Archive for September, 2009:
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma offers deeply-discounted surgery, payable in advance in cash or cashier’s check, see a sample of prices above (click to enlarge). From the FAQ section:To keep our prices as low as possible, cashier’s checks or cash are the methods preferred. Credit cards and personal checks cannot be accepted. Human resource departments [...]
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
Using eight cheap webcams, a GPS receiver and open-source software, Roy D. Ragsdale built a rig that can do what Google’s Street-View cars do: take images of the world around it and stitch them together into panoramas. The difference? This version can be carried on your head and cost just $300 to make. Go to [...]
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
Many are seeing red over the decision to turn New York City’s highest beacon –and one of America’s symbols for free enterprise — into a shining monument honoring communist China’s revolution Wednesday night. Go to Source
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
Mahmoud Zahar, the senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said Wednesday that the release of a tape showing that Gilad Shalit was alive was the first stage of a broader deal now being negotiated with Israel on the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Go to Source
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
In a not so subtle critique of white collar criminality, Chinese artist Chen Wenling constructed a sculpture of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff being violently gored by a gas-powered bull, his animal fetish. “What You See Might Not Be Real,” is on display through October 11th in Wenling’s solo show “Emergency Escape” at Beijing’s Joy Art [...]
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This chart detailing the future of public transportation is not as Jetsons as I hoped, but the backpack helicopter is still pretty bad ass. |PSFK| Go to Source
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
Brendan says (19:53): You should blog. F½~Era @ NITH says (19:54): I was thinking that too. I just didn’t have anything interesting to blog about. Brendan says (19:54): Me ;D You could be like HE WAS LIKE “OMGBLOG” AND I WAS LIKE *ERECT* Brendan says (19:54): Then post it. F½~Era @ NITH says (19:54): Go [...]
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
this whole layoff thing? we are saving one helluva lotta money on gas! booyah! Go to Source
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
filed in Daily Buzz News on Sep.30, 2009
“No more penance No old books No more preachers Dirty crooks” Kittens when I was a wee lad of 10 years old my dear old pop told me get my ass outside one day because we were going to climb a tree. We had hundreds to choose from in our back yard as I spent [...]