theweaselking | Jun. 27th, 2005

Jun. 27th, 2005

Bach Bach Revolution!

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But first, a continuation of last week:

And now:

Photographed by Doug Harper

The details are kind of hard to see on this version - but the hamsters have a "please do not tap on the glass" sign, and that hose is dropping out the feathers and all the other bits of duck that the machine doesn't use.

And the floating guy is wearing bunny slippers. Pink, fuzzy bunny slippers.

Oh, and since I got the artist a new scanner, RSI is back

Signed Copy of Timmy Kat, for sale by authors. Buy! Buy and give to meeeee!

Why Crunch Time Does Not Work: something to print out and give to idiot bosses everywhere, courtesy of

cerebrate

Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. Three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

More here

The Scientology Questions: Things you get strapped into a lie detector and asked if you want to be clear of those pesky Thetans.

Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains. They said the foetus would have become the boy's twin had it grown normally in their mother's womb. They said it was a case of an extremely rare condition where two foetuses are conceived as conjoined twins, but one absorbs the other.

"After the operation we found a dead foetus weighing two kilograms (4.5lbs) in his abdomen," Doctor MA Mazid said, the AFP news agency reports. "Apart from the head, all other limbs of the baby were developed." The condition is known as "foetus in foeto", or inclusion twin.

"In this case the foetus of the baby entered into the foetus of the boy and continued to grow like a tumour in the boy's abdomen," gynaecology specialists Nurun Nahar said.

Hundreds of curious locals flocked to the hospital on hearing a rumour that a boy had given birth to a baby.

US Supreme Court rules that file-sharing services can be sued if they "encourage" illegal file-swapping. Also rules that cable companies are not required to let other ISPs have access to the high-speed network, since the availability of dialup means that having one company only for high-speed access doesn't constitute a monopoly.

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) on Why Iraq Sucks

More than 200 Nebraska American Legion members, who have seen war and conflict themselves, fell quiet here Saturday as Sen. Chuck Hagel bluntly explained why he believes that the United States is losing the war in Iraq.

It took 20 minutes, but it boiled down to this:

The Bush team sent in too few troops to fight the war leading to today's chaos and rising deaths of Americans and Iraqis. Terrorists are "pouring in" to Iraq.

Basic living standards are worse than a year ago in Iraq. Civil war is perilously close to erupting there. Allies aren't helping much. The American public is losing its trust in President Bush's handling of the conflict.

And Hagel's deep fear is that it will all plunge into another Vietnam debacle, prompting Congress to force another abrupt pullout as it did in 1975.

"What we don't want to happen is for this to end up another Vietnam," Hagel told the legionnaires, "because the consequences would be catastrophic."

It would be far worse than Vietnam, says Hagel, a twice-wounded veteran of that conflict, which killed 58,000 Americans.
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Another one:
Bush's Credibility Takes a Direct Hit From Friendly Fire

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who supported the decision to go to war in Iraq, complained that the White House was "completely disconnected from reality." Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), another supporter of the war, charged that Bush had opened not just a credibility gap, but a "credibility chasm."

That's right, you BUILD MORE PRISONS!

US Supreme Court rules that governments have no duty to protect people from violence just because they've gotten a restraining order on the person doing the violence.

The Top Ten Unbreakable Sports Records

Robin Hobb, like all right-thinking persons, hates fanfic.

Jeff Vogel's book has hit the bookstores.

You should buy one.

I need to buy two, one for me and one to send to my sister and her husband, who are expecting. SUCKERS!

If you don't believe me, read the excerpts. The whole thing used to be available online, but then he sold it.