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A group of Pygmy musicians performing at a festival were put up in a zoo by Congolese officials, attracting tourists and prompting a protest from a human rights group.

Authorities said they were trying to make the indigenous musicians feel comfortable. But after a flurry of media coverage, they moved the visitors to a high school dormitory. The Pygmies are now being housed with musicians from elsewhere in the Republic of Congo, while foreign artists performing at the Festival of Pan-African Music were lodged in hotels.

Nice try, but how did they think they'd get away with this?

Source: NY Times

I know my last three posts have been YouTube videos, but this is definitely worth watching. The instrument in the video is a Theremin, invented by a Russian in 1919. It uses RF oscillators to produce sound without being touched.

[Via: BoingBoing]

A Tesla Coil that plays the Super Mario theme tune through high voltage sparks… nifty.

Source [Via: BoingBoing]

After watching this question, I'm really starting to wonder whether you can actually call McDonalds French fries a form of 'food'. After ten weeks there were still no signs of mould, even though the regular fries decomposed after two weeks.

Source: GeeksAreSexy

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.

Interesting idea, but I can't see it catching on.

Source: CBS5

Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors. The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20g packets that cost about £0.70. Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour’s drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.

"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.

The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.

A form of alcohol that’s legal to sell to minors and free from tax… sounds too good to be true.

Source: Reuters

LOLCode is an "awesome new programming language" for MySpace kids everywhere. It uses familiar vocabulary and with a fast growing list of functions, could soon over-take more traditional languages like PHP.

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
     UP VAR!!1
     VISIBLE VAR
     IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Read more at LOLCode.com

An interesting idea from Microsoft. The report says we can expect to see them in retail stores by the end of 2007.

[Via: SchrankMonster]

An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida’s swamps.

The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.

The remains of the two giant reptiles were found by astonished rangers in the Everglades National Park.

Some animals are stupid…

Source: BBC News

Bubbleheads are a prototype webcam design by Eric Zhang. The circle around the lens has LEDs which synchronise with the system time, aswell as looking good. I always end up throwing a sheet over my webcam when I’m not using it incase anyone’s watching me pick my nose, but having one of these wouldn’t be creepy at all.

[Via: OhGizmo]