from bbc news:

i first heard about this on boingboing now here’s the proof. guy accidentally cuts off tip of finger, uses pig bladder powder to completely re-grow it. i shit you not.

watch for yourself.

so, i heard about it this weekend, then NPR said something today about how reno had a 4.7 magnitude quake on friday and that it has had more quakes that have continued getting bigger all weekend up til now (tues.). i couldn’t find any web articles that backed up the claim of “more, and getting stronger”, but i did find this article that uses the word “hundreds” to count the quakes in the last two months.

the venetian is testing out a device that allows people to walk around and gamble on a little wifi touch-screen machine inside the casino. it’s kind of like a blackberry or a gameboy or an ipod or an iphone or a remote control with a screen with a roulette table on it or a zune or a fancy futuristic pager with a screen with a blackjack table on it or a gps thing or an ipod touch or a psp or a crossbow, except it will eat your money like really fast since you just can’t wait to get to the table you just have to play NOW on the way to the bar near the tables with the big screen tv’s and the hey let’s just go ride bikes man, it’s a nice night.

www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/27/new-device-makes-it-harder-walk-away-game/

BORIS – furi

because ron paul supporters overwhelmed! senator bob beers called the whole convention off – with no national delegates elected. his stated reason was that the contract on the rented venue, the peppermill, had expired. all of a sudden. at 6 pm. with 1300 state delegates still in the room. still unelected. was beers trying to make damn sure ron paul didn’t get all of the delegates by abruptly canceling the convention? i’m no republican, but i would guess the party leaders already have their minds made up about who they want out front in november. and it damn sure ain’t ron paul – regardless of what the delegates want.

from wikipedia:

The Keating Five were five United States Senators, who were accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

recognize any of those names?

WTF?

thanks barney frank (D- Mass)!

it’s not that i’m trying to only post about weed, but there’s just so much news about it lately that it really makes me think that de-criminilization (or legalization) might be just around the corner…

it’s just a plant, man. seriously – i learned that when i was six:
justaplant.com.

the university of colorado usually holds a marijuana party on april 20th at 4:20 in the afternoon every year for some reason, and yesterday there were reports of 10,000 people smoking the wacky tabacky out in the open like it was all just cool man. and get this – nobody got arrested or was issued tickets. were the police stoned too? is colorado on mars now?

this article gives me hope. researchers have found a deposit of methane hydrate, which contain 164 times the energy of natural gas in the same quantity – and, and, and – the amount of these gas hydrates worldwide “dwarf all known fossil fuel deposits combined.”