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September 23, 2008

crazy4cult Artists inspired by cult films. more inside
BOOGIE ON! Fun stuff. Love the blues, and the boogie woogie is in there from way back. This kid is brilliant, and here playing his own composition!
Dead horse found on 12th floor of apartment block - Police in Serbia called to investigate a strange smell in a block of flats found a horse jammed into a ventilation shaft 12 storeys up. How rare. I can only find this on the NZ site, NY Post and Ananova which is probably the source for the other organs, and not especially known for its reliability. Then again I can find nothing that damns anything from its pages as utter shite, so who knows?
World's Thinnest Balloon Created: Just One Atom Thick - researchers have created a graphene membrane that is just one atom thick - but strong enough to contain gases under several atmospheres of pressure without popping. The breakthrough could lead to a variety of new technologies - from ways to image biological materials in solution to atomic studies, but make for a startlingly boring Monkeyfilter post. Impermeable Atomic Membranes from Graphene Sheets: Abstract Full Text: HTML - PDF more inside
The Internationale - originally a French song, is now a well known song available in most major languages. My favourite so far? Japanese [this link may break later].