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Subway-Life
“Antonio Jorge Goncalves makes drawings of people sitting in subway trains in 10 cities around the world. He stays an average of three weeks in each city, making around 300 drawings which seek to cover different times of day and the different lines in the subway system.”

Spark-Online.com
“In every issue of *spark-online we apply this principle to our idea that the new world of high technology has not only created a new ‘e-society’—it has created a new understanding of self. We call this new understanding of self, ‘electronic consciousness.’ Technology hasn’t changed only our societies—it has fundamentally changed us. *spark-online is at the vanguard of recognising, and attempting to understand this change.”

women and children first! (on the environmental mindset)
by darren c. anderson
“The basic point I am making here is that species have developed ingenious means in order to ensure their survival, or rather, their genetic survival. It is an inherent trait, hardwired into every living thing. Women and children first!”

Salad Fingers Episode 3: Nettles
“These may upset children and the elderly. And please watch these at your own risk if you are doing acid or mushrooms.”

WOW!!!! The HomeBass DJ Set – hard drum & bass the way only the Germans can do it.

Also check out Bym – Urban Jungle Radio DJ Set very tight, high-energy jungle from Berlin.

Erotic Ribbons
Erotic jewellery for the discerning

Available at Electric Rock, Gardner Street and She Said Eroric Boutique, Ship Street Brighton.

The Ecologist Magazine – Rethinking basic assumptions
In this month’s issue:

Ghost Town Britain
“Supermarkets are doing irreversible damage to our towns and communities. A revolution in the way they are regulated is needed immediately.

Support your community or shop in a supermarket. You can’t do both.”

Shelf Abuse
“No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe.”

Every Little Helps
“Are you a `premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.”

Plunging water table crisis
NewScientist.com “The world is on the verge of a water crisis as people fight over ever dwindling supplies, experts told the Stockholm Water Symposium.

So much water is being drawn from underground reserves that they, and the pumps they feed, are running dry, turning fields that have been fecund for generations into desert. The world’s leading water scientists warned this week that this little-heralded crisis is repeating itself across Asia, and could cause widespread famines in the decades to come.”

Medical Researchers Grow New Jawbone for Cancer Survivor
“Reuters Health – In a new study, researchers describe a man whose jaw was successfully reconstructed using a bone that was grown from scratch in 7 weeks under the muscles in his back.”

This is my favourite track by Joburg artist FLY:
Devil’s Cartel - something more substantial
Some might prefer Devil’s Cartel - A Muse, very dark and stings with desire.

Smooth vocals by Louise. Fly’s main influences – “Goldfrapp, Massive Attack, Portishead, SneakerPimps, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Bjork…”

“Androgenous power lesbian seeks cute, young, femme to lie languidly around my pallazzo, eating grapes and looking sexy. Some light houskeeping work also required. Come and sit on Daddy’s lap.”

Found by Miko.

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.

Lesotho guided 4×4 trail
The little village school in Rhodes, Eastern Cape, is trying to raise funds by organising a 4×4 trip in Lesotho, which will follow old trade routes. The trip runs from 5 to 11 September. For details, contact Guy Stubbs by phone at +27 (0)45 9718900 or +27 (0)12 6673939.

My Pet Skeleton Presents…

…its debut Flash game:
“A Murder of Scarecrows”

I love this creepy little game!

Spotted on Engadget -

Another sign that the iPod is going wireless?
“Read into this what you will (and we’re so tempted to refrain from our usual banter on this one), but a job posting has shown up on Apple’s website looking for a hardware engineer to work in their iPod division who has experience in a variety of wireless protocols, including “GSM, Bluetooth, [and] IEEE 802.11”.

Some sort of wireless iPod in the works? Maybe, maybe not, but there has been plenty of speculation about this, and it sounds like they’re at least might be exploring their options.”

HOW TO BE CREATIVE by Hugh MacLeod.

Dont miss this. It is the most recommended read of the month!

Today has been sadly marked by the death of Blueboy. He was my favourite fish and beloved dwarf gourami, who died while we cleaned the tank today.

Blueboy always perked up when I approached the glass, he’d get excited and try to touch me through the glass with his little feelers, and follow me around. His favourite spot was hiding in the labyrinth of tall plants and leaves at the side of the tank, where nobody would bother him. Blueboy was a magnificently beautiful fish, iridescent blue with rainbow fins. Despite his dazzling beauty he was extremely humble and gentle-natured.

We discovered him by chance, in a plastic bag we had used to discard rotten leaves that had been netted. He was limp, mouth closed, his little fins folded neatly. He had been lying there for half an hour, totally at our mercy, waiting for us to see him. But we were too preoccupied to notice. We tried to revive him for 10 minutes even though it was hopeless. I hope he can forgive us for what we have done.

I can’t think of my little Blueboy without wanting to cry.