Magic Laser or secret “Phaser?”
Very interesting article in Business Week on this company called Raydiance. Check it out carefully. They talk about the laser’s ability to essentially make matter “disappear.” Are they talking about making cancer or tattoos disappear or whole terrorists? Notice how evasive Schuler is about the Defense topic…it came from DARPA – DUH.
Snakes On His Motherf*cking Flesh!
OK, we
’ll admit it: We enjoyed making fun of the guy, but now we have to step back and give him his due: When push came to shove, Doz chose to put up, not shut up. The Man (he’s earned the capital “M”) went and got a Snakes on a Plane tattoo this weekend that covers most of the outside of his upper arm.
Geek Tattoos
A collection of people who proudly ink their bodies with everlasting symbols of geekiness.
Photo: The Last ‘Face-tattooed’ Woman of Myanmar
An old woman from the Chin ethnic minority group in Myanmar, which borders India and Thailand, shows off the tattoos she was given as a young girl to ward off attacks – particularly by neighbouring princes, who would kidnap girls to be concubines. She was one of the last to get the markings, in a 200-year-old custom which has now died out
Laser tattooed food to replace label stickers
“laser-coded,” fruit uses the same sort of laser technology that is used in surgery: it cuts and cauterizes at the same time making a label replacing the need of stickers on fruit.
Archaeologists Find 2,500 Year-Old Mummy in Mongolia, Tattoos and All
An international group of archaeologists has unearthed a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old mummy frozen in the snow-capped mountains of Mongolia complete with blond hair, tattoos and a felt hat.
How to: Make a Tattoo Gun from Electric Toothbrush
“Spacepaintings” shows us how to make a simple tattoo gun using a toothbrush and other household supplies. According to this video, it will take you 10-minutes or less to build this gadget.
In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep
When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.
The Visual Dictionary
The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we’re trying to catalogue it.
Ubuntu for your grandmother.
They say its for geeks, they say its for nerds, they say its for those whose pinkie finger has the imprint of the enter key tattooed on it. We say its for your grandmother ! An article about how to install and configure UBUNTU linux so our grandmother could use it.
