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This has got to be one of the best headline/photos/covers done EVER! It’s fatuous! It’s felonious and she’s such a sweet, cute, dumb, young, starlet, it’s fashionable.
Miss Fidget would like to take a moment to give thanks her teen exploits weren’t documented by professional photogs and writers, though a few flattering photos would have been nice.
This is the most silly i-pod accessory I’ve seen yet. Apparently the music playing on your i-pod controls the speed and rate of vibration. Which I guess means if you play Beyonce, Maroon 5, Nickelback or similar dreck this device will auto-magically start to suck. Ha ha, I kid. (No I don’t.)
Good idea? Greedy tie in? Or fashion being reflected in the “pleasure object” product category? Man there’s a Steve Jobs joke in here somewhere! Love it or hate it, it is easy on the eye and adheres to the i-product design ethos very well.
If you visit the maker’s site www.ohmibod.com be sure to check out the video. It’s a hoot, and looks like a parody of the old i-pod campaign as done by SNL. Took my breath away.
Pets that make epic treks is staple of forteana. This example is especially wonderful because of the fab Aussie place names like Woy Woy and Punchbowl and because Rusty had been dyed PINK! Did Rusty run away from home so he could come out of the closet? Was he stolen by nomadic beauticians? Was he the beloved pet of playful stoners?
Owners tickled pink at finding Rusty
Sydney Morning Herald
July 26, 2007
If Rusty, the eight-year-old Maltese poodle cross, could talk he would have one big tale to tell.
The pet of Shirley and Dennis Lowry disappeared in a matter of seconds while on a daily walk to a corner shop at Woy Woy on the Central Coast almost three months ago.
The odyssey ended when Rusty was found by a council dog catcher in Darwin 3700 kilometres from his home.
A relieved, and at times close to tears, Mrs Lowry said today she had never given up hope that Rusty would be found.
The Lowrys were reunited with their pet at Sydney Airport at dawn today when the dog arrived on a Qantas flight, the $421 cargo fee waived.
The Lowrys, who drove from their home in Waterloo Avenue, said they were stunned at the filthy state Rusty was in.
“We don’t know what has happened to him. He’s full of ticks and fleas and I’ve had to give him a good bath as he was covered in brown dust and whoever had him had dyed his hair pink. I’m about to wash the colour out,” Mrs Lowry said at her home this morning.
“He was listless and at first, I thought he did not recognise us but he was tired from the long flight and slept in the car all the way back to Woy Woy,” she said.
Mrs Lowry said that Rusty disappeared on May 7 during her regular 8am walk to a corner shop on Trafalgar Street and Waterloo Avenue, just 50 metres from her home.
She said at the time he was wearing a blue diamante collar and was on a red lead.
“I got him as a puppy when he was six weeks old and he rarely leaves my side,” said Mrs Lowry, who has five daughters.
“I took him for a walk to the shop to buy a newspaper, which I do every day and tied his lead to a pole outside and went in and also bought a loaf of bread,” she said.
Mrs Lowry said Rusty disappeared in “a matter of seconds not minutes”.
“When I came out of the shop, he was gone and a woman said to me, ‘Are you looking for a little white dog?’ I said ‘yes’ and she said she saw a man riding a bicycle on Trafalgar Street pulling a lead. I panicked and ran up the road but he had gone.”
Mr and Mrs Lowry, who moved to Woy Woy from Punchbowl 36 years ago, mounted a search of surrounding streets enlisting the help of their daughters and local children.
They reported Rusty missing to Woy Woy police and had 50 posters printed with his photo which they taped to power poles in the area.
But strangely, they found other posters of missing dogs plastered around Woy Woy. Eight canines had gone missing in the area that week.
Mrs Lowry said she even contacted Gosford Council, the RSPCA and went on local radio appealing for help.
“The pound rang up one day and said, ‘We’ve got a little dog here and we think it’s yours, but it was not Rusty,’ ” she said.
Then on Tuesday, at 4pm, they received a phone call from a worker at the Darwin city pound, who said a microchip implanted in Rusty when he was 10 months, had given their number and address.
“They weren’t able to say where he was found, only that he had been picked up by a ranger. It is bizarre, it is very bizarre why anyone would want to take him,” Mrs Lowry said.
“I still held hopes of him coming back. I kept all of his flea stuff, shampoo, and his basket,” she said.
Why We Walk on Two Legs: It’s Easier
Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press
July 17, 2007 — Why did humans evolve to walk upright? Perhaps because it’s just plain easier. Make that “energetically less costly,” in science-speak, and you have the conclusion of researchers who are proposing a likely reason for our modern gait.
