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Have you tried wearing this?

Just goes to show you that our Bill of Rights is worth about as much as this.

(Yeah, we're not much different in that from anywhere else; just in what's censored.)

Sounds ideal to me, why not harvest it and burn it again?

I don't know, a cogeneration power plant could burn the methane and boost power. In a sense that's something that puzzles me about oil companies, drilling, and pumping. Those flares at oil pumps are burning methane, when it could be used to generate power.

The problem is is greenhouse gases would still be being pumped into the atmosphere.

Falcon

Haha! Actually, I guess I was looking at this picture after newsvine bought it.

All in all, we can say newsvine pretty much sucks. They cheaply ripped off the story over at helium, slapped a picture on it without even looking at it, and got some good slashvertisement ;P

HUH?!?!

It was *seriously* showing a right hand on the right hand side of the keyboard... I didn't believe they'd make a mistake like that and checked it, hold my hand up etc... :P It's the same picture but reversed... The arm also was on the left side of the picture while it's on the right side now... I guess someone saw it and told them...

Look at the picture, there's a long key on the side you're looking at... that's the enter key on the *right* side of a keyboard!

Also look at the shade between the keys, a few keys from the side of the keyboard. It is caused by some extra space between the keys. If you look at the distance from that shade to the side of the keyboard, you'll see it's all the same for the top row (supposedly the function keys), the second and third row... Further down, the finger makes it hard to see more. Anyways, for as far as we can see, the shade runs down in a straight line.

Now look at the left side of your (any!) keyboard, and at the right side of your keyboard, and decide where you could see straight lines like those...

It could have been a keyboard like this The left side of such a keyboard will always resemble something like this... but with all the thousands of photos of keyboards you can find on that side... you won't find *one* matching the one in the picture currently at newsvine, unless you reverse it ;)

Sooo funny :P

HUH?!?!

It was *seriously* showing a right hand on the right hand side of the keyboard... I didn't believe they'd make a mistake like that and checked it, hold my hand up etc... :P It's the same picture but reversed... The arm also was on the left side of the picture while it's on the right side now... I guess someone saw it and told them...

Look at the picture, there's a long key on the side you're looking at... that's the enter key on the *right* side of a keyboard!

Also look at the shade between the keys, a few keys from the side of the keyboard. It is caused by some extra space between the keys. If you look at the distance from that shade to the side of the keyboard, you'll see it's all the same for the top row (supposedly the function keys), the second and third row... Further down, the finger makes it hard to see more. Anyways, for as far as we can see, the shade runs down in a straight line.

Now look at the left side of your (any!) keyboard, and at the right side of your keyboard, and decide where you could see straight lines like those...

It could have been a keyboard like this The left side of such a keyboard will always resemble something like this... but with all the thousands of photos of keyboards you can find on that side... you won't find *one* matching the one in the picture currently at newsvine, unless you reverse it ;)

Sooo funny :P

That is part of why I doubt it, especially since we are talking about mammals & not amphibians, so they don't have "equivelant" stages

Way off. Embryology is very heavily conserved, such that while there are clear differences, there are also clear similarities. An egg gets fertilized to make a one cell stage, cell division makes a hollow space called the blastula stage, the part that becomes the embryo is one cell layer thick. A pocket forms that becomes the gut, that's the gastrula stage. The part of the embryo that becomes the central nervous system makes a tube, that's the neurula stage.

After that point, things start to diverge more, but up until that point the two do have the same stages.

Here are some pictures of blastulas.

http://www.bootstrike.com/Genetics/StemCells/images/human_blastocyst.jpg

http://porpax.bio.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/devel/human_blastula_removed.gif

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/PDS/PDS139/microscopic-image-frog_~AA003891.jpg

http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/electron/frog_blastula_composite_image_x350.gif

As you can see, quite similar. There are certainly equivalent stages.

Here's a wiki page on "embryo" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo) Notice it says just "animals," many places and doesn't specify which species? It's not laziness.

Maybe you should take his class?

Once again, another BS color image from Mars. Anyone who cares to, do this: Open the image in Gimp or Photoshop. Look at the per-channel histograms. You will see that someone compressed the Blue and Green channels before posting the image.

