24 Rooms in 330 Square Feet. How? The rooms collapse and fold into each other so each room is essentially a droor. Why don’t all apartments have a feature like this? This is an extreme extent but seriously: why isn’t this common to do with at least one room in crowded urban areas?
Architect Gary Chang calls his 330-square-foot apartment in Hong Kong the “domestic transformer”, but we think that moniker is better suited for the architect himself. By designing a system of sliding walls and innovations — like the guest bed that folds down over the bathtub — Chang transformed his childhood home into a 24-room apartment. While his renovations are wildly inspired, here at ShelterPop we couldn’t shake the feeling that this metamorphosing home was better in concept than in reality.
The seven-time Grand Slam champion wowed the crowd at Roland Garros on Sunday by wearing a lacy, black dress with bright red trim on her bodice during her first-round match against Patty Schnyder. The black overlay material made the dress appear as if it was see through, even though it was not.
That’s just the background necessary for me to post this screenshot, which I find funny for multiple reasons. The picture, ya, okay – the fact that its in the AP chosen role for Yahoo news – and the fact that one of my open tabs is Belieber.com (Justin Bieber fanpage)…
“Smart Dust is an emerging technology made up from tiny, wireless sensors or “motes”. Eventually, these devices will be smart enough to talk with other sensors yet small enough to fit on the head of a pin. Each mote is a tiny computer with a power supply, one more sensors, and communications system. The term was coined in the 1990s by UC Berkeley researcher Kris Pister, who envisioned “smart dust” spreading rice-grain sized sensors across the Earth (think a more mobile version of Helen Hunt’s tornado trackers in ‘Twister’). These sensors would gather loads of environmental data, and then send it all back to a central server.
Future World Micro Computers sprinkled everywhere, tracking and recording our movements. Dreams of a better future, but usher in a Big Brother nightmare with no privacy.
this response to the above video (including the video in it, so if you only want to watch one of these you can kill 2 ducks with one rock here) poses a conspiracy theory that’s kindov retarded but im posting it anyway. It says there are already Smart Dust particles in the air and that we breath them and it gives us cancer but then disolves into our body to control us and thats how come there is no actual evidence of that happening any time ever and also how there are so many American Idol fans still.
This isn’t an option for me but I totally encourage all the males reading this to go ahead and make the easy cash by doing this. I can’t because my future wife is probably a toddler right now or not born yet, so if I ever grace a sperm bank with my seed, I would only have 19 years from that date to freely date younger girls without having to check if she’s my daughter or not. It extra sucks too since the world definitely deserves more Richard. I wish there was a way to make a lot of offspring with multiple gene-worthy partners without the deal-breakers of:
1) anonymous donation equating to possible daughter being released into the wild for me to unintentionally prey upon.
2) societal stigma of having a different baby momma for each of my 13 babies.
3) the possibility of said future child rising to defeat me.
But like I said: for the rest of you, you should totally do it, especially if you’re a Viking. It’s not QUITE as easy as dropping off a vile of baby batter into a Blockbuster drop-box though…
It’s not free money, says Scott Brown, head of communications. Donors must be at least 5 feet 9 inches tall and enrolled in — or have a degree from — a four-year university. Plus, they have to pass an assortment of genetic and medical tests, screenings, not to mention an investigation into their family’s medical history to look for the early onset of heart disease, cancer, etc.
“We joke that it’s easier to get into Harvard than to get accepted in our program,” says Brown. That’s funny because it’s true — Brown estimates that only 1% of all the applications are accepted. Harvard’s acceptance rate this year was 6.9%.
Most of California Cryobank’s donors stick with it for about a year and a half, donating once or twice per week, according to Brown. Each time they donate, they’re asked to abstain from sex for 48 hours beforehand and they get $100 per donation. The sperm bank mostly recruits at colleges, and many of its donors are students at Stanford University, Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles and so on.
I previously covered Jennifer Love Hewitts new book, specifically its content on decorating her vagina with plastic jewelry, but A blogger at NPR (yes, National Public Radio has bloggers now) has pulled some choice quotes that will give us all the feeling of having read the whole thing:
JenLove gives us so many gifts, not the least of which is the introduction of “lol” into the printed word:
“Guys hate to spoon — they prefer to fork, lol!”
