Bdesign7Memories...
Of the thousands of images that photographer Michael Galinsky took in malls during the summer of 1989, this one really seems to strike a nerve, but not necessarily because of the big bangs and acid-washed leggings, he says. "I get so many comments about Tape World." Memories of lost stores and dubious fashions abound in his new book, the gloriously nostalgia-soaked Malls Across America.
Bdesign7I knew bacon was great...but now it makes me not able to have kids? Sign me up.
(Coyoty)
In a new study, titled “Meat intake and semen parameters among men attending a fertility clinic,” published in the journal Fertility and Sterility researchers from Harvard investigated a possible link between the consumption of various forms of meat and “semen quality.”
They looked at 364 semen samples from 156 men. These subjects had come to the Massachusetts General Hospital Fertility Center with their female partners to be evaluated for possible fertility problems.
The results?
Processed meat intake was associated with lower percent morphologically normal sperm while white meat fish intake was associated with higher percent morphologically normal sperm. Dark meat fish intake was related to higher total sperm count.
More precisely, men who ate the most processed meat (between .39 and 2.79 servings per day) had 1.4% fewer sperm that were of a size and shape of normal size compared to men who ate less processed meat. Abnormal sperm morphology is believed to negatively impact the odds of fertility.
Conversely, men who at the highest amount of white fish meat (between .1 and .51 servings per day) had 1.6% more morphologically normal sperm than those who at the least (.02 servings per day or fewer).
And dark fish meat seemed to have an impact on subjects’ sperm count. Men who ate between 0.16 and 0.86 servings of tuna, salmon, or similar fish per day had a 34% higher sperm count than those with dark meat fish intake below .02 servings per day.
The researchers don’t yet know of an explanation for these differences, but if they are accurate, it looks like you wouldn’t need to eat too many fish in order to boost your sperm count and quality. After all, .1 servings per day is only one serving every 10 days.
Bdesign7I never knew I wanted this..but now it is my goal in life to own a giant dinosaur skeleton.
Misty, come to me. (Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst)
Please hang on a second while I squeal like a little kid and squirm with joy in my seat: You guys — you can buy a dinosaur skeleton. Like, for real. The only thing is, you probably need some serious dough if you want to bring a Diplodocus home with you in the near future.
The first complete skeleton of a large dinosaur ever to up for sale at auction in Europe is about 56 feet long and calls the wide open land of Wyoming its home, reports CNN. Its name is Misty and she’s (in my head, my dinosaur is definitely a lady but by all means, imagine a male Misty if you like) a Diplodocus Longus from the the Late Jurassic period, dating from around 150 million years ago.
She’s expected to fetch a price of anywhere from $640,000 to $960,000 and you’ll probably need a pal (or an entire crew) to move her from her current spot at the Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, England.
“It’s been specially designed so that it can be dissembled and assembled again,” said the exhibition and sale’s curator. “There’s no piece so heavy that two people couldn’t lift it.”
He adds that her bones have been conserved and consolidated so she should last just fine, as long as the skeleton is “reasonably carefully handled and reasonably carefully housed.”
Now all I need is a spot big enough to hang a 56-foot dinosaur and I’ll have the best party conversation starter ever. And also I’ll own a dinosaur.
Diplodocus longus dinosaur for sale. Yes, really. [CNN]
Bdesign7Damn, that thing is creepy
Last year, DARPA unveiled Cheetah: a robot that could run faster than Usain Bolt. Now, the same team has managed to create a version that doesn't need a power cord, making the electronic beast free to roam wherever it chooses. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Bdesign7I know nothing about the band, but awesome video.
I dig this hallucinatory faux 19A0s TV commercial for Jacob 2-2's new album "Herbivore," from King Deluxe Records. Video designed and animated by Jacob 2-2 and Samuel Rhodes with photography by Miguel Drake-McLaughlin.
    
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Bdesign7This video makes me want a dog even more.
