Mutant Bicycles by Todd Kundles
Monday, January 24, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
China Completes Worlds Largest Bridge
The 39.6km long structure, which would easily cross the English Channel, links the centre of the port city of Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong Province with the suburb of Huangdao.
Built in just four years at a cost of £5.5bn, the six-lane road bridge is supported by more than 5,200 columns and was designed by the Shandong Gausu Group.
It is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes when it opens to traffic later this year.
Officials insist the bridge is strong enough to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake, typhoons or the impact of a 300,000T vessel.
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Built in just four years at a cost of £5.5bn, the six-lane road bridge is supported by more than 5,200 columns and was designed by the Shandong Gausu Group.
It is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes when it opens to traffic later this year.
Officials insist the bridge is strong enough to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake, typhoons or the impact of a 300,000T vessel.
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Comcast and NBC
On Tuesday, The Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice approved the $30 billion mega-merger of Comcast and NBC Universal.Both the FCC and DOJ imposed conditions designed to ensure that the new company would not unfairly limit other companies' access to its content, or limit consumers' access to other companies' content. Comcast is barred, for example, from managing Hulu, a joint venture of NBCU, Fox Entertainment, and ABC
The agreement will give Comcast a controlling 51 percent stake in the company, with General Electric retaining 49 percent.
Cheese Nails
Addicted to biting your nails?With cheese nails, maybe the addiction will add some extra flavor your habit!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Black Friday Sale?
Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, CA, posted this advertisement online yesterday to promote their MLK Day sale.The Surf Shop has since apologized for its disrespectful promotion, saying: “We took down the ad for our sale to hopefully calm the waters and in the future will be more careful in our selection of promotions.”
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Regis Retiring?
After over 28 years of being on air with Live! With Regis and Kelly, Regis Philbin has decided to retire.Kelly Ripa was just as shocked as the rest of America. She was notified of his announcement 15 minutes before going on air.
Guess he's joining the long list of talk show hosts that have retire this year.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Marting Luther King Children ..Where Are They Now?
Happy Martin Luther King Day!
At the young age of five, seven, ten and eleven, the children of Martin Luther King abruptly had their father taken away from them.
With his great values, wisdom and knowledge instilled in them, where has that led his children today.
At the young age of five, seven, ten and eleven, the children of Martin Luther King abruptly had their father taken away from them.
With his great values, wisdom and knowledge instilled in them, where has that led his children today.
Martin Luther King III (53)
In 1998, King became the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group founded by his father. He was suspended for a week by the organization's board members due to concern that he wasn't moving quickly enough. King left the SCLC in January 2004 to serve as director and co-owner of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change with his brother, Dexter Scott King.In 2006, King founded an organization called Realizing the Dream, which works to end poverty. King is married to Arndrea Waters King, and together they have one daughter, who was born in 2008
Bernice King (47)
MLK Jr.'s youngest daughter is a motivational speaker, licensed attorney and ordained minister. In 2009, Reverend Bernice King was elected as the first woman president of the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Dexter Scott King (49)Dexter Scott King has spent his life trying to shape how the world remembers his father -- sometimes in a way that's at odds with what his siblings want.
"He has always thought he had the responsibility of
communicating his father’s and mother’s legacy globally," explained Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lieutenant, during a controversy about the film that Dexter tried to have made about his father in 2009. A film about his father is Dexter's longtime goal, Young also said.
Dexter, who lives in Malibu, has played his slain father in movies such as the The Rosa Parks Story.
"He has always thought he had the responsibility of
communicating his father’s and mother’s legacy globally," explained Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lieutenant, during a controversy about the film that Dexter tried to have made about his father in 2009. A film about his father is Dexter's longtime goal, Young also said.
Dexter, who lives in Malibu, has played his slain father in movies such as the The Rosa Parks Story.
Yolanda King (November 17, 1955; 51 at death)
Yolanda King was the eldest of the King children. She wrote and produced plays, gave motivational speeches to major corporations and acted in commercials and movies.
King founded a theatrical production company, Higher Ground Productions, dedicated to what she called "personal empowerment" and was on the board of the King Center. Ms. King was meeting her brother Dexter King at a friend’s home in Santa Monica, Calif. when she collapsed and died
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Dirty Money
Researchers took swabs from the key pads of several ATMs in England in popular shopping centers.
They then took similar swabs from the seats of nearby public lavatories and compared the bacteria under microscopes in a lab.
The swab were left to grow overnight and samples from both locations were found to contain pseudomonads and bacillus, bacterias which are known to cause sickness and diarrhoea.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Parent #1; Parent #2
US Passports will now identify parental units in a "gender neutral" way.
Guardians will be classified as either Parent 1 or Parent 2, instead of mother or father, for those who may have two mothers or two fathers.
Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, called the news
"a positive step forward for all American families. It was time that the federal government acknowledged the reality that hundreds of thousands of kids in this country are being raised by same-sex parents."Source
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Bigger Is Better
For around $5,000, you can own the biggest mass-produced television on the market.The television, made by Mitsubishi, is longer than a Volkswagon and taller than a teenager.
It's capable of displaying 3-D movies.
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40th Anniversary of Starbucks
Since March 2011 will mark the 40th anniversary of Startbucks, the company has redesigned their logo.Source
Monday, January 3, 2011
Mark It Up
Instead of throwing away his markers and pens, graphic designer Costas Schuler sticks them to his car.
Flood Courts
Tennis champions Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer play at the Westbay in Doha during an exhibition match to promote the city one day before the Qatar Open.Pixar Stamps
Starting August 2011, Pixar fans will be allowed to purchase stamps from their favorite movie.The new stamps will feature Lightning McQueen and Mater from 'Cars,' Buzz Lightyear and two aliens from 'Toy Story,' Linguini and Remy the Rat from 'Ratatouille,' Carl Fredricksen and Dug from 'Up' and lovable robot Wall*E from the film of the same name.
They are hoping to increase the usage of postal services.
SpongeBob's Ninth Season
Nickelodeon has picked up the popular animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants, for a ninth season.The ninth season will include the shows 200th episode.
Spngbob Squarepants will air in 2012, making it TV's number one animated series with kids 2-11 for 10 consecutive years.
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