gruesome Human Skin Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on May 26, 2009 at 12:19 pm

The Nazis at Buchenwald concentration camp did it. And so did serial killer Ed Gein. Now, Andrew Krasnow is making sculptures and lampshades out of human skin, all in the name of art:

His works include human skin lampshades – a direct response to the belief that similar items made from the skin of Holocaust victims were found at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Using skins from white men who donated their bodies to medical science, he has created freak versions of mundane items including flags, boots and maps of America – in effect using skin like leather. His work, he says, is a commentary on human cruelty and America’s ethics and morality. [...]

Gallery owner Robert Devcic said Krasnow uses only white skin because much of the suffering in the Americas has been caused by white people. "He uses skin to make the point that suffering is universal," he said. "It is tanned using the same process that you’d use for an animal skin."

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Mengele Responsible for a Bazillion Brazilian Twins

Posted by Miss Cellania in Book & Lit, Medicine on January 22, 2009 at 11:22 am

In a new book, an Argentine historian asserts that Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele is responsible for the astonishing rate of twins in Candido Godoi, Brazil. Jorge Camarasa makes the claim that Mengele ministered to both humans and livestock of the town during the 1960s under the name Rudolph Weiss in the book Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America.

For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them blond haired and blue eyed.

But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering medical treatment to the women of the town.

The normal rate of twin births is one out of every 80 pregnancies. Link -via Reddit

 
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Sooner or Later: The Nazi Time Traveler

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on December 8, 2008 at 2:22 am

Sooner or Later is a Hungarian short film by István Madarász about a prisoner who volunteered for a daring experiment in the last days of World War II.

See what happened when Nazi scientists discovered a way to let a subject travel through time.

You won’t guess the ending: Link [embedded Flash video clip, 11 min.]

 
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