Slow motion and Matrix-style bullet time was invented for this and this only: dogs. As in playing with dogs and recording them in bullet time with 52 GoPro cameras set up to freeze time. The video itself is already fun (if you have a heart) but the behind the scenes footage is almost just as interesting (if you like cameras).
Bdesign7I love the future. It's awesome.
If you're a master chef or a home cook or someone who occasionally wanders into a kitchen in search of food, you'd know that your life is much easier with two hands. Cutting vegetables, washing dishes, using a frying pan and basically just doing things requires both your hands. That's why it's so heartbreaking that classically-trained chef Eduardo Garcia lost his left hand in an electrocution accident. But that's why it also makes it even more awesome that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand to help him in the kitchen.
Bdesign7Want
Johnny Cash gives James Bond a new sort of soul with "Thunderball," the theme song for the eponymous spy flick. This is the harpoon-laced opening sequence to the 1965 adaptation, with the lyrics of the song describing the film's story.
Bdesign7Like yogurt
In space, no one can hear you be a total perv and tell women that you want to taste them "like yogurt." Good thing too.
This music video by Whatchya features Flula Borg and Flynt Flossy (of Treat Me Like a Pirate fame). h/t Thanks Brent!
Bdesign7All I can think is how much better her child would be if his mom would just die. I'm horrible.
When cops arrive, it’s not a good sign.
There are few guarantees in life, but rest assured that if 1. you refuse to turn your cell phone off and 2. you’re (allegedly) screaming profanities at the flight crew/cops 1. you will be kicked off said flight and 2. at least one of your fellow passengers will definitely film the action and post it on the Internet. That’s how it went down on a recent US Airways flight during a particularly upsetting incident.
Refusing to comply with flight crew instructions was the first step the passenger took toward her eventual ejection from the Charlotte-bound flight, which was scheduled to leave Ft. Lauderdale early Sunday morning, reports WBTV.com.
Officials say the woman became unruly after crew told her to stop talking on her phone and turn it off. It certainly appears that she’s displeased in the video (which is VERY NSFW due to aforementioned profanities and also it’s just kind of awful to watch), which shows deputies boarding the plane after it had turned back to the gate.
Cops apparently tried to convince her to leave the plane, but as seen in the video, she first repeatedly asks why she’s being kicked off. The flight attendant explains that she was “on her phone the whole time” and refused to comply with instructions.
“I’ll hold up this whole f—-ng plane,” she said after saying that’s all lies. “I don’t care where people got to go. I don’t care.”
At that point, deputies say in the police report that they tried to remove her from the plane forcibly, while she “scratched, kicked and violently resisted” those attempts.
She was eventually escorted off the plane and taken into custody, while her two-year-old son — who reportedly was there the whole time — was handed over to his father.
She’s been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence and two counts of assault on a law enforcement official.
While it’s understandably awful to be asked to leave a plane, fighting law enforcement won’t make that kind of situation any better. As such, the below video is a bit upsetting to watch, so if you do so, keep that in mind.
WARNING: BELOW VIDEO HAS A WHOLE LOT OF BAD LANGUAGE & FEATURES AN UPSETTING SITUATION
VIDEO: Unruly woman kicked, scratched deputies on CLT-bound plane [WBTV.com]
Bdesign7Yay, they found him!
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Bdesign7So awful...yet awesome at the same time.
If you've ever felt bad about your moves, this should provide some comfort. One of the coolest men on the planet (and the Moon) doesn't have much of a sense of rhythm, either.
The performance was part of a one-day Smithsonian conference on the future of technology and innovation. It's worth bookmarking the page for the conference because, over the next several days, organizers will be posting video of presentations made by Aldrin, Dolby, and a host of other great tech thinkers — including neuroscientist André Fenton; Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute; and mathematician Maria Klawe.
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On Wednesday's, New Zealand's parliament passed its Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill in a 77-44 vote, expanding the country's 2005 civil union regime into full-blown marriage equality. Observers in the gallery and MPs on the floor burst into song, a stirring rendition of "Pokarekare Ana," an NZ lovesong that dates back to WWI. What a lovely, lovely moment.
