Plant That Smells Like Corpse Blooms (AP)
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Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters)
Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters)
02/10/2004 12:03 PMReuters - Prices are soaring on the world's biggest flower market as
Dutch traders bid for
millions of blossoms ahead of Valentine's Day, the rosiest date in the
floral calendar.
Sleeping through bad smells
Sleeping through bad smells
05/17/2004 11:56 AMHumans have an incredibly acute sense of smell, but a new study shows
that our perception of odors is dramatically reduced when we're
snoozing. Researchers at Brown University published a paper in the
journal Sleep showing that individuals slept right through the
introduction of intense scents indicative of fires. A moderately loud
sound woke people right away though.
“As the saying goes,” said the paper’s
co-author Mary A. Carskadon, “we ‘wake up and smell the
coffee,’ not the other way around.”
Still, I wonder if this is because we're trained from a young age to
respond to buzzing, radio-blaring alarms. It would be fun to have an
alarm clock that at a pre-set hour spewed a refreshing blast of
peppermint!
LinkPersistent Smells
Persistent Smells
06/21/2004 08:23 PMI recently spent a day in a home full of strong-smelling lilies. For
the next week, I smelled the same smell. What could cause this?
Flowerbomb: smells like IED spirit?
Flowerbomb: smells like IED spirit?
03/28/2005 01:17 PMXeni Jardin:
I was walking past Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills on Saturday, and
phonecammed this in the window: "Flowerbomb," a new perfume by Viktor
and Rolf. The display consisted of a gigantic, grenade-shaped perfume
bottle streaming a cascade of red rose petals. There's even a little
pull-thing sticking out of the side to activate the spray. Just like
on a real grenade.
Link to full-size
phonesnap in my Flickr stream,
link
to the perfume maker's website, here's a
news
clip. Truth is
stranger than fiction, n'est-ce pas?
Digital Smells 2005
Digital Smells 2005
03/14/2005 05:24 PMA lot is been done by different companies to enter in the area of
automatic release of Smells to create virtual effects. [PRWEB Mar 7,
2005]
Shark Tank: By any other name, it still
smells
Shark Tank: By any other name, it still
smells
08/06/2004 11:59 PMIt's 1999, and this pilot fish has just started work as the sole IT
guy at a very small marketing company that uses spa-- er, "marketing
e-mail blasts."
Smells Like Demon Spirit
Smells Like Demon Spirit
07/25/2004 09:15 AMChoose the location of your demon removal with care: "Some come out in
a yawn, coughing, tears, gas, mucus, screaming, and vomiting. I
recommend you don't listen to these tapes while sitting at your
keyboard."
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific
08/31/2004 04:53 PM
Gee
Your Hair Smells Terrific! Yes, back in the 70s it was all right
to say this to unsuspecting strangers here in the US. We live in
different times now, but the product is once again available, imported
from the Phillipines by
The Vermont Country
Store, also selling
all manner of
odd products from
yesteryear.
(Midget joke not included) Corpse Flowers
Corpse Flowers
07/01/2004 07:17 AMUpon flowering, the titan arum, or corpse flower, releases the stench
of rotting flesh, in order to attract the flies it needs to pollinate
it. One has been nurtured for the past ten years at the University of
Connecticut's Department...
Esprit de Corpse
Esprit de Corpse
03/23/2005 09:46 AMIt isn't enough to merely kill your opponents in Halo 2. You must
execute a sexually degrading finishing move through creative use of
the crouch button.
Skittle Corpse
Skittle Corpse
04/13/2004 10:21 PMConsider this my contribution to the collection of search terms that,
until ... a few days from now, had no results. A few minutes ago I put
a used (meaning "empty") skittles bag in the trash and quietly
announced "skittle bag" to which Derek replied "skittle corpse" at
which I laughed quite heartily. That phrase is, in and of itself, not
funny. What is funny is how my brain wasn't ready to hear it. Well,
okay. It's maybe a little...
Jingle Bells! Batman smells!
Jingle Bells! Batman smells!
