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Spencer Tunick is the photographer who likes to work with thousands of naked people at once, outdoors, creating naked flesh carpets that fill parks and streets.

Birds learning to imitate cellphone ringtones:

"Moessingen (Germany), July 18 (DPA) Birds have learnt to imitate the ring tones of the omnipresent mobile phones, say German ornithologists."The birds have an uncanny ability to mimic these ring tones. This has picked up in tandem with the boom in mobile phone ownership," Richard Schneider of the NABU bird conservation centre near the university city of Tuebingen here said.Jackdaws, starlings and jays were the best mimics, Schneider said adding that even practiced birdwatchers were being fooled by the birds."

As a commemoration of the original Trinity Nuclear Bomb tests, a group of pyromaniacs got together to enact SIMNUKE - to show a new generation what a (simulated) bomb test looks like. Instead of fissionable materials, they use gasses. I'm not sure if they succeeded but they sure put on a heck of a fireshow.

There are seven words you can't say in Kindergarten. Heh... I worry about this kind of thing with my kids but, thanks to my particular driving style, they already know a few of them. It's not the schoolyard that teaches kids these words, it's traffic!

The sixth book in the Harry Potter bookscam series was released Saturday at 12:01am - within hours, the book was OCR'd and uploaded to the web. An audiobook has also been released.

Poker is all the rage these days, thanks in part to the surge of interest during the nineties in 50's-60's lounge culture, and a few well-placed movies [Rounders, Swingers, Casino, Ocean's Eleven/Twelve] and television shows [Las Vegas]... The big surge is in playing on-line. And of course, there are intrepid geeks out there who write pokerbots to play on-line for them. Then, someone came up with the idea that the best of these pokerbots should face off against eachother...

tomdispatch.com has a great piece on Dubai, the playground of the oil-rich.