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- Mark Frauenfelder: Henry Covington made eight of these jetsonian cars (custom bodies on Renault frames) in 1958. He called it El Tiburon (The Shark). A guy in Riverbank, CA bought the last remaining Tiburon body from Covinton's widow for $800 and put in on a Porsche frame. This Modesto Bee article has more photographs. |
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- The British Medical Journal has given U.S. regulators confidential Eli Lily company documents suggesting a link between the antidepressant Prozac and a heightened risk of suicide attempts. |
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- Adtunes.com presents the most memorable ad music of 2004. The key word here is memorable, as opposed to good. ;) |
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- Life in a microcosmic world Our aim as a two-person team of photographer and biologist is to combine scientific exactness with aesthetic appearances thereby helping to bridge the gap between the world of science and the world of art. |
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- The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) is working to drum up viewership for their (often) intellectual or cultural programming, and they're willing to spring for munchy-snacks for your and your friends - if you'll take certain programs out for a test drive. This month's selected shows included "Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir" and an episode from their long-running Nature series on diamonds. January has a Robert MacNeil hosted documentary on American dialects and a biography of the legendary heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. |
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- Arthur Jacob Arshawsky 1910-2004 bio ripped/condensed from wikipedia: Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 - December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer. He was born in New York City and began learning the saxophone when he was 15 and by age 16 he began to tour with a band. He returned to New York City and became a session musician. During the Swing Era, his big band was very popular with hits like "Begin the Beguine". |
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- President Bush has increased the amount the U.S. will pledge to the Tsunami relief effort to $350 million. He's not putting a ceiling on it, and says the U.S. |
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- Pilots from time to time encounter laser beams that stray into the cockpit on approach to an airport, but a recent rash of such incidents - at least seven since Christmas - has them worried about an organized effort to take down airliners. |
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- Tsunami victims in South Asia are being helped by Tucsonans, who are putting money, thought and care into local fund raisers and projects to provide relief. On New Year's Day, part-time Tucsonan |
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- Although experts insist it is extremely rare, it appears at least one person from this area travels to Mexico and comes back with a worm in the brain every year. That bizarre and frightening form of |
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- PORT BLAIR, India - First mammoth waves washed over their villages, leaving not a single hut standing. Then the survivors' ordeal began: days of thirst, hunger and miles of walking until - just at |
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Weather (Dec 31 2004 21:26 GMT) - Today's forecast Partly cloudy. High 67 / Low 42 Thursday: High 65 / Low 47 For complete weather information, see the Weather Report page on back of Sports. http://www. |
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- The e-mails are painfully direct. "I am searching for my son," one began. "We are searching for my brother, Fernando Bengoechea," another said. "We know that he was swept by the waves with his |
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- STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The governent said Thursday that more than 1,000 Swedes may have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami, the worst death toll for any foreign country. Some 5,000 foreign tourists, |
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- Tsunami scientists and public safety officials are closely watching an earthquake-prone nation with thousands of miles of crowded coastlines for signs of an imminent disaster. Indonesia? Japan? Try |
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- MADRID, Spain - The Basque parliament approved a measure on Thursday that says the Basque country has the right to secede from Spain, a move analysts described as the most serious threat to national |
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- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Thursday accused his political opponents of "threatening" democracy as he explained to Pakistan his decision to renege on a promise to step |
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- ARGENTINA Scores killed in fire at Buenos Aires club BUENOS AIRES - A blaze in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires killed at least 149 people and injured 360, city officials said Friday. The |
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- JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - A prominent West Bank gunman carried a smiling Mahmoud Abbas on his shoulders Thursday, endorsing the presidential candidate and prompting questions of whether Abbas |
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- KIEV, Ukraine - Election officials on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's voluminous appeal against results showing he lost this week's presidential revote, saying he had not proved |
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- WASHINGTON - By key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq - numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks - the situation has grown worse since summer. While |
