Archive for July, 2009
what about cigarette pants?
fashionistas beware. skinny jeans may be hazardous to your health–they can cause something called meralgia paresthetica– pressure on the femoral cutaneous nerve that runs through the thigh that causes burning and tingling in the thigh area.
meralgia paresthetica is common in construction workers, pregnant women, and obese people but is now a phenomenon experienced by wearers [...]
not all fun in iphone development
apple’s culture of secrecy around its product development is well known but has it gone too far? sun danyong, an employee working at apple’s manufacturing plant, foxconn, in china, somehow lost one of the 16 iphone prototypes he received. foxconn’s security folks are said to have such extreme interrogation techniques to try to find out [...]
gnomes get in trouble
gnomes are pretty funny looking characters to begin with so when i saw the photo of gnomes doing the hitler salute, i had to laugh. unfortunately for ottmar hörl, the artist who created them, not everyone thought they were as amusing.
the german police in nuremberg launched an investigation into the “art” last week after prosecutors [...]
you know you’re getting old when
you are totally grossed-out by the latest hipster rage: urban swimming pools made from dumpsters. the new york times reported about this over the weekend and uses words like “hip” and “cool” to describe this trend that is trying to catch on. one pool-goer, artist nina katchadourian said “it’s amazing…it makes you wonder, as so [...]
monday morning andy
in case you missed anderson cooper on last week’s letterman, he talks about his encounter with a spider, his trip to africa to interview obama and his view on politics and news in general.
need more news?
i gotta admit, there are days like today when i just can’t find any new stories to write a whole blog post about. 180 is a lot better at this but i go through phases where i am indifferent to every story. where does that leave you to get your news, you ask? well, if [...]
i’m itchy just thinking about this
speaking of joining a large, organized group, there is news that the argentinian ant, once contained to south america can now be found on every continent except for antartica and they’ve formed a ‘mega colony’. as an example, a colony formed in the mediteranean is believed to span 3.700 miles, in california there’s one that [...]
