Rare dolphin-type mermaid, ventral display.
Archive for September, 2007 Page 2 of 4
September 19, 2007—Not far from Taiwan, Pacific waters engulf stone structures just off the coast of the tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni Jima, part of the Ryukyu archipelago in this undated photo.
The structures maybe the ruins of a 5,000-year-old city that featured a castle, several temples, and a stadium, according to a Japanese researcher who has been diving at the site for past 15 years.
Full story at the National Geographic
The CO of the HMS Somerset, a Type 23 Frigate, has been permitted to blog, a first for the Royal Navy.
- Story at the Beeb which bizarrely does not contain a link to the blog
- The HMS-Somerset-CO blog, itself
via Fark
There is a new website up for owners, prospective owners, and enthusiasts of the Norseboat.
Thanks for clicking over to have a look. There is a growing gallery of photos, and for registered users (you don’t need to be an owner to register) there is a discussion forum and an owner director/map area.
Yarrrrrrrrrrrr… ’tis Talk Like a Pirate Day, t’day, and ye may lay to that.
Double amputee Nadya Vessey will soon be able to swim like a mermaid with a specially-made tail that will let her propel herself through the water.
The keen swimmer is to be fitted with the “mermaid-style” tail made by the same special effects team behind blockbuster Lord of the Rings and King Kong.
Nadya was born with a condition that meant her legs would never develop properly, but despite having her first leg amputated at the age of seven has has continued swimming throughout her life.
The tail will be moulded on to a pair of wetsuit shorts to make it easy to put on and take off. Nadya says it will allow her to propel herself through the water with an undulating movement as if she was a mermaid.
“I’m thinking I’ll power on a bit with it, so that will be great.” she told New Zealand’s Sunday Star Times. Nadya says she’s even thinking of completing the swimming section of a triathlon using her new tail.
Work on the new tail will begin at the start of next year and Nadya has told the special effects team that she wants the finished tail to be both “beautiful and practical”.
“I began to feel a bit embarrassed about it. But then everybody else got so excited so I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll just go with it and see what happens’.”
“So I really have no idea what to expect but it’s going to be fun.”
While you were making keyboard hanky panky sitting in your cube, Thor Anderson and a handful of other idea-laden 20-somethings built a raft out of things not intended to build rafts with. Like garbage. Then they actually put the thing in the Missouri River right where it intercepts Kansas City, Mo., with the crazy idea of reaching the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi. Last we heard they were floating somewhere past Memphis.
The first week of July, a handful of us met in Kansas City to design and build a raft on which to float downriver to the ocean. There was an open invitation to anybody to participate, anybody who was willing to abandon their preconceptions of the river and join us in pursuit of the possibilities, to “experience the connections — people, places, ideas — the river offers to those who release themselves, to those who live in a city on the water.” We passed out fliers that said these things. So in part this trip was about discovering the river and letting it give us its narrative. Besides researching legal requirements, we left everything else to the river, eschewing maps, motors, radios. Those of us with cell phones left them and buried away. We let the river carry us where it would, only using the paddle wheel and oars to steer clear of obstacles (such as barges, partially submerged wing dikes, buoys) or pull over.
LINK to full story
Or, maybe it’s just lunchtime.
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