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What are you reading right now?

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:04:37 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Clippers, what books are you reading right now? What was the last book you read?

Clip Source: www.rhettsmith.com

Tags: clipmarks, books

Ideas for Clipmarks?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:27:44 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: I think it's been a while since anyone has done it, so let me see if I can start something up. Others can follow.

I would like to see on Clipmarks....

A list of 'Most active Clippers'
A list of Clippers with most followers
Simple interface with less drop down lists
A list of Clippers currently browsing Clipmarks
Ways to further decrease time it takes to clip, i.e, reduce clicks anywhere possible.
More RSS integration, i.e., see if Clipmarks can auto-clip latest interesting news/feeds.

More later.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Read this clip and try not to say WTF!!

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:49:04 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I mean, are you kidding me!? Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts were offering "symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism" because she was wearing a black and white scarf. After this one, it's going to take a whole to shock me

Honestly, i just tagged this clip dunkin donuts, rachel ray and terrorism - WTF indeed!!

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Tags: dunkin donuts, rachel ray, terrorism, wtf

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:16:48 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: An investigation turned up the photographer as Jamie Livingston, and he did indeed take a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned to collect them at some point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday.

After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it JAMIE LIVINGSTON. PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence. The physical exhibit opened in 2007 at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College (where Livingston started the series, as a student, way back when). The exhibit included rephotographs of every Polaroid and took up a 7 x 120 foot space.

Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

What started for me as an amusing collection of photos — who takes photos every day for eighteen years? — ended with a shock.

In 1979 the photos start casually, with pictures of friends, picnics, dinners, and so on.

By 1980, we start to figure out that the photographer is a filmmaker

Some days he doesn’t photograph anything

from February 5, 1983:

with Mets tickets on April 29, 1986:

July 2, 1989 of the photographer with his instrument:

In 1991, we see visual evidence of the photographs so far

he marks Frank Zappa’s death with this photo:

December 18, 1996:

On May 2 1997, something bad has happened:

May 4, 1997, it’s clear that he has cancer:

a mirror-self-portrait on June 2, 1997:

completely bald:

On the bright side, on September 11, 1997, the photographer’s hair starts to grow back:

October 5, 1997, it’s pretty clear what this picture means:

Two days later we see the wedding:

a few weeks later he’s back in the hospital

we see a friend playing music

The next day the photographer dies.

7 unconventional and creative ways to recycle

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:04:50 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

here are seven ways to make recycling a visible impact

7. The Walking Bike

This invention from Max Knight is a creative way to use old shoes.

Of course, you have to be willing to give up your hand brakes, but it’s a small price to pay to ride in such amazing style. The bike even has socks!

6. Pop Art Duck

5. The Washing Machine Spaceship

This alien-looking craft is, believe it or not, made entirely out of refrigerators and washing machines, dishwashers and garbage compactors.

4. A 2-liter Paradise: Build Your Own Island

looks like a fairly normal island, doesn’t it?

Why, you’d never suspect that it’s covering a floating heap of trash, thousands of plastic bottles in bags, held together with a bamboo frame, the island is 66 by 54 feet and can support a two-story house!

3. The Beer Bottle Buildings

a way to create odd works of pop art while building a brutally tough structure

2. Garbage Architecture

1. The Trashosaurus

this is a dinosaur made entirely out of garbage

weighs one ton

Tags: environment, green, design, cool

'bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality'

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:04 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is "the weirdest thing about a very weird animal," said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. "In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn't happen."

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

A DNA study found the creatures to be a mix of mammal, bird and reptile with, even more strangely, 10 sex chromosomes

Platypus proves even odder than scientists thought

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets

The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be a bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality. While humans have two sex chromosomes, the X and Y, the platypus has 10, with five of each kind

An international team of scientists extracted DNA from a female platypus, named Glennie, reading all 2.2bn pairs of her genetic "letters". Thought to have begun to diverge from other mammals 170m years ago, the platypus has been regarded as the nearest thing biologists have to a missing link between the earliest reptiles and mammals

"WILL THE BANANA BECOME EXTINCT?"

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:42:45 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: Eat a banana now, while you still can.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Adios, Banana: Why Future Generations Will Likely Never Taste One of Our Favorite Fruits

It’s less sensational news than skyrocketing food and oil prices, but the beloved yellow banana may soon disappear forever. Bananas are even more heavily consumed in many parts of the world than rice or potatoes, but now a fungus called Panama Disease is turning them brick-red and inedible. Here’s the worst part: There is no cure for Panama Disease and it is spreading very quickly. Experts surmise that within the next three decades, the sweet and creamy food staple will be nonexistent.

“The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world – and where they are leading us.”

Thanks to bad corporate behaviour and physical limits, we seem to be at a dead end. The only possible glimmer of hope is a genetically modified banana that can resist Panama Disease. But that is a distant prospect, and it is resisted by many people:

A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:11:05 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Gary Greenberg photographs the world, one grain of sand at a time, in A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

(magnification 40X)

Maui Sand:

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Star Sand:

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Namibia:

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Minnesota:

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Six Sand Grains:

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Ireland:

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Lahaina Maui:

Tags: nature, sand, photography

husband divorces wife over virginity

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:02:54 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: gawd!! this would have to be the stupidest ruling i've ever come across...right after divorcing based on "lack of penis size"

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

FRANCE plunged into a heated debate about its marriage laws today after learning that a court had annulled the union of two Muslims because the husband said the wife was not the virgin she had claimed to be.

