Cinematic Pumpkin Carvings
Cinematic Pumpkin Carvings
Tomorrow is Halloween. To help celebrate we have collected the 75 best movie related pumpkin carving photos (we could find) on the internet. Check them out below.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Tomorrow is Halloween. To help celebrate we have collected the 75 best movie related pumpkin carving photos (we could find) on the internet. Check them out below.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Awesome Lego creations
75 years ago Lego was created. Since then it's entertained generations of children and adults and inspired creativity in millions all over the world. Check out these awesome creations fans, artists and engineers have made!
click here for all 16 incredible creations'Marijuana is not a drug, it's a leaf,' says Schwarzenegger
Published: 29 October 2007
Already facing enough problems with the wild fires that have swept California, the state's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have stepped into a new row by claiming that marijuana is not a drug. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Hollywood star turned governor of California insisted: "I didn't take any drugs."
The interviewer, former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, put it to the star that he had admitted smoking marijuana in the past. In Pumping Iron, the bodybuilding documentary which launched his career 30 years ago, he was shown taking a drag on a spliff.
"That is not a drug. It's a leaf," said Austrian-born Mr Schwarzenegger, 60. "My drug was pumping iron, trust me," he added.
When George Butler's critically acclaimed 1977 documentary Pumping Iron was re-released in 2002, before Mr Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, he was unconcerned by the scene showing him smoking marijuana, saying – in a pointed reference to former US president Bill Clinton who claimed never to have inhaled: "I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the Seventies, that's what I did. I have never touched it since." Mr Schwarzenegger said that it was not necessarily a matter of public interest whether politicians had taken class-A drugs.He said: "What would you rather have? A politician taking the stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?"
The Republican governor, renowned for his green policies, said Washington had not done enough on the environment. "So we pick up the slack and show the rest of the world America is not just Washington. There are 600 mayors in America who have joined the Kyoto treaty. For us, it is very important that America gets back the great reputation it once had."He said: "I think we have to do everything we can as a country to get out of the Iraq war, and to take a lead on the environment."
Despite his insistence that the US must finish the war in Iraq, Mr Schwarzenegger included Tony Blair in a list of the greatest leaders in history, alongside Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.RED SOX WORLD CHAMPIONS 2007
some interesting facts:
For the second time in four years, the Red Sox are World Series champions. From 1919 to 2003, the Red Sox went 85 years without a title.
• The last two World Series victories by the Red Sox have been via a sweep. In fact, three of the last four World Series champions swept the series.
• Manager Terry Francona has been at the helm for both titles, making him the first manager in baseball history to go 8-0 in his first eight World Series games.
• Francona also becomes the first manager ever to win his first six potential postseason series clinchers.
• Jon Lester, who was making his first playoff start, pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings. He joins Whitey Ford (1950) and Tiny Bonham (1941) as the only pitchers to win the World Series clincher as a starter while making their first postseason start.
• Lester is the fourth pitcher in the last 10 years to pitch at least 5 2/3 scoreless innings and get the win in a World Series clincher.
• During Lester's 11 regular-season starts this season, he had pitched a scoreless outing once -- Sept. 7 at Baltimore, firing seven scoreless innings.
• Lester's win means the Red Sox's starting pitchers won all four games of the World Series. Since divisional play in 1969, only four teams' starting pitchers won all four games of the World Series -- '07 Red Sox, '95 Braves, '89 A's and '69 Mets.
• Jonathan Papelbon recorded a five-out save, the longest save to end a World Series since Jesse Orosco got a six-out save for the 1986 Mets against the Red Sox.
• Mike Lowell hit his first career World Series home run in his 10th game. It was the Red Sox's second home run of the Series. He's only the second Red Sox third baseman to homer in the Series. The other is Larry Gardner who hit three, his last in 1916.
• Aaron Cook, who like Lester was making his first career postseason start, allowed three earned runs in six innings. He was the first Rockies starter to pitch at least six innings in the World Series.
• Cook joins Bob Miller (1950) and Bob Shawkey (1914) as the only pitchers to lose as a starter in the World Series clincher while making his first postseason start.
• Bobby Kielty hits a pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning, which provided some insurance for the Red Sox. He was the first to hit a pinch-hit homer in the World Series since Jason Giambi did so for the Yankees in Game 5 of the 2003 World Series against the Marlins.
• Kielty is also the fourth player to ever hit a pinch-hit home run in his first career World Series at-bat.
