13 Incredibly WTF Body Modifications. Again and again, human beings have shown off their willingness to pierce, poke and alter every facet of their bodies. Currently, tattoos and certain piercings are seen as utterly socially acceptable, and no-one blinks twice if your barista has 8 earrings and full sleeve tattoos. But some people take it to the next level, with bodymods that stretch belief and might fire up your gag reflex. Here are 13 of the craziest body mods (which don’t involve genitalia, because that would just be too easy). 13. Black Light Tattoo So what do you do if you want a tattoo but you don’t want it to be highly visible?
12. This bodymod is high on the list because, well, because it’s actually kinda hot. 11. Another one that’s kinda cool. 10. The labret is a fairly common piercing, one which is beneath your lower lip, and is often seen as a stud or spike. 9. So you want a piece of metal sticking straight out of your body? 8. 7. 6. 5. But subdermal implants are here to stay! 4. 3. 2. 1. AAAHH! Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India. The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC. The death of the woman, Boa Senior, was highly significant because one of the world's oldest languages, Bo, had come to an end, Professor Anvita Abbi said. She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage. Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be up to 70,000 years old. The islands are often called an "anthropologist's dream" and are one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the world. 'Infectious' Professor Abbi - who runs the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (Voga) website - explained: "After the death of her parents, Boa was the last Bo speaker for 30 to 40 years.
"She was often very lonely and had to learn an Andamanese version of Hindi in order to communicate with people. "The Andamanese are believed to be among our earliest ancestors. " 'Imported illnesses' Obama firm on Dalai Lama meeting despite China warnin. US President Barack Obama intends to go ahead with plans to meet the Dalai Lama despite warnings from China not to, a White House spokesman has said. Mr Obama told China's leaders last year in Beijing that he would meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader, White House spokesman Bill Burton said. China has warned that ties with the US would be undermined if the meeting takes place. No date has been set but it is expected to take place later this month. "The president told China's leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama and he intends to do so," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters.
"The Dalai Lama is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader and the president will meet with him in that capacity," he said. The comments came after Communist Party official Zhu Weiqun said such a meeting would "threaten trust and co-operation" between Beijing and Washington. 'Tibetan separatist'
"Sorry, I'm Dead": 30 Most Memorable Video Game Quotes - Orange. Take a break from playing Mass Effect 2--we all know you're playing it. With two million copies sold in one week, you'd be in the minority by not playing it. Anyway: One of the most distinguishing gameplay features of Mass Effect 2 is the game's excellent dialogue system. Just about everything you say and do will have in impact on the rest of the game (and its sequel): What your character says and does will ultimately affect how others will respond to you... and even if they live or survive. Video games have had a long history of memorable dialogue. Whether it's emotionally driven or just plain silly, there are certain video game quotes that players will never forget.
Here's our choice of most memorable video game quotes. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law. The state of South Australia has a new election law that went into effect January 6, and its effect was shocking: anonymous political speech on the Internet was simply destroyed. The law required anyone posting a political comment online during an election period to supply their real name and address or face a fine of up to AUS$1,250. The measure was grossly discriminatory—it applied only to bloggers and commenters, not to online "journals" (newspapers or magazine which are written by Real Journalists).
Politicians had apparently developed a thin skin to anonymous commentary, some of which no doubt did devolve into rank defamation, but Australia already has defamation laws that could be used against truly egregious material. Ending online anonymous speech was an extreme solution, one not appreciated by the targets of the law. AdelaideNow was one of the main sites caught in the crosshairs. The law was backed by South Australia's Attorney General, Michael Atkinson. The 10 Coolest Experiments from Google Labs. When you've got thousands of the world's most brilliant engineers spending 20% of their time on whatever takes their fancy, you need a home for the results.
Such a home would provide a safe environment for these fledgling experiments to test their wings — even if they fail. It would provide a playground where the geekier contingent of the general public can access ideas before those ideas are ready for public consumption. It would be associated enough with Google to get the brand benefits, and quarantined enough so that it doesn't put the core service at risk. That playground exists at Google Labs. And while many of the experiments from the Lab have slunk away into obscurity (anyone remember Google X?)
, some of the big G's most popular current offerings had their genesis there. Here are my current picks for the 10 coolest experiments in the Labs right now. Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face? Bing, Google, And The Enigmatic T2: The Race For A Complete Sema. Yesterday, Bing released a surprisingly useful new feature around recipe search. If you search for “Chicken,” you can narrow the results down by “chicken recipes” and then a whole bunch of new filtering options appear down the left-hand column. You can further narrow results by recipe rating, cuisine (vegetarian, Spanish, Southwestern), convenience (quick/easy, family, entertaining), occasion (wedding, Valentine’s Day), main ingredient, course, or cooking method. Bing is big on guided search (showing relevant search categories to help narrow results), but this goes one step further towards semantic search (the ability to index and search the Web by different facets).
Recipes are just the beginning, and it’s not just Bing. Google and a handful of startups, including Evri, Hakia, and Radar Networks, are hard at work on making semantic search a reality. In fact, Bing’s recipe search looks a hell of a lot like T2, the semantic search engine being developed in private by Radar Networks. YouTube Will Start Charging for Some Videos. Starting this weekend, YouTube will be dipping its toe into the waters of paid content. This behavior follows a trend we've noted in traditional media outlets. First, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said no more freebies for search engines, then the New York Times hinted (and today confirmed) that users would have to start paying for a certain amount of access to articles.
