Massive dong angers rich parents
All I can say is Ha ha ha ha ha…..
Rory McInnes, 18, climbed on to the flat roof of his parents’ home and daubed the symbol using a tin of white paint, after watching a programme about Google Earth. Web surfers can view detailed images from satellites using the Google software, enabling them to zoom in on their homes to see them from above. But parents Andy and Clare did not discover their son’s rude artwork until a helicopter spotted it on top of their home near Hungerford, Berks.
Telegraph (Thanks Katherine)
What do you get if you divide science by God?
A prize-winning quantum physicist says a spiritual reality is veiled from us, and science offers a glimpse behind that veil. So how do scientists investigating the fundamental nature of the universe assess any role of God, asks Mark Vernon.
The Templeton Prize, awarded for contributions to “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”, has been won by French physicist Bernard d’Espagnat, who has worked on quantum physics with some of the most famous names in modern science.
Quantum physics is a hugely successful theory: the predictions it makes about the behaviour of subatomic particles are extraordinarily accurate. And yet, it raises profound puzzles about reality that remain as yet to be understood.
BBC (Thanks Michelle)
Why bad jokes are easier to remember than the good ones
Scientists have explained why the best jokes are the hardest to remember, while the worst are easily called to mind. The greatest jokes work by subverting usual thought patterns, making them less memorable but funnier, according to new research. A final twist and surprise in the joke makes us remember the punchline, but forget the run-up to the gag. n contrast, the structure and punchlines of cliched gags are so predictable it makes them easy to recall.
Robert Provine, professor of psychology at Maryland University, who is writing a book on laughter, said: “What makes a joke successful is also what makes it difficult to remember. The punch line involves an unexpected turn. ”If someone tells you a list of flowers, like roses, daffodils, petunias and brick. That was unexpected and funny. You remember ‘brick’, but not probably the correct list of flowers.” Prof Provine believes that good jokes work in the opposite way to a poem or piece of music.
OK Flapjack! Fire up the bad joke machine and get commenting – I’ll get in to my groaning stance.
Rehearsing for show
Working on finale trick.
Sorry I haven’t been posting, there hasn’t been a moment. I shall be better once the tour is underway.
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Exactitudes: a study in how we dress
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in cities abroad.
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
African Albinos become prey to Witchcraft
Disturbing report about the treatment of Albinos in Tanzania.
Just plain wrong
Or am I just an old prude?! It’s the Japanese penis festival.
Brown Towers Twitter
So you screamed at us until blue in the face that you wanted a twitter feed. Rather than Derren himself “tweeting” about stuff – we decided we would have a joint account for us all to feed in to. The blog also feeds in so you can get updates to your phones, twitter feeds as soon as they are posted here. Blame Giant Alex for this one! (what ever next – a facebook account?!)
Simply follow “BrownTowers” on your twitter account.
There’s an RSS feed here too.
WTF – Satelloons.
From about 1956 until 1964, US aeronautics engineers and rocket scientists at the Langley Research Center developed a series of spherical satellite balloons called, awesomely enough, satelloons. Dubbed Project Echo, the 100-foot diameter aluminumized balloons were one of the inaugural projects for NASA, which was established in 1958.
Electronic sheep paint mona lisa
OK – it’s actually an advert for Samsung. How real it is I don;t know but it is an amusing attempt and put a smile on our faces.
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