some chicago fun facts
Chicago produced the first Roller skates in 1884
Chicago produced the first Elevated railway in 1892
Chicago produced the first Cracker Jacks in 1893
Chicago produced the first Zipper in 1896
Chicago produced the first Steel-framed skyscraper in 1885
Chicago produced the first Window envelope in 1902
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837.
The first steel rail road in the United States was produced in Chicago in 1865.
The first mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., was established in 1872.
The world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Company, was built in 1885.
The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.
Via: City of Chicago
Your boss is a real douchebag!
DOUCHEBAG
Just in case you forgot what a douchebag is, you can read below and make sure you nor your friends become one.
Via: Urban Dictionary
Scientists have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for a disorder that causes people to sprout thick hair on their faces and bodies.
Hypertrichosis, sometimes called "werewolf syndrome " is a very rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases documented worldwide. But researchers knew the disorder runs in families, and in 1995 they traced the approximate location of the mutation to a section of the X chromosome (one of the two sex chromosomes) in a Mexican family affected by hypertrichosis.
Men with the syndrome have hair covering their faces and eyelids, while women grow thick patches on their bodies. In March, a Thai girl with the condition got into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's hairiest child.
A man in China with congenital hypertrichosis helped researchers break the case. Xue Zhang, a professor of medical genetics at the Peking Union Medical College, tested the man and his family and found an extra chunk of genes on the X chromosome. The researchers then returned to the Mexican family and also found an extra gene chunk (which was different from that of the Chinese man) in the same location of their X chromosomes.
The extra DNA may switch on a hair-growth gene nearby, resulting in runaway furriness. The best bet for a culprit, wrote study researcher Pragna Patel of the University of Southern California, is a gene called SOX3, which is known to play a role in hair growth.
REAL LIFE WEREWOLVE
GENE DISCOVERED?
Seems like Teen Wolf isn't just a movie anymore. Scientists found a genetic mutation that gives people way too much hair. But, I don't think anyone will be howling at the moon.
Via: MSNBC
So True...
Most of the time, the cutest cats are the stray cats that you find in the street, or in some alleyway behind a Burger King or something.
I can't stand the expensive one's that look like Korean dictator's and they are too fat to run. Are they smarter or something? What's the appeal?
Source: Fuck Yeah Internetz
Ugly Ass Cats are always more Expensive.
audrey hepburn
As if you didn't know.
Make Cupcakes, Not War!
British intelligence agency MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda online magazine, replacing bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, The Telegraph reports.
The joint action by MI6 and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters had agents insert into the magazine an encrypted version of “The Best Cupcakes in America,” published by the Ellen DeGeneres talk show.
Originally, the magazine had instructions on how to make lethal pipe bombs, as well as articles by Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.
According to The Telegraph, a similar Pentagon operation was blocked by the CIA, who claimed the magazine is more valuable as a source of intelligence. The attack was launched from Britain instead.
Al-Qaeda reissued the magazine (bomb-making instructions included) two weeks later and issued four more editions. According to one of The Telegraph‘s sources, British intelligence “was continuing to target online outlets publishing the magazine because it is viewed as such a powerful propaganda tool.”
As amusing as the story may sound, one has to question whether changing the magazine’s content in such an obvious way was the best course of action. It gave Al-Qaeda a clear warning its website had been hacked, probably making the organization a lot more cautious.
British Intel agency hacks Al-Qaeda website, attacks by replacing bomb making instuctions with Cupcake Recipes
Via: Mashable
British Cupcake Image: Perfectionist Confectionist
Liv Tyler finds the thought of appearing nude on screen "terrifying".
The 33-year-old star appeared topless in 1996's critically acclaimed drama Stealing Beauty.
But she hasn't appeared nude on screen again until her new film The Ledge, which is out in American later this month.
The steamy thriller features Liv in a series of clinches alongside Patrick Wilson and Charlie Hunnam.
Liv, daughter of Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler, plays a former drug addict who befriends Charlie's suicidal atheist.
Liv's decision to disrobe once more may surprise some after she admitted she bitterly fought against appearing topless in Stealing Beauty.
"I was like, 'No way, sorry,'" she is quoted as saying by Fox News. "Of course the thought of showing your body parts is a terrifying thought - I find it terrifying. Let alone the whole world. And I fought it until the very end."
While she eventually lost her argument, her performance in Bernardo Bertolucci 's film earned her rave reviews and shot her to stardom.
Liv Tyler Does Nude Scene in New Film
Actress Liv Tyler hasn't done a nude scene since 1996. She goes forward and drops some clothes in the new film "The Ledge. "
Via: Stuff
Hardy Harr Harr
Project:
Fayre on the Square
Marketing campaign
& signage
Client:
National Hospital Development Foundation
We were asked to design material to advertise a summer fayre fundraiser for the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery.
Radford Wallis
A Very Grassy Project
Via: Radford Wallis
Self-portraits by tape artist Askash Nihalani. Although every artist and their mother does this type of tape/photography art...it is still very fun to look at and each artist always finds to put their own twist on it.
Via: Boooooooom
If only John Waters made a Wonder Woman film. If only!
This is a good thing?
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