Jaxon Brooks

Gun heel from the Chanel Cruise 2009 collection.

http://lipsticklacebrassknuckles.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/yay-or-nay-chanel-gun-heel/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/modern_fred/2095565021/

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Piglet Squid, Helicocranchia pfefferi

This funny looking squid is about the size of a small avocado and can be found most commonly in the deepwater (greater than 100 m or 320 ft) of virtually all oceans. Its habit of filling up with water and the funny location of its siphone with a wild-looking 'tuft' of eight arms and two tentacles had prompted scientists to name it the piglet squid.

http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2008/10/piglet_squid.php

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Everyone knows who Banksy is-- but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here's a selection of the very best.

     

http://streetsy.com/40artists.php

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A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt” produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.

“Now that we know hydrogen sulfide’s role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension,” said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.

http://www.livescience.com/health/081023-farts-blood-pressure.html

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How to make an edible (well, more edible) brain out of a watermelon -- suitable for vegan zombies.

http://www.instructables.com/id/SPSGOH5FMEGA9WM/

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Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg twenty-two days after mating and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes ten days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for forty-five to fifty-five days, at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months.

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=18424

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Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

Cities that have suffered unrest before, such as Detroit, Chicago, Oakland and Philadelphia, will have extra police deployed.

In Oakland, the police will deploy extra units trained in riot control, as well as extra traffic police, and even put SWAT teams on standby.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/police-prepare-for-unrest-2008-10-21.html

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BMW has revealed the Mini E, a zero-emission, two-seat version of its famous hatchback that will be leased to 500 Americans as part of a one-year trial. Available in 2009, but only in 3 states and at $850 a month.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4737237a30.html

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Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway personal gliding transporter and other gadgets for the world’s well-to-do, has joined a growing array of innovators and entrepreneurs focusing their skills on the persistent plight of the world’s poorest billion people
http://fora.tv/2008/07/03/Dean_Kamen_on_Potable_Water_and_Sustainable_Electricity

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