Let that sink in a little bit… You’ll need a clear mind to take in the next:
“This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.” She is 31 years old. If this is true, she has made roughly 225 trips to the jewelry store to try on engagement rings. I do not know where to go with this.
…ya…
From the list of 20 Things To Do After A Breakup: “Make out with a stranger (he must be gorgeous or you’ll feel worse).”
Good lookin out on that “must be gorgeous” addendum. sure saved me!
From the list of 10 Things To Do Before A Date: “Spray tan is a must.”
Isn’t this obvious?
From the list of “Strikes,” where if a guy has three, you forget it: “He keeps saying ‘That’s so dumb’ when you’re talking.” Oh … Jennifer Love Hewitt. I’m so sorry that possibly might have happened to you once or twice or I’m assuming you might not have brought it up.
“Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.”
From the list of “What A Man Should Know”: “How to pick a diamond,” and “To always have a coat for you.” A coat for you? Always? He should always have a coat for you? And pick out diamonds? I am beginning to think that Jennifer Love Hewitt and I do not share exactly the same priorities vis-a-vis romantic situations and also who is in charge of choosing and transporting our clothing.
He’s also supposed to throw that jacket in the mud so you can walk over it (im assuming) on your way to the malt shop or picture show.
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that limits BP’s monetary damages to $75 million for losses to private parties was sponsored by, amongst current names that I recognize, Nancy Pelosi (D), Barbara Boxer (D), and Joe Kennedy (D). –Dick Cheney *wishes* he was so evil.
“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.
Instead of openly debating how it may or may not be fair to add a loss limit in a bill containing a ton of other regulations and rules on oil companies to prevent such accidents or acknowledging the fact that Halliburton is the only company that can do certain jobs, we’re given smears of how “eeeevil” Dick & Dubya are because everythings a vile scam in service to their oil baron puppet masters. If we’re to believe those smears then the Dems who signed this bill must be REALLY evil and Obama must reall REALLY be a monster for doing things like awarding Halliburton a no bid contract for half a BILLION dollars. That’s an odd thing to do for someone who campaigned on the promise of not awarding any no-bid contracts over $25,000. Quick – remind me again: is 500 million more than 25 thousand?
President Bush was attacked for playing golf by critics who manufactured as much phony outrage that they could muster. Things got difficult for them when Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 because he agreed that it wasn’t a good image to be seeing the President enjoying a leisure sport while troops were engaged in combat. Since that destroys the entire smear of Bush being a heartless elitist robot that plays all day and cools off with a bottle of his own Blood of American Patriots brand of Gatorade, his haters had to scramble to turn even THAT into a “Bush is evil” meme by claiming he “lied” about not playing golf since he did in fact pick up a club after 2003 *gasp*. Good work, critics! You totally exposed a “lie” that in no way is a desperate attempt to cling on to a phony meme you invented despite being based on nothing but personal hatred!
Except now you’ve made a problem for yourselves. By inventing the ridiculous smear that a President playing golf is a soulless act that spits in the face of Lady Liberty, you fuck yourselves when the guy you like comes in and does that 8 times worse (literally).
President Obama has already played more golf than Bush ever did. 8 times more. Where as Bush canceled golf games as a symbolic gesture, Obama canceled a trip to Poland for the funeral (attendance of which is a symbolic gesture) of the Prime Minister and then played golf instead.
But its all par for the course for Barry – which doesn’t make him “evil”, it makes him just as bad as any other politician who did similar unethical things. No problem there, UNLESS you call those other politicians evil corrupt manipulators and give a free pass to Obama because you like him better. That’s the definition of a hypocrite.
So here’s an idea: how bout we save the ‘that guy is evil’ stuff for real evil instead of just saying ‘its evil when THAT guy does it, but not MY guy’?”.
A quad of naked people commuted in London as part of a publicity stunt recently. The group were promoting a TV series which sees staff at struggling businesses helping to turn their company around.
Ya. I dont get it either. bug if you rode the “tube” that day in London, you got naked people carrying bags. Not with any advertisements or banners or anything. just bags. and their bare asses. okay? watevs. I’ll take it.
