Posted on Tuesday, 22nd December 2009 by Interloper
Forget about Jimi Hendrix, Slash and even Michaelangelo Batio (sorry Canada), because to me, Kaki King is the best guitarist ever.
I first saw her on Leno a few years ago and was amazed. Where other musicians simply “play the guitar”, King transforms the instrument into something else entirely. Beneath her fingers the guitar becomes an [...]
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Posted on Monday, 21st December 2009 by Interloper
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably already heard that “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine has become the UK’s number one Christmas download, beating out X-Factor winner Joe McElderry by 50,000 sales to clinch the top spot.
Previous X-Factor winners, including Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke have topped the UK Christmas [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by Interloper
Kudzu is a species of fast-growing vine native to Japan.
Renowned for variety of useful applications, kudzu is often grown as a food source for grazing animals, who reportedly love the taste. It is also used to enhance soil conditions, due to an extensive root system that helps transfer minerals between the different layers of earth.
Research [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th December 2009 by Interloper
Two scientists from the Melbourne Museum have reported the first evidence that invertebrates are capable of using tools, when they witnessed the attractively named “veined octopus” gather coconut shells in order to later employ them as body armour.
The uncanny denziens of the deep not only selected coconut shells that would protect its soft body, but [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th December 2009 by Interloper
A group of atheists in New Zealand have are requesting donations to help fund a plan to put stickers on the sides of buses that say: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The plan is reminiscent of similar atheist campaigns that have been carried out in the past year, including one [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th December 2009 by Interloper
I was seriously just about to embed this lovely acoustic cover of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” by Anya Marina (and as featured on Gossip Girl during a threesome involving Hilary Duff) when Veronique Vega linked to a different, but nonetheless “superior” version on twitter. So now you get that instead.
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th December 2009 by Interloper
Yesterday I hit my funny bone. As I reeled in agony and waited for feeling to return to my hand, I vowed to uncover the truth about this incapacitating phenomena—including the reason why people find it so funny.
The term “funny bone” is a misnomer in itself, as it’s not a bone but a nerve that’s [...]
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Posted on Monday, 14th December 2009 by Interloper
So, I was sitting playing Bioware’s Dragon Age on the weekend, which is something I’ve been doing a lot of since picking it up last week. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Dragon Age is a fantasy role-playing game in which you befriend elves and stab demons in the face. [...]
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Posted on Friday, 11th December 2009 by Interloper
Experimental missiles, portals to another world, and even “tiny sapphires” have all been given as possible explanations for the mysterious rotating spiral that appeared above Norway earlier this week.
Phone switchboards lit up with calls and the internet was flooded with pictures and video of the bizarre light show as it unfolded during the early [...]
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Posted on Friday, 11th December 2009 by Interloper
Hundreds of villagers have been flocking to the Indian coastal district of Kendrapara in order to visit a rare sea turtle that they believe is an incarnation of Lord Jagannath.
Jagannath (the “Lord of the World”) is but one avatar of the god Vishnu, who is also revered in the forms of Krishna and Rama; two [...]
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