Bipedalism — walking on two feet — is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and scientists have debated for years how it came about. In the latest attempt to find an explanation, researchers trained five chimpanzees to walk on a treadmill while wearing masks that allowed measurement of their oxygen consumption.
The chimps were measured both while walking upright and while moving on their legs and knuckles. That measurement of the energy needed to move around was compared with similar tests on humans and the results are published in this week’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
It turns out that humans walking on two legs use only one-quarter of the energy that chimpanzees use while knuckle-walking on four limbs. And the chimps, on average, use as much energy using two legs as they did when they used all four limbs.
However, there was variability among chimpanzees in how much energy they used, and this difference corresponded to their different gaits and anatomy.
One of the chimps used less energy on two legs, one used about the same and the others used more, said David Raichlen, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.
“What we were surprised at was the variation,” he said in a telephone interview. “That was pretty exciting, because when you talk about how evolution works, variation is the bottom line, without variation there is no evolution.”
If an individual can save energy moving around and hunting and spend more of it on reproduction, “that’s how you end up getting new species,” he said.
Walking on two legs freed our arms, opening the door to manipulating the world, Raichlen said. “We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.”
Theirs is the latest of several explanations for walking upright. Among the others have been the need to used the arms in food gathering, the need to use the upper limbs to bring food to a mate and offspring and raising the body higher to dissipate heat in the breeze.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the L. S. B. Leakey Foundation.
So the flying Couch guy is getting press now, but Larry Walters was the pioneer of Lawn Chair Aviation way back in the 1970s. He made it approx. 3 miles high and has been the subject of many legends and rumors.
Larry, who eventually took his own life, was an interesting brave man. Go read up on him.
http://www.markbarry.com/lawnchairman.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
This photo of Larry Walters Flight Chair is obviously compliments of the site noted.
This is not a urban legend, but this is a legend in the making. Larry Walters casts a long shadow on dreamers everywhere.
Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair
AP
BEND, Oregon (AP) — Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.
Destination: Idaho.
With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky.
Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer’s field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.
“When you’re a little kid and you’re holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind,” Couch told the Bend Bulletin.
“When you’re laying in the grass on a summer day, and you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them,” he said. “This is as close as you can come to jumping on them. It’s just like that.”
Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters — who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.
It was Couch’s second flight.
In September, he got off the ground for six hours. Like Walters, he used a BB gun to pop the balloons, but he went into a rapid descent and eventually parachuted to safety.
This time, he was better prepared. The balloons had a new configuration, so it was easier to reach up and release a bit of helium instead of simply cutting off a balloon.
He took off at 6:06 a.m. Saturday after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye and petting his Chihuahua, Isabella. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below.
Couch said he could hear cattle and children and even passed through clouds.
“It was beautiful — beautiful,” he told KTVZ-TV. He described the flight as mostly peaceful and serene, with occasional turbulence, like a hot-air balloon ride sitting down.
Couch decided to stop when he was down to a gallon of water and just eight pounds of ballast. Concerned about the rugged terrain outside La Grande, including Hells Canyon, he decided it was time to land.
He popped enough balloons to set the craft down, although he suffered rope burns. But after he jumped out, the wind grabbed his chair, with his video recorder, and the remaining balloons and swept them away. He’s hoping to get them back some day.
Brandon Wilcox, owner of Professional Air, which charters and maintains planes at the Bend airport, said Couch definitely did it. Wilcox said he flew a plane nearby while Couch traveled and took photos of the flying lawn chair.
Whether Couch will take a third trip is up to his wife, and Susan Couch said she’s thinking about saying no. But she said she was willing to go along with last weekend’s trip.
“I know he’d be thinking about it more and more, it would always be on his mind,” she said. “This way, at least he’s fulfilled his dream.”
Can you just imagine the poor schmucks who stopped to ask for directions? They spent $3 a gallon on gas to drag their RV to Myrtle Beach. Lost and exhausted, they see people in front of the Fiesta Club and choose to ask them directions. Fiestas are happy right? They should be happy helpful people right? FYI the Fiesta Club, aka Death to Gringos Bar, is located at 1208 Carver St, Myrtle Beach, SC. This was taken from myrtlebeachonline.com
Two shootings at Fiesta Club
Police are seeking suspects in two shootings at Fiesta Club in Myrtle Beach early Saturday.
Nobody was injured in either incident.
The first shooting occurred around 3 a.m., when two people stopped their car to ask a group of people in front of the club how to get to the KOA Campground, according to a police incident report.