You must be one of those people who believe the moon landings were faked.
Take a look at this image in the Gimp.
OMG, someone squeezed the blue all the way out!!!

Hint: Mars really is red, and being almost entirely desert with plenty of wind, there will be red dust in the air.

One of these:

http://www.fotosearch.com/UNT246/u14463932/

Sea Green. http://www.fotosearch.com/thumb/BDX/BDX311/bxp5607 0.jpg

The high school will use an "education competency wheel," patterned after a set of desirable traits Microsoft encourages among its employees.

Yeah, like this But seriously folks, people with disabilities may not be able to use your website if it relies too much on Javascript.

Libertarian sign? Yeah, they do have one.

Here it is!

it's a freaking pain in the b-hind reading scuttlemonkeys items when he insists on linking every second f'ing word. do you want people to be able to read your blurtings or not? people writing like you are a curse on the internet that spells REALLY BAD AND ANNOYING NAVIGATION.

that harmless rant aside, nice stuff!

You can request that your home power be supplied by wind too. There's a slight premium, but it isn't too bad. I couldn't actually find a number for the percentage of Alberta's electricity that's supplied by wind -- it was about 2% in 1996 but it's grown quite a bit since then. That's in Alberta, the province that became Canada's richest because we have oil.

As for windmills being ugly:

http://www.fotosearch.com/DSN008/1776641/

No, but rumor has it they found a rich vein of copper...right under the surface. :(

I've got friends who swear by those pads they use in diners to take your order. Alternatively, I think this guy can point you in the right direction.

I don't care if my landline is tied up most of the time, I have a cellphone finally (just got my first a few months back)

Ya, from what I've heard about this paper stuff, although these are just rumours, as I have never actually seen any, it is nearly indestructible! -- humm

I don't know about you but I have never meet an 11 year old that looked 18.

Ok, pop quiz. Two girls, one is 18. The other is 11.

Girl 1

Girl 2

The problem here is that one of them is 18, and perfectly legal for you to have sex with (assuming you, the reader are of age) and the other would land you in prison. The safe thing is of course to pick neither, but assume you had to pick one or the other.

ANSWER:
The girl in the first picture is eighteen. The girl in the second picture is eleven. If you couldn't tell the difference, welcome to prison.

Suggestion.

2 tin cans and a VERY LONG string...

pictures speak a 1000 words

ex 1

ex 2

you can find 100's of recountings of forest fires that have mushroom clouds

How about advertising in your office, sort of a "now playing list", and then a kiosk where the numbed up patient can make a purchase?

Everyone wants to get a pice of the action, it sounds like someone had too much time on their hands and an idea came to them while they were with the boys at the country club.

I guess you can't blame them too much, everyone seems to be greedy these days, I guess its hard to feel sorry for dentists, they have the cash to shell out $100 a year, I understand it's a principle thing, but c'mon, it's a $100!

don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-dentite but give me a break if it is only $100 you'll only "feel a slight pinch"

I tried too, and it didn't work.

This reminds of Canadian artist Janet Cardiff's remarkable art installation 40 Part Motet, which represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale and won the Millennium Prize at the National Gallery of Canada.

Cardiff recorded Spem in Alium nunquam habui, written by Thomas Tallis in 1575. The piece is unique in that was designed for eight choirs of five people each. Cardiff made her recording by capturing each voice separately and on its own track. The piece is then played back over a circle of forty speakers in the installation space (here's how it looked at the Tate). I saw it when it was at the National Gallery, where it was set up in the Gallery's Rideau Chapel.

The effect is breathtaking - from outside the room it sounds like a normal choral piece, but once inside your perspective changes. By standing in the middle of the circle you can feel the voices blend and wash over you. You can then walk up to each of the speaker sets and hear that group's harmony. Step closer and you can hear each individual voice. By moving around the room you can experience different parts of the sound sculpture.

When the piece ends there is complete silence. After about a minute you can hear rustling and whispering from speakers as the choir gets ready, and then the piece begins again. You have to hear it to understand.

The end result is a complete immersive 3-dimensional aural experience that, like the organ, would be completely impossible to replicate with one, two, or even a handful of speakers.