For a gold in hockey.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Lasers lift dirt of ages from artworks
Physicists have applied the same laser techniques commonly used for tattoo removal to clean several famous works of art, including wall paintings.
Laser cleaning is well established for stone and metal artefacts already.
It has now been successfully applied to the wall paintings of the Sagrestia Vecchia and the Cappella del Manto in Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy.
The results are described in the journal of the American Chemical Society.
Read more here.
Laser cleaning is well established for stone and metal artefacts already.
It has now been successfully applied to the wall paintings of the Sagrestia Vecchia and the Cappella del Manto in Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy.
The results are described in the journal of the American Chemical Society.
Read more here.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой
Оригинальный клип. Исполняет Эдуард Хиль.
This is your life transforming experience of the day
Men with tiny dicks everywhere lament: Hummer brand shutting down
It has achieved notoriety as the mother of all petrol-guzzlers, first developed for the US military, then taken up by celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger before he renounced it on environmental grounds. But the Hummer has run out of road.
General Motors, the struggling car company, announced that it will wind down production of its Hummer SUV line after a deal to sell the brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through.
Read more here.
General Motors, the struggling car company, announced that it will wind down production of its Hummer SUV line after a deal to sell the brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through.
Read more here.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Scummy Bible thumbing "Miss Beverly Hills" exposed as fraud
Guess she thought the whole "Thou shalt not bare false witness" thing didn't apply to her.
Lauren Ashley, a Miss California USA contestant and outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, claims Beverly Hills as the city she represents. Beverly Hills lays no claim to her whatsoever.
Quite the opposite. In a statement Wednesday, the city said it was shocked by Ashley's description of herself as "Miss Beverly Hills." The city "does not sponsor a beauty pageant and has no association with Miss California USA," the statement said. "As such, there should be no individual claiming the title of Miss Beverly Hills."
The city's statement said Ashley lives in Pasadena and "does not represent Beverly Hills in any capacity."
Ashley, 23, has been quoted extensively as saying same-sex marriage goes against God. She recently told news organizations that "in Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white."
Read more here.
Lauren Ashley, a Miss California USA contestant and outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, claims Beverly Hills as the city she represents. Beverly Hills lays no claim to her whatsoever.
Quite the opposite. In a statement Wednesday, the city said it was shocked by Ashley's description of herself as "Miss Beverly Hills." The city "does not sponsor a beauty pageant and has no association with Miss California USA," the statement said. "As such, there should be no individual claiming the title of Miss Beverly Hills."
The city's statement said Ashley lives in Pasadena and "does not represent Beverly Hills in any capacity."
Ashley, 23, has been quoted extensively as saying same-sex marriage goes against God. She recently told news organizations that "in Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white."
Read more here.
Prudish Apple shovels bullshit
Bullshit statement of the week: “The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,”
Apple last week began banning iPhone apps containing “overtly sexual content.” But on Monday the company said it intends to leave apps from major publishers, such as Playboy and Sports Illustrated, untouched.
Read more here.
Apple last week began banning iPhone apps containing “overtly sexual content.” But on Monday the company said it intends to leave apps from major publishers, such as Playboy and Sports Illustrated, untouched.
Read more here.
Hero: David Benke
Deer Creek Middle School math teacher David Benke was doing parking lot duty as school was letting out when he heard what he thought were firecrackers.
It was the sound of gunfire.
Benke, a 57-year-old teacher who has been at the school for a decade and whom students call "Dr. Benke," walked toward the sound and saw a man stooped over a rifle filling the chamber with another round.
"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab him before he got a second shot off," Benke said from his home in Littleton. "I grabbed him, and I think he dropped the gun. Basically we danced around."
Read more here.
It was the sound of gunfire.
Benke, a 57-year-old teacher who has been at the school for a decade and whom students call "Dr. Benke," walked toward the sound and saw a man stooped over a rifle filling the chamber with another round.
"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab him before he got a second shot off," Benke said from his home in Littleton. "I grabbed him, and I think he dropped the gun. Basically we danced around."
Read more here.
Abbey Road studios given listed building status
London's Abbey Road studios, where The Beatles recorded many albums, has been made a listed building, protecting it from plans to radically alter it...
...It means any future owners must be careful to make sure the character of the property is treated with respect, but it does not prohibit internal changes.
Read more here.
...It means any future owners must be careful to make sure the character of the property is treated with respect, but it does not prohibit internal changes.
Read more here.
The writing on the cave wall
Until now, the accepted view has been that our ancestors underwent a "creative explosion" around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, when they suddenly began to think abstractly and create rock art. This idea is supported by the plethora of stunning cave paintings, like those at Chauvet, which started to proliferate across Europe around this time. Writing, on the other hand, appeared to come much later, with the earliest records of a pictographic writing system dating back to just 5000 years ago.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Details Magazine: Attack of the Clones
Details has an article highlighting the "Next Generation of Hollywood's Leading Men"
You will never seen a more lily white collection. Bet you can't tell them apart...
Read more here.
You will never seen a more lily white collection. Bet you can't tell them apart...
Read more here.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
U.S. Justice Department ok with torture
On Friday, the Justice Department released a long-awaited watchdog report on the Bush administration legal team that authorized the now-infamous torture memos. And in a move destined to anger critics of the past administration's conduct, the career official in charge of the investigation overruled a previous finding of misconduct -- exonerating the lawyers under examination.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Morally Bankrupt Americans: Mark Theissen
So torture is ok with Catholic doctorine now. These people really want to drag us back, don't they.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Cabiria
While researching silent film for a project I'm working on, I came across the Italian classic, 1914's Cabiria. I am embarrassed to admit I'd not heard of it let alone seen it.
Most of it is up on Youtube, and it worth the watch, if only because this film invented the tracking shot (a sample of which can be seen beginning at about 1:40), and for a sequence that makes "Temple of Doom" look like a picnic (beginning at about 20:15).
Bronze Age shipwreck found off Devon coast
The trading vessel was carrying an extremely valuable cargo of tin and hundreds of copper ingots from the Continent when it sank.
Experts say the "incredibly exciting" discovery provides new evidence about the extent and sophistication of Britain's links with Europe in the Bronze Age as well as the remarkable seafaring abilities of the people during the period.
Archaeologists have described the vessel, which is thought to date back to around 900BC, as being a "bulk carrier" of its age.
Read more here.
Experts say the "incredibly exciting" discovery provides new evidence about the extent and sophistication of Britain's links with Europe in the Bronze Age as well as the remarkable seafaring abilities of the people during the period.
Archaeologists have described the vessel, which is thought to date back to around 900BC, as being a "bulk carrier" of its age.
Read more here.
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