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The heaviest metal band in the world

Stickboy, fingers, and bones are guaranteed to shake and rattle the world of meatbag music. Stickboy (drums) was created to exacting specifications. 4 arms, 2 legs, 1 head, no brain. he plays a Pearl 14 piece kit with double kick. stickboy junior, the bastard child of an unknown mother takes control of the hihat shuffle. inception date 2007 Fingers (guitar) joined stickboy in 2009 and brings 78 purpose built fingers, enough to play the entire fret board and pluck. Bones (bass) is the highest precision bass player in known existence, and the youngest member of the band. inception date 2012. Standaside meatbags. Oil is thicker than blood.

Previously, previously, previously, previously.

Getting pharmaceuticals from solution into an amorphous state, however, is no easy task. If the solution evaporates while it is in contact with part of a vessel, it is far more likely to solidify in its crystalline form. "It's almost as if these substances want to find a way to become crystalline," Benmore said.

In order to avoid this problem, Benmore needed to find a way to evaporate a solution without it touching anything. Because liquids conform to the shape of their containers, this was a nearly impossible requirement -- so difficult, in fact, that Benmore had to turn to an acoustic levitator, a piece of equipment originally developed for NASA to simulate microgravity conditions.

The acoustic levitator uses two small speakers to generate sound waves at frequencies slightly above the audible range -- roughly 22 kilohertz. When the top and bottom speakers are precisely aligned, they create two sets of sound waves that perfectly interfere with each other, setting up a phenomenon known as a standing wave.

At certain points along a standing wave, known as nodes, there is no net transfer of energy at all. Because the acoustic pressure from the sound waves is sufficient to cancel the effect of gravity, light objects are able to levitate when placed at the nodes.

"SCIENCE!"

The echidna penis is an oddity. Like some birds and reptiles, the penis is used ONLY for the passage of semen, all urine and stuff goes through the cloaca. And, like some reptiles, the penis of the echidna is bifurcated. That is, there are two "heads". Each of those heads is ALSO bifurcated, resulting in a total of four little heads (called, charmingly, "rosettes"). Not only that, the opening for the semen on each of those isn't a hole. No, it's more like a showerhead.

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"deux-al pianos." The amazing and gifted musician Evan Shinners demonstrates how to play Bach's double manual keyboard music. Evan's new album of Bach compositions is available as an MP3 download at Amazon: "Evan Plays Seven." (thanks, Joe Sabia!)

Richard Nixon and Robocop

Queue the Damien Hirst posts… I want to share my favourite pieces.

Beautilful Vibrations and Soundwaves Painting, 2008.

Cat vs. Snowball

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YT hat in seinem Screeningroom 12 der Kurzfilme, die auf dem gestern eröffneten Sundance-Filmfest laufen. Zwei davon hatte ich schonmal hier (Catnip – Egress to Oblivion? und The Event), grade habe ich mir Black Metal angesehen und mein Favorite ist bis jetzt The Apocalypse von Andrew Zuchero, ‘ne nette, alberne Story um eine Apokalypse der explodierenden Köpfe.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI seeking details of its surveillance policy -- who it spies upon, and how, and under what circumstances. The FBI sent back two 50+ page memos in reply, each of them totally blacked out except for some information on the title page.

In a 12-minute video posted online, Weissmann spoke about two memos: one focused on the use of GPS tracking on forms of transportation beyond cars, the other regarding how Jones applies to tracking methods outside of GPS (presumably like cellphone ping data).

“Is it going to apply to boats, is it going to apply to airplanes?” Weissmann asks in the video. “Is it going to apply at the border? What’s it mean for the consent that’s given by an owner? What does it mean if consent is given by a possessor? And this is all about GPS, by the way, without getting into other types of techniques.”

And those questions remain wholly unanswered.

“The Justice Department’s unfortunate decision leaves Americans with no clear understanding of when we will be subjected to tracking—possibly for months at a time—or whether the government will first get a warrant,” Catherine Crump, an ACLU staff attorney, wrote on Wednesday.

FBI to ACLU: Nope, we won't tell you how, when, or why we track you [Cyrus Farivar/Ars Technica]

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they love that shit at the Vatican

Scientists in Peru have discovered what they think may be a new species of spider which uses twigs and dead insects to build decoy spiders to trick predators.

Afterward, Torres returned to the trails near the research center. Only within a roughly 1-square-mile area near the floodplain did Torres find more spider-building spiders -- about 25 of them. "They could be quite locally restricted," he said. "But for all I know, there's millions of them in the forest beyond." The spiders' webs were crafted around face-height, near the trail, and about the width of a stretched-out hand. Some of the decoys placed in the webs looked rather realistic. Others resembled something more like a cartoon octopus.

(thanks, Alex)

Check out this seriously amazing collection of If not now then when’s tattoos. Loving them all!

(If you’re in the pics, let us know so we can credit you and your mighty amazingness!) 

If you love the design but you’re not ready for any permanent inking, there are alternatives: you can own it on a tee or print.

oh gods. 

it has begun.