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Chat. <em>Doctor Who</em> Fan Dies, Has Themed Funeral. Sebastian Neale, a 26 year old from South Wales and mega-fan of the Doctor Who series, passed away recently due to head injuries and was given a proper Dr. Who themed send off. The funeral music was swapped out in favor of the Dr. Who's theme song and mourners were greeted with the Doctor's words, "I'm a time lord ... I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity. " Instead of Bible verses, the funeral consisted of quotes from classic Who scripts, including William Hartnell's famous speech from "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth": "One day, I will come back. Wow, I just got a little teary eyed. R.I.P. Hit the jump for a better shot of the casket. A Funeral For A Time Lord [io9] Thanks to Julian, who wants his casket to look like a slab of bacon. Mass Attack. Kawak Ijen Volcano and Sulfur Mine. One of the more surreal places on Earth, Kawak Ijen Volcano is the site of a sulfer mine where workers must endure toxic fumes and an incredibly laborious work load, hauling sulfur out of the steep crater by hand.

In addition to the mine, the volcano is also the location of the world's largest acidic lake: a one mile long and 200 meter deep turquoise pool of water with a Ph of 0.5 which is the approximate acidity of battery acid -- enough to dissolve most metals. Sarah Mei » Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora. A few months ago, I started contributing to the Diaspora project. I began by refactoring their test suite and setting up a continuous integration server.

Then I installed Jasmine and started mucking around with the JavaScript. That was all pretty straightforward. A few weeks ago I made a slightly more controversial change. The “gender” field in a person’s profile was originally a dropdown menu, with three choices: blank, male, and female. My change made it an optional text field that was blank to start. A wide open frontier!

For a while, only a few people noticed. But now that Diaspora is in private alpha, more people have started noticing – on twitter, in the bug tracker, and in GetSatisfaction, among other places. …what else is there? Four years ago, at my first rails job, I worked at a company with a mostly-lesbian customer base. As a result, the company didn’t even bother to ask for gender when users created accounts. Now it’s personal tl;dr I made it to start a conversation. Japan Product Design Studio Blog - Part 2. TacH1 revs its way onto your wrist! March 21st, 2014 Design submitted by Humberto from Bolivia. Humberto says: I am a fan of vehicles, speed, adrenaline … then the idea came to me because I have not seen any place a modern, technological clock that looks like a part of a vehicle, so I decided to try an instrument that gives indication of speed x time. Read the rest of this entry » Mark of Beast: An LED watch with Primal Instinct! March 20th, 2014 Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.

Firdaus says: This idea is about beast, Mark of Beast as it named. Read the rest of this entry » Slices e-paper watch with dart-board style display March 19th, 2014 Design submitted by Patrick from France. Patrick says: Seeking a reading with concentric circles, I arrived on a pattern approaching darts or share a cake. Read the rest of this entry » TokyoSky LED watch recreates Japans metropolis March 18th, 2014 Design submitted by Lukas from Austria.

Read the rest of this entry » March 17th, 2014 March 14th, 2014. Doctor Who Series 5 Episode 2: The Beast Below | Doctor Who Episodes.

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