21-year-old artist, occasional hip-hop emcee, and recovering methamphetamine addict, Mr Rubottom was born with a club foot. This summer, upon advice from his doctor, he had the foot amputated. But instead of letting the hospital dispose of the body part, he took it home and stuck it (along with a can of beer and a porcelain horse) in a bucket of formaldehyde on his front porch. When a neighbourhood kid told one of his parents about seeing the foot, they called the police, who in turn confiscated the foot pending an investigation. As it turns out, it's perfectly legal to keep your own body parts, so the foot was returned to Mr Rubottom, who's already planning on giving a couple toes to friends — via BoingBoing
are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling. What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the
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The Queen's television viewing is a personal matter and we are unable to discuss it
These fraudulent, free personal Web sites have an average lifespan of two to four days, making them difficult to trace,said an executive from the company
Looks like someone's implementing the literal kill file!It's not a head exploding button, but it's close enough
speciationclearly happens regularly, but scientists cannot quite pinpoint the driving forces behind it. Now, researchers studying a family of butterflies think they have witnessed a subtle process, which could be forcing a wedge between newly formed species
an engineering company; a breast cancer fundraising site; an alternative medicine site based in Australia; and a Colorado based electronic recycling company, as well as more than 760 other domains — via BoingBoing
Developers and designers are being encouraged to come up with innovative ways of using TV and radio schedules by taking part in a BBC competition. The competition, announced at the Open Tech conference in London, has been organised by the BBC's backstage developer network. Backstage lets people remix the BBC's content to make new applications. We want people to innovate and come up with prototypes to demonstrate new ways of exploring the BBC's TV schedule
Active Denial Systemweapon that
fires a 95GHz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five secondsis scheduled for service in Iraq in 2006. It was recently tested on people playing the part of rioters at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico where they asked the subjects to remove glass and contact lenses to protect their eyes. Hopefully real rioters will get the same courtesy. Police and the Marines are working on portable versions. Sandia Labs also has a writeup on this system with pictures of smaller versions of the weapon
Star Trektelevision series through space on the command
Beam me up, Scotty, has died at the age of 85
boss of all religionsand the owner of everything in his
Sky Kingdom. State religious authorities have outlawed the teapot sect as a deviant cult — via Warren Ellis
The Mighty Booshwill be available to stream from 19 July, a full week before starting its run on BBC 3. It is one of a number of pilots that BBC Television will be undertaking over the next few months, exploiting the opportunities that new technologies offer to look at how programmes might be delivered beyond the traditional linear broadcast
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equal marriage rights for couples regardless of gender. The resolution was adopted in the face of efforts to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. It was both a theological statement and a protest against discrimination, said the Rev John H Thomas, the president and general minister of the denomination, which has 6,000 congregations and 1.3 million members
relatively inefficientin dealing with traffic from different time zones, according to new research. Scientists from the University of New England at Armidale in northern NSW, have concluded that Australia is
basically out of phase with global traffic, based on initial statistics from about 40 monitoring sites around the world, in countries such as the US, Britain, Switzerland and South America. The study has found Australia is performing no better than Kazakhstan for internet congestion
impactorcollided with Comet Tempel 1 at a relative speed of 37,000km/h, throwing up a huge plume of icy debris. The probe's mothership, the Deep Impact spacecraft, watched the event from a safe distance, sending images to Earth
important technological developments per billion peoplethan at any time since the 17th century. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. And like the lookout on the Titanic who spotted the fateful iceberg, Huebner sees the end of innovation looming dead ahead
not mass market) or movies that aren't
family friendly. None of the DVD companies mentioned in the article sell online — it's all though discount bins in supermarkets