from mosnews.com:
A team of thieves that broke into an abandoned missile silo not far from the Russian city of Kostroma in search of nonferrous metals was shocked to find the shaft packed with Soviet money bills, Regnum news agency reported on Tuesday.
via digg read the story
I hit a couple of thrift stores in San Diego today looking for cheap cameras. I found a Polaroid Square Shooter 2 in a nice leather case for $3.00 which I was pretty sure I could still get film for. After getting it home and putting some new batteries (AA not those hard to find, weird 3.5v ones with the 9v connectors), I was dismayed to discover the “electric eye” doesn’t seem to be working and the shutter isn’t opening: bummer. There were 2 other square shooters I spotted but I didn’t bother with them since I had already found one. Maybe I will go back and check those out before we leave.
Went to Death Valley on Sunday. it was snowing at the rim on the way in, it was drizzling and the temp was somewhere in the low 60’s at the visitors center (150ft below sea level), not very deathy…It was still pretty amazing, just not in a grim reaper kind of way.
According to this reuters article:
South Korean firm LG Electronics is poised to start marketing an air conditioner with a filter made using an enzyme from the pungent national dish kimchi that is aimed at protecting against the bird flu virus.
Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger: “Cory Doctorow:
A group of drunken pals went to an In-N-Out burger shop on Hallowe’en 2004 and demanded a burger with 100 patties, setting some sort of gluttony record at the burger joint. In-N-Out is justly famous for making excellent fast-food burgers in an open kitchen, and for allowing customers to order as many patties as they’d like, at $1 per patty. The tale told on this website details the attempt of eight people to eat $100 worth of discount fried beef and processed cheese-food ’sweaty cheese.’
# Total calories (extrapolating from info provided here): 19490 calories
# Total eaters 8 (2 girls and one guy who already ate dinner and only ate 6 patties)
# Most patties eaten by one person : I think I ate about 20. I think Nalin ate about 20 as well (including the raw ones)
# Time to finish : less then 2 hours
# Number of people who barfed : 1 (way to go Elena!) Oh yeah…. nothing says ‘Vegas baby’ like barfing, not because of booze..but because of burgers.
(Via Boing Boing.)
accroding to this article (use bugmenot for login):
The IFPI said digital music sales tripled to $1.1bn from $380m in 2004 and predicted “further significant growth” this year.
from the BBC:
The armpit smells of old ladies are the latest mood-enhancing substances to be uncovered by scientists - but they warn that those of young men may have the reverse effect.
accoding to this study:
In offices, common areas that are cleaned and disinfected every day have fewer germs and bacteria than most desks. (On average, the area where you rest your hand on the desk has 10,000,000 bacteria.)
The average desktop has more bacteria than any surface tested in the bathroom. Toilet seats and photocopier surfaces were the least contaminated sites sampled in all offices.
from the sfgate:
an elderly man apparently upset about a parking dispute died in his burning house after trying to set fire to two of his neighbors’ homes using “homemade bombs,” authorities said. Police received a call about an explosion early Sunday and found the man standing in the street holding two handguns. One of his arm was in flames. When police told him to drop the guns, he fled into his house. Minutes later, flames and smoke came from the home, followed by several explosions, the city said in a statement.
