A Dutch designer by the name of Eric Klarenbeek has developed a contact lens with crystals that hang down on to the cheek of the wearer. The crystals are attached by medical wire and make the model look as though she is crying. –After wearing a pair of those for a few hours I doubt that she will merely look like she’s crying.

From Eric Klarenbeek’s website:
‘My work is characterized by interaction and innovation. My products can be in motion, react on our presence or respond on developments in our society. I search for new meaning and principles in objects, for unexplored connections between materials, production methods, makers and users. Scale and appliance are irrelevant. I’ve designed jewellery, but also developed concepts to connect tourists to local craftsmen’.

I’ve always known that artists were strange, but every so often someone comes along and reminds me what fine line there is between between strange and weird.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A woman jogger ran for a mile with a rabid fox clamped to her arm before locking the animal in the trunk of her car and racing to hospital for treatment, police said Thursday.

Michelle Felicetta was out running on a trail at the base of Granite Mountain near Prescott, northern Arizona on Monday when she came face-to-face with the fox in a clearing, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said.

When she tried to back away the fox attacked her. Eventually locking on to her arm and refusing to let go.

“This fox made eye contact with me and started walking towards me,” Felicetta later told KPHO local television. “That’s when I knew something was really wrong.”

Ms. Felicetta is currently undergoing treatment for rabies as is the animal control officer who was bitten when he tried to retrieve the fox from the trunk of her car.

She ran for a mile with a crazed fox chewing on her arm…. Now that’s tough.

The Independent UK -The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Kingsnorth was the centre for mass protests by climate camp activists last month. Last year, three protesters managed to paint Gordon Brown’s name on the plant’s chimney. Their handi-work cost £35,000 to remove.

This is the second time Greenpeace has managed to use the “lawful excuse” defence. This law was enacted in 1971 to cover things like breaking down the door to get into a burning building. It was first used in 1999, when 28 Greenpeace campaigners led by Lord Melchett, who was director at the time, were cleared of criminal damage after trashing an experimental field of GM crops in Norfolk. In each case the damage was not disputed – the point at issue was the motive.

The question becomes: If they had burned the plant to the ground would the defense have held up when the jury was forced to consider how much the fire would have contributed to the co2 levels in the atmosphere?

LUND, Sweden, Oct. 19 (UPI) — Drinking a lot of coffee reduces the size of many women’s breasts, a Swedish researcher finds.

Helena Jernstrom, an oncologist at Lund University in southern Sweden, said that the effect is the result of a gene that about half of women possess, The Local reported.

“Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size,” she said.

Jernstrom became interested in the subject because of research that has shown that large-breasted women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, while downing at least three cups of coffee a day reduces cancer risk. She decided to look for a correlation directly between drinking coffee and breast size and found one.

Her study tracked 270 women. Jernstrom’s results were published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Santa Cruz Sentinel - A transient claiming to be a covert military operative from Australia was arrested Monday on the Westside because he was drinking from a full-size beer keg and trying to sell the booze to passersby, police reported.

Nothing special, he was in possession of a half empty beer keg and tap that he evidently paid for. He was trying to sell beer by the mason jar full to anyone walking by.
However when the police showed up he got belligerent and told them he was a covert military operative from the Australian army.

So the police busted him on suspicion of being drunk in public. At which point they found about 20 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and a Camelbak bladder with more beer in it. He also had a harmonica and a wetsuit with him, both of which police suspect were stolen.

I was following along fine until they got to the wetsuit.