04/29/2004 02:42 PM
The Online Dictionary of Playground
Slang. Includes not just
slang
words, but also all those
obnoxiou
s rhymes we sang. "My little Pony, skinny and
bony..."
smells like Kissinger, but he only slept
with starlets
smells like Kissinger, but he only slept
with starlets
03/26/2005 04:23 PM
Oh Wolfie! Wolfie! Invade me
like you invaded Iraq! Pegged to head the World Bank, is
Wolfowitz' lover,
Shaha Riza, one of
the reasons we invaded Iraq?
Critics say it would be impossible for
Wolfie - as he is nicknamed by Bush - to make independent decisions
when his lover, who works on Middle Eastern and North African issues,
is so committed to overthrowing Middle Eastern regimes.
"His womanising has come home to roost," a Washington
insider said. "Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met
Shaha but it doesn't look good to be accused of being under the thumb
of your mistress." Inter Parfums Smells Rancid
Inter Parfums Smells Rancid
07/19/2004 12:58 PMThe fragrance distributor's trend of slowing sales is a harbinger of
losses.
Domino's IPO: Not As Tasty As It Smells
(BusinessWeek Online)
Domino's IPO: Not As Tasty As It Smells
(BusinessWeek Online)
07/09/2004 04:51 PMBusinessWeek Online - Hungry for an IPO? With Google in the wings and
first-day pops such as those lately at software makers Blackboard
(NasdaqNM:BBBB - News) (up 43%) and Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM - News;
56%), it's only natural to feel greed's pang. Now, Wall Street wants
you to save an appetite for the initial public offering coming soon
from a familiar name: Domino's Pizza.
Fungus from agarwood smells addictively
good
Fungus from agarwood smells addictively
good
03/29/2005 03:07 PMMark Frauenfelder:
Pete Farmer says: "On a recent trip to the Mid-East, I noticed that I
was strangely attracted to a particular type of incense, which seemed
to be quite common. A Syrian companion told me it was called 'oud',
and explained that it was formed by a fungus which attacks the
agarwood tree. Although this was new information for me, it has been
known throughout antiquity. He took me to a specialty shop, where I
purchased a very small amount of this rare and precious material.
"On my return, I declared the stuff at Swiss customs, and after a
brief delay, they told me it was okay. Research on the 'Net lead me to
U. of M.'s interesting site. It has had a similarly compelling
attraction on my whole family, and has become somewhat of an
addiction. Beware: if you're the type of person who succumbs easily to
substance abuse, once you try this stuff there may be no going back!
Weird." Link<
/a>
MmmmMm .. . I wants me one o' them robot
corpse thingies. . ..
MmmmMm .. . I wants me one o' them robot
corpse thingies. . ..
06/12/2004 09:47 PM
Videogames are falling
into the uncanny
valley. (Previous mefi discussion: 1 2 -- aw, hell).
Motorola smells business in Sprint,
Nextel merger
Motorola smells business in Sprint,
Nextel merger
12/24/2004 01:00 PMHindustan Times Dec 23 2004 4:45PM GMT
Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse
(Reuters)
Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse
(Reuters)
09/13/2004 09:04 AMReuters - Zambian police have arrested a man who
exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse, police
said Monday.
Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower
Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower
06/22/2005 02:57 AMI've got a seriously bad "anime addiction". So much so that I've
completely run out of room to store my...
Firefighters Rescue Heavyweight Corpse
(Reuters)
Firefighters Rescue Heavyweight Corpse
(Reuters)
09/09/2004 09:16 AMReuters - German undertakers struggling to carry a
661-pound corpse from a third floor Hamburg apartment called in
the fire brigade for help -- but they couldn't handle the job
either and ordered an industrial crane.
Robbers Strip Corpse of Jewelry
(Reuters)
Robbers Strip Corpse of Jewelry
(Reuters)
07/13/2004 12:30 PMReuters - Thieves dug up a Frenchwoman's
grave and stripped her corpse of thousands of euros (dollars)
worth of jewelry she had asked to be buried with to avoid
arguments between her five children.
"Hanging Corpse Admired as Sculpture on
Campus"
"Hanging Corpse Admired as Sculpture on
Campus"
11/16/2003 05:08 PMHanging Corpse Admired as Sculpture on
Campus
Hanging Corpse Admired as Sculpture on
Campus
11/16/2003 05:58 AMeen jaar geleden verhing .. Read article .. Morons ..