• The Red Sox finished with the second-highest batting average (.333) in World Series history. Only the 1960 Yankees (.338) hit better.
• The Rockies were a longshot to win Game 4. Including the Rockies' loss, only 3 of 23 teams down 3-0 in a World Series won the fourth game. None won more than once.
• This was the fourth World Series clincher in the last 10 years to be decided by one run. It's the second straight time a World Series sweep ended with a one-run game as the White Sox beat the Astros 1-0 in 2005.
• Brad Hawpe hit a home run, but he also struck out eight times in the four-game series -- the most strikeouts by a hitter in a four-game series in Series history.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants
By: Midori Nakamura
Plants 1-4 (Plants 5-8)Weird is relative. What seems weird to me might not seem weird to you. In the plant kingdom, however, there are definitely some species that most people would acknowledge are highly unusual. In the wack spirit of Halloween, some of my findings follow.
1. Rafflesia arnoldii: this parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.
2. Hydnora africana, an unusual flesh-colored, parasitic flower that attacks the nearby roots of shrubby in arid deserts of South Africa. The putrid-smelling blossom attracts herds of carrion beetles.
3. Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.
4. Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
American Gangster Leaked Online
Posted on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am by: Peter Sciretta
“For Your Consideration” season has begun. I know this because the first Oscar screener of the season has been leaked online. A week and a half before the official release date, Ridley Scott’s new film American Gangster has been uploaded to the bit torrent networks and has already been illegally downloaded by tens of thousands of people. And that’s just in the first 20 hours online. As I write this, over 10,000 users are currently downloading the video off a popular bit torrent website.
Audiences usually stay way from pirated movies due to the notorious bad quality video camera-taped copies. But with Award Season screeners, the movie quality is as good as a retail DVD release. So what is to stop consumers from downloading this film early? American Gangster is set to hit theaters in he United States on November 2nd, but its release in other world territories happens as late as February of 2008. So while this might not have a huge effect on the box office in the U.S., it is likely to hurt foreign markets hard. And as for the U.S. results, that is debatable. Recently horror director Eli Roth blamed piracy for the lower than expected box office numbers of Hostel: Part II. The workprint for his film was leaked online a week before the movie’s national release.
American Gangster stars Russell Crowe as a detective who is working to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who is smuggling the heroin into the Manhattan in the coffins of soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this film. The movie currently has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 9.0 rating voted by users on the Internet Movie Database.
10 Geeky Wedding Photos
Um...whut?
The centipede is a nice touch
What else says 'I love you' like a blue, feathered border?
"As you wish"
Um...way too far
Arrrrgh
"Thank you very much Mister Roboto"
My eyes! They're burning!
No. No way...this is ridiculous.
Robin wants to know where YOUR costume is.
10 Kick Ass Facts About Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973). Image: Lexinatrix [Flickr]
1. Bruce Lee’s Family Gave Him a Girl’s Name: "Little Phoenix"
Bruce’s family never called him "Bruce." They preferred to call him by his nickname "Sai Fon" or "Little Phoenix." It was a girl’s name, deliberately chosen by his parents because they believed that evil spirits did not like boys in the family (their firstborn was a son who died in infancy). So, by giving Bruce a girl’s name, they believed they could fool the demons into sparing his life!
Actually, "Bruce" was a name given by a nurse at the Jackson Street Hospital, San Francisco, where he was born (Bruce’s father was traveling with an acting troupe at the time). The nurse thought that giving the baby an English name would help avoid any confusion with his American birth certificate (yes, Bruce was an American by birth - he never had any other citizenship).
2. Bruce Lee was Part German
Bruce wasn’t pure Chinese - he was actually part German (his grandfather from his mother’s side was half German).
3. Bruce Lee Never Lost a Fight
Well, actually he lost a fight only once in his life: when he was 13 years old. This loss actually prompted Bruce to learn martial arts from a Wing Chun master named Yip Man. After other students learned that Bruce wasn’t pure Chinese, they refused to let him train in their class. Yip Man had to train him privately. (Image: Portland Kung Fu Club)
4. Bruce Lee was a Bad Student
Academics didn’t interest Bruce in the least. After primary school, Bruce entered La Salle College, an English-speaking boys’ secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong, where he often got into trouble. Bruce was expelled from La Salle for disruptive behavior.
Even after his parents moved him to a different school, Bruce kept on getting into street fights.
