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Bill Gates donates $450 million for innovative health breakroughs

Pretty great idea by Bill Gates – funding highly experimental and alternative solutions to major 3rd world health problems. This includes figuring out why 10% of Kenyan prostitutes are resistant to AIDS, finding away to block mosquitos from smelling humans, making mosquitos transmit Vitamin A instead of malaria, and dry-storing vaccines. Way to go, Bill.

Eighty percent of these are likely to be dead ends. But even if we have a 10 percent hit rate, it will all have been worthwhile.”

[via fark.]

posted by chris on 12/07/05 @ 1:06 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: misc

jennifer aniston topless?

Jennifer Aniston and her lawyers have been warning publishers not to print the topless photos recently taken of her without her knowledge when she was sunbathing in her own backyard. Well, they leaked, and SaveManny.com has them.

I am personally not sure these are real. I think I can see some under-nipple scars from breast augmentation surgery, which I didn’t think Jennifer had. In any case, the photos look pretty convincing, and her and her lawyers have given them credibility by making such a fuss. So these might not be real from photoshopping, or they might be real photos that show Jennifer’s breasts are not real, or they might be Jennifer’s really nice breasts.

In any case, nice rack, Jennifer. If these are real, we have no idea why you would hide these from us for so long.

UPDATE: Speaking of nice racks, Sun Page Six girl, Keeley Hazell, has fantastic, all natural breasts that can be seen in great lively detail in this video of a recent topless photo shoot. Spectacular.

[via fark.]

posted by chris on 12/07/05 @ 12:55 pm | 2 Comments |
tags: dirty, tv

botched demo

Demolition experts tried to bring down a 200′ tall building in Sioux Falls, SD yesterday, but it did not go as expected, and there is video to prove it.

Botched Demo

[via boingboing.]

posted by chris on 12/05/05 @ 3:55 am | 3 Comments |
tags: funny, videos

Borat responds to Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry announced plans to sue Sacha Cohen (Ali G) after his appearance as Borat hosting the European MTV Video Awards last month, for, basically, making Kazakhstanis look bad. Borat himself got involved, and issued this response video where he tells them basically to “go ahead and sue that Jew”. I haven’t seen much of anything funnier than this.

Borat Response

posted by chris on 12/05/05 @ 3:49 am | 3 Comments |
tags: funny, videos

I LOVE this wood LED clock

It’s a little pricey at $469, but this handmade wooden clock is imported from Japan, and uses LEDs through a thin layer of wood to get this effect. I LOVE it! (This tube lamp is pretty sweet also.)

Ledwoodclock All

posted by chris on 12/04/05 @ 11:11 pm | 2 Comments |
tags: gadgets

historical rabbit animation

That’s a misleading title. This is an ad for Motorola that follows a cute little bunny through many of the recognizable animation styles throughout history, from the Mickey Mouse steamboat thing, through Tron, and modern CG, all landing themselves on the screen of a Motorola phone. Pretty sweet.

Rabbitanimation

[via hedonistica.]

posted by chris on 12/04/05 @ 8:44 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: advertising, animations, videos

luckiest man alive

Holy shit. This car goes out of control. Sweet. This guy, well, he’s standing right there. Definitely going to die. But this tree. It just sort of jumps in the way and saves him. So good. I love the internet. Watch this video to see what I am rambling about.

Rallycrashtree

[via hedonistica.]

posted by chris on 12/04/05 @ 8:25 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: videos

AWESOME monster art

This is a really sweet gallery of fine art photoshopped to include modern horror film monsters and villains. It started off as Photoshop contest on Worth 1000, but I think the results exceeded their expectations. I LOVE this “Young Bathers” (Bouguereau and Chucky).

Chucky Painting-1

[via hedonistica.]

posted by chris on 12/04/05 @ 8:18 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: art, movies

banned xbox ad

The folks over at Microsoft seem to make a lot of mistakes. The advertising for the XBox has been pretty weak overall, but despite that, they sold over 40,000 XBoxes on eBay alone!

I don’t know which ad agency did this ad that Microsoft apparently rejected, but it is outstanding. I am going to assume the faux-violence was simply not the message MS wanted out there. I think this is another example of a big company playing it safe, and missing a huge opportunity. This ad is great. Enjoy.

Xbox Ad

[thanks to everyone who sent this in...]

posted by chris on 12/04/05 @ 7:55 pm | 1 Comment |
tags: advertising, games, videos

supamonks

Here’s a really fun short CG animation about a monk who has enough and has to takes matters into his own hands when barbarian hoards attack. Very simple, very smooth, and with a great soundtrack. Enjoy SupaMonks.

Supamonk

[via screenhead.]

posted by chris on 12/03/05 @ 11:17 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: animations, videos

tim tom

Screenhead calls Tim Tom “stop-motion comedy noir” and I guess I have to agree. I think the story is dumb, but the animation is fantastic in this award winning student film. It’s French, so what do you expect? I have no idea what’s going on. Enjoy.

Timtom

[via screenhead.]

posted by chris on 12/03/05 @ 10:45 pm | 0 Comments |
tags: animations, videos

2007 Camaro concepts

If the 2007 Camaro looks anything like these concepts, I am getting one. I like this better than the Corvette, better than the Mustang, better than every other American “muscle car.” Stunning design.

2007Camaro

[via autoblog.]

posted by chris on 12/03/05 @ 9:05 pm | 8 Comments |
tags: cars

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