Today's Links
New Patents o' the Week:
- Lightning strike hazard detector
- Method for making a sandwich
BBC News: Spain seeks 9,138-year jail term for crimes against humanity - allegedly committed by Adolfo Scilingo during the 70s-80s Dirty War in Argentina - it sure sounds dirty: "Mr Scilingo spoke of...death flights in which dissidents were stripped naked and thrown alive into the ocean from military planes" ... the story notes that Spanish law holds prison terms to 40 years maximum, "but for convicted members of Basque separatist group Eta, it is not uncommon to be handed down sentences of hundreds or even thousands of years."
Japan is home to a truck decorating cult that manifests itself in the overuse of chrome and lighting mechanisms, with a little bit of spray paint for good measure. The results are impressive.
Follow-Up - that Alaskan guy who's building an ice-tower using a sprinkler system has passed the 150ft mark.
The Body of Christ has a new flavour - at least in Copenhagen. I wonder how the church decides about simple things like that, which really have incredible symbolic meaning attached to them. I mean, what if the Body of Christ was white chocolate-flavoured? Or... teriyaki? Just for a joke wouldn't it be amusing to switch the sacrement with potato chips and Kosher wine?
Yahoo! is 10 years old - and they've posted a "netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments on the web." hard to imagine back to the days before Yahoo categorized the web - when everything was willy-nilly and people's link lists and emails were the only way to find things.
My Little Golden Book About Zogg - required reading for the new millenium.
The UK Guardian has a terrific four-part feature on Robert Crumb, one of the pioneers of the underground comix movement of the 60's and 70's. Awesome. I met Crumb at The Beguiling comic store a few years back - got him to sign a collection of his comix I had.
A great collection of (ironic) soviet era anti-alcohol propaganda posters.