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via eternallycool.netIn news of the odd this morning we are happy to bring you the breaking story about a Venetian “vampire” recently excavated in a mass grave on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo that can be dated to an outbreak of the plague in 1576.
The news broke at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists in Denver, when Matteo Borrini of the Universita di Firenze announced that he and his archaeoloical team had excavated the skeleton of a Renaissance woman whose skull was imaled through the mouth with a brick.
Why a brick through the mouth? It seems that during the plague, it was commonly believed that the disease was spread by female vampires.
Borrini told a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Denver that when Europe was in the grips of the plague there was a widespread belief that the disease was spread by female vampires. Most likely, this idea can be attributed to the dribble of blood that often flowed from the mouth of plague victims.
Women who bled at the mouth at death were thought to be vampires. Furthermore, it was thought that when such “vampires” were buried, they would feed on their dead neighbors until they had gained enough strength to rise from the grave and to suck the blood of the living, thereby further spreading the plague.
Thus, it was up to gravediggers to identify possible vampire women and to impale them with a brick to keep them from feeding in the grave.
It was thought that these vampires, who were buried next to the bodies of plague victims, fed on their dead neighbors until they felt strong enough to rise from the grave and begin feeding on the living, perpetuating the cycle of contamination.
Borrini said gravediggers had shoved the brick into the woman’s mouth with such force that it had broken some of her teeth.
(orangehouse note: she was either a vampire or the 1576 version of Roseanne Barr- who knows for sure. Either version is totally plausible)
via mathlete.comWhat do I hate......waking up? What do I love...... you guessed it, bacon. This ingenious device practically starts your day on a completely even playing field! Check it out.
Device: Bacon cooking alarm clock
by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, Hsiao-huh Hsu
WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.
WHY: No one likes to wake up, especially by an alarm. This clock gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon, just like waking up on a Sunday morning to the smell of Mom cooking breakfast. Unless you're Jewish.
HOW: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n' Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.
Ah, the nostalgia of a vintage keyboard with the functionality of today. I give you "Steampunk Keyboards". What a great idea. To learn more (and I mean A LOT more visit here) otherwise stay on the fluffy peripheral here with me. Where we can look and admire but not have to digest a shit ton of technological nerd crap.
Via the Telegraph.co.ukGiant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity line. An inflatable dog turd the size of a house has blown away from a modern art exhibition in a Swiss museum before bringing down an electricity line and smashing a greenhouse window.
"Complex Shit", a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 200 yards to eventually make landfall in the grounds of a children's home.Museum authorities said the work had an automatic safety device that was supposed to make it deflate in the event of a storm - but it failed to operate.
The sculpture was featured in an exhibition called "East of Eden. A Garden Show".
The Paul Klee centre's website described the show as containing
"interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones."
In other words, so far as the harsher critics of modern art might be concerned: what happens when la merde hits le ventilateur.
I like spring, you like spring. Feel like getting into the swing of things? I think this album by Thao ( a local Virginia girl and all around good egg) is going to be a summertime favorite at the Orangehouse. Listen here to one of my personal favorites "Bag of Hammers". She sounds like Cat Power without all that pesky self loathing and depression. Upbeat and fun, even Clorox is on the band wagon- read more and download the album here, while I go get a beer and hang out on the front porch- see, I told you.
• When a squirrel senses danger, its first instinct is to stand motionless. (homework: try standing still in the middle of the road while cars approach, see how this works out)Congratulations! You are now ready to build your very own nest in a tree.
• Squirrels chew on tree branches to sharpen and clean their teeth. They will also chew on power lines for the same reason. (homework: if you pass the stick test get extra credit and chew on some power lines, try and black out your neighborhood)
• A squirrel's brain is about the size of a walnut. (homework: if you have passed hw assignment 1 and 2 then we will check this section off as well)
• The gray squirrel has been known to build a nest in many unusual places, in an attic or a crawl space seems to be the most common. Squirrels have also built nests in automobiles, chimney's, barbecue grills and under porches. (homework: break into your house and try making a "rogue" nest in your attic or under a porch)
Associated PressCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Seven employees of a state-run home for the mentally disabled in Texas have been suspended for staging fights between residents who were forced to shove, punch and strike each other, authorities said Tuesday.Pretty appalling is right! They better be following the rules otherwise who knows where this thing could end up. Why, for some reason, does this not surprise me that it takes place in Texas?Police learned of the fights when someone gave a cell phone containing videos of the brawls at the Corpus Christi State School to an off-duty officer on Friday, police Captain Tim Wilson said by phone from Corpus Christi, in the southern part of the state.
"Workers were running their own fight club using clients. It's pretty appalling that someone would think of this," he said.
- You don't talk about fight club.
- You don't talk about fight club.[11]
- When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.[12]
- Only two guys to a fight.
- One fight at a time.
- They fight without shirts or shoes.
- The fights go on as long as they have to.
- If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
- What ever you do don't give cell phone recorded fights to the associated press.
– Fight Club, pages 48–50
They better hope that Santino doesen't find out about this. Rocks will be flying for sure.
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