7 foot long SERENITY made of LEGO August 7, 2012 AT 2:00 am 7 foot long SERENITY made of LEGO. Adrian writes – This project took 475 hours over 21 months. Oi Santa: Full Size Formula 1 Simulator For Sale » WTF1 If you’ve been good this year… really, really good, Santa might just treat you to one of these. You’ll need a bloody big stocking though and your parents, sorry Santa, will need around £90,000 going spare. So you better have been good! The simulator comes in a choice of colours but it’d be even sweeter to have a livery painted on it. / photo: KIRK MCKOY / LOS ANGELES TIMES Lucy is a friend, educated and familiar with nutrition basics, who eats a relatively healthy vegetarian diet. Lucy recently surprised us by announcing she is going on the Master Cleanse Diet. For those unfamiliar, this is one of many “Detox” diets that purports to clean up our insides and provide quick weight loss. The Master Cleanse has been around for decades, originally called the lemonade diet. People doing the cleanse can consume nothing but a lemon drink for 4 days up to 2 weeks!
There’s A Major Grand Canyon Controversy Going On Right Now Conventional Grand Canyon wisdom holds two things to be true: it is exceptionally deep, and about five million years old. A new study, though, has pegged the yawning chasm’s age as more than 10 times older than previously thought. So is the Grand Canyon really a 70 million-year-old dinosaur playground?
Frankly, I Don't Care How Due Process Makes You Feel I stopped blogging about Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the maker of the "Innocence of Muslims" video. I stopped because (1) I am interested in discussions about what the law is, to the extent that discussion is based on law, (2) I am interested in discussions of what the law should be, (3) I am interested in discussions of how courts work, to the extent those discussions are premised on actual experience and facts, but (4) I am completely uninterested in what people feel the law is, and (5) I am completely uninterested in what people feel happens in courts, frequently based on TV. Discussions of what the law is based on feelings annoy me.
Treaty Shopping: How Companies Tilt The Legal Playing Field For Investor-State Arbitration Alongside globe-spanning treaties like ACTA and TPP, there are more subtle efforts to limit the power of national governments, through the use of free trade agreements (FTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs). There are now so many of these that it's hard to keep up, although the dedicated site bilaterals.org is a great help here. The confusing multiplicity only adds to their attractiveness for those negotiating them behind close doors, keen as they are to avoid transparency as much as possible. One key issue for both FTAs and BITs concerns investor-state arbitration procedures that allow companies, typically powerful global corporations, to take entire nations to court over actions that allegedly cause the company harm -- for example, by introducing stricter environmental legislation that requires additional expenditure at manufacturing plants. The trailblazer in taking advantage of these provisions is the tobacco giant Phillip Morris.
Edison’s Cradle I love art student Yasutoki Kariya’s Asobi, an entry in Mitsubishi Chemical’s Junior Designer Awards. Johnny at Spoon & Tamago aptly calls it “Edison’s Cradle,” a nod to Newton’s Cradle, “the iconic desktop toy that demonstrates Newton’s third law of motion.” Be sure to watch the video to get the full effect with the sound it makes. [via Neatorama] Matt Richardson Nissan gives history lesson on how the Skyline legend was born Start of the Skyline Legend December 10, 2012 - For more than half a century motor racing has drawn crowds in Japan. But for motorsports fans one grand prix stands out – the 1964 meeting at Suzuka. The Skyline GT lined up for the GT-II race during the 1964 Japan Grand Prix at Suzuka It was the day the Skyline legend began.