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Underwater skyscraper

Underwater skyscraper

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

From eVolo:

The hO2+ scraper proposes to break free of the urban fabric and functions as self-sufficient ambassadors in the sea. The hO2+ scraper is an autonomous floating unit of livable, functional and self sustaining space which will function, in a collective manner, as a floating city. It is self sufficient as it generates its own power through wave, wind, current, solar, bio etc. and it generates its own food through farming, aquaculture, hydroponics etc. It carries with its own small forest on top its back and supports places for users to live and works in its depths. Its bioluminescent tentacles provide sea fauna a place to live and congregate while collecting energy through its kinetic movements. Such sustainability strategies aim to ultimately create and provide an oasis with ‘Zero’ negative impacts to the environment, not only that but also improves on it hence the ’Plus’. Aptly as poetic antithesis to a skyscraper which goes up into the heavens the hO2+ scraper goes down to the depths of the sea.

Crazy Melbourne weather

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

From a hail storm to a downpour to a flash flood.

Partially blind octogenarian travels 14 miles to cross the street

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

Nancy Underwood must travel 14 miles to cross the street because the village she lives in doesn’t have a cross walk.

From Daily Mail:

If she wants to visit the Post Office or shop in Chideock, Dorset, she has to catch the Number 31 bus to Bridport three miles away before using a pedestrian crossing.

The grandmother-of-five then boards a return journey and stops off in Chideock on the opposite side of the road to her house, where she can safely visit the shop.

She then hops onto the next Number 31 bus and travels four miles to the village of Charmouth, where there is also a pedestrian crossing.

After crossing the road, she completes the final leg of her journey on her fourth bus of the day, which takes her back to Chideock and completes the 90minute round trip.

She usually does her shopping in Bridport but is then forced to stay on the Number 31 as it passes through the village and travel on to Charmouth, where she can cross the road.

She then boards a bus back to the village – an eight-mile detour which adds another hour to her weekly shopping trip.

Crazy chick goes crazy for the new Twilight trailer

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

Here’s the trailer in case you want to yell and scream for no reason.

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Living without a gender

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

Norrie is 48 years old, lives in Sydney, Australia, and was born a man. He took hormone treatments and had surgery to become a woman at 23. Since the, she has stopped taking hormones and has decided to not live as either gender. Recently Norrie received a certificate from the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages that officially identified Norrie as the first person to be “sex not specified.”

From SMH:

Norrie has since begun doing the rounds to have all offending records changed.

”I went into the bank and the woman’s eyes lit up when she saw the certificate, and she said, ‘What a good option’,” Norrie said yesterday.

Centrelink was flummoxed and had to call in computer programmers to tackle the task, but agreed to find a way.

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Descendants

By David | Published: March 11, 2010

A beautifully animated short film starring Whoopi Goldberg.

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