Submitted to Digg by akamakavely 8/26/2008
Okay, so this isn’t exactly the traditional front page story, but it’s one that is pretty darn unique. Unique enough, in fact, that I think that 389 Diggs should have been enough to push it over the top.
Submitted by stevehl42 on 08/23/2008
Quite the choice of text from the article for the title and description by the submitter. Also, quite the feat.
Joseph Pujol, the fartiste, became the world’s first flatulence “musician.” The article describes a little of how he discovered this ability and his on stage performance.
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…and project it back out with great force.
Submitted to Digg by life38 8/21/2008
Competition can cause many negative situations. This is one of those cases where a little competition is having an impact. It’s the kind of impact that, if done on a mass scale, can have tremendous results.
Check out Energy Smackdown. It pits families against one another in good-natured competition in hopes of increasing awareness and reducing each family member’s carbon footprint. Last year three families from Medford squared off against each other in the contest, which is taped and shown on local cable. This year BrainShift expanded the contest to Arlington, Cambridge, and Medford, where 10 families from each community will compete.
Live it and love it!
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Neighborly Competition can be a good thing.
Submitted by nobody98 on 08/20/2008
What do Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Jim Morrison have in common (besides drugs)? Wait; you cheated and looked at the title. Didn’t you?
It’s called the 27 Club, a group of musicians who all died at the same age: 27. From today (August 21st) to October 12th, the Proud Galleries will be holding an exhibition of photographs of the more iconic members of the 27 Club.
The linked video is of journalist Neil McCormick giving an overview of it.
Proud Camden presents Forever 27, a portrait of the much mythologised ‘27 Club’, the group of ill-fated rock stars whose lives have been tragically cut short at the age of 27. Featuring iconic images from a collaboration of world-renowned rock photographers, Proud Camden will present a definitive look at Rock & Roll’s most infamous member’s club… read more
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Music journalist Neil McCormick guides us through ‘Forever 27′ - a photographic exhibition of musicians who died at the age of 27.
Submitted to Digg by jophillips 8/19/2008
For many, the prospects of “going green” can be appealing. Whether to be a true contributor to a worthy cause, to achieve a personal sense of activism, or to simply set an example to family and friends, there are those who want to start demonstrating their conscious understanding of the crumbling environment that surrounds us.
The problem is that many just don’t know how to get started. This story gives some great ways.
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Going green: where to start? If you are interested in living a more eco-friendly lifestyle, this is for you. We hope you will find WebEcoist to be pleasantly free of politics and we’ll never tell you to eat granola, hug a tree or vote for the Greens. You don’t even have to switch to tofu.
Submitted to Reddit by SVOboy and to Digg by Sconathon 8/19/2008
The sun is everywhere. It heats everything on the planet.
Roads and parking lots are everywhere.
It just makes sense that someone would come up with a way to harness the power of the sun and the heat collection capabilities of asphalt to produce energy. Frankly, I’m surprised nobody thought of it before.
This article in GreenUpgrader, plus these articles on Science Daily and CleanTechnica, shed some light (pun intended) on the potential of using the abundant combination of road and rays and making a super-potential power supply for the world.
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They’ve figured out how to turn cobble stones into /solar panels. What’s next? It’s getting kind of ridiculous.
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Submitted by mklopez on 08/18/2008
I love Star Wars, but there’s no way in hell I’d pay to see this movie. Not with the reviews of it I’ve read. It seems no one liked this movie.
Perhaps, the producers went too far trying to create something different? Perhaps, they never saw the other flicks? Perhaps, they got beat up senseless prior to making the film?
But, George Lucas was involved in this project. Is this how he wanted the film?
The Film School Rejects ask three very important questions.
What’s up with that Purple Cross-Dressing, possibly Trans-gendered Ziro the Hutt?
Did we really need the Disney Channel subplot between Anakin and Ahsoka?
Why the hell was Ahsoka calling Anakin Skywalker, the man who would become Lord Darth Vader, “Sky Guy?”
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We enjoyed Star Wars:The Clone Wars. It was …not bad. Decent. Alright, it was sort of a let down. Although we enjoyed certain parts, certain characters, and certain aspects of the film, we walked out of the theater scratching our heads. [SPOILERS]
Submitted by jstohler on 08/17/2008
Submitted for your approval, one economics professor with the uncanny ability to peek into the future and see horrible economic events unfold. A man labeled a pessimist and ignored by his peers. Soon, however, he will be listened to as his predicted events unravel before everyone. It’s a story that can only happen in: The Twilight Zone.
Sorry, the photo and the story (mostly the photo) brought to mind images of Rod Serling and old Black and White Twilight Zone episodes.
If you haven’t heard of Nouriel Roubini, you should read this. He was initially dismissed as a “career naysayer” and had his predicitons dismissed due to lack of using “mathematical models.”
Many of his predictions, however, have come true. And, his peers are starting to listen to him.
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He predicted the current economic crisis, and he says things are going to get worse.
Submitted to Digg by dreams800 8/15/2008
Recounting a short history of software development, Gates said innovations in natural interaction technology are making technology more pervasive. “When interaction gets more natural, computers can be everywhere to listen to you,” he said, adding that “society will have to have more explicit rules” governing privacy boundaries around software as technology develops.
What he’s really saying is that as computers get more embedded into the Internet and software is advancing more quickly than hardware, we are faced with the problem of diminishing security and increased threats. The bad guys are getting smarter than the good guys. There’s more at stake.
“Software innovation will be pervasive; it will happen to other things in our lives, like our cars and our TVs,” he said.
It’s scary.
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The software field is wrought with challenges. Gates believes privacy is at the top of the list.
Submitted to Digg by jazzking2001 8/12/2008
In our world of high tech CG, robots that paint, and virtual reality that can seem as real as… real, sometimes the things that amaze us the most are those things that take time, that start with something completely simple and turn them into things that are amazing.
Below are perfect examples of human ingenuity and patience that express the creative potential of being alive. Here are some samples, but check out Neocrisis for all 25 of them.
Paper Castle
Paper Spider
Paper Boat
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25 masterpieces made out of paper.