5. Bruce Lee was an Excellent Dancer and BoxerActually, Bruce studied dancing as hard as he studied martial arts: he was an excellent dancer who, at 18 years of age, won the 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship! Bruce was also a great boxer: he won the 1958 Boxing Championship - by knockout, of course.
6. Bruce Lee was a Philosophy Major
Bruce wasn’t just all muscle and no brain. He attended the University of Washington, where he majored in philosophy with focus on the philosophical principles of martial art techniques. As you might imagine, Bruce supported himself in college by teaching martial arts. Later, Bruce dropped out of college to open his martial arts school.
7. Want to challenge Bruce Lee? Just tap your foot on the ground!
After he got famous, a lot of people thought they could beat Bruce - they would walk up to him, tap their foot on the ground (symbolizing a challenge) and then proceed to attack him! Well… maybe not that literal, but Bruce’s popularity certainly attracted a lot nutcase trying to prove they’re better than him.
One day, while filming Enter the Dragon, an extra taunted Bruce Lee and challenged him to fight. The whole thing went on like this:
"This kid was good. He was no punk. He was strong and fast, and he was really trying to punch Bruce’s brains in. But Bruce just methodically took him apart."
"I mean Bruce kept moving so well, this kid couldn’t touch him…Then all of a sudden, Bruce got him and rammed his ass into the wall and swept him, he proceeded to drop his knee into his opponent’s chest, locked his arm out straight, and nailed him in the face repeatedly."
Typical of Bruce Lee, after the fight he didn’t fire the extra - he actually gave his challenger lesson on how to improve!
8. Bruce Lee was Strong
In 1964, Bruce was invited to a karate championship in Long Beach, California. There he performed his famous "One Inch Punch," where he would deliver a devastating blow from only an inch away, sending his opponent flying back!
Bob Baker of Stockton, whom Bruce hit, said "I told Bruce not to do this type of demonstration again. When he punched me that last time, I had to stay home from work because the pain in my chest was unbearable."
… and Fast!
Most martial art films are sped up to make fighting scenes appear fast, but not Bruce Lee’s. His moves were too fast to be captured on the regular 24 frames per second film - so they had to film him at 32 fps, and run the film slower so you can see his moves.
9. Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris, who would win?
Here’s a clip of Bruce Lee fighting Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon. You can see how fast Bruce Lee moved … though it’s obvious that Chuck Norris would be immune to the One Inch Punch as his one-inch chest hair would absorb the punch with ease!
And the most bizarre Bruce Lee fact is this:
10. Bruce Lee’s Corpse Acted in his Final Movie!
Bruce Lee was filming Game of Death when he died unexpectedly. So what did the studio do? Well, they rewrote the script so Bruce’s character faked his own death to escape the mafia. Then they took footage from Bruce’s actual funeral - including close-ups shots of the open casket showing his embalmed face - and work that into the movie! (More on this at Neatorama’s post: The Creepiest Movie Ever Made)
Source: Bruce Lee [wikipedia] | Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology: Sijo Bruce Lee | Bruce Lee Foundation: Bruce Lee Bio [PDF]
TIN MAN _ SCIFI
this show looks great!
http://www.scifi.com/tinman/
click on Enter the Infinite Oz, real cool
Bos to Nyc - Bus, Plane, or Train
ake The Bus, Err, LimoLiner
Can A Tortoise Bus Beat The Boston-NYC Shuttle and The Mighty Acela Express?
By Francis Vale
The first thing that showed I wasn't in Kansas anymore was when the cabin attendant got on her cell phone to call a tardy passenger to see if he was coming, and if he was, they would wait a few minutes for him. Our errant passenger was just outside the bus, however, so we were able to push off right on time.
Uhh, did you say "bus"? Yes, a bus. But that's not quite fair as this was no ordinary bus. It was a LimoLiner, a first-class throughout, 28-seat wundervehicle that cossets its passengers in full reclining leather seats that have so much leg room that even a pro basketball player would have no problem stretching out his lanky seven foot frame and wiggling his shoe-challenged toes. I was taking the LimoLiner from downtown Boston to downtown New York to see how it stacked up against its main competition, planes and trains, on the congested Northeast Corridor. The answer follows, and it is surprising.
