Bhutan, that tiny, idyllic country nestled between China and India, has a thing for male genitals. However, an influx of tourists and their prudish ways threatens the ancient art of penis worship, the Global Post reports. Global Post: Since tourism is a major source of income for Bhutan, Prime Minister Jigme Thinley announced earlier this year that Bhutan aims to triple the number of tourists by 2012. That’s potentially bad news for penis worship. That’s because some here worry the influx of tourists to this isolated Buddhist oasis is already weakening the essence of Bhutan — namely its relationship with the omnipresent phallus. The decline of the phallus is especially evident in “urban Bhutan,” a term locals insist is not an oxymoron. Read more Photo: Flickr / GrahamKing (CC-BY-NC-SA) Photo: Flickr / Deana Zabaldo (CC-BY-NC-SA) Related Entries January 3, 2011 Sexed-Up Videos Stir Up Trouble for U.S. Navy December 3, 2010 The Pope’s Progress
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Echoing his Election Night accusation that Michele Bachman was “hypnotized” Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, called the Minnesota Republican congresswoman a “zombie” as he insultingly asked GOP strategist Todd Harris to identify who Bachmann is getting her “orders from?” Matthews made the comment during a discussion about raising the debt ceiling and the Hardball host, who is fond of making cinematic comparisons, even referenced Hollywood horror screen legend Boris Karloff in his over-the-top slam of Bachmann, as seen in this exchange from the January 4 edition of Hardball: (video after the jump) read more
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Romantic love lights up the same brain regions of lovers, whether they’re heterosexual or homosexual or male or female, a new study indicates.
Continue reading …Griffin gets an iPhone all up in your car’s OBD-II port with the CarTrip Bluetooth adapter
January 4, 2011 No Comment
If you’re not a car person there’s a good chance you don’t know much about the OBD-II lurking mysteriously beneath your dash. It’s there — if your car was built since the first Bush administration, anyway. Usually its needs go unfulfilled until your check-engine light pops on and some mechanic with greasy paws clumsily stuffs a code checker in there, but more and more tools are coming out to change that. The Autobot Mavia is one, and now Griffin is doing similar with the CarTrip. It’s an OBD-II adapter that connects wirelessly to an iOS device or writes directly to SD card, storing information on information related to car mileage, even giving you a real-time efficiency readout on your display with the CleanDrive app. And, yes, it’ll even pull warning codes and the like if things aren’t quite running how they should. All that for $89.99, a fair bit less than the Mavia will potentially be and available sooner — sometime before the first quarter is through. Griffin gets an iPhone all up in your car’s OBD-II port with the CarTrip Bluetooth adapter originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Hours after Qassam rocket explodes in south, Air Force attacks smuggling tunnel, Hamas training base in Gaza Strip. No injuries reported
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More than 20% of patients who receive implanted devices that help shock the heart out of dangerous rhythms (“arrhythmias”) get them when clinical guidelines suggest they are unlikely to benefit from the expensive and sometimes painful intervention, a study shows.
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The Associated Press got an inside look at the work needed to set up the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. AP’s Robert Ray reports from Las Vegas. (Jan. 4)
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US auto sales sputtered back to life in 2010 and car companies expect them to keep climbing this year as the economy recovers and buyers grow more confident.(Jan. 4)
Continue reading …Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo’ update hitting phones in early February, ‘Mango’ coming later with IE9?
January 4, 2011 No Comment
Word on the street from Microsoft savant Paul Thurrott is that Windows Phone 7′s first update might go gold as early as this week — in time for Ballmer’s CES keynote, in fact, which means he might give it a mention and / or spend a few minutes showing it off. It’s said to be codenamed “NoDo,” short for “No Donuts” — a pretty obscure (and odd) reference to the fact that Redmond doesn’t want to release incremental, minor updates like Google did with Android 1.6 Donut . We’re not sure why they’d bother taking a swipe at an Android build that happened… oh, four versions ago, but Microsoft works in mysterious ways. Anyhow, it’ll apparently add copy / paste, CDMA location support (which might be the only thing holding up Verizon and Sprint from launching at this point), support for additional Qualcomm chipsets, and miscellaneous bug fixes. Moving on, Thurrott says that the rumored Mango update isn’t the next update after NoDo, but it’s real — and it’s big. It’ll add Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 and Silverlight support, but notably, its code line is being referred to internally as the “entertainment branch,” so there might be some other magic in store. Current version numbers for Mango are in the 7.2 range, but builds are in the 7500 range, suggesting Windows Phone 7.5 branding is a possibility. An exciting 2011 for Microsoft on the mobile side? Looks like, Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo’ update hitting phones in early February, ‘Mango’ coming later with IE9? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image credit: Dr. Tim-Rasmus Kiehl, M.D I do prattle on with quotes like Carl Elefante’s “the greenest building is the one already standing” and the Steve Mouzon version “The greenest brick is the one already in the wall.” I love to quote Richard Moe: “When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link u… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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