Politicians, feminists and human rights activists denounced the verdict, handed down last month

"It is profoundly shocking that, in our country, a marriage can be annulled on the basis of non-virginity before the marriage,"

courts should defend Muslim women, not pressure them.

"The end result will be that some Muslim girls will rush to hospitals to have their hymens sewn back together

The hippo who ditched his muddy waters to catch some sun and surf

Wed, 28 May 2008 08:20:07 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: 'Hippos don't take well to darting' Mr van Schoor explains, 'they die of stress and this one would drown if we darted her in the water, and if we tried to dart her on the beach, she would run into the water for safety and again drown when the drug takes effect.'
Hippos are usually captured using passive methods such as monitoring paths that they use regularly and setting up enclosures to lure them into.

But Mr Van Schoor says that this hippo's only hope is to stop moving South.

He added: 'If the hippo moves any further south there is huge risk, he is moving into residential areas and towards Durban where food for the hippo will become a problem'.

Hippos are considered to be one of the most dangerous and aggressive of all animals and with this one coming into contact with humans and domestic animals, it could soon become a problem.

Sadly If the hippo does not retrace his own steps and move back north, KZN says there is little hope for him.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

They are better known for wallowing in swamps rather than their surfing skills but this hippo clearly had a whale of a time splashing around in the ocean.

Spotted in the water near the holiday town of Ballito, near Durban in South Africa, the rare sighting of a hippo catching some waves fascinated residents and wildlife experts alike.

The hippo was spotted swimming in the sea in the South African holiday town of Ballito

The hippo even strayed onto the sand to catch a few rays on the beach at Thompson's Bay and then moved into the water for the afternoon.

Lionel van Schoor from KZN Wildlife says that they have been observing this hippo further north, in Richards Bay and he says it has been moving south for the past two months.

It is thought that the lone young male hippo has wandered from its habitat in Richards Bay

'The animal walks along the beach foraging for food and when he comes across a rocky outcrop he simply goes for a swim in the sea' says Mr Van Schoor.

LSD vs. Alcohol vs. Tree

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:17:48 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: wallout.com

Tags: tree, alcohol, drugs, perception, humor, illustration, fun, collection, meme, series

Sex Ed Teacher Answers Student Questions on Masturbation, Parents Seek Criminal Charges

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:05:51 GMT

clipped by: digitalsistere
clipper's remarks: This type of fear based mentality on the side of parents and school administrators is a large part of the reason teens struggle with sexual issues. Parents don't want to talk about it...prosecute teachers who try to answer the students questions...and yet we ask "Oh my! What has happened to our youth? Where have we gone wrong?"

These parents need to be sued for utter stupidity. Don't attack a Sex-Ed teacher for trying to answer legitimate questions!

If they want to control the minds of their children...HOME SCHOOL them in a church basement somewhere and mind the shackles please, they tend to come loose with time and age.

Clip Source: www.sltrib.com

A group of Herriman parents who claim a middle school health teacher gave students information about sex that isn't allowed under state law are working with a lawmaker to seek criminal penalties for such behavior.

Wimmer said he decided to act after hearing this week from parents about an incident at Fort Herriman Middle School

investigating allegations that a seventh- and eighth-grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.

the teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave, probably through the end of the school year.

Thursday morning, students put up signs at the school supporting the teacher that read, "We were the ones asking her questions."

"I'm really angry right now. I want someone to apologize to those kids and say 'I'm sorry this is not part of the curriculum,' " said Sara Dewitt, a parent

50 parents has unofficially organized

Tags: sex, teen, school, education, children, teacher, masturbation

The Wearable Motorcycle

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:41:04 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: devicedaily.com

Riding a motorcycle is really cool and the adrenaline is a really nice feeling. Well, somebody thought to change the way that the motorcycle will transport you. Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design, has came up with a system that will act as an extension of your body.

His idea came from Biomechatronics and he dubbed his concept as the Deux Ex Machina and will consist of an vertically parking motorcycle that will be managed by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. The Deus Ex Machina is Yamaha-branded and it will be worn as an exo-skeleton and the helmet will be pneumatically attached.

The in-wheel motor will be able to power the motorcycle from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds and it will have a maximum speed of 75mph. The Deus Ex Machina is electric and it can cycle one hour with a recharge time of 15 minutes.

Tricking The Tongue

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:19:27 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”

Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”

They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party in Long Island City, Queens, last Friday night. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa and has been known to Westerners since the 18th century

The cause of the reaction is a protein called miraculin, which binds with the taste buds and acts as a sweetness inducer when it comes in contact with acids

jet pilot gets close for a photo

Thu, 29 May 2008 01:20:44 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: closer...closer...closer...SMILE!!

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

come closer
closer...
closer...
almost there...

say CHEESE!!!