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Don’t talk to the police
Reading a passage in Homicide about how the detectives go about getting confessions from their suspects despite their right to remain silent brought to mind the following lecture given by Law professor James Duane on how you should never under any circumstance talk to the police.
The second half of the lecture was given over to Officer George Bruch who pretty much agreed with the professor but hoped that suspects wouldn’t take his advice. [via]
Fans who own this pair of sunglasses, we are the one who is breaking the true principle of “Fight Club”. We are buying shit that we don’t need. We are buying items to complete our boring sad lives. We are just sad “Fight Club” imitators who wanted to be cool. We are nothing like Tyler Durden or ever will be. The fact, Tyler Durden hates us.
“Fight Club” is not about imitating Tyler Durden. It is about reinforce his perception of life and live unwastefully.
This is a noble cause and is really easy way for those of us with Twitter accounts to help make a contribution to fighting cancer.
Drew Olanoff, cancer-fighter and blogger, is auctioning off his enviable Twitter username “@drew” to benefit the LiveStrong foundation.
And thanks to the interest of Drew Carey there is a chance that the @drew username could go for a cool $1 million. But in order to make that happen Twitter users need to start following Drew Carey’s current Twitter feed. For every follower that Carey has by the time midnight hits on December 31st he will donate a dollar.
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Silk of a million spiders
The amount of work that has gone into making this beautiful piece of golden cloth is mindblowing. [via]
A unique piece of golden yellow silk brocade cloth, woven from spiderwebs, is on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. To harvest enough silk to make the cloth, more than a million female golden orb spiders were collected in Madagascar, “milked” for silk, and released back into the wild. The golden spider silk was woven by Malagasy artisans into lamba Akotifahana, a type of brocade that is traditionally reserved for the aristocracy; the entire process took 4 years.
Now this is the sort of extraordinary extravagance that you’d expect of billionaires such as Roman Abramovich.
Quote taken from The Observer’s segment This much I know with Jamie Oliver.
I totally agree, I’m a firm believer in opening up people’s eyes to the truth and so people should have an understanding of how their meat made it to their table i.e. what conditions the animals are typically kept in and how they are slaughtered.
I just did Jamie’s pork belly roast, it’s one of my favourites when I’ve got the time and the gravy is just the best ever. And of course the pork was Freedom Food endorsed outdoor bred.
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Central heterochromia
I just discovered by accident the terminology for the unusual colouration of my eyes.
Central heterochromia is an eye condition in which there are two different colors in the same iris. Central heterochromia is where the central (pupillary) zone of the iris is a different color than the mid-peripheral (ciliary) zone.
Eye color is determined primarily by the concentration and distribution of melanin pigment within the iris tissues, anything affecting those factors may result in a difference of color being observed. Central heterochromia appears to be prevalent in irises containing low amounts of melanin.
Eyes displaying central heterochromia are often referred to as “cat eyes” because of the appearance of a multi-colored iris.
Text taken from the Wikipedia article Heterochromia and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 3.0 license.
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Spotify approved for the iPhone
BBC News: Spotify represents the future of music and now it’s on iphone
I really do think that the streaming model typified by Spotify is the future of the recording industry. This will almost certainly mean that there is less income for the record companies in comparison to CD sales or MP3 downloads, but I think that companies that do not embrace the change will get left behind.
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Wireless electricity
Truly fascinating 10-minute talk given by Eric Giler about MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker without the need for wires.