It started out as a silly Halloween weekend in Vegas, and ended up being an Internet legend: the In-N-Out 100x100 burger.
It started innocently enough with a Halloween weekend in Vegas (2004). What started as a drunken, silly weekend..became quite legendary.
Throughout the weekend, Andy kept on saying: "We should go get a 100x100 at In-N-Out". Over..and over...and over again. Until we finally broke. So on Halloween night, we went to go chowdown.
Lower Hudson Valley Paper Model Giftshop has free, downloadable science fiction paper models. http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/gallery_models_scifi.html (via Fawn Jotters)
FMS Advanced Systems Group's uses its flash-based Network Navigator tool to visualize the relationship between entities in a database (in this case, of terrorists). http://www.trackingthethreat.com/flash/nav.jsp (via WFMU blog)
From a 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics, here's how to make your own iron, er wooden lung:
INTENDED only for emergency use until a commercial respirator could be obtained, this “wooden lung” was designed by engineers and built by a volunteer group under the supervision of Dr. Gerald M. Cline, Dr. Homer O. Dolley, and Sister Celine of the medical staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bloomington, Illinois. On completion, the unit was put into immediate use in emergency treatment of eight-year-old Rudy Landheer, a victim of polio in the epidemic of 1949. The original unit did emergency service for 12 hours until a conventional iron lung could be obtained.
Kanjana Ketkaew, 36, left, holds and is covered with scopions next to her 29-year-old fiance Bunthawee Sengwong. Kanjana holds a world record for staying in a plastic cage with 3,400 scorpions for 32 days. Her husband-to-be holds a world record for staying in a cage with 1,000 centipedes for 29 days. The couple will get married on Valentine's Day.
Rep. Blake Oshiro of Hawaii was shocked - shocked! - to find out that the humuhumunukunukuapuaa or humuhumu for short, is no longer the official state fish.
In 1984 the state Legislature asked the University of Hawaii and the Waikiki Aquarium to survey the public and come up with a candidate for the state fish. The humuhumu was swept into the spot in part through the support of school children who learned of the campaign through classroom projects.
Although the issue of the state fish would seem to come with little controversy, the method used to poll the public was questioned and lawmakers limited the designation to five years.
No one told the public that the humuhumu's reign was over, so few knew anything had changed.
Bolivian President Evo Morales sparked an "Evo Fashion" trend with his signature red, white, and blue striped alpaca sweater. The sweater is all the rage on the Net, says Reuters.
Evo made more news today when he cut his salary (and his Cabinet ministers', too) in half and gave the savings for public school teachers, says CNN
Jessica Flack, David Krakauer of the Santa Fe Institute and colleagues discovered that monkey has a complex "voting" system to appoint monkey cops to police their group.
Once elected, police monkeys earn certain rights and responsibilities, one of which is to peacefully settles conflicts. They usually do this by stepping between combatants or chasing bad monkeys away. Very rarely do they need to dish out a whooping, but their actions are always respected by the group.
When Krakauer and his colleagues removed the police force—which in this case consisted of three males, but can also include females—they saw a drastic change in a once peaceful, interactive society.
Flying snakes are a small group of species of tree snakes that live in South and Southeast Asia. At rest they appear unremarkable, but on the move they're able to take to the air by jumping from the tree, flattening the entire body, and gliding or parachuting to the ground or another tree.
Mary Woodbridge and her dog Daisy are training - intensely! - to climb Mt. Everest. She said:
I think, one constantly has to set himself new challenges. So despite my age of 85 years I’m sure, that Daisy (my lovely little Dachshund) and I can make it to the top of Mount Everest. We both go for a walk every day and keep ourselfs very fit!
Attagirl, Mary - good luck and don't forget to wear warm clothes! Link (Thanks Urs Müller)
