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Fiberglass Mascots
From Tulsa to Tokyo and everywhere in between, feel free to post your photos of fiberglass mascots here.........
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A Different Kind of Buff
Dave Moloney spotted these metal buff pieces on the lifts in The Meridian Hotel in Nice.........
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Skin Cancer Fear Grows As Ozone Layer Gets Thinner
Levels of ozone, which play a crucial role in helping to filter out harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun, were believed to be rising after the systematic banning of the CFC chemicals which were damaging it.
But now experts believe global warming is changing conditions in the upper atmosphere and leading to a reduction in levels again.
Cancer experts warned yesterday that the results meant it was more important than ever for people to take precautions when in the sun.........
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Swarovsky-coated Accessories
Gone are the days when the workstation was a place that was expected to be sober and formal, but today the bling culture has swayed over this place too. Here is a blingy desk set that enough to jazz up your desktop.
The swarovsky-encrusted desk set from Neiman Marcus includes a cello tape dispenser, a stapler and an optical mouse all starting off from a price of $100.........
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Color 3D Prints
If you are interested in doing the same with your video game avatars, I suggest contacting Anvil Prototypes. They are interested in helping people who want to pay to have their characters printed (see their sweet flyer), and took this funny photo of a color-printed gnome in the woods:
(is it just me, or are the monochrome prints from Eyebeam's Dimension so much less fulfilling now?).........
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How angry customers get revenge
"The Internet is changing the power of negative word-of-mouth," write James C. Ward and Amy L. Ostrom in the recent issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. "Customers who create these Web sites frame their grievances to the broader public much like civic protesters".
Consumers are now creating complaint Web sites that reach out to millions, tell stories of injustice at length, and sometimes attempt to create "communities of discontent" focused on particular companies. When analyzing hundreds of complaint sites focused on personal product or service failures but not political or environmental grievances the scientists observed that, like in a number of other protest movements, consumer protesters often "stereotype those they identify as responsible for an injustice as not just mistaken or wrong, but evil." Companies targeted by the complaint Web sites include American Express, United Airlines, and DaimlerChrysler.........
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more effective smoking cessation
"Imaging studies such as this can add immensely to our understanding of addiction and drug abuse," says Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health. "These findings suggest that drug therapies or vaccines for smoking cessation need to be extremely potent to compete with nicotine, which binds so readily to these receptors".
The study is published in the August 2006 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
"This study illustrates the powerfully addictive impact of even small amounts of nicotine. Every time a smoker draws a puff from a cigarette, they inhale numerous toxic chemicals that promote the formation of lung cancer, and contribute in a significant way to death and disability worldwide," says NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "Although many smokers endorse a desire to quit, very few are able to do so on their own, and fewer than half are able to quit long-term even with comprehensive treatment. This study helps explain why".........
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Your Own Fortune-Teller
The ball looks at three aspects of your life vis your health, wealth and love life, and the intricately etched crystal ball will glow different colours to let you know what to expect in each area of your life. It takes about 15 seconds for the internal computer to correlate all the data and it will then project the relevant colour onto the etched globe within the crystal ball. The ball is nestled in a chrome base with LCD, so, will make a nice show- piece too with its modern appeal. It sells for $112.68. I want one!!!........
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Grow Your-own Home
This artist's rendering shows the Fab Tree Hab, a home made of living plants. Photo / Mitchell Joachim, courtesy Technology Review
That's the vision of MIT architect Mitchell Joachim of the Media Lab's Smart Cities group. He and colleagues -- environmental engineer Lara Greden (S.M. 2001, Ph.D. 2005) and architect Javier Arbona-Homar (S.M. 2004) -- have conceived a home that doesn't just use "green" design but is itself a living ecosystem. They call it the Fab Tree Hab.
The basic framework of the house would be created using a gardening method known as pleaching, in which young trees are woven together into a shape such as an archway, lattice, or screen and then encouraged to maintain that form over the years.
As the framework matured -- which might take a few years in tropical climates and several decades in more temperate locations -- the home grower would weave a dense layer of protective vines onto the exterior walls. Any gaps could be filled in with soil and growing plants to create miniature gardens. On the interior walls, a mixture of clay and straw beneath a final layer of smooth clay would provide insulation and block moisture. On south-facing walls, windows made of soy-based plastics would absorb warmth in the winter; ground-floor windows on the shady side could draw in cool breezes during hot months. Water collected on the roof would flow through the house for use by people and plants; wastewater would be purified in an outdoor pond with bacteria, fish and plants that consume organic waste.........
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Skull As Fashion Icon
If it was not clear a year or two ago, when the skull motif cropped up on battered Herman-Melville-meets-Edgar-Allan-Poe T-shirts made by Rogues Gallery, on costly cashmere sweaters by Lucien Pellat-Finet, on the perforated uppers of the wingtips made by the men's wear line Barker Black, it is now. What only recently seemed clever and stylish - I'm wearing a skull! I'm baaaaad! - has shifted into overdrive, if not overkill.
Beyond the sea of skull wear - belts, T-shirts, ties - there are umbrellas, sneakers, swimsuits, packing tape, party lights, even a skull-branded line of hand tools. One company has made a skull toilet brush and caddy (with a molded-plastic femur bone for a handle). This summer Damien Hirst announced that he will make a life-size skull, cast in platinum and adorned with 8,000 diamonds.
If it seems harmless, well, there you have it. With the full force of the American consumer marketing establishment behind it, the skull has lost virtually all of its fearsome outsider meaning. It has become the Happy Face of the 2000's. When the mid-1980's proto-Goth group the Ministry sang "Every Day Is Halloween," this was not quite what they had in mind.........
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