October 24, 1946. The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.
How to use Japanese style toilet.
A very bizarre and cruedly drawn tutorial on the subject.
How to use Japanese style toilet
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The 27-year-old was taken ill shortly after coming off stage, and was rushed to hospital where he is due to stay for at least the next three days.Doctors say he is in a comfortable condition and not in any danger.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
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The 27-year-old was taken ill shortly after coming off stage, and was rushed to hospital where he is due to stay for at least the next three days.Doctors say he is in a comfortable condition and not in any danger.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
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"That interaction between Denise Richards and the paparazzi resulted in throwing off a balcony, a laptop belonging to these photographers."The laptop hurtled to the casino lobby a floor below, allegedly hitting the 80-year-old woman on the arm.
CBC.ca Arts - Laptop thrown by actress hits senior in wheelchair: police
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Use this to formulate recipes for ales, lagers and stouts. It also includes a brewing primer for those just starting out in the homebrewing hobby. QBrew builds and runs under Unix (Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc), Mac OSX and Windows.
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Greenspan’s new company, LiveUniverse, owns a number of internet properties, including social networking site Stickam.com and YouTube competitor Vidilife.com. He alleges that MySpace blocks users from even mentioning Stickam.com and Vidilife.com in their profiles.He says that “any attempts by users to type the url of sites like ‘stickam.com’ or ‘vidilife.com’ into a [MySpace] blog or profile [are replaced] with ‘……’ “.
Free Press : MySpace Founder Takes on Rupert
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HARTFORD, CONN. — An 88-foot Norway spruce from a western Connecticut home was headed to Manhattan on Thursday to become this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Newsvine - Conn. Tree Going to Rockefeller Center
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An auction house plans to sell a notebook that contains details about Winston Churchill's life during his final years — a routine that revolved around cigars, whiskey and his pet bird.Muriel Thomson, a nurse who cared for the former prime minister before his death in 1965, kept a detailed log of his day-to-day schedule. One note reads, "After dinner ... put bird to bed!! Take Sir Winston to drawing room. Whiskey & Soda."
Newsvine - Notebook About Churchill's Life for Sale
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a kickass Holiday lightshow music extravaganza
http://www.spiffomatic64.com/lightshow/
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Mahir Cagri sees enough of himself in the character that he is accusing Baron Cohen of drawing his inspiration for Borat directly from his personal Website. Now, the Turkish man is demanding an apology and seeking to cash in on a hefty cut of the earnings from the comedian's "great success" of a movie.Cagri exploded onto the Internet scene back in 1999 with his unintentionally hilarious Website, ikissyou.org (now defunct).
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York will not feature Charlie Brown and Kermit the Frog this year.While the inflatable images of the two children's characters will be notably absent from the 2006 version of the traditional event, this year will offer some new gigantic faces -- the Energizer Bunny, Flying Ace Snoopy and the Pikachu character from Pokemon, said the New York Daily News.
United Press International - NewsTrack - Macy's parade makes key substitutions
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Along with writing and illustrating books for children, Mordicai Gerstein is a painter, sculptor, and prize-winning designer and director of animated films.Born in Los Angeles, Gerstein attended the Chouinard Institute of Art before moving to New York City where he lived and worked for twenty-five years making animated films for television.
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The Z uses a short burst of intense electricity – only a few 10 billionths of a second long – that forces an ionized gas to implode. The process is called a z-pinch because the pulse creates a magnetic field that squeezes particles in the vertical direction, which math books usually label as the "z-axis."
LiveScience.com - The Z Machine
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Apparently the Bush administration has taken the Winston Churchill quote "History is written by the victors" into the video age. The official White House website is now sporting a very different version of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. In this exclusive video, Inside Minnesota Politics' Mike McIntee shows how the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln has apparently been crudely cropped out of the video.
White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video
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Here's another album from the Hanna-Barbera collection. In this one Cape Kennedy janitor Jose Jiminez (played by Bill Dana) accidentally activates an experimental time machine that takes him all the way back to prehistoric Bedrock, where he meets up with Fred (played here by Henry Corden) and Barney
Way Out Junk: The Flintstones and Jose Jiminez: The Time Machine
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Ali and Habib were two Middle Eastern goat farmers when the United States decided to occupy their tiny country. Now they’re running for president, but can they beat the hand selected candidate: Nick Nolte?
Liquid Generation: Tremendoustan: The Election
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It was like old times back at the Peach Pit on Friday night, as the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 – minus Brenda and Dylan – reunited in (where else?) Beverly Hills for the DVD release of the show's 1990 debut season.The stars, some of whom had seen each other at Priestley's 2005 wedding,
almost didn't show up for the event – some cast members discussed
skipping the launch because they won't benefit financially from DVD
sales, which were not written into their original contracts, USA Today reports.
Beverly Hills, 90210 Stars Reunite | Beverly Hills, 90210 : People.com
the Suitcase Bike. Gosha Galitsky, a Israeli designer (now living in Italy) developed the concept (see pic of working prototype after the fold) while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He felt that, although there was a whole pelaton of folding bikes on the market, they were, “cumbersome, often heavy and difficult to carry.” Yet, he was quite taken with wheeled luggage, which he considered could be transported with “(relative) grace” and little effort.