One man went to the passenger-side window and said he could help but instead stole the victim’s wallet.
The robber started running, and when the two victims tried to follow him by car, he took a handgun and fired three shots at them, one of which hit the hood of the car.
In a separate incident around 5:30 a.m., a woman was standing in front of the club when someone started shooting from across the street and shattered the club’s glass door behind her, a police incident report states.
Police found shell casings across the street at 1211 Carver St., as well as fragmented bullets within the club. Most of the potential victims and witnesses fled when they heard the shots fired, the report states.
Some people laugh at cryptozoology, but I love it. Bigfoot and Nessie are overplayed, but stories like this one and last years white hairy lobster are my kind of cryptozoology. What a wonderfully weird world we live in.
UH Researchers To Investigate ‘Octosquid’
from www.thehawaiichannel.com
HONOLULU — Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will soon have a chance to investigate a creature that appears to be half squid, half octopus that was found in waters off the Big Island.
It appears that the creature was sucked up in a deep seawater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority at Keahole on the Big Island.
The pipeline pumps cold water up from 3,000 feet below sea level. Occasionally deep-sea marine life will get caught in a filter in the line, officials said.
Workers call the latest find an “octosquid.” It has the body of a squid and the tentacles of an octopus.
It is being shipped to University of Hawaii Manoa campus for closer evaluation.
One of the most old school hero type displays of bravery ever, ever, Ever. I hope someone gives him a medal and a ton of money. Way to go Rayshun! I’d have run away like a sissy with my wrists balled up under my chin, screaming and crying. Ok, well maybe I’d have grabbed the other kids and run away.
July 4, 2007 From the Charlotte Observer
5-year-old boy wrestled rabid fox
A 5-year-old Cleveland County boy pinned a rabid fox to the ground at a Sunday cookout, allowing six other children to run to safety.
“I wanted to protect my little brother,” said Rayshun McDowell, who encountered the animal while the children were playing in the front yard of his Kingstown home. The fox bit him on the leg, and the 61-pound boy pinned the lunging animal for more than a minute until his stepfather could rush to help him.
“I looked out the window and Rayshun had the fox by the neck and was pushing it into the ground,” said his mother, Shinda Linder. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
Cleveland County Animal Control officials confirmed Tuesday that the fox was rabid and that Rayshun is receiving treatment.
Earlier that day, a fox attacked a 6-year-old girl only a few streets away from Rayshun’s home. Officials didn’t know whether it was the same fox, but the girl is undergoing rabies treatment as well.
Rabies is a fatal virus that attacks the nervous system of mammals. It’s spread through saliva and contact with the brain tissue of an infected animal. Cleveland County health official Sam Lockridge said symptoms can lie dormant in humans for up to six months, but will arise almost immediately in animals.
This was Cleveland’s 15th confirmed case this year, twice as many as this time last year. Lockridge said that one reason for the increase is the region’s rapid growth, in which animals are being pushed into neighborhoods as their habitat disappears.
Animal control officials in York County, S.C., said they’ve also seen an increase. The county already has seven confirmed cases, compared with last year’s five. Gaston County has confirmed three cases this year, Cabarrus seven, Iredell five, Mecklenburg nine and Catawba seven. Those counties have seen no increase from last year and are on pace to see similar numbers.
Officials urge people to stay far away from wild animals and to prevent pets from straying near them. Rabies is most likely to be spread during the summer.
“I definitely wouldn’t advise anyone else to react the way the young boy did, because of the dangers,” Lockridge said. “But that shows a lot of heart, and it’s a good thing he reacted that way and helped those other children.”
Rayshun’s stepfather, Ryan Thompson, pulled the boy off the animal and kicked it. A neighbor fired three times with a handgun but the fox continued to advance.
“I had to hit it in the head with a stick I found in the yard to finally kill it,” Thompson said. Thompson, in a cast with a broken leg, at one point struck the fox with his crutch.
Lockridge said the virus causes strange behavior in animals and they may continue to attack even after they’re wounded.
Safely inside, Rayshun only asked for a Band-Aid and didn’t complain of any pain.
“He’s a tough kid,” his grandmother Sarah Linder said. “He was complaining more about the shot for rabies than he did about getting bit by a fox.”
“Rayshun was really calm and wasn’t upset,” Shinda Linder said. “I couldn’t believe he would do something like that. He was so brave, and I was a wreck.”
Rayshun said he’s not sure why he did what he did except that he was thinking of protecting 2-year-old Ryan.
“I knew he needed help,” he said. “I just did it.”
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