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Lottery (Dec 31 2004 21:26 GMT) - Drawings for Thursday, Dec. 30 Fantasy 5 2, 8, 13, 31, 34 Pick 3 3, 6, 9 Drawings for Wednesday, Dec. 29 The Pick 2, 10, 11, 16, 18, 37 Bonus Ball: 9 Jackpot: $3. |
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- Question: Is Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, related to the family of President Bush? Answer: Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff writer Ken Foskett, author of |
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- LONDON - A new study gives scientific clout to a conclusion many already see as obvious: Eating lots of fast food makes you fat and increases the chance of developing diabetes. A study published in |
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- The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the sandbox: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday. That is up from 7 percent in |
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Corrections (Dec 31 2004 21:26 GMT) - ● A Wednesday article on B3 about the opening of the new Library for Peace should have said the Islamic Center of Tucson has been involved in the creation of the library as well as planning for the |
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- SOUTH CAROLINA Team trying to save entangled whale COLUMBIA - A rescue team worked to free a young whale from a tangle of fishing line after the mammal was spotted Thursday off the South Carolina |
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- THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the big-band era, died Thursday at his home. He was 94. Shaw had been in |
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- WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is issuing a rewritten legal memo on the meaning of torture, backing away from its own assertions before the Iraqi prison abuse scandal that torture had to |
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- WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert is considering replacing the chairman of the ethics committee, which admonished Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is the focus of a grand-jury probe into his |
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- The U.S. Justice Department has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual assault victims - without any mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against |
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- HELENA, Mont. - A divided Montana Supreme Court declared Thursday that the state constitution's guarantee of equal protection extends to gays, and ruled that the state university system must offer |
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- WASHINGTON - When the federal government assesses the long-term financial problems of Social Security, it assumes that increases in life expectancy will be slow and measured. But many population |
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- SEDONA - Residents of this tourist community known for its stunning red rock formations began cleaning up Thursday after a heavy winter storm bloated Oak Creek from a trickling stream to a rushing |
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- ARIZONA Audit: Phoenix diocese heeding sex-abuse rules PHOENIX - A recent audit found that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix is following sex-abuse prevention policies. The examination assessed |
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- LOS ANGELES - A slow-rolling series of storms that battered the West this week brought snowfall and high wind Thursday to parts of California, where weather-weary residents have already endured |
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- PHOENIX - The state board that regulates administrators and managers of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities is slow to investigate complaints, often allowing cases to go unresolved for |
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- OLYMPIA, Wash. - After three vote tallies and nearly two nerve-racking months of waiting, Demo-crat Christine Gregoire was declared Washington's governor-elect on Thursday. But her Republican rival |
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- There's a fascinating conversation going on over at Outside the Beltway written by Leopold Stotch. The debate seems to stem from my post concerning a Northwestern professor comparing Al Qaeda's fight with the U.S. Revolutionary War. I'm not going to re-hash my views on this subject as I've already ... |
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- PHILADELPHIA - US Airways' manpower troubles over the Christmas holiday illustrated an old problem for companies: workers who call in sick when they are healthy enough to work. |
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- QUOTE (Aaron @ Dec 31 2004, 08:45 AM) QUOTE (Nemesis @ Dec 31 2004, 09:39 AM) QUOTE (Aaron @ Dec 30 2004, 05:47 AM) QUOTE If you don't like the music, that's cool, but let's at least be fair and allow Slipknot their rightful place in the pantheon of extreme music.Exactilly hw i feel unless it's NS Metal NS Metal? |
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- Mark Frauenfelder:... ... ... Well, probably not. But this is an interesting idea: |
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- Mark Frauenfelder:... Treehugger reports on a cute-as-a-button stapler that doesn't use staples. ... ... Instead using the tiny pieces of metal that add up to lots waste, this ingenious little device joins your papers by punching a small, neat hole in your documents and folding the remaining flaps together for a secure binding. |
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- Mark Frauenfelder:... ... ... Windows media video of some guys in the Netherlands blowing up a bomb beneath a freeway overpass or a subway tunnel. Link... |
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- Microsoft investigating DRM loophole... |
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