Andy and Lisa Pull want to get on the TV reality show The Amazing Race. I mean, really want to be on the show that they created an online petition drive!
Normally, to get on the show, you have to create a 3 minute audition video, fill out an application, and sit through a few interviews. (aka, you gotta be really interesting) We've done the video/application part, but we don't want to leave the rest of it up to the TV gurus. So we're starting a petition, because if we can get enough fans, CBS won't be able to resist. But we've gotta hurry.
http://www.gopulls.com/index.html (Good luck Andy! We're pulling *pun intended* for you!)
Bnjmn™ Gaulon (yes - that's how he spelled his name), Géraud de Bizien, and Karl Klomp of art group De Ponk made this ink jet printer from a paintball gun.
Checkout Printball Printer's cool writeup in Wired:
Straying away from spray cans and markers, De Ponk throws up graffiti with a paintball rifle modded into a point-and-shoot brush. The gun is mounted on a pan-and-tilt unit that's controlled remotely by a laptop. Software analyzes a digital image and creates a set of coordinates that the device uses to aim and fire ink bullets at three shots per second, essentially turning the paintball gun into a large-scale inkjet printer. De Ponk named the machine PrintBall. Its designs - words, smiley faces, shapes - are primitive. But the co-op hopes to try four-color printing using cyan, yellow, magenta, and black pellets, and eventually wants to take its graffiti bot to the streets.
Soccer parents booked a hotel for Disney's Soccer Showcase and were shocked to find out that the hotel was also hosting an adult swingers New Year's Party at the same time.
The families said the sexually adventurous partygoers sometimes flashed breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children as they sashayed through the hotel atrium. The parents described the dress at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."
"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing," said Rob Young, of Greenville, S.C. "There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."
Ruby Cintron was watching a New Year's Eve fireworks when a stray .45-caliber bullet - shot by someone who fired into the sky to ring in the new year - struct her in the eye.
Neighbors heard several gun shots fired in the area after midnight.
"A lot of loudness and a lot of shooting, repeatedly, like semi automatics," neighbor Ray Beecham said.
Concerned Women for America or CWA, a conservative Christian group, is accusing Barbie of being part of a transgender movement. From the website:
The iconic Barbie Doll has become another tool for promoting gender confusion among children. On the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, there is a poll that asks children their age and sex. The age choices are 4-8, but as Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, notes children are given three options for their choice of gender.
Link to news story | CWA's website (with screenshot of the webpage in question)
The painted wooden effigy of a tiger mauling a British soldier was made for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore in India at the end of the 18th century. It contains a miniature organ which ingeniously simulates the tiger roars as well as the groans of the victim. It may have been inspired by the gruesome fate that befell the son of an old adversary, General Sir Hector Munro.
http://www.vandashop.com/product.php?xProd=188&s=1 (via Paper Forest)
This mysterious mongrel has called the 5,000-acre contaminated expanse of the Berkeley Pit federal Superfund site, combined with Montana Resources' active mine permit area, its home since 1986. Ironically, its only help in surviving has come from the compassion of miners.
"He really is a neat dog,'' says MR Operations President Steve Walsh.
The Auditor, who got his name by always showing up "when you least expected it,'' has served as the open pit copper mine's de facto mascot since its employees befriended the stray nearly 16 years ago. Numerous snap shots of him are proudly placed alongside ore samples and awards plaques in the main office's glass display case.
"This awesome picture was taken in Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000. The photographer, John McColgan, is a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska. He took the picture with a digital camera. Because he was working at the time he took the picture he cannot profit from it; however, we feel the picture is a once-in-a-lifetime shot and should be shared."
What did this man do to get rescued by helicopter? Here's the story:
Thomas J. Bruno allegedly agreed to pay a male prostitute to have sex with him near a wastewater treatment plant off Wolfe Neck Road. But the two, who had met in a bar earlier that night, got into an argument and the sex act never took place, he told police.
Bruno got lost while trying to leave the area, so he called 911 with his cell phone about 4 a.m. ... At the time he lost contact, he reportedly had lost his shoes in mud.
When troopers found him nearly four hours later, he was stuck in mud up to his waist. Police used night-vision goggles to locate his vehicle, then followed his footprints about two miles to where he was stuck.
