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Tape Generations by Johan Rijpma

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All Johan Rijpma needs to create hypnotically fascinating video clip are a couple of dozens rolls of Scotch tape. Johan wrote: … Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 11/09/2011 01:09 Number of articles : 2

Tape Generations by Johan Rijpma

Fossils of Earliest Animal Life Discovered?

“Fossils of what could be the oldest animal bodies have been discovered in Australia, pushing back the clock on when animal life first appeared on Earth to at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought. The results suggest that primitive sponge-like creatures lived in ocean reefs about 650 million years ago. Digital images of the fossils suggest the animals were about a centimeter in size (the width of your small fingertip) and had irregularly shaped bodies with a network of internal canals. The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, represent the earliest evidence of animal body forms in the current fossil record. Previously, the oldest known fossils of hard-bodied animals were from two reef-dwelling organisms that lived around 550 million years ago.” http://www.livescience.com/animals/earliest-animal-life-fossils-discovered-10081… added by: DeliaTheArtist

Scottish Invent Bio-Fuel From Whisky

From the inventors of cloned sheep and golf comes another absolutely brilliant breakthrough for mankind. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland have created a bio-fuel using the byproducts left over from the distillation of Scotch Whisky (Note that Scotch Whisky has no “e”). Apparently by using the “pot ale” and “draff” (words we assume are made up), some type of mystical spirit is made to power an ordinary car with no alterations to the engine. More… http://drinkphilly.com/index.php/drinks/artprofile/135 added by: DrinkPhilly

Sticky Tape Art

Scotch is holding a contest featuring “free-form” sculptures made from sticky tape. The winner will receive a prize of 3,200 pounds, which is like, what, a million dollahz in America? The Best Links: via Telegraph View

The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So) – Notre Dame blog …

And Mike Tyson has admitted to wanting to kill Brad Pitt back in the early 1990s because he was dating Tyson’s ex, Robin Givens. Though we are talking about Robin Givens – after two weeks, Brad Pitt probably wanted to kill himself. ..

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