But first, a little background on this stretch limo on steroids. The LimoLiner (http://www.limoliner.com) is the brainchild of Fergus McCann, who is either visionary or daft, depending upon where you sit, so to speak. If you think that nothing can compete with the regularity of the airplane shuttles, or the blistering Acela Express, then the latter moniker fits.
But if you are a mobile warrior who wants free of charge, high speed mobile Internet access the whole trip; drop down personal viewing screens for watching TV (two channels) and newly released DVD movies; five music channels; seat-side power outlets; crystal clear cell phone reception all the way; conference tables for huddling with your associates en route, and think $69 is a fair price, nay, a bargain, for all these rolling amenities, then McCann is a true visionary.
The Boston leg of my trip began at 6:00AM in front of the Hilton Boston Back Bay hotel, where its very comfortable guest lounge serves as the LimoLiner passenger "terminal." We had a scheduled arrival time of four hours and ten minutes later in downtown NYC at the Hilton New York Hotel on 6th Avenue at 53rd Street. The Acela Express choo-choos into Penn Station in three and a half hours from Boston's South Station, while the airline shuttle will drop you off at La Guardia in about one hour after leaving Boston.
You will, of course, pay a premium for this speed. An Acela Express business class one-way ticket costs $99, and on the Delta Shuttle, coach seating will set you back about $240. However, discount tickets can usually be found for both the Acela Express and the shuttles, but the LimoLiner will always come out cheaper, if only by about twenty dollars or so.
As for the shuttle, the oft quoted one hour travel time is egregiously misleading, as you will have to get to the airport at least an hour before flight time to get frisked, scanned, and barefoot before departure. Moreover, as anyone who has sat and fumed on the tarmac well knows, one hour flight time does not always mean true travel time, especially in bad weather or if there is air traffic congestion. Then there is the half hour or so taxi ride from LGA to downtown NYC, if the traffic gods are smiling on you, that is. Boil it all down, and the shuttle will eat up almost three hours, or maybe more, of your time end to end.
Of course, you can forget about mobile Internet access on the shuttle, as there isn't any. Likewise, you can forget about luxury leather seats and huge stretch out comfort. Cell phone service on the plane will also be problematic. As for seat-side power outlets, you can forget about those, too. And the "intimate" coach seat accommodations on the shuttle make you pray you don't get a 300-pound Samoan who has yet to learn about personal hygiene as your seat-side traveling companion. On the upside, though, this flying discomfort chamber gets you psychologically prepared for handling those snarling NYC taxi drivers.
The Acela Express is a totally different story. Fast, highly comfortable and clean, traveling on this train will always make you smile. The Acela Express cabin attendants are polite and helpful, there is a quiet car to escape from the ring-a-ding cell phone racket, and all the seats have power outlets. However, there is, as of yet, no free mobile Internet access on the Acela Express. If you want to dial home for your e-mail you have to pay to use the on-board phones. There is also no "in-flight" entertainment, so bring a book. The Acela Express also offers something the LimoLiner doesn't—a club car watering hole for soaking your frayed nerves in gin on the return journey.
If you factor in the time its takes to plough through the yellow cab grid-locked traffic from Penn Station to a more central downtown location like the NYC Hilton hotel terminus of the LimoLiner, the total travel time for the Acela Express comes to about four hours. Although, because of the very same NYC traffic, our LimoLiner arrived at the NY Hilton about five minutes late, making the whole trip from Boston in fours and fifteen minutes.
The LimoLiner made only one stop en route to New York, at Framingham, MA, and it was express all the way after that. The LimoLiner was quiet, relaxed, and the cabin attendant was friendly and extremely helpful. She even served as a rolling Help Desk for an Internet challenged passenger who couldn't get his laptop to connect. She succeeded. She also had a supply of extra Ethernet cables on hand for those people who had laptops without a wireless access card. Each seat has an Ethernet port, as well a cup holder and power outlet. She also served a decent continental breakfast of a muffin, yogurt, banana, and coffee, tea, etc.
I was curious how it would be to work on the LimoLiner as reading or working on a rolling vehicle can be cause for blacktop mal de mar. Surprisingly, the quiet LimoLiner ride was rock steady, and it wasn't until we hit a small patch of stop and go traffic while traveling through Connecticut that there was some lurching about. This also brings up the Achilles heel of the LimoLiner when compared to the almost unstoppable Acela Express. The LimoLiner is still a bus, and as such it is at the mercy of traffic jams, roadside accidents and the weather. So even the best-laid LimoLiner schedules can be scrambled if a tractor-trailer accidentally dumps its load of casaba melons all over the highway.
