Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Mystery of metallic glass is cracked

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how atoms pack themselves in unusual materials known as metallic glasses. Their findings should help scientists better understand the atomic scale structure of this material, which is used to make sports equipment, cell phone cases, armor-piercing projectiles and other products.



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Flatworm Penis Fencing! (Video)

During penis fencing, each flatworm tries to pierce the skin of the other using one of its penises. The first to succeed becomes the de facto male, delivering its sperm into the other, the de facto female. Mating is a fight because the worm that assumes the female role then must expend considerable energy caring for the developing eggs.



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Calif. County Bans Tattoos for Employees

Public employees in San Bernardino County are being asked to cover up tattoos and remove visible facial piercings in the workplace.



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N.C. company pierces China's firewalls

Company disguises Web sites so they can slip past China's firewall filters.



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Think twice before getting your next piercing !!

Nipple piercing may have caused fatal infection in Newfoundland 17-year-old. -- A 17-year-old girl is believed to have died from toxic shock syndrome and the infection that killed her may have resulted from a nipple piercing, the province's chief medical examiner says.



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Civil Rights Movement for Body Modification Begins!

Finally after years of being told that our piercings, tattoos, and other body mods are not work appropriate, The United States Chuch of Body Modification comes along. This official church offers long needed protection for body modders.



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Ear Piercing May Result in Keloid in Some Children

In children with a family history of keloid formation, ear piercing at age 11 years or older is more likely to result in keloid, according to the results of a study published in the May issue of Pediatrics.



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Robotic briefcase acts like a dog: comes when you call, barks at strangers

Samsung Italia is offering a robotic briefcase-on-wheels called FidoBag that acts like a dog: It recognizes your voice and comes when you call it. It follows you through the airport. If someone steals the briefcase, the bag actually "barks" at an eardrum-piercing 197.5 db.



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Piercing Studio Implants Subdermal RFID Chips

The studio offers RFID placements for people who want to have keyless entry into their home. Tribal Expression uses a glass ampoule that houses a 64-bit RFID chip. The studio charges $275 CND (~$235) for the placement.



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'Closed-Heart Surgery' Is Newest Frontier

Dr. Samuel Lichtenstein cut a 2-inch hole between an elderly man's ribs. Peering inside, he poked a pencil-sized wire up into the chest, piercing the bottom of the man's heart. Within minutes, Bud Boyer would have a new heart valve — without having his chest cracked open. Call it closed-heart surgery.



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Multiplayer Games Attract Virtual Call Girls

Amster-Dame, one of Second Life's red-light districts, can't decide what to wear. On one side of the canal-cleaved street, an adults-only cinema flashes real skin flicks free of charge for the horny or hard up. On the other, Blade Runner-esque boutiques vend mixable, matchable parts--pristine, tattooed, or pierced.



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Got $10 burning a hole in your pocket? Go see Brick.

"A modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school. There, student Brendan Frye’s piercing intelligence spares no one. His ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes."Hilariously entertaining with an exceptionally well written script. Watch the trailer, see the movie.



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Do you have what it takes to be the new James Bond?

Britain's foreign spy service MI6 has turned to the Internet in an attempt to recruit real-life James Bonds and dispel myths about the secretive agency. Possible agents are promised foreign travel and must be resourceful. So are you more the Pierce Brosnan or Sean Connery type?



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Firewall Piercing and Bypassing Tips!

Ever want to route your home network to your desktop at work over the company firewall and not get caught? This PDF shows you tricks to setup remote networks over firewalls using SSH, PPP, and other little tools all over a firewall.



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Inside the Baghdad Bomb Squad

Buried roadside explosives. Armor-piercing shrapnel. Rooftop gunfire. Just another 29-hour day at the office for Team Mayhem and its army of little claw-tipped robots.



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Insects are Far More Creepy When it Comes to Sex

The Australian Museum has discovered that traumatic insemination, a practice of males piercing the female body cavity and injecting sperm into the bloodstream, is more common in insects than previously thought. "...One female developed a corkscrew tunnel in the side of her body to match the male's genitalia."



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SunnComm Thinks iPod Parody Real. Officially Denies Report

Our own Jon Newton took a stab at parody with his mock news report on DRM...SunnComm, fell for it. They even went so far as to put out a press release to deny the report..."When an iPod plays an iTunes track not sanctioned by Organized Music, Fair Play feedback 'instructs' the buds to emit a piercing, high-pitched scream in stereo at 250 decibels."



