“Peter Terren”:http://tesladownunder.com/aboutme.htm from Australia clearly has no fear of electricity. Like Ben Franklin with his kite, Terren plays with homemade “Tesla coils”:http://tesladownunder.com/Tesla_coils_intro.htm and “rail guns”:http://tesladownunder.com/Rail_gun.htm like they’re, well, play-things. Also worth checking out are his experiments with far-too-powerful “can crushers”:http://tesladownunder.com/CanCrushing.htm and lots of cool “lasers”:http://tesladownunder.com/Lasers_%20HeNe_YAG.htm.
The above photo was taken by Terren of he and his son sitting in his Hyundai under a homemade 5-kilowatt Tesla Coil. The car and its jolting accessory are profiled “here”:http://spectrum.ieee.org/may07/5053
The Infamous Hangover
When you’ve had too much fun (or just enough), the consequences can be painful. Never fear the “hangover”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangover is here to teach you a lesson you won’t forget, until next Friday night. This well researched “pdf”:http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-1/54-60.pdf details the causes, mechanisms, symptoms, and prevention techniques for the big H. Sorry to say, moderation and abstinence are ubiquitously documented to be the most effective. However, your night out isn’t shot yet, “hangoverreview.com”:http://www.hangoverreview.com has put together this “extensive list”:http://www.hangoverreview.com/hangover_products/ of 52 treatment products. Unfortunately these guys aren’t hiring. If you want a quick go-to guide for hangovers without too much medical jargon, this “howstuffworks.com article”:http://health.howstuffworks.com/hangover.htm is complete and professional, but still best read _before_ the booze begins. Another good prevention technique is to check out “gettingsmashed.com”:http://www.gettingsmashed.com/index.php for pictures, videos, and other forms of black mail these regretful souls wished never existed.
If you have a drinking problem, please visit “AA’s website”:http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/ for help.
Virtual dog walking
I’ve never understood video games like DDR or those interactive boxing games, but here’s one even that crowd might balk at. Apparently Tokyo arcade goers latest challenge is taking their dogs for walks. In this simulation, gamers must control walking pace and keep a sharp lookout for perilous-puppy hazards like other dogs and seductive hydrants.
Photo and story from “CityM.org”:http://citym.org/blog/archives/2006/04/dogwalking_vide_1.html.
Thousands pose nude for photo
17 to 18 thousand people turned out in Mexico City the other day to take their kit off and pose for the world’s largest nude photo shoot. The photographer, Spencer Tunick, had previously taken similar pictures in Barcelona with 7,000 people posing. The throng posed in a number of configurations including this one with the entire naked crowd saluting the Mexican flag.
More at the “Daily Mail”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=453166&in_page_id=1811.
Killer Apps for Mac – UnRarX
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html. Just like most of the *Killer Apps for Mac*, this is free so there's no harm in heading over to the "UnRarX website":http://unrarx.com/, downloading it and trying it. It's helped me out of quite a few jams.
Previously featured on *Killer Apps for Mac*: "Adium":http://duenos.net/article/129/killer-apps-for-mac-adium, "Sidenote":http://duenos.net/article/111/killer-apps-for-mac-sidenote, "Darwiin Remote":http://duenos.net/article/193/KillerAppsforMacDarwiinRemote, "Mac Pilot":http://duenos.net/article/174/KillerAppsforMacMacPilot, "Disk Inventory X":http://duenos.net/article/163/KillerAppsforMacDiskInventoryX, "Tangerine":http://duenos.net/article/150/KillerAppsforMacTangerine, "SizzlingKeys":http://duenos.net/article/119/killer-apps-for-mac-sizzlingkeys, "Vienna Reader":http://duenos.net/article/204/KillerAppsforMacViennaReader, "VLC Player":http://duenos.net/article/228/, "App Zapper":http://duenos.net/article/231/, and "TV Shows":http://duenos.net/article/232/.
Retro Robots Recorded
It’s a miracle how social networking can lead to such wonderful treasures as those killer robot pictures above. I followed a link trail from one of my “Last.fm”:http://last.fm neighbours and somehow ended up at “LeSophie’s Flickr stream”:http://flickr.com/photos/25168809@N00/. The highlight of the stream was this “set”:http://flickr.com/photos/25168809@N00/sets/72157600033291647/ featuring retro robot pictures taken with a digital SLR through an old Kodak Dualflex camera viewfinder. That’s why each of these super-sweet robot pictures lies within that retro-looking frame and has a grain to it.
These pictures are so cool that LeSophie ended up turning them into “greeting cards”:http://lesophie.blogspot.com/2007/03/greetings.html for friends. I’ve never wanted to be someone’s friend so much.
Albino Hedgehog
Only one in ten-thousand hedgehogs are born truly albino, with red eyes and completely white skin. Because of the rarity of it, and because it’s so darn cute in a creepy “I could steal your soul” kind of way, here it is.
This particular hedgehog is 11-weeks old from “Bank Mill Nurseries”:http://www.bankmillnurseries.co.uk and was recently “profiled”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=452760&in_page_id=1770 in the Daily Mail.
More about Jello, from Utah
After the posts about the “Jello model”:http://duenos.net/article/222/JelloSanFrancisco of San Francisco and the “13 lb Gummy Bear”:http://duenos.net/article/221/13lbGummyBear, I was interested in learning a little more about Jello. It turns out that in addition to being made from connective tissue, Jello is also the official state snack food of Utah. The above picture is Jello celebrity spokesman Bill Cosby receiving the official plaque. For a list of other official state snack foods, check out the helpful “State Food List”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_foods on Wikipedia.
Previously on Duenos:
* “13 lb Gummy Bear”:http://duenos.net/article/221/13lbGummyBear
* “Jello San Francisco”:http://duenos.net/article/222/JelloSanFrancisco
Are You Ready to Neti?
After my curiosity in the “(Jala) Neti Pot”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_pot was re-piqued from the “_Dr. Oz II_ episode”:http://images.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200704/tows_past_20070426.jhtml on the “Oprah Show”:http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml, I decided to go “duenos”:www.duenos.net on it. A neti pot is a tool for “nasal irrigation”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_irrigation that can provide many benefits like better breathing, cleaner boogers, and possible elimination of snoring by simply splashing salty water up there. “Mayo Clinic”:http://www.mayoclinic.com/ has “this video”:http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nasal-lavage/MM00552 that details some benefits of nasal irrigation and an alternative (athough similar) method to “the Neti.” “This fan site”:http://www.yoga-age.com/asanas/neti.html has a myriad of (some hard to believe and unresearched) benefits of the Neti, but towards the bottom of the page has a well-written how-to guide complete with photos of an unnecessarily shirtless guy (see picture above). For more, check out this “pdf”:http://www.jalanetipot.com/research.html that provides excessive neti info and you can purchase inexpensive basics “at this link”:http://www.neilmed.com/ when you’re ready to neti.
The Cilantro Consipiracy
“I Hate Cilantro.com”:http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ is a haven for all of us out there who taste something awful when we eat cilantro. I noticed it a few years ago when my then-girlfriend fell in love with Mexican food and I just couldn’t understand it. The food tasted like pennies, bleach, or something else disgusting.
It turns out that I was just one of those people whose genes react very poorly to certain enzymes in cilantro (coriander in British) and make it taste, well, revolting. If you for some reason taste something horrible (usually pennies, bleach, metal) when you eat Mexican or Indian food, maybe you’re one of us. Join “I Hate Cilantro.com”:http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ and share your pain.
An anti-cilantro haiku by user Mightyscoop1:
??A gentle flower??
??Green of stem that haunts my mind??
??The vomit that comes??