Bodies in Seattle
The controversial Bodies exhibition is currently on display in Seattle. It's controversial because the bodies used were bought from a Chinese medical school and the arrangers, Premier Exhibitions, are not sharing evidence of consent for using the bodies this way. Seattle Times' has an interesting article that gives more details.

Contriversial or not, I found the exhibition interesting and educational. Seeing a full human neural system laid out on a table, arteries and veins, and knee joints with muscles attached makes you want to sign up for a classs in anatomy.

A couple of facts interesting things I learned:
- When removing the part of a lung that contains a tumor the remaining part can still function.
- Smoking a packet of cigarettes on average shortens your life 2 hours and 20 minutes.
- Eyes don't grow after birth.

The exhibition is open until end of December and the ticket is $24.50. There's also a youtube commercial that gives some idea of what it's like.

Another great coke+menthos video: Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II - The Domino Effect

Stevens got 18"
(webcam)
Can't wait for the ski season to start - already booked trips to Jackson and Whistler in Jan...

Look, the orkuteers are talking!

Borat is conquering the world!

...and some people are pissed off! Borat (Sacha) previously received criticism after his "utterly unacceptable" behavior at the '05 MTV Europe Music Awards. Shortly after, he posted his response on the "official" Borat site (www.borat.tv - Kazakh authorities shut down www.borat.kz).

I'm now looking forward to the Kazakh Foreign Ministry's reaction on this "xenophobic" movie. And while waiting I've started to go through the long list of
video clips that are available online - many of which were not shown in the movie or on the Ali G show.

Oh, and does anyone need more proof that video clips spreading online doesn't need to hurt the film industry? The smart marketing people behind Borat recognized the opportunity and that's one of the reasons they sold for $26.5M the first weekend in the US. Now if only the Kazakh officials were as clever they'd use this movie to their advantage. Lonely Planet is already featuring the Real Kazakhstan on their website and I bet their Central Asia edition is selling better and better for each day.

Remember the old 90s movie Rocketeer? I had almost forgotten about it until I recently stumbled over this 1966 clip of the real thing. Somehow the idea of strapping a rocket on your back is just so incredibly fascinating, although the pilots comment about getting down with the help of gravity after the 21.5s burn of fuel sounded a bit worrying... For now I'll stick to the good ol' Cessna 172, but as soon the break-through of commercial rocket backpacks come...