The LimoLiner leaves Boston and New York three times a day, at 6:15AM, 12:15PM, and 6:15PM weekdays, with a late evening bus from NYC to Boston departing at 11:15PM for those who want to carouse a bit in the Apple and sleep it off on the ride home. They also have weekend service, departing from Boston on Saturday's at 8:00 AM, and at 1:00PM from New York. On Sunday, the LimoLiner leaves Boston at 12:00 PM, and from NYC at 5:00PM and 5:30PM. These are OK schedules, but both the Acela and the shuttle beat the LimoLiner hands down for scheduling flexibility.
I took the Acela Express on the return leg from NYC to Boston to see how the LimoLiner stacked up against the train. Surprisingly, the LimoLiner was more comfortable than the Acela Express, which is saying a lot. The LimoLiner has better seats, more stretch out room, and offers true first class passenger accommodations. The bathroom on the LimoLiner also defies all previous bus-induced expectations with its hospital cleanliness and fresh cut flowers.
For overall comfort, amenities and luxury, the LimoLiner is the winner and steams past the Acela Express, and by more than just a nose. As for the shuttle, it wasn't even entered in this comfort race. However, the LimoLiner can't beat the service in the first class car of the Acela Express, but that Acela seat will cost you $149, or $80 more than the one size fits all LimoLiner price of $69. And if you are a worrywart about on-time performance, then the Acela Express beats both the LimoLiner and the shuttles.
So which to choose, LimoLiner, Acela Express, or the shuttle? For the true Road Warrior, at least until the Acela Express and the shuttles get their Internet act together, the LimoLiner is the clear champion. There is also a semi-private back section in the LimoLiner with two tables that is perfect for a group of up to ten business people to have a meeting along the way.
For those who are willing to plan ahead and can accept the possibility of a delay—if you are a shuttle traveler such delays are a standard part of your anxiety routine already — then for the moment at least, the $69 LimoLiner is the new crown champion for moving Mobile Warriors in high style back and forth from Boston to New York. And even if you don't carry a laptop, it's still pretty cool.
Copyright 2004, Francis Vale, All Rights Reserved
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Man levitates outside the White House
By staff writers
October 23, 2007
Up there ... Ramana levitates in front of the White House / Reuters
01:23pm
The illusionist, real name Wouter Bijdendijk, hovered several feet above the pavement with apparent ease. His only "prop" was a stick that he held with his left hand.
The illusionist, real name Wouter Bijdendijk, hovered several feet above the pavement with apparent ease. His only "prop" was a stick that he held with his left hand.
Watch a video of Ramana levitating and talking outside the White House here.
A household name in his native Netherlands, Ramana has performed for Queen Beatrix and has been honoured in India with the Golden Cloth award, the highest cultural honour ever given to a westerner, metro.co.uk reported.
"This is an art," he said.
"And in India, they see it also as a science. I hope I make people wonder," Ramana said.
Ramana's repertoire also includes "flying" up to 10 metres above ground, mind reading and other forms of Indian street trickery.
10 of The World’s Most Unique Restrooms: Understanding the New Toilet Culture
Next to eating, drinking and sleeping, going to the restroom is something that we all do quite frequently. Most of the time, we tend to forget that the design of a restroom, especially public bathrooms, have an impact on the individual and on society as a whole. Come witness a worldwide initiative designed to educate society and to improve the designs and structures of public restrooms.
In shaping a good toilet culture among today's society, there are initiatives underway to improve the design and structure of public restrooms.
THE JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER RESTROOM, USA
The Kohler art centre houses arts exhibits in Sheboygan, WI, USA. The Kohler fund sponsored six artists to design artwork using the facilities and sources from Kohler- a company that sells bathrooms and accessories. One of the restroom units entitled "The Social History of Architecture" features the development of architecture from ancient Egypt until the current time. One restroom unit features "The Many Uses of Water" using beautiful ceramics in blue colours. SOCCER BALL SHAPED RESTROOM, KOREA
In 2002, both South Korea and Japan became the hosts for the football World Cup finals. A former Korean mayor came up with the idea of having soccer ball shaped restrooms around the football stadium as part of a campaign to develop clean and comfortable public restrooms in Korea during the big event.
