Archive | May, 2008

10 Insanely Beautiful Hotels Worth Traveling For

30. May 2008

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Written By Andy Boyd 

10 Of The Best Boutique Hotels From Around The World

Originally, we had two ideas for this post: local places to stay and eco hotels around the world. We quickly realized however, that we’d be giving you the wrong advice by saying “stay at home.”

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Acupuncture’s Evil Twin: The Dim Mak Death Touch

29. May 2008

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bruce lee in enter the dragon

Image via brtsergio

Enter the Dragon was his last completed film. Six days after it was released, Bruce Lee, one of the biggest icons of martial arts cinema died a sudden and mysterious death. But was he the victim of the legendary dim mak touch of death as many of his avid fans have claimed?

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Smell-O-Vision Is Back!

29. May 2008

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smell-o-vision
Image by Mario Sepülveda

Believe it or not, scientists at one point did attempt to make a television that, through concentrated oils, could broadcast smells that complemented the mood on screen, and sucked you deeper into the drama from an emotional standpoint.

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Clean Coal is a Lie. Environmentalists Fight Back With Cartoon

28. May 2008

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gas mask

Image by Rastafabi

Ah, coal. If you live in the United States you’ve been subjected to an advertising blitz in preparation for the upcoming elections assuring you that clean coal is the answer to all of our problems. The four dollar gasoline will go away (or if you sell oil you can switch to selling liquid coal!), we’ll be able to pull out of Iraq (or commit more resources and win!), and it’s all perfectly clean. Not a single, solitary dirty thing about it.


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Amazon Selling for $50Bn, Brazilians Not Happy

28. May 2008

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amazon rainforest
Image from Keepps

Johan Eliasch, Gordon Brown’s deforestation advisor took a step towards joining the ranks of American politicians who don’t know what a national border and sovereignty means by claiming that the entirety of the Amazon rain forest could, and should, be purchased in order to protect it from Brazillian management.

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17 Tips to Survive the Jungle Labyrinth

27. May 2008

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How to survive when lost and what you should fear

Jungle - Taranaki, New Zealand

Jungle – Taranaki, New Zealand
image by Claude@Munich

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$22 Million Creation Musuem Expanding, Focusing On Kids

27. May 2008

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By Ben Raycreationists
Image from John Scalzi

The Creation Museum, an international abomination laying just a few miles from the Cincinnati-Northern KentuckyAirport, is only one year old, but it’s already had enough success that it’s planning to expand over the next year. Ken Ham, who founded “Answers in Genesis,” the fundamentalist religious organization that established the museum, said that the focus would be largely on making it more “kid-friendly” with a series of kiosks throughout the museum, and an outdoor playground


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Japanese Space Beer: Taking “Lite” To a New Level

27. May 2008

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Sapporo Holdings, proud manufacturers of an essential ingredient in sake bombs, have announced that they’re making an ambitious step to grow their brewery: beer from space.

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Is Apple Developing a Solar iPhone?

27. May 2008

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Iphone could be solar powered
Image by Shapeshift

Well, according to the site MacRumors, Apple have apparently filed a patent application to investigate the use of solar cells in their mobile devices, including the iphone and portable computers.

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Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500,000

26. May 2008

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Image from Christiaan Briggs

In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in the world, or of a soldier to see through the chaos of night combat.

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