Google has updated it's maps of the UK to a high enough resolution to make out some pretty small details. I can't quite see my blue Peugeot on the drive, but it's a big improvement on the resolution they previously had.
Tissue engineers like Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina, and Thomas Boland of Clemson University, have been printing biomaterials with modified ink-jet printers.
The cartridges are washed out and refilled with suspensions of living cells; the software that controls the characteristics of the ink is reprogrammed and you're good to go. Boland and Mironov use layers of “thermo-reversable” gel to build up three-dimensional structures like tubes‚ capillaries, to use the medical term. When the tiny droplets, or clumps, of cells came together closely, they fused; the gel can be easily removed, leaving a tube of tissue.
Now, it seems to me that a tube or complex living organ is a pretty complicated structure. Why not practice with a simpler, more two-dimensional form of muscle tissuelike bacon, for instance? Nothing like fresh bacon.
I don't know how this would taste, but it would probably be like soya, with no vitamins or nutrients.
It's always the quiet ones who suprise me. 
Beware, this video might trigger some kind of Japanese schoolgirl kissing windows fetish.
The installation of 5000 blow-up dolls in Pasedena, California for a film.
Ampulex compressa is a wasp that has evolved to tackle roaches, insert a stinger into their brains and disable their escape reflexes. This lets the wasp use the roach's antennae to steer the roach to its lair, where it can lay its egg in it.
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From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord.
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The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days. It is then ready to weave itself a cocoon–which it makes within the roach as well
So if you ever see me looking vacant, then I die four weeks later and cockroaches come out of my head, you know why.
Source [Via: BoingBoing]
Chris at http://exploding-boy.com posted a CSS menu tutorial. This version fixes a few bugs and adds an active tab.
After four months, I’m selling my World of Warcraft account. Getting my Warlock to Level 60 took 15 days of solid playing time, and made me lose focus on other things. The Matrix Online only kept me busy for a few weeks when it came out last year, but WoW was different, somehow the repetitive grind night after night appealed to me at the time. Instead, I’ve decided to take up EVE Online because of the giant battleships and amazing scenery!. It won’t be as time consuming as WoW, because your skills level constantly, whether you’re playing the game or not.
L60 Human Warlock on Terenas (Euro) [eBay UK]
EDIT: eBay removed my listing for being in violation of Blizzard’s intellectual rights. If you’re interested in purchasing the game and guide ONLY from eBay, then also aquring the character, I’m selling the whole lot for £105.
A danish baby whose parents wanted to call him Namenlos (German: nameless) has been given the name 'Christian' by the state. Why anyone would want 'Namenlos' on their passport is anyone's guess…
Kyle, of oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com started an interesting money making scheme. He traded a red paperclip for a doorknob, which was then traded for astove and eventually for a 1995 For Cube Van. He's hoping to one day trade it for a house, or an island, or an island with a house on.
Sacha Cohen's Borat has had his .kz domain revoked after claiming that “Kazakhstan is as civilised as any other country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus”. The president of Kazakh IT companies, Nurlan Isin said, “He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains”. Borat later announced, in character. that, “I have no connection whatsover to Mr Cohen, and I fully support my country's decision to sue this Jew”.
Songtapper.com lets you tap the spacebar in time to a piece of music, then finds songs that match the beat you tapped. I can't get it to work after four tries, so I think it needs some refining…
HoloPhonic.ch has a spatial MP3 file which makes you feel like there's a guy shaking a matchbox standing behind you. You have to use headphones to feel it properly, speakers work, but not as well. There were a few times that I seriously expected someone to tap me on the shoulder. 
UK-based Selfridges has opened an iPod school an upmarket part of London, even though the manufacturer does it for free in its shop just round the corner.
Clueless music lovers who have embraced the trendy new technology but not the know-how can pay 65 pounds ($150) for a 40-minute lesson at Selfridges, on the popular Oxford Street shopping haunt.
I can understand how some idiots need lessons in checking email, but £65 for lessons in using an iPod?! There are only four buttons!
I've just signed up for Blingo, a search engine that gets it's results from Google. If you're searching anyway, you might aswell win stuff while you're doing it. There's a Firefox plugin which adds Blingo to the search bar available too. Rogie at kokomedia.com says he's already won two £10 iTunes certificates and some other stuff.
The Optimus keyboard has hundreds of tiny OLEDs embedded in the keys, making the whole keyboard a sort of dynamic display. You can change what's displayed on the keys, meaning you can switch between keyboard layouts instantly. The Optimus keyboard also lets you display pictures in some apps, instead of using the toolbar, you can press the key on your keyboard!
No word on price yet, but I'd expect this to sell for at least $200 when it's released. The designer's website also has some weird designs, including an arrow shaped mouse which is apparently 'in stores now'.
