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Asthma risk ‘exacerbated by house air fresheners’
“Air fresheners, furniture polish and household cleaners may increase the risk of asthma in young children, a study has found. Those exposed to fumes from common domestic products were up to four times more likely to develop asthma than those who were not.”

Oh big surprise!! Why cant people just THINK, logically, about these things. Obviously filling the air with even more chemicals is going to irrirate the lungs and annoy the immune system. I cant believe they’ve only just realised this now.

Slather on body creams and sunblock all the time, and yes it will poison you over time and the chemicals can cause cancer. The skin is the biggest organ in the body after all, and it absorbs everything. You heard it here first.

And while Im on a rant, let it be heard here first too, that those expensive Reverse Osmosis water filters people are installing on their plumbing at home, will harm your health too. Yes, the water that comes out of it is 100% pure, but because all the good minerals have been stripped out too, when the water enters the body it will leach those valuable minerals out of your body as it passes through. So unless youre plannning to add balanced minerals to the water afterwards, it is not a good idea. And adding ‘water softeners’ is probably even worse for you in the long run, as you should really be drinking very alkaline water to keep ‘free radicals’ at bay. Of course none of this is ‘scientifically proven’ yet, but its logical. Put fish in pure RO water with no added minerals (or plants/shells/coral/etc to give off minerals) and they will have health problems and wont live very long at all.

Tooheyworld is always full of gems!:

Alice of Wonderland
“A short, interactive and twisted Flash version of Alice in Wonderland”

Prison Pete

Online diary of an inmate in Federal prison.

Tans Barbers

via enschede a/zee

Beautiful photos of Earth from space.

Found by Roowlant.

The Quantum Sleeper Unit is a high-level security system designed for maximum protection in various hostile environments.

Quantum Sleepers can also be fitted to provide protection from destructive forces of nature such as tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods.

As seen on Geisha Asobi.

The Hotspot Bloom – wearable WiFi detector

A wearable plastic flower that lights up whenever you’re close to a wireless hotspot.

Designed by Karen Lee for her final thesis project at Parsons School of Design. What a wonderfully creative gadget!

Discovered on Jane and Richard’s Yack and Natter.

Holy Terror
Religion isn’t the solution — it’s the problem
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“Religious faith is always, and everywhere, exonerated. It is now taboo in every corner of our culture to criticize a person’s religious beliefs. Consequently, we are unable to even name, much less oppose, one of the most pervasive causes of human conflict. And the fact that there are very real and consequential differences between the major religious traditions is simply never discussed.

There are now more people in our country who believe that the universe was created in six solar days than there were in Europe in the 14th century.

It is time we recognize that religious beliefs have consequences. As a man believes, so he will act.
Believe that there is a God who sees and knows all things, and yet remains so provincial a creature as to be scandalized by certain sexual acts between consenting adults, and you will think it ethical to punish people for engaging in private behavior that harms no one.

Perhaps it is time we subjected our religious beliefs to the same standards of evidence we require in every other sphere of our lives. Perhaps it is time for us to realize, at the dawn of this perilous century, that we are paying too high a price to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.”

DESIGNERS GALORE
Your one stop resource for linkware and shareware web graphics.

In-flight internet
Services from Boeing and iPass will let business travellers securely surf the Web on flights.