I think they meant to say “grisly”:
More at Eric D. Snider’s blog.
Finally, they include warnings for those of us who are terrified of zoos. So long as the grizzlies are eating Paris Hilton I’m not complaining.
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A billionaire is building a skyscraper to be his own private residence. Sounds ridiculous? Yes, but I’m surprised that noone has done this before. There’s no reason why a billionaire might not want a skyscraper instead of a mansion or rural estate.
It’s no ordinary skyscraper either. Here’s a picture of it as it will look once it’s built:
It will feature six floors of car parking, living space for 600 permanent employees, hanging gardens and more! The building will be located in downtown Mumbai. The owner will be Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, who is worth US$20 billion and is India’s richest man.
This skyscraper would be a striking addition to any city’s skyline and will no doubt become a drawcard for tourists.
To me, the structure looks very unwieldy and vulnerable to fall.
Could this start off a new trend for the wealthy to have their own skyscrapers?
Cognitive Daily and I present to you the following:
What is it? Quite simple really: it is a scientific paper entitled “Interaction of stellar wind with diffuse nebulae,” by S.B. Pikel’ner, first published in 1968. However, it is also an art exhibition on display at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.
So what is it? Is it art? Is it science? Is it both or is it neither?
Or is it just wank?
(Hat-tip to Zr5.net and EcoGeek.) Ever wanted to live or work in a Jenga tower? Now you can, due to an idiotic new building design planned for Dubai.
From the article:
Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and be attached to a center core housing elevators, emergency stairs and other utilities. Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity.
This building can apparently power itself and ten others through the wind power generated. Yeah right, I say.
This could be the first building ever capable of inducing motion sickness. Hope there will be plenty of buckets handy.
According to the article, a full rotation will take around 90 minutes. How are they going to connect electricity and air conditioning? How are they going to provide plumbing? Noone knows.
Here’s hoping there will be buckets by the truckload.
A billboard on the Nepean Highway here in Melbourne advertising some website had the slogan “So easy, anyone can use it.” Next to the slogan was a big picture of George W. Bush with a laptop and an appropriately stupid look on his face. Here’s a pic of the same billboard in Sydney (from Ozblog):
I have a question. What do you think about George Bush being portrayed in this way?
Do you:
A) Think that, as President of the United States and thus a foreign head of state and a world leader, he is entitled to some respect, regardless of mistakes he has made
Or
b) Not particularly worried. He’s a doofus and he’s had it coming.
To Americans reading this: What do think of your President being portrayed in this way in other countries?
So there I was, at my desk at work minding my own business, when a coworker came along to use a piece of software on my computer which he couldn’t access on his own. He hadn’t been there three seconds when I noticed a bad smell. The bad smell got worse the longer he was there. He was there less than a minute. The smell peaked in intensity shortly after he left, when it reached almost overpowering levels, before finally fading away.
I suppose it would be rude to say anything. Or would it? How best to let someone know that they are a walking stink machine?
SHARK MESSIAH UPDATE: This blog has already reported immaculately conceived komodo dragons and chimps. Now we have reports of a virgin birth shark.
This is going to sound weird. I was told that one of the contestants on the current Australian series of Big Brother acts like me (an evil twin, if you will). Given that most Big Brother contestants have the intelligence of soggy cabbage, I was inclined to feel insulted by this.
However, having not yet seen the contestant, Jamie, in action, I didn’t know whether I should feel insulted or not. This, I felt, was a dangerously ambiguous situation. So I watched the nominations episode and saw him do his thing.
The result? No, I do not feel insulted and yes, I can see the resemblance. Although perhaps I shouldn’t say that, given profiles like this one.
Isn’t Big Brother awful? Every time I watch it I feel my brain cells dying. I won’t be watching it again, evil twin or otherwise.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Look, people, even your Heliocentric hero Galileo recanted his idiotic notions about the Earth revolving around the Sun.” Read more at Blogs 4 Brownback.
SEX SELLS: But this is just plain stupid.
ANOTHER QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I notice you use the metric system. That automatically makes your calculations suspect. The metric system is pure evil.” From Blogs 4 Brownback (again!).
Deep Sea News, which informed us of the $78 million personal luxury submarine (which I expect to receive gift-wrapped on my porch come July), points us to a new article up about top places to take it, such as a man-made island in the middle of the ocean. Because what’s a luxury personal submarine without somewhere to go with it, right?
The article is titled World’s Top 10 Futuristic Luxury Hotels. Let me highlight where I will be taking my Pheonix 1000 luxury sub:
A hotel on its own island in the middle of the ocean. You can only get there via plane, boat or luxury sub.
Self-contained hotel pods on stilts that can be folded and taken anywhere there is water, just like my submarine. My head hurts just thinking about that. I’m not sure how these things work; not enough detail in the article, unfortunately.
6. The Poseidon Undersea Resort
In Fiji, this will be the world’s only underwater resort, with breathtaking coral reefs you can view from the windows. I’ll be able to drive right in!
5. The Hydropolis: A self-acclaimed 10-star underwater hotel
This one, in Dubai, is a truly mammoth-sized project. It features, among other things, its own missile defense system, so anyone planning on breaking into my sub can forget about it.
Apart from that, the article highlights some hotels based in outer space that I doubt will ever be built. Not that I care anyway; I mean, how would I get my sub into space?
NO PLACES LEFT FOR TREES TO HIDE: Robots exist that can harvest timber from submerged forests 200ft below the surface.
Jack Marx is at it again in a piece entitled Breeders:
For some time after the birth of my own boy, I was troubled by an altogether unexpected affliction: a loathing of other children. Where I had expected fatherhood to invest me with a newfound affection for all kids, the very opposite occurred, and for a few years I struggled with combative urges when in the company of other parents and their children. At the time, I put this down to some ancient biological instinct - one that ensured I would not find another child so pleasing as to move me to abandon my own - and, as I observed the behaviour of other parents at day care centers, I realised I was not exactly unusual.
Parents did battle over anything, always on behalf of their voiceless child. The parents of an anaphylactic boy, for example, who pleaded with a nursery to ban the nut products that would be fatal to their baby, were opposed by parents defending their three-year-old’s “right” to eat peanut butter sandwiches. The legendary parental concern for all children was never more absent than at an assembly of parents, anxiety over their own child’s quality of life triumphing always over the common good.
Can those of you who are parents identify with this? (Pete, I’m looking at you!)
TheMolk found some excellent off-the-wall gift ideas at ThinkGeek, including a tiny remote-controlled helicopter and a tiny, yet fully functional Japanese battle tank.
A great gift idea, and oh-so-handy next time World War III erupts in your home or workplace.
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