BBC News - 15/09/2006 -
A former US Marine has become the first woman in the world to be fitted with a “bionic” arm that she can control by her thoughts alone.
Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorbike accident.
Her new arm works by detecting movements of a chest muscle that [...]
Continuing a theme: a pair of knitted Converse All-stars
We need fuzzier, yes!
If anyone needs me in the next couple of weeks, I’ll be off learning how to crochet.
Cellphones found inside 4 prisoners:
Cell phones, complete with a charger and data chips, were found in the body cavities of four inmates at a maximum-security prison, and they had used the phones to direct criminal activities on the street, officials said Wednesday.
The discovery was made Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca, in central El Salvador, [...]
The Daily Record - 30th August 2006
A PRIEST has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water.
Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle.
But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa.
One eyewitness said: “He told churchgoers [...]
You know, for a video game which I’m so patently, atrociously, embarrassingly poor at, I sure have played a lot of Geometry Wars.
Other people with OCD-ish tendencies are at least good at the things they mindlessly repeat over and over again, but not me, oh no. I can cheerfully perform some action, absolutely ineptly, for [...]
A suicidal ladybird just landed under my palm as I started typing. (in Central London, no less. The usual animal population around here is limited to cockroaches, rats and pigeons.) Hence I’ve just discovered that squished ladybirds smell like raw silage.
The things you never learn in nature programmes on TV, eh?
Sheer laziness made me put off writing this for so long, but for completeness’ sake (and because in years to come I’ll probably want to know what I actually went to see) I present the last bits of my 2 weeks at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Celeb Spotting: Alan Davies, and a very, very depressed looking [...]
A case where the headline is all you really need:
ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for U.S. military contractor