Fish Flavored Ice Cream and more weird treats

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Fish Flavored Ice Cream and more weird treats
Monday, April 30th, 2007
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/04/30/fish-flavored-ice-cream/#more-648

Japan, or even Asia in general, are known for the vast amount of odd and weird foods found to be eaten. So after eating a human body the Japanese can head back to some seafood for desert with this fish flavored ice cream treat.

fish ice cream


Don’t like Fish? Well don’t worry, you can have some Green Tea ice cream instead. Might not taste as good but it is probably healthier.

Or Horse Meat Ice Cream??? (more…)

This article is for the pregnant women, who have strange food taste desires LOL

Illustrated calendar from 1900: Antikamnia Chemical Company

Of all the wonderful things I've seen on the Bibliodyssey blog, this may just be the wonderfullest.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/05/illustrated_calendar.html

Snip:

After beginning his working life as a printer's apprentice, Louis Crucius (or Crusius) completed the necessary requirements to graduate as a pharmacist in 1882 and a doctor in 1890 in St Louis, Missouri. While he was studying he worked in a pharmacy and made humorous sketches that were placed in the window of the store. A collection of these drawings was published in 1893 ('Funny Bones'). He lectured in histology and anatomy and eventually came to be a Professor of Anatomy but died in 1898 from kidney tumours.

Although he gave most of his drawings away, Crucius sold a number of them to the Antikamnia ('opposed to pain') Chemical Company which had been established in St Louis in 1890. They produced antikamnia medicines containing the coal tar derivative, acetanilid, an anti-fever drug with pain relieving properties somewhat related to paracetamol, but which would be later shown to be a toxic compound not to mention addictive. Antikamnia was mixed with substances like codeine and quinine to enhance the pain relieving effects.


I really love this photo and it's promise of pain relief, that it promises. Especially with the damp,cold weather in Salt Lake City,with my arthritis,Bad back and bad knees (Oh woe is me)

30 of the Crucius 'dance of death'-inspired drawings were used to make 5 years worth of Antikamnia Chemical Company calendars - between 1897 and 1901. They had a fairly aggressive marketing campaign in which the calendars (aimed at the medical fraternity) as well as postcards and sample packs were distributed to doctors in the United States and overseas.

Link to full post.

US prison sees keys sold online

US prison sees keys sold online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6624831.stm


Officials do not know how many keys were sold
A prison in the US state of Iowa has changed its locks after a set of keys was sold online for $12.

The state spent $6,000 on refurbishing the Anamosa State Penitentiary after keys that belonged to a guard who retired in the 70s were auctioned.

Officials at the 135-year-old jail were not sure if the keys still worked but could not take any chances, a warden told KCCI-TV in Des Moines.

Anamosa is a medium-security jail but holds a number of violent criminals.

'Never at risk'

Warden Jerry Burt told the TV station many of the cell blocks from that time were still in use and the keys might fit.

"We do know there were a number of keys and it's a possibility," he said.

"We don't know exactly how many keys were sold. We don't know where they went... We don't have any information that says any particular key that fit any particular lock may have been compromised."

The warden said the public had never been at risk but the locks were changed as a precaution.

The keys were bought at a sale following the death of the prison guard. They were advertised as once having opened the jail's locks.

Anamosa is about 25 miles (40km) north-east of the town of Cedar Rapids and houses more than 1,000 inmates.

The Anamosa Penitentiary Museum lists the jail's worst inmate as John Wayne Gacy.

He spent two years there from 1968 and helped build a miniature golf course, but after his release went on to kill 33 men before being executed in Illinois in 1994.

Abandoned Boeing 737 'disappears'

Abandoned Boeing 737 'disappears'
By Monica Chadha
BBC News, Mumbai


The plane became a major attraction in Mumbai

A disused Indian Boeing 737 that was abandoned in a busy road in Mumbai (Bombay) last weekend has been moved.

The plane was taken overnight from the Chembur district where it had been left by a driver who was taking it by trailer to Delhi.

It is not clear who has moved it or where it has been taken.

The decommissioned Boeing had become the centre of attraction in the city. But some people complained that it was disrupting business.

It appears that the plane was abandoned after the driver took a wrong turn and found himself facing a flyover that was too low for him to take the plane under.

The driver then disappeared and the plane and its trailer were marooned for several days while no-one assumed responsibility for moving it.

Sunday surprise

"I'm thrilled to see that it is gone," one woman, Shaila Kachare, told the BBC News website. "Life's back to normal."

Plane stuck in Mumbai

The Boeing used to belong to the private company Air Sahara.

Its engine, wings and tail were removed before it began its road journey to Delhi.

Restaurant owner Ramji Thapar woke up on Sunday morning to find the aircraft on its giant trailer abandoned on the road.

"Saturday night I shut shop and go home and everything is fine," he told the BBC news website.

"Sunday morning when I get here, this aircraft is here near my restaurant!"

Reports say it was supposed to be used at a flight training academy.

Pradeep Malhotra, who runs a catering service in the area, said the plane had become a huge problem because it was parked right in front of his shop, preventing him loading his lorries.

Some residents said they had not complained simply because they assumed that the authorities would be making it a priority to get the plane out of the city.

Petition to restore habeas corpus

Petition to restore habeas corpus
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/03/petition_to_restore_.html

The ACLA is planning to hand deliver a 100,000 signature petition to Congress demanding that habeas corpus be restored.

Picture 10-3 Last October, Congress and the President brought them under attack by passing the Military Commissions Act (MCA).

