Stuff I find interesting

The World's First Artificial Heart

2010-10-05T17:44:00.000-07:00

This is the world's first total artificial heart.

Surgeons Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley placed it into Haskell Carp's chest on April 4, 1969 in Houston. They removed it 64 hours later when a donor heart became available.

But the heart did what it was supposed to do, explained Judy Chelnick, an associate curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The patient did not live long, but not because the manmade heart malfunctioned. It worked just fine, laying the stage for many later variations.

The piece of medical history is now stored in a formaldehyde solution in a cabinet behind the scenes at the museum.

2010-10-04T21:44:00.001-07:00

Next Justin Bieber?

2010-10-03T11:23:00.001-07:00

Listen to this at night and you'll shit brix.

2010-10-02T10:35:00.001-07:00

OMG Justin Bieber is awesome.

Sunny D and Rum

2010-09-30T23:33:00.001-07:00

Ooooh Sunny D and Rum, yum yum.

2010-09-29T22:40:00.001-07:00

ROFL.

Jackass 3D

2010-09-12T11:07:00.001-07:00

LOL, Anybody else excited for Jackass 3D?

Chinese woman "sues cinema for wasting her time"

2010-09-11T13:20:00.000-07:00

Chen Xiaomei claims the Polybona International Cinema in the northern city of Xian and film distributors Huayi Brothers Media Corporation should have told her how long the advertisements for the film Aftershock lasted, Xinhua news agency said.

Ms Chen, who is a lawyer, has accused Polybona and Huayi Brothers of wasting her time and violating her freedom of choice. The case has been accepted by the People's Court in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, Xinhua said, citing a statement from the court.

Ms Chen is demanding the companies refund her 35-yuan ticket (£3.30), pay her 35 yuan in compensation and one yuan (10p) for emotional damages and write her an apology, the report said.

She has also advised the cinema to publish the advertisement times on its website, in the lobby or on its customer hotline and asked Huayi Brothers to cut the length of commercials to less than five minutes.

"Aftershock", which is about an earthquake that devastated a Chinese city in 1976, has become the highest-grossing domestic film, raking in 650 million yuan (£61,768,000), Xinhua said.

The movie directed by Feng Xiaogang tells the story of a mother's emotional reunion with her daughter, three decades after a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the northern city of Tangshan, killing more than 240,000 people.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7990649/Chinese-woman-sues-cinema-for-wasting-her-time.html

Lol, these days people are suing everyone whenever they can

2010-09-11T00:29:00.001-07:00

Awesome new song by Rick Astley.