Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-30-2009

The Kadir-Buxton Method

The Kadir-Buxton Method is done by making a fist of both hands, and striking both ears of the patient at exactly the same time and pressure with the soft part of the inner hand which is where the thumb joins the hand.

(tags: psychoceramics medicine failure psychiatry crikey ha)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-29-2009

Make: Online : CandyFab 6000

3D candy printer.

(tags: candy food fab yes)
App For That

no matter how many times you reload there is always an app for that

(tags: generators iphone ha)
Sushi Carpets – Designer Carpets with fish

Carpets of sushi. Sushi carpets.

(tags: art furnishings decoration food sushi carpets rugs)
LRB -John Lanchester: It’s Finished

John Lanchester on the British side of the Great Financial Collapse

(tags: economics finance banking crash financialcrash failure commerce villainy via:acblicious)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-28-2009

Transgenic glowing marmosets

This composite photo, provided by Nature magazine, shows newborn transgenic marmoset Kei, left, and Kou. Insets show their feet under ultraviolet light. Under UV light the skin on the soles of the feet glow green.

(tags: zoology animals genetics photos yow yikes madscience)
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can’t be read – life – 27 May 2009 – New Scientist

unsolved and semi-solved mysteries of ancient writing

(tags: language history writing linguistics archaeology)
Confessions of a Non Serial Killer – Michael O’Hare

Wingnut pursues area man for years insisting he’s the Zodiac Killer

(tags: via:vaguery psychoceramics conspiracy murder stalking)
Scythe Supply – Scythe blades, snaths, equipment

I think we just happened upon a luxury scythe store on the Internet. Wow.

(tags: tools toys fetechampetre scythe gardening luxury)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-27-2009

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | South Korea’s abandoned airports

what if you built an airport and nobody came? via bruce sterling

(tags: airport failure urbanplanning korea brandnewfailures brasilia)

Joliet Prison and 99 years

Allowing a simple majority to restrict the rights of a minority is un-American. Allowing that vote to amend the Constitution of the state permanently is nauseating. What a terrible day for California.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-26-2009

Does My Metro Area Look Big in this Ring Road? Â« Strange Maps

The map layers the peripheral highways of 27 of the world’s larger cities onto a poster, designed by the Rice School of Architecture in Houston, TX. That location is no coincidence, because the poster highlights a record for Houston: it has the largest ring road in the world (or at least the largest of all the world cities surveyed).

(tags: maps geo cities visualization roads)

PRECAUTIONS AND INFORMATION

Just because end tables are not visibly present DOES NOT mean that an area is safe to swim. In fact, end tables that view humans as prey usually hide at the first sign of humans (i.e. a car parking or footsteps.)
A 6 meter end table can lie completely invisible in less than a foot of muddy water.
Most attacks by large end tables are over within a few seconds or less.
End tables become more aggressive during the mating season.
End tables can move very fast over short distances on land.
End tables won’t hunt their prey on land over a distance longer then a couple of feet. They don’t have a high stamina and don’t want to waste energy. If you can escape their first strike and run a couple of meters, you are usually safe.
End tables are adept at learning and memorizing routines, such as the location of nearby campers or the routes of travelers.
In water, end tables tend to drag their prey under and drown them.
End tables can slow their metabolism to such an extent that a tree with an intruder hiding in its branches may be guarded continuously for several weeks, without breaks for food.
End tables have strong muscles for closing their jaws and holding them shut, but weak muscles for opening them.
There is a sensitive flap in a end table’s throat, known as the glottis, which they use for breathing. As a result, as with some other predators, forcing the arm into the throat may encourage release, although this is not certain by any means and may instead lead to the arm being severed.
Sometimes, an attacking end table will bite, hold on, and then rapidly spin its body to weaken its prey or tear off limbs (the ‘death roll’).
When end tables see prey, they will duck under the water and when they reach their target, jump out and bite.

Goodbye and Thanks For All the Photos

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }