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| April 14, 2011
Author: luapo
Clothing In The Year 2000 – Video
| April 13, 2011
A hilarious clip depicting what designers sometime around the 1930’s thought fashion in 2000 would look like. Watch for the headlight hair accessory.
Black-Market Trinkets From Space
| April 13, 2011
Ebay and other Web sites pulse with hundreds of sales pitches. “The pieces below have an exceptional patina,” a site called Star-bits.com said of 10 pictured fragments.
The ads are for chunks of meteorites, bits of asteroids that have fallen from the sky and are as prized by scientists as they are by collectors. As more meteorites have been discovered in recent years, interest in them has flourished and an illegal sales market has boomed — much to the dismay of the people who want to study them and the countries that consider them national treasures.
“It’s a black market,” said Ralph P. Harvey, a geologist at Case Western Reserve University who directs the federal search for meteorites in Antarctica. “It’s as organized as any drug trade and just as illegal.”
Gaddafi, Master of Flair.
| April 13, 2011
“This one’s for me being the ruler of everything, this one’s for me being the ruler of everything else, this batch here consists of medals awarded to me each year by army officials who don’t want to die, this one I made myself, isn’t it awesome, I don’t know what these colored rectangles are (but other generals have them too so I figured I need them – and more than anyone else, just to be sure), and these other medals just sort of came with the uniform.”
The Commodore 64 Is Back!
| April 13, 2011
The new Commodore 64, which will begin shipping at the end of the month, has been souped-up for the modern age. It comes with 1.8 gigahertz dual processors, an optional Blu-ray player and built-in ethernet and HDMI ports. The new Commodore is priced between $250 to $900.
The company’s Web site says that the new Commodore 64 is “a modern functional PC,” and that although the guts of the device have greatly improved, the exterior is “as close to the original in design as humanly possible.” Most people would not be able to visibly tell the old or new versions apart, it says.
Fish For Dinner? Bring Your Geiger Counter
| April 13, 2011
Eric Ripert, the chef of Le Bernardin, the high temple of seafood in Manhattan, bought a new kitchen gadget a few days ago: a radiation detector.
“I just want to make sure whatever we use is safe,” said Mr. Ripert, whose staff is using the device to screen every item of food that enters the restaurant, regardless of its origin. He has also stopped buying fish from Japan, which means no high-quality, farm-raised hamachi and kampachi for raw seafood dishes.