Now, YouTube is partnering with the Sundance Film Festival and filmmakers to charge users around $5 to view a range of movies from the 2009 and 2010 festivals. It's still cheaper than a movie ticket - but is this a direction users will follow? Five Sundance films have been selected for this venture. It's what we'd consider a test run to see how users will respond to paid content on the site, and whether this could be a new revenue stream for the web video giant, which has historically struggled with profitability.
What do you think: Would you pay $5 to watch an indie flick on YouTube? Rape victim uses fake phone call to help police find her. UTAH COUNTY -- A Sandy man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and rape after a woman used quick thinking to get word to police that she needed help. Early Thursday morning, a Utah Valley dispatcher got a call from the young woman. She didn't exactly say she was in an emergency. "[It] was a bit confusing for dispatch, initially," said Utah County sheriff's Lt. Mike Brower. The woman started carrying on a conversation with the dispatcher, as though they were sisters.
"She kind of had a gut feeling something was not right with the call," Brower said. During the call, the woman whispered, "Help me. " "[The dispatcher] started asking yes-and-no questions, and it led ultimately to dispatch finding out that she was being held against her will and needed some help," Brower said. The woman's call came from an isolated area next to Utah Lake. "She was able to give enough description to get law enforcement there to help her," Brower said. When she asked to go home again, he refused to let her go. Kulula-air tries not to take itself too seriously. Jive Software Acquires Social Media Monitoring Startup Filtrbox. Businesses and brands have already caught onto the immense power of the social stream that runs through Twitter and Facebook to track the pulse of conversations around consumers.
Both tech giants and startups are competing to provide enterprise-friendly, social platforms to businesses that combine both collaboration and social media monitoring. Socialtext and CubeTree offer compelling social collaboration offerings to the enterprise. And Salesforce.com recently entered the market with a new, more social version of its Service Cloud, and also debuted its take on a social platform for the enterprise, Chatter. Now Jive Software, a Sequoia-backed company that develops an all-in-one social enterprise software is acquiring Filtrbox, a startup that provides tools for social media monitoring, to boost its offering. Filtrbox, which raised $1.4 million in funding last February, allows users to monitor thousands of content sources, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed.
The 20 Worst Restaurant Foods in America. If-your-password-is-123456-just-make-it-hack-me.html: Personal F. Want to become a billionaire? Up your chances by dropping out of college, working at Goldman Sachs or joining Skull & Bones. Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made? We get these questions a lot, and decided it was time to go beyond the broad answers of smarts, ambition and luck by sorting through our database of wealthy individuals in search of bona fide trends. Our admittedly unscientific study of the 657 self-made billionaires we counted in February for our list of the World's Billionaires yielded some interesting results. First, a significant percentage of billionaires had parents with a high aptitude for math.
Consistent with the rest of the population, more American billionaires were born in the fall than in any other season. More than 20% of the 292 of the self-made American billionaires on the most recent list of the World's Billionaires have either never started or never completed college. Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas. More Churches Promote Martial Arts to Reach Young Men - NYTimes.
Girl, 9, gives birth to health baby boy. By Richard Shears Updated: 12:44 GMT, 3 February 2010 A nine-year-old Chinese schoolgirl has become one of the world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a healthy boy. The unnamed girl was brought to a hospital in Changchun, which lies in the north-east of the country, when she was eight and a half months pregnant. Two days later, she gave birth to the 6lb boy by Caesarean section, a Chinese newspaper has reported.
The girl, nine, who apparently gave birth to a healthy baby boy is said to come from the town of Songyuan (pictured) in north-east China. Menstruation usually starts at the age of 12 but it is not uncommon for it start earlier. The child comes from the nearby town of Songyuan. Last night police were reportedly trying to establish who the father is. In the province, sex with a child under the age of 14 brings an automatic rape conviction and a lengthy jail sentence. Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Dr Lozada who helped with the birth. White House Prepares for Possibility of Two Supreme Court Vacanc. Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring. Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health.
That would give the president his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court. Last week, when Obama took the nearly unprecedented step of criticizing the court's opinion in a major campaign finance case during his State of the Union speech, some believed he was showcasing for the American people that presidential elections, and Supreme Court nominations count. "With all due deference to separation of powers," the president said, " last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections. Untitled. Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants. Text smaller Text bigger Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND.
Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. LONDON – Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up. Similar surgery has been performed on male suicide bombers. Analyzing The Fallout: New Vegas Trailer - Fallout: new vegas - This isn't completely without merit.
Jason Bergman from Bethesda posted on his Twitter account this morning when it came out: "Bring on the #FalloutNewVegas speculation! Should be lots of little tidbits you can gleam from that teaser if you look carefully enough. " So it looks like he believes there are hints in the trailer that people can find. If you ask me, I'm thinking the game will fall somewhere around 2241, the beginning of the window where the New California Republic moved in and took control of the Hoover Dam.
Since he's standing next to a firmly planted NCR flag and not actually holding it, it could mean that the NCR are already entrenched in the area around Vegas. I'm not sure where the robot comes in or what he's doing, maybe soil tests, but I did notice that he goes from a smile to an evil cowboy face to a smile again right at the beginning. After 200+ hours in the D.C. WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 - Heinz Revamps Ketchup Packets.