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They created the Proton and Petronas towers, so what’s next? Space, apparently. Malaysia has plans to put a Malaysian on the moon. And while he’s up there, he should have all his favourite foods too!
“Earlier this year, the country announced a programme to put Malaysia’s favourite foods into space.
A team is to be sent to Houston in Texas to find out how to process teh tarik (sweet tea), roti canai (flaky griddled pancakes) and nasi lemak (coconut rice) for consumption in zero gravity.”
Might be a good idea to make these low-fat options given only 12 out of their 31 would-be astronauts passed their first fitness test - a 3.5km run in under 20 minutes.
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Godcasting
image from www.podcastingnews.com
Woke up late and missed church? Download the service to your iPod!
“Religious and spiritually themed podcasts” are making their way into iPods, allowing those in hospitals, oversleepers, and others who can’t make it to their place of worship the opportunity to catch up on their time with God.
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image from Zed & 2 Naughts’ flickr album
Saw Land of the Dead? What if everyone decided to go out and form their own freaky zombie mob?
Check this flickr group out! Maybe we should try something like that down Orchard Road during next year’s Seventh Month… 
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Those wheels provide Hammy the hamster endless hours of stationary fun. But what if you could harness all that untapped energy? That’s what Peter Ash of Lawford, Somerset did. For every 2 minutes his hamster stays on the wheel, he gets half an hour of talk time on his phone. Pretty cool huh?! Poor chap only got a “C” for the project though. Now, if only we could hook it up to threadmills in the gym…
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Don’t think any cosplayers have been arrested in Singapore? But this might still be a valuable lesson all the same. Got to this site for more info on the event
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Dr Padraic Fallon, from Trinity College Dublin, has managed to cure asthma in lab mice by infecting them with other creatures. Apparently, Asthma and other allergies in developed countries have increased almost threefold over the last 30 years.
The theory behind this massive increase: “people living in modern industrialised societies are no longer exposed to the pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, they would have been in the past, and so their bodies react to other, more minor threats.”
In other words, we’ve become excessively clean. So excuse me while I go roll in the mud outside…
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September 6th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
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