‘Liquid-repellent’ shoes make possible a new sport called liquid mountaineering! Except not really cuz its a hoax. A cool and clever product placement ad that, oddly/smartly doesn’t mention the name of the product it is a commercial for.
An IM chat that was apparently leaked to Business Insider shows what the creator of Facebook thought of the ridiculous rubes who were actually dumb enough to trust him with their private and personal information, which even then he freely offered to anyone who wanted it.
According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Earlier this week, a YouTube video surfaced from The World of Dance competition in which a group of young — and I mean really young — girls wearing midriff-baring tops, short skirts and black stockings dance to Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies.’ The dance troupe, called Precision Dance, hails from Orange County, and definitely “put a ring on it” during the competition in Pomona on April 10.
I clicked on this expecting a horrifying and heart breaking sexualization of children that will seriously mess with their heads, send horrible messages to the rest of society and generally add another block to a counter-culture wall that can only end badly. then it started and I was like “oh, its not that bad”. then i got a better look at the stripper outfits and went back to the “this is awful” position. but then when you see that there’s actual talent here – and there is – you just get confused. By way of talent and pizazz, these kids are friggin, not, playing. dayum.
So then my position on it becomes annoyance that the parents responsible for this allowed the controversy to happen at all. who the fuck thought these costumes were a good idea? you ruined it. fail. stupid. wtf moron. you have kids who can rock a dance move to a contemporary song that ya, might get some scrutiny over the bumping and gyrating but its not overt and there isn’t anything clearly with sexual intent so fine – but why.the.fkk. did you put them in Vegas showgirl costumes? why did you turn an otherwise awesome and adorable performance into a pedophile spank session? You are an idiot.
Looking for answers, I found that the parents had in fact responded to the controversy over the video:
Melissa Presch, the mom of one little dancer and Cory Miller, the father of another child in the group spoke to Inside Edition about the controversy. “I’m shocked, quite frankly, that people would suggest such things and say such things about 8 and 9 year old girls,” said Melissa Presch claiming the girls got their moves from the ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’ movie — not Beyonce’s music video.
Then why weren’t the girls wearing Chipmunk costumes, yeh dummy? You can’t play the innocent-dance-move-origins card if you’re going to dress your child performers like burlesque dancers? Wtf, brah. Just because the dance moves were allegedly in a PG kids movie doesn’t mean they are automatically appropriate, but in this case she’s right. the dance moves aren’t inherently suggestive. but the costumes are, you dumb whore. when you’re wearing tassels and short shorts and tops, ANY hip movement in any direction is going to have sexual connotations.
The stupidity of this woman in her super-serious pseudo-SHOCK that others “would say such things about 8 and 9 year old girls” is a dosage of obnoxious that could produce enough vomit to feed a dozen dogs for a dozen days. The idiot father who similarly brushes off the charges of sexualization as “nah, when you look at it as a father, you’re just proud of your kids” is a level of WTF that would make even Japan say WTF – and Japan is the epicenter of WTF.
Dude: its about presentation. ya, thats great that you’re not getting a boner over your daughters stripper routine – we’re all very proud of you – but why are you not the least bit concerned about her being pedophile bait? Not “jailbait” – which is a post-puberty young adult below the age of 18 – PED-O-PHILE-BAAAIT. God you’re so gross.
“She doesn’t really know what she’s doing” is not a justification any more than the guy who told Cartman he could get a ton of free Sea Monkeys if he just closed his eyes and sucked through a tube. he goes on to say “even certain parts of the dance weren’t even choreographed to be [soft core porn]”.
thanks dad. great to know.
Such a waste.
Final Thought: as frighteningly nutballs it is that that parents are this willfully blind and as unfortunate it is that these talented kids had to have an otherwise kick-ass performance get ruined by the taint of skankdom – at least it is a safe bet that the ones that grow up to be hot in 7-10 years will be preconditioned to have low inhibitions and will be unprotected by watchful parents. so. at least there’s that…
I previously covered Jennifer Love Hewitts new book, specifically its content on decorating her vagina with plastic jewelry, but A blogger at NPR (yes, National Public Radio has bloggers now) has pulled 
“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.