Treehugger: Gosha Galitsky's Suitcase Bike
Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth's moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something's wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It's huge!You've just experienced the Moon Illusion.Sky watchers have known this for thousands of years: moons hanging low in the sky look unnaturally big. Cameras don't see it, but our eyes do. It's a real illusion.
Now for added fun, turn your back on the moon, bend down, look between your legs. The illusion is broken.
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Occasional Deitch 2006 
When CBS wanted a new series of cartoons for its Captain Kangaroo show,
it turned to its recently acquired TerryToons studio, and told Deitch,
who was running the place, to come up with something fast, cheap and
wonderful. He did, converting a former comic strip of his, "Terr'ble
Thompson!", into Tom Terrific, a tireless boy with a hat like a funnel
and an imagination without end.
Remember that company Universal Tube that owns the domain UTube.com? A release on one of the press wires says that UTube is now suing the video sharing site, demanding that YouTube stop using their name. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation of Perrysburg, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit in the US District court in Toledo.
Breaking: UTube Sues YouTube - Mashable!
Paramount Pictures bosses heard of Scorsese's plans and today acquired North American rights to his Rolling Stones documentary yesterday.The film, which will include historical and contemporary behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, is scheduled for release at the end of 2007.
Irish Examiner> Breaking News> Sport
Bizarre Records!
Strange and forgotten records from the record collectors' reject pile.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie.Katherine Dunton, who died of cancer on Oct. 3, the day of the local election, was re-elected to the Aleutian Region School District board after her opponent, Dona Highstone, called "heads" on a coin toss that landed "tails," state and local officials said.
Dead woman wins election in Alaska after coin toss
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SAN JOSE An explosive device left at the eBay-owned PayPal headquarters in San Jose exploded Tuesday night, shattering a plate-glass window on the four-story building.Some 26 employees were working inside the building at the time of the explosion. They reportedly called 911 after hearing the blast.
cbs5.com - Bomb Explodes At eBay PayPal Headquarters In SJ
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LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker is heading toward his last showcase, his final “Come on down.”The silver-haired daytime-TV icon is retiring in June, he told The Associated Press Tuesday.
Come on down! Bob Barker to retire - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com
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On October 30, a rep for Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon released a statement announcing the couple’s separation. What wasn’t mentioned: The fact that Phillippe, 32, has recently grown close to Abbie Cornish, 24, his Australian costar in the indie film Stop Loss; according to an insider, during a shoot in August, Texas, from August to late October, the two had a fling.
Reese & Ryan: Why They Split | Us Weekly Online
a recording of Ciardi reading that very poem with his young son John. It comes excerpted from the album version of "You Read to Me, I'll Read to You" which was released by Spoken Arts back in 1962, and to complete the experience the perfectly creepy Edward Gorey art is bundled up with the zip file in a variety of sizes.
Scar Stuff: John Ciardi "What Night Would It Be?"
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Ever listen to the radio and wonder what the name of the song is? Who is the artist? What year was it released? Instant FM Music helps you answer all of those questions! Just plug Instant FM Music into your USB Port, tune to your favorite local FM or Web Radio stations and watch as Instant FM Music & the included software not only record the station's entire playlist, but also separate and identify the songs for easy playback.
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HOLLYWOOD - Narc director Joe Carnahan will direct an adaptation of James Ellroy's sequel to L.A. Confidential.The film, called White Jazz, will begin shooting next November.
'L.A. Confidential' Sequel Gets Green Light :: Hollywood.com
The last of our Halloween themed episodes for the season.
Todays story is called “Three Skeleton Key” starring Vincent Price from 1958
In this story, three men worked the light at a lonely lighthouse on a barren rock. One day a derelict ship, filled with huge, starving rats, crashes on the dangerous rocks and heads towards the lighthouse.
Odeo: Hokey Pokey Smokey Show - Three Skeleton Key
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He admits that there was a script written for him, but, the fans had not reacted favorably to the idea of him playing the hero. So, as of now, it’s not something that is moving forward. Can you say big sigh of relief for the fans?
IESB.net - Independent Entertainment News - Exclusive Video: Jack Black and The Green Lantern
A new study in rats shows a molecule in the brain linked to inducing the sensation of "fullness" could help fight obesity. When the molecule was injected into rat-brains, the rats ate less and lost weight.
All Headline News - Protein, Nesfetin-1, Found In Rat Brain Curbs Hunger Pangs - October 30, 2006
The engine, and a tank containing a 24-hour supply of fuel, will be slung “beneath your rear end”, says Main. The engine (a turbine, two-stroke or four stroke - they haven’t decided yet) will then drive hydraulic fluid via high pressure lines to servo valves on each joint, amplifying the force used to move each limb when the wearer’s motion is sensed.Main tried it out himself recently. “It makes you feel really, really strong. You get the sensation that you have a lot of strength. I sort of felt like The Hulk and I’m a skinny guy. I wore a 100-pound weight on my back and it felt I was carrying nothing like that amount,” he says. And he was only wearing the lower body - the legs and back support section.
New Scientist Technology Blog: Exoskeleton update
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Three of MST3K's writer/characters — Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy — have started a new venture: The Film Crew. The Film Crew has been entrusted with a very important mission: providing commentary tracks for every movie that doesn't have one. Typically, they've chosen to start at the bottom of the barrel, and now you get to vote on which B-movie will get the Film Crew treatment on DVD first.
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