The World’s Biggest Spiderweb

This is the world's biggest web!

This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas. It’s not yet clear if this “work of art” has been made by a single or a colony of spiders. The web was initially white, but turned dark when all the mosquitoes got caught in it. Also, nothing was said about the species of spider found at the location. Until further information is provided, here is the huge white web.

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Prototype heat shield for NASA Orion capsule arrives at Kennedy

The heat shield that will protect the new Orion space capsules as it sends astronauts back and forth between Earth and the Space Station, and later between Earth and the Moon, Mars, and other places, has arrived at the NASA Kennedy Space Center for testing.

Based on technologies from the space shuttle and Apollo, the new crew exploration vehicle (CEV) aft heat shield for the Orion space capsule is one of the first pieces to be developed for NASA’s new Project Constellation.

The heat shield is called a manufacturing demonstration unit (MDU), which means it is not hardware that will go out into space, but only a full-scale test hardware that will simulate how the real shield will look and work.

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10 Reasons Not to Eat Chicken

It would make more sense to try and stop us from eating fast food.

"For all you chicken lovers out there, this list should help out your cause. I personally love chicken, but this gave me a little insight and a good laugh.

1. ‘Bird Brain’ Is a Compliment
Several recent studies have shown that chickens are bright animals, able to solve complex problems, demonstrate self-control, and worry about the future. Chickens are smarter than cats or dogs and even do some things that have not yet been seen in mammals other than primates. Dr. Chris Evans, who studies animal behavior and communication at Macquarie University in Australia, says, “As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys.” Dr. John Webster of Bristol University found that chickens are capable of understanding cause and effect and that when chickens learn something new, they pass on that knowledge (i.e., they have what scientists call “culture”)."

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Raise the dead in your own yard

You do not need a Halloween to scare people. It will probably be really scary for your friends to see something like this in your yard. They might even call you freaking out. This is a good how-to for people that want to scare someone. Here's some of the article:

Today is a good time as any to scare your friends. And here’s a new trick on how to get a few good screams. You simply need the fence you would normally use around your house. This should be easy to shape and stand up on its own. Now simply follow the pictures, shaping is the easy part. Whenever on a picnic, fishing or hiking, you can place your ghost in the forest and wait for the effect!

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Soundproof wood floor

Sound proofing wooden floors

A lot of people think that wooden floors are very noisy and cold, this is no longer the case. Before central heating this flooring could make the house very cold due to the inefficiency to hold the heat in and hence your heating bill would be quite large.

New, modern flooring does not suffer from these problems.

The flooring sold now comes tongue and grooved on all 4 sides which means the boards slot firmly together without leaving large gaps for the breeze to come through. This immediately eliminates any drafts from below the sub floor. Even when laid directly onto joists, the insulation is very good and no cold can be felt coming through the joints.

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Well you would've thought they would have caught this earlier. It is highly unusual but at least they have caught it now. I guess the scammer finally told them the truth.

"It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren't where the antelope play. Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train. The deception was uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam."

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?' Poster Premiere!

You might love this Indiana Jones poster and you might not! This is going to be an actual movie for some crazy reason. I guess all of you will just have to decide for yourself. Oh yeah, did you guys see Ellen had Hillary Clinton on her show today. I heard Osama has it out for her. The article please:

"Cinematical has just received this exclusive final poster (click on the image for a larger version) for Morgan Spurlock's new doc, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, marks Spurlock's directorial follow-up to the mega-entertaining Super Size Me. This time around, and with a baby on the way, Spurlock travels to the Middle East in an attempt to find the man no government or special-ops team has been able to track down: Osama bin Laden. I love the whole Indiana Jones look to the poster, and you know Spurlock is always good for a couple hours of pure entertainment. He's just so huggable! For more on Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, check out James' review from Sundance, as well as his one on one interview with the man himself, Morgan Spurlock."

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Kid gets a nice look

If that doesn't make you laugh I'm not sure what would. This kid takes a nice look when he has the best chance. You other men out there have to agree with him though, you would look also if they were right there in your face.

Virgin Mary pretzel being sold for $1000

Enough already, you people need to stop buying things in the shape of Virgin Mary. Hurry, you better find something that looks like the Virgin Mary before everyone else does. Here's some of the article:

"It's happened again. Someone has found something in the shape of the Virgin Mary. And they're trying to sell it on eBay.

This one is a pretzel, that looks like the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Michael Fleming found it in a bag of Rold Gold pretzels 3 years ago, but he's been holding onto it since then.

His co-workers posted it on eBay Wednesday, and in the first hour, bidding reached $1,000."

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10 (More) Pieces of Clever Transforming Furniture: From Tetris Tables to Rooms in a Box

I would really like to see these pieces of furniture. Have a look yourself. FURNITURE EVOLUTION!

"Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-droppingly cool. Be sure to scroll all the way down: the best (pictured briefly above) has been saved for last!"

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The shiny, tiny Onyx Liscio phone

Who wouldn't want one of these tiny phones. Flippin sweet!

The Onyx Liscio is an ultra compact and very lightweight handset designed specifically as a second phone. The oddly named Liscio weighs just 60 grams and measures on 90 x 35 x 18mm. Compare that with 91 grams and 106 x 44 x 12mm for the popular Nokia 6300, or the 128 gram Nokia N95 8GB and you can see how much smaller the Liscio is (see the image on the left for a size comparison with the Nokia 6300).

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Your pix as Postcards in flash online gallery - freeware

PostcardViewer is a free Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface.

Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic

Googles at it again. They are preparing to store patient's health record. All I can say is, "Soon they will all take over our lives." Here is some of the article:

"For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn’t had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way — delays and a management change.

But on Thursday, Google’s technology for personal health records, which is still in development, is getting a big endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic. The big medical center is beginning a pilot project to link the health information for some of its patients with Google personal health records.

Cleveland Clinic is at the cutting edge of health information technology, and its more than 100,000 patients each has a personal health record. But a sizable portion of those patients are retirees, notes Dr. C. Martin Harris, the clinic’s chief information officer. Many of them, he said, spend about five months elsewhere, typically in Florida or Arizona, and the clinic’s sophisticated electronic health records don’t follow them there.

“It forces the patient to become his or her own medical historian,” Dr. Harris said."

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Muslims criticise Walkers after it is revealed that some crisp varieties contain alcohol

"Furious Muslims have heavily criticised Walkers crisps after it emerged that certain varieties of the manufacturer's products contain trace elements of alcohol.

Some crisp types use minute amounts of alcohol as a chemical agent to extract certain flavours.

The report in Asian newspaper Eastern Eye, highlights concerns raised by shopkeeper Besharat Rehman, who owns a halal supermarket in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Mr Rehman told the paper: "A customer informed us that Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli and Doritos Chilli Heat Wave are not on Walkers' alcohol-free list. Our suppliers were unaware of this."

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Youtube.com down - ooops problems pop-up at large sites also

here is something that has been all over the Internet. This has been interesting to see how many people are complaining about it. We still currently do not know what the problem is. Feel free to contact me if there is an update. Here's some of the article:

"It seems that youtube.com is down for more than 30 minutes. No, its not because
of my internet connection. It’s a problem at youtube 100%(see pictures below)

It seems that large sites can also have major problems, even if we would
think that this is impossible. Who would have taught that this would happen.

I bet that many people are pretty pissed now and they are cursing their
ISP because they can’t interact on youtube.

After asking some friends to
check if youtube is working I also did a check using internetsupervision, just
to make sure that i won’t write stupid things on my blog."

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