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A 68 year old. 145 lb. man with a neurological condition was
tasered by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers following a dispute over double parking. The man was picking up his wife, who was delivering newspapers. This happened less than a month after the RCMP tasered a Polish man who had spent 10 frustrating hours trying to find his mother in the Vancouver International Airport following 15 hours of travel.
He died on the scene.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 9:11 AM on November 10, 2007
(320 comments)
The Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, is
forty years old this year. Some of its
Members,
Officers, and
Companions include people like John Kenneth Galbraith, Dan Aykroyd, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Jean Chrétien, Northrop Frye, Pierre Trudeau, Bryan Adams, Roberta Bondar, Bruce Cockburn, Wayne Gretzky, Mary Pratt, David Cronenberg, and current Governor General Michaëlle Jean, who is not only haute, but
hawt.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 5:04 PM on June 29, 2007
(33 comments)
Australian inventor
Chris Bosua, frustrated by the inefficiency of his air compressor, devised a method of recycling the exhaust air from air tools. His Exhausted Air Recycling System
(E.A.R.S.) improves efficiency by eighty percent. It runs cooler, almost halves the power consumption, extends the life of the compressor, provides a cleaner working environment, and reduces the noise of an air tool to that of a sewing machine. Happy
Earth Day, everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 10:05 AM on April 22, 2007
(31 comments)
New surgical
robots are not only capable of working more precisely than human hands, but they have no metal or electrical parts, so will work under
MRI machines on tumors that would otherwise be invisible. The NeuroArm will set you back $27 million, but may confer more karma than that trip to space.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 7:02 PM on April 17, 2007
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Unhappy with her hair style,
a bride flips out just hours before her wedding. Sobbing and screaming, she goes into the hotel washroom, rips apart her coiffure, and cuts her own hair. The episode is caught on video, posted to YouTube, and Farkalarity ensues. But the plot thickens. It turns out the bride is 22 year-old aspiring actress Jodi Behan, and the film was made by Toronto-based Ryerson University grad Ingrid Hass.
It's a hoax, designed to put
a lock on their film careers. We'll see more from these girls. Thursday on the Tonight Show, for a start.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 1:26 PM on February 1, 2007
(65 comments)
You know about numbers, right? Natural numbers, rational numbers, integers, real numbers, complex numbers, prime numbers, funny numbers, illegal numbers. Illegal numbers? Well, there’s the
illegal numbers game. Apparently
69 is illegal in Virginia, among other places. But did you know about
illegal prime numbers? My brain is getting number by the day. (via digg)
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 12:18 PM on April 15, 2006
(27 comments)
Mukhtar Mai,
the Pakistani woman raped by village order, is now in Madison, Wisconsin, at the invitation of Glamour Magazine, to receive an award honoring her struggle for women's rights. Nicholas Kristof, of the New York Times, broke her story to the world, calling her
"one of the gutsiest people on Earth." She is in the United States
despite an attempt by President Pervez Musharraf to bar her from traveling, because the visit might tarnish the country's image. Her "crime" was previously discussed on
MetaFilter.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:58 AM on October 26, 2005
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