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BULLETPROOF MONK

A monk shows how he can collect alms and remain protected in a prototype “monkmobile,” developed to protect Buddhist monks in predominantly Muslim southern Thailand from attacks in Bangkok yesterday. The vehicle was developed by Precipart Co, Ltd. Company owner Major Songphol Eiamboonyarith has developed an array of devices, including orange-colored bulletproof vests for monks […]

SO YOUNG AND SO METAL

In late February of 2005, during the John Paul Martines recording sessions in Bronx, NY, Danny Bronx and Bob Fantastic recorded guitar and drum tracks that would later become the structure of “Skeleton Freak Out.” During the recording sessions, John Paul’s 5 year old younger brother (Tyler Petrucci,) came into the studio and said these […]

“I JUST WANT TO PLAY.”

Nathaniel was a music student more than 30 years ago at the prestigious Juilliard School when he suffered a breakdown. Today, as he continues to battle the schizophrenia that landed him on skid row, music is one of the few things that inspires and consoles him.
He plays violin and cello for hours each day in […]

HERDING ZOMBIES

The most potent weapon for Web gangsters is the botnet. A bot, broadly speaking, is a remote-controlled software program that is installed on a computer without the owner’s knowledge. Hackers use viruses, worms, or automated programs to scan the Internet in search of potential zombies. One recent study found that a new P.C., attached to […]

ROBOFISH

Robotic fish unveiled (Ananova)
(For loads more robot-related articles, check out my bot’s weblog, They’re Made out of Meat.)

ASK PHILOSOPHERS

A moral commuter wants to know whether it is ethical to get off and on the expressway multiple times — to save time — even if he will thus be adding to congestion in merging lanes. A physician needs guidance on how to handle a pregnant woman with asthma who may be making decisions that […]

YOU’LL GET ETERNAL WAR AND LIKE IT

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades.
Addressing US military personnel, he said that the only way terrorists would win was if the US lost its nerve and abandoned Iraq and the Middle East.
Mr Cheney is the latest senior member of the US […]

TWITCHY ROBOT DOG ART

An artist being paid nearly £4,000 to build a pack of robotic dogs which will mimic the symptoms of cows dying from BSE was today branded “grossly insensitive” by an angry farming group.
France Cadet will programme the dogs so they can splay their legs, shake, and keel over — as if they were suffering from […]

QUEERMAGEDDON

Darkness falls, my friends, bleak omens of final things. Over the last year or so we’ve seen, despite the best of intentions and the heartiest crushings of civil rights, the foreboding spread of Gay throughout the world as you know it, leading us inevitably, as James Dobson pointed out, towards the destruction of the earth.
The […]