1
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Fred Dale, creator of nasty smells, dies
(Reuters)
Fred Dale, creator of nasty smells, dies
(Reuters)
05/12/2004 01:03 PMReuters - Fred Dale, the man who concocted foul smells such as Dead
Roman Soldier's Armpit and Viking Loo for theme parks,
has died, his son says.
South African corpse fails to rise again
(Reuters)
South African corpse fails to rise again
(Reuters)
08/27/2004 02:00 PMReuters - South African police are going to court to demand the burial
of a 77-year-old man who
has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had
foretold his resurrection, police say.
Woman Lived with Sister's Corpse for
Months (Reuters)
Woman Lived with Sister's Corpse for
Months (Reuters)
02/17/2004 11:51 AMReuters - An elderly Irishwoman shared a room with
her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with
it in the same bed, newspapers reported Tuesday.
Live fast, die of melanoma and leave a
well-tanned corpse
Live fast, die of melanoma and leave a
well-tanned corpse
07/28/2004 08:05 AMIgnoring health risks, appearance-obsessed American teens are pouring
into tanning salons.
Mummified corpse lay in bed for two
years while bills were auto-paid
Mummified corpse lay in bed for two
years while bills were auto-paid
08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Pat York sez, "A guy gets his pension cheque automatically deposited
into his bank account. Then he authorizes automatic withdrawals to
pay his condo fees, phone, etc. Then he dies in bed. How long does
it take for someone to notice that he's checked out? Two years. Even
Canada Post missed it."
Link
Corpse with False Passport Stays 16 Days
at Airport (Reuters)
Corpse with False Passport Stays 16 Days
at Airport (Reuters)
04/30/2004 12:14 PMReuters - A corpse with a false passport spent 16
days at Cairo airport before Egyptian authorities agreed to
release it for burial on Friday, airport sources said.
Montana: A Teen Who Tried To Kill A
Woman So He Could Have Sex With Her
Corpse Is Sentenced To 50 Years In
Prison
Montana: A Teen Who Tried To Kill A
Woman So He Could Have Sex With Her
Corpse Is Sentenced To 50 Years In
Prison
04/15/2004 11:47 PMto use his unfettered time
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Plant-Air Backpack
Plant-Air Backpack
03/19/2005 02:45 AM
Harmut Stockter has created a
piece which he calls his "Plant Backpack" (actually,
Planzenrucksack) that allows its wearer to breathe the fresh
air generated by the plants kept in the portable greenhouse while
allowing the wearer to provide the plants with their much-needed
carbon dioxide. His back-mounted study in symbiosis of course means
that you can finally use your favorite "breath of fresh air" jokes out
in public where you might not will surely be mocked.
Enjoy
a symbiosis with plants [WMMNA]
Planze
nrucksack [KirkhoffGallery]
The Dancing Plant
The Dancing Plant
03/13/2003 10:25 AM The Dancing Plant
-- Darwin was obsessed by it, although even he never trained his weedy
Asian shrub to twitch its leaves to the sound of music. But in a small
town in northern Thailand ...
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Don't touch that plant!
Don't touch that plant!
09/22/2004 10:44 PM
Opium Made Easy: One gardener's encounter with the war on
drugs. PC as Power Plant
PC as Power Plant
06/09/2004 10:24 PMA panoply of gadgets, from lamps to lap warmers, now connect to
computers not only for data but for their power as well.
Samsung to build new LCD plant
Samsung to build new LCD plant
12/27/2004 11:56 PMTechSpot Dec 28 2004 3:26AM GMT
Industrial Plant Maintenance
Industrial Plant Maintenance
12/18/2003 05:42 AMmarcus evans Dec 18 2003 4:51AM ET
Nuclear Plant Goes To The Birds
Nuclear Plant Goes To The Birds
07/22/2004 04:39 AMCBS News Jul 22 2004 8:48AM GMT
EU funding for GM plant vaccines
EU funding for GM plant vaccines
07/12/2004 01:59 PMEuropean scientists launch a project to make pharmaceutically useful
products in genetically modified crops.
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