The First Stealth Flying Wing | MetaFilter
the first fully-functional stealth flying wing: the Horten Ho IX.
Archive > June 2009
Nice People Take Drugs – People Like These
Politicians from all over the world have consumed cannabis and other drugs for many years. Click on a card to see what they have to say about it. [They didn't go to prison. Why should anyone?]
The Six Ways of Atheism Geoffrey Berg
The book, The Six Ways of Atheism presents six entirely logical arguments in simple language why people should not believe in the existence of God.
Carbon Dioxide Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years
Two million years ago, the earth underwent an ice age every 41,000 years. But some time around 850,000 years ago, the cycle grew to 100,000 years, and ice sheets reached greater extents than they had in several million years—a change too great to be explained by orbital variation alone.
Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear
We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left.
A biomarker for anorexia?
A new study shows that the levels of a brain protein differ between healthy and anorexic women. [You mean it wasn't a picture in a magazine that did it? That there are no magic images? That behavior and biology are linked?]
93 Riven – NON Total War cover
No overdubs or post-processing, everything played in real-time, just a big delay here. Recorded on POD X3 Custom [a favorite - Trevor]
The Great Johnny Quest Documentary | MetaFilter
A two hour and twenty minute documentary on Hanna-Barbera’s first foray into action adventure primetime animation back in 1963.
Woooooooooaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh! | MetaFilter
125 years of roller coasters
Newspaper exposes Church of Scientology, yet again. | MetaFilter
Expose from the newpaper in Clearwater, Florida, the “worldwide spiritual headquarters” of Scientology, in three parts.
Newspaper exposes Church of Scientology, yet again. | MetaFilter
Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets | Mail Online
the Dickensian bone disease rickets has reemerged in the British Muslim community because women are not getting enough vital vitamin D from sunlight because they are being consigned to life under a shroud. Thanks to fundamentalist Muslims and ‘hate’ preachers working in Britain, the veiling of women is suddenly all-pervasive and promoted as a basic religious right. We are led to believe that we must live with this in the name of ‘tolerance’.
Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets | Mail Online
Sowetan News – Priest held for selling body parts
The Zion Apostolic Church priest and a casual worker for at least two mortuaries were arrested after police were called to the home of a sangoma in Acornhoek, where they found a white woman’s breast and hand on Saturday.
Parry Gripp – Young Girl Talking About Herself
She is a young girl talking about herself.
M Dwyer – Pug Fight
An animated short that explores the unbelievably cruel but really adorable world of underground pug fighting.
Time moves too slowly for hyperactive boys – health – 10 June 2009 – New Scientist
The researchers used MRI scans to show that 12 boys with ADHD had less activity than usual in the frontal lobe, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum, all areas of the brain known to be crucial for time perception.
Time moves too slowly for hyperactive boys – health – 10 June 2009 – New Scientist
Assistive Technology and the DX1
Persons with disabilities, educators and medical professionals are adopting the Ergodex technology to help with a variety of disabilities that affect computer use.
SourceForge.net: The Skipper Accessibility Project
Skipper is a powerful accessibility package for Linux which enables severely physically disabled people with many different conditions to make full use of applications that normally require good mouse and keyboard control.
Inference Group: Dasher Project
Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used. Dasher (versions 3 and above) is available for general use under the conditions of the GNU General Public Licence.
lifekludger – disability : technology : life » Touch
ideas, devices, methods and custom uses for ‘everyday stuff’ that could be used to adapt, build, kludge, hack or make things work for people living with disability, as well as links and opinion on useful existing devices.
Montague Paratrooper- Tactical Folding Mountain Bike
When the military designs a folding bicycle, that’s the stuff.