New Zealand House of Reps bursts into song after legalizing same-sex marriage (via Making Light) 
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Twenty-two years ago today, Nirvana played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time in public, at the OK Hotel in Seattle. This is video of the performance, five months before the release of Nevermind. The video is included on the box set Nirvana: With The Lights Out. 
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Bdesign7mesmerizing
Here is some delightful music for a Monday morning: "Music with Children: Playing the Recorder" by music educator Grace Nash (1909-1990) and friends. (via Toys and Techniques)
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The "Polar Bear Ice Tray" is a sealed bottle that makes icecubes and then facilitates their easy removal. The sealed container keeps freezer flavors away, and once it's all frozen, you can dislodge the ice by giving the bottle a whack on a countertop and then pour it out of the mouth. Looks like a clever way of solving an old problem, though I haven't tried it myself.
polar bear ice tray (via Red Ferret) 
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Bdesign7Just for you Erin
Made of comfy polyurethane foam, Fabio Novembre's new Jolly Roger chair looks like it's capitalizing on the Pirates of the Caribbean trend that unfortunately faded a few years back. However, the film presumably spawned a new generation of pirate wannabes that will find the chair's subtle skull shaping more marvelous than morbid. More » 
Bdesign7I've somehow never seen this
The rather dreadful 1970s sitcom Three's Company adapted the UK sitcom Man About the House for American TV; it ran for eight seasons and was heavily syndicated through my whole childhood, and as with many people of my age, it lurks in my subconscious.
It turns out there was an unaired pilot that used some of the same cast, but a different writing team and a somewhat smarter brand of comedy, and it's surfaced on YouTube. Here's Wikipedia's description of that pilot:
The show was first penned by famed Broadway writer Peter Stone who set the series in New York. Stone envisioned the Jack Tripper character as a successful, yet underpaid, chef in a fancy French restaurant while the characters who were to become Janet and Chrissy were to be a secretary for a CEO, and a high style fashion model respectively. Silverman felt that the treatment would not play to middle America and thus passed on the script. Silverman then enlisted the services of famed television writer Larry Gelbart, best known for his Emmy-award winning work on CBS's M*A*S*H. Gelbart initially wanted nothing to do with the show, feeling that its relatively simple premise made it substandard in comparison to M*A*S*H. Nonetheless as a favor to Silverman, Gelbart went ahead and developed a pilot episode with his son in law who named the series Three's Company. Gelbart's adaptation closely followed the British series. He envisioned Ritter as "David Bell", an aspiring film maker looking for a place to live who just happened to be a great cook. Ritter's better halves were portrayed by Valerie Curtin who played "Jenny" an employee of the DMV, and Suzanne Zenor as an aspiring actress named "Samantha". Gelbart reset the Ropers' apartment building, which he called the Hacienda Palms, from New York to North Hollywood, California. This plot of this pilot looked much like that of the first episode of the actual show. Liked by Silverman, a pilot was ordered by ABC which taped in early 1976. This format of the show just barely made it on to the fall 1976 ABC lineup but was ousted by what ABC felt were more promising series. Of all the new sitcoms that premiered on ABC for the 1976–1977 television season, only Three's Company and the summer premiere of What's Happening!! went on to a second season. While ABC was in negotiations to re-shoot the pilot, CBS became interested in the show, and made a firm commitment to TTC productions (producers Don Taffner and Ted Bergman's New York based company) to air the show as a mid season replacement in February 1977 with the Gelbart cast. However, at the last minute ABC decided that they wanted the show and made a firm commitment to air the show at midseason with a new cast.
Three's Company - Rare First UNAIRED Pilot (Part 1)
Three's Company - Rare Second UNAIRED Pilot (Part 2)
(via Super Punch) 
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Bdesign7Fucking amazing
Luna Lee performs Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" on a gayageum, a "traditional Korean zither-like string instrument" (Wikipedia). She freaking nails it. There's lots more if that strikes your fancy.
Voodoo Chile-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna
(via Reddit)
Bdesign7Yeah, that's how it happened.