If the government puts you in jail, you have a right to know why. And you have a right to challenge your imprisonment in court. The principle is called habeas corpus, and the Framers thought the concept so important they wrote into the body of the Constitution.

The MCA eliminates habeas corpus for certain people detained by the federal government, and it gives the President the power to decide -- without review by Congress or the Courts -- who is branded an “enemy combatant.”

The ACLU is fighting to repair the damage done by the MCA and stop this and other unacceptable erosions of our freedoms and our Constitution, but they need your help.

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Space telescope spots new planet

Space telescope spots new planet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6611557.stm
By Rebecca Morelle
Science reporter, BBC News



Artist's concept: Planet crosses in front of star (Esa)
Artist's concept: A planet is seen as it transits a star
The French-led Corot mission has spied its first planet - a very hot world bigger than Jupiter - passing in front of a far-off star.

The spacecraft was launched on 27 December last year and is the first to hunt for Earth-like planets from space.

Corot scientists said to find a planet so early on "significantly exceeded pre-launch expectations".

The new body is called Corot-exo-1b and can be found 1,500 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros.

Corot hunts for planets by monitoring stars for tiny dips in brightness that result from objects transiting their faces.

See a diagram of the Corot spacecraft

The instrumentation onboard the 650kg (1,400lb) satellite is so sensitive that it is capable of detecting rocky exoplanets (the term used to describe planets outside our Solar System) just a few times bigger than Earth.

Corot starfield (CNES)

The Corot spacecraft looks at starfields for days on end

For the next two and a half years, Corot will observe more than 100,000 stars in the hope of discovering other habitable worlds.

Dr Suzanne Aigrain, a co-investigator on the mission and an exoplanet expert from the University of Exeter, UK, was pleased to have found a planet so soon after the launch.

She told BBC News: "It's a giant planet of similar basic structure to Jupiter, but bigger; it is about 1.3 times more massive than Jupiter and has approximately 1.5 to 1.8 times the radius.

"It's a lot closer to its star, which is quite similar to our Sun, and it orbits it every 1.5 days."

The discovery of this large planet indicated that the onboard systems were working well and that discovering smaller, Earth-like planets was well within its grasp, she said.




Mission Guide: Corot
The spacecraft has also been able to carry out its first asteroseismological observations of a star.

This technique is similar to seismology, which uses earthquake waves to study the Earth's interior. But instead, Corot monitors the subtle changes in light created as "starquakes" - waves generated deep inside a star - ripple across the star's surface.

Analysis of this data, which is still being undertaken, will be used to determine the star's mass, age and chemical composition.

Dr Aigrain said: "Although it will take us some time to analyse the data more systematically as it continues to stream in, the impressive data quality, and the rapid co-ordinated response of the science team on the ground, bode extremely well for the future of the mission."

Corot is a co-operative project between the French space agency Cnes and international partners Esa (European Space Agency), Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Spain.



Corot satellite (BBC)
1. 4CCD camera and electronics: Captures and analyses starlight
2. Baffle: Works to shield the telescope from extraneous light
3. Telescope: A 30cm mirror; it views the star fields
4. Proteus platform: Contains communication equipment, temperature controls and direction controls
5. Solar panel: Uses the Sun's radiation to power the satellite

Sudan's famous goat 'wife' die

Sudan's famous goat 'wife' dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6610999.stm?ls

The best-known goat in Sudan has died months after being "married" to a man in the South Sudan capital, Juba, the BBC has learned.

Local elders ordered a man found having sex with the goat, later called Rose, to "marry" her last February.

"The idea was to publicly embarrass the man," says Tom Rhodes, editor of the Juba Post, which first ran the story.

The BBC's story of the "wedding" caught the public imagination and became one of the best read internet stories.

Rose, black and white, is believed to have died after choking on a plastic bag she swallowed as she was eating scraps on the streets of Juba.

'Sense of humour'

After the marriage, Rose had a male kid - but "not a human one" - Mr Rhodes said, hastily.

The "husband", Charles Tombe, said he was drunk at the time but has since refused to comment on the issue. The kid is owned by Mr Tombe.

More than a year after the BBC story was first published, it is still picked up by various web forums and being emailed across the world. Recently it got more than 100,000 page views for five successive days.

Over time, it has received several million hits - making it historically one of the biggest-hitting stories the BBC News website has published.

A Google search uncovers more than 1m different web pages, based on the same story.

Mr Rhodes, a Briton who helped found the Juba Post in 2004, was shocked when he learned how many people around the world had read the story his newspaper had originally published as a short, light-hearted account and not even bothered to publish on its website.

"Wow - what have we done? We have triggered a monster," he said.

He said that he had seen that it occasionally returned in the BBC's "Most read stories" and was worried that he would have trouble with South Sudanese, accusing his paper of tarnishing the image of the region - now trying to rebuild after 21 years of war.

But he says he has not come across any such anger.

"It doesn't portray Sudan in a bad light - it shows the Sudanese have a sense of humour," he says, referring to the elders' original punishment.

He has, however, had people come up and say to him: "Oh, you're the goat man."

Mr Rhodes explains that South Sudan remains a conservative society.

If a man is caught sleeping with a girl, he is ordered to marry her immediately in order to save her honour and that of her family, he says.

This was the basis for Mr Tombe's punishment, after the goat's owner found him with his animal and complained to local elders.

They ordered him to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50, at the time) and also named the goat Rose.

Afterwards, he left with the goat, not quite hand-in-hand, more hand-in-hoof, to his home in the Hai Malakal suburb of Juba - and not in Upper Nile State as we originally reported.