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Candy Addict » Gum Artist Roundup

Candy Addict » Gum Artist Roundup
Today we’re bringing you a whole gaggle of artists that work in our favorite artisitic medium …. candy. Specifically, gum. Ok, it’s only 3, but there’s not that many of them out there!

If you’re interested in making your own gum art, there is Chew By Numbers, which provides kits and instructions on how to make your own gum masterpiece. Priced at $13 each, they offer 3 different kits to let your inner gum artist out. Each kit includes instructions, preprinted artboard, and of course, gum. Sounds like that would be a blast to do with kids!

The Female Brain – The Book – The Buzz

UCSF Today –

 This new book base on this USCF researchers work finds that every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.

Brizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000
A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened
A teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phone
Thoughts about sex enter a woman’s brain once every couple of days but enter a man’s brain about once every minute
A woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can’t spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm
A woman over 50 is more likely to initiate divorce than a man.

See the diffrences in the female brain’s anatomy in this interactive graph 

Unintended URLs

We had to re-register a company URL from merchantsexport.com, because it got so many search hits, from people seraching for “sex”, that id crashed the server. Here is a popular list, currently circulating around the web, of others, who have not chosen to change their registered URL.

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

Wilk4: Breaking the Sound Barrier
Here are some fascinating (for some people anyway) photos and a video of interesting condensation clouds that form around jets as they fly at or near the speed of sound, (often called “going through the sound barrier” or “accelerating past the speed of sound”). Under the right conditions, they sometimes cause a vapor cone effect.

Corvette Still Bright Spot Amid GM Woes

Corvette Still Bright Spot Amid GM Woes – Forbes.com
For an extra cost of about $500, new Corvette owners can pick up their “baby” at the National Corvette Museum’s designated “nursery” and get a personal guided tour of the assembly plant and hands-on training about the new car’s controls.

Software Makes Fireworks’ Booms Beautiful

Software Makes Fireworks’ Booms Beautiful
Most of the major fireworks shows will be choreographed with a program called Show Director by Infinity Visions. The firing machinery for a show can cost between $30,000 and $50,000 while the software costs between $2,000 and $8,000

The software allows firing cues to be placed at certain times, superimposed against the waveform of the music that will be played. Once the show is choreographed, the instructional files are uploaded into the firing machines, and the programmers can step back and simply push “play”. The computer sends the appropriate signals down a web of cables to the firing modules, which in turn are connected to the shells.