July 22 2008
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posted by Ana Samways at 4:07 pm
Happy Birthday. Meh. A fantastic photostream by Superbomba with pics all pre-dating 1990. The best ones are here.
Cartoon: Man vs God.
A dummy that moves and feels like a real patient and can bleed, vomit and sweat, has been unveiled as the latest training tool for health professionals.
Why newspapers shouldn’t allow comments, according to Gawker:
“Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper’s site — providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion. Almost never … Opening a deeply personal article up to the peanut gallery does these writers a great disservice … Thanks for writing; your check is in the mail, and oh — have fun getting senselessly torn apart in the comments.”
Video link: Photos of sunbathers next to two drowned gypsy girls on a beach have sparked outrage in Italy. Italians are openly hostile to Gypsies, or Roma, as they are called. A recent Italian newspaper survey found that 68% of people want Italy’s Gypsies expelled.
The NZ Herald’s revelation that it’s two and a half times more expensive to own than rent is something renters desperately wanting to get on the housing market have known for sometime, but the wait to leave bad curtain hell might be a bit longer, according to Bernard Hickey, who suggests we are only in stage one of the five stages of real estate grief.
Video: Amazing footage of an orca playing with a dog.
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