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Student From Salisbury University Sells Crocheted Vaginas

Wow, you can actually purchase crochet vaginas that this Salisbury University girl makes from yarn. Item's range from coin pouches, tampon pouches, mini-gina's, etc. For an extra $0.50 you can add a piercing. Disgustingly genius.



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Bad gums due to piercing (semi-gory pics inside)

Look at what this girls lip-piercing did to her gums.



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Daniel Craig Current Day Sean Connery Bond? Or Second Rate Bond?

After the non renewal of Pierce Brosnan's contract as James Bond for the upcoming 007 film Casino Royal, MGM was on the search for a new star. They came to Daniel Craig who recently played in the film, Road to Perdition. Will Daniel Craig be able to fill the shoes of great Bonds such as Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan?



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Craziest Piercings In The World

There are men, and female that have over like 50 peircings on their face. Their is even a guy with over 10 peircings on this back. What is the world turning into?



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Tommy Lee goes through an airport x-ray machine

Tommy Lee apparently decided to go through the x-ray machine after his numerous piercings slowed down his travel plans. Feel free to try this yourself next time you're at the airport, although, if you're not a rockstar your results may vary.



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Schwarzenegger Jeered at Graduation Speech

Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in perseverance when virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the crowd.



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How to Throw Cards With Skill

Throwing cards as deadly weapons seems impossible. Little bits of cut-out cardboard suddenly becoming capable of piercing hard fruit, drywall, or even a brown paper lawn bag is beyond the believable unless you are open to anything you've seen on TV-or anything, period



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What causes a "stitch" in your side during exercise?

A side stitch is a piercing sensation just below the ribcage, usually felt when you're running.



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GPS modernization begins with Delta rocket launch

A Boeing Delta 2 booster pierced the night sky Sunday evening, successfully launching the first modernized Global Positioning System satellite to build a bridge from the navigation network of today to the advancements of tomorrow.



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Darth Vader sirens are a scream

Emergency services are adopting a new ear-piercing siren in an attempt to counter soundproofing in modern cars and souped-up car stereos. Dorset ambulance service says it has conducted successful trials with the “Darth Vader death ray”, which sounds like a shrieking banshee.



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Pierced Eyeglasses

"The idea of hanging eyeglasses from a piercing or a combination of piercings or even transdermal implants is something that a lot of us have toyed with" -- I hadn't thought of the idea, but I'm glad someone did!



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Can a cell Phone sooth a CRYING BABY???

When a toddler's wails soar to piercing volume, do you shake the baby rattle or dangle the mobile phone?



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new method for quick and painless piercing

for those who are into such things anyway



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Guinness World Record for the most temporary piercings broken...ouch!!

“At 5 p.m., he hit 2,507 needles,�? said Paige McCoy, Deerwood’s friend and one of the witnesses to the event. “They were doing so well at 2,005 neither one of them realized it was only 2 p.m. At needle 2,035 Stevie was cracking jokes.�?



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Sex Wars Fought With Spiky Genitals

Male seed beetles have spectacularly harmful penises covered in sharp spikes. These help the male's chances of fertilizing the eggs by providing an anchor, but can also pierce the female during sex, causing injury.



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Male Piercing is Popular

Male piercing is becoming more and more popular all the time and will continue to be for some time to come. Men are embracing male piercing. They are piercing ears, noses, lips and more. Lots of men now boast male piercing items.



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DNA experiment proves that cells in the human body can communicate

An experiment which proves that DNA can heal itself according to the "feelings" of the individual as reported recently by Gregg Braden. He says living cells communicate through an energy not affected by time and distance, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time. DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers...



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[PIC]What happens to the human body if you quit smoking RIGHT NOW!

sorry, but the pic ain't going to help me quit. hey ill brb, gotta go have a smoke



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Estella Warren is a Strawberry Blonde Beauty Sexy Actress

Estella Warren has the body of a swimmer with the face of a naughty girl. Estella Warren is riding on a high right now. It’s hard to pass by a single newsstand without Estella and her pouty lips staring us down.



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Shocking rise in the trade of of body parts

You cannot buy a kidney at your local Kwiky mart just yet, but if you wanted to you could buy an essential organ when yours has packed in.



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Swimsuit-Clad Teen Tries To Rob Bank With Bottle

The would-be bandit claimed to have explosives strapped to his body and referred to a plastic bottle that he had set down in front of the building as a bomb. While in the bank, the suspect exhibited odd behavior -- including dropping to the floor to do push-ups.



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Fat Burning Foods

Eating the foods listed is said to make the body use more calories to digest the food than it actually gives you in return.



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