“POP UP” RESTROOM, UK
This is actually a “pop-up” urinal for use during the nighttime. The durable, cylindrical stainless steel urinal, which is called the Urilift will be lowered into the ground during the day or when it is not needed. Healthmatic, a Wiltshire, UK based company has been given rights to distribute the Urilift in the UK. The Urilift can be used by 3 persons simultaneously.
SEMI-TRANSPARENT TOILET, UK
This public toilet was built in front of London's Tate Britain Gallery as an art exhibit by an Italian born artist. What is special about this restroom is that it is made up of semi-transparent glass. The "visitors" of the public toilet (who need to defy their own fear and embarrassment) can see through the one-way mirrored glass but passers-by can't see the person inside the restroom.
THE “TOILET BAR” RESTROOM, AUSTRIA
The "toilet bar" of Vienna is actually a public restroom situated in an underpass near the Austria National Opera. The restroom features several units of urinals shaped like thick lipsticked lips with teeth and a tongue. Patrons were charged 75 cents for each visit. Eventually, the urinals were removed after facing public and political pressures as they were said to be offensive and sexist objects.
WORLD'S LARGEST RESTROOM, CHINA
Quite recently in July 2007, a Southwestern Chinese city in Chongqing opened up a free of charge, four-story public restroom. There are more than 1,000 toilets in this 30,000 square foot restroom. It features an Egyptian-themed interior with soothing music playing in the background. Some of the urinals are uniquely shaped, including crocodile's mouths and busts of women. The government officials in Chongqing are currently preparing to submit an application to list this facility as the world's largest public restroom in the Guinness World Records.3-D GOLDSTORE, HONG KONG RESTROOM, CHINA
The gold store owner in Hong Kong was inspired by Lenin's vision of building public restrooms made of gold. Everything in the restroom including the toilet, sink, tiles and doors are all made of solid gold.
THE CHAMBER POT GALLERY RESTROOM, USA
The Chamber Pot gallery is a public restroom located in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA. What's special about this restroom is that it acts as a showcase for art works by local artists. The paintings will hang for a year in the restroom and there is a log book in the office that highlights the artists and their art work as well as contact information.
SINGAPORE ZOO RESTROOM, SINGAPORE
This spacious and airy restroom has won many awards locally and internationally for its cleanliness and practical design. A big section of the restrooms are located outdoors, resembling a beautiful garden.
THE JUNGLE JIM'S RESTROOM, USA
The Jungle Jim's restroom is located in the Jungle Jim's International Market in Ohio, USA. The Jungle Jim's is actually a shopping initiative which provides all sorts of products from international cuisines to pet supplies. The entrance to the restroom is rather unique, as it looks like "port-o-lets" or "porta-potties" and may confuse new customers. The walls inside are decorated and the restroom units are spacious and clean.
Neutron Beams Search for Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece
FLORENCE, Italy -- Art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini has waited 30 years to get to the bottom of his biggest mystery yet: whether Leonardo da Vinci's greatest lost fresco lies behind a wall in the Palazzo Vecchio here.
Seracini's team of 30 will scan the palazzo's 177-foot-long wall in mid-November, looking for the Battle of Anghiari, a work so magnificent it has been called the "school of the world." The $1.5 million search expedition will jump-start a multidisciplinary conservation program at the University of California at San Diego's Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology.
Since founding the art- and architectural-diagnostic center Editech in 1977, Seracini -- a fourth-generation Florentine -- has synced studies in engineering, art history and medicine to examine more than 2,000 buildings and artworks. He augments standard archival work with the use of ultrasound, X-rays, infrared, thermography and ultraviolet devices.
Editech's notable discoveries include the original positions of the Three Graces in Botticelli's Allegory of Spring and the hasty cover-up by a lesser hand of Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi, which earned Seracini a mention as the only real-life character in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
Wired News caught up with Seracini at his office. From behind a no-nonsense desk in a historic palazzo with high ceilings ribboned with frescoes, he talked about the relationship between technology and art.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Chismillionare's Fund
Capture The Luxury Market With The ChisMillionaire's ETF
posted on: October 22, 2007 | about stocks: ROB
Before investors jump to the conclusion that consumer spending is falling off a cliff, check out the data from a study of global wealth by Boston Consulting Group as described by Maya Roney in Business Week. Below are some highlights as well as an exchange-traded fund to take advantage of this explosion of wealth.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Rainbow Dew
UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. — So, here’s a larger version without the text. Should work fine for wallpaper if you center and/or crop it.
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