Reuters – A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a

supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier …

(Story link here)

I’m sure he just reached into the wrong drawer when he was getting dressed… that’s all.

1. JOAKIM NOAH  (2007)

I don’t know what’s worse here - the suit, the facial expression, or the hairdo that looks like a cocker spaniel’s ears.

2. KARL MALONE  (1985)

Some people theorize that the reason Karl has that pissed-off look on his face is that he’s a black guy who just got drafted by a team in UTAH. But I disagree - I think he’s mad and on the lookout for the person who cut off the end of his tie with a pair of scissors.

3. JALEN ROSE (1994)

You can’t tell by the still photo, but Jalen was in a rush because he was anxious to get this borrowed suit back to Don Magic Juan.

4. SAMAKI WALKER (1996)

Samaki Walker - 1996 NBA Draft

The all-white ensemble with white fur fedora? Pimpin’ ain’t easy, but it sure is fun.

5. AKEEM OLAJUWON (1984)

Akeem Olajuwon - 1984 NBA Draft

So awesome. I don’t what’s my favorite part of this video:

(1) Hakeem still spelling his name as ‘Akeem’ at that point in his career…

(2) The Nigerian center rocking his leftover prom tuxedo…

(3) or Commissioner David Stern’s porn ’stache that he was rocking for most of the ’80s. If we take up a collection, you think he would think about resurrecting the ’stache? (Considering he makes like $8 million a year, probably not, huh?)

Jordy Smith Pulls Arguably Best Surfing Move Ever

By Mark Pesavento / Y! Sports Blogs

Jordy Smith is a 21-year-old pro surfer from South Africa. He’s in his second year on the Association of Surfing Professionals tour. And off the coast of Indonesia, he just pulled what GrindTV is calling “the most high-performance maneuver ever executed on a wave”. It’s called a “rodeo flip,” and it’s pretty insane.

See for yourself as Smith executes a high-flying rotating-flip into a reverse 360.

This is some next-level stuff, I’ll tell you that right now.

Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires

by Christopher Null

Pardon the cliche, but it’s one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to “beam” electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future.

Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.

While “traditional” (if there is such a thing) wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind, Nokia’s system isn’t finicky about where it gets its wireless waves. TV, radio, other mobile phone systems — all of this stuff just bounces around the air and most of it is wasted, absorbed into the environment or scattered into the ether. Nokia picks up all the bits and pieces of these waves and uses the collected electromagnetic energy to create electrical current, then uses that to recharge the phone’s battery. A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system (there’s no other way, really, as the energy in any given wave is infinitesimal). It’s the same idea that Tesla was exploring 100 years ago, just on a tiny scale.

Mind you, harvesting ambient electromagnetic energy is never going to offer enough electricity to power your whole house or office, but it just might be enough to keep a cell phone alive and kicking. Currently Nokia is able to harvest all of 5 milliwatts from the air; the goal is to increase that to 20 milliwatts in the short term and 50 milliwatts down the line. That wouldn’t be enough to keep the phone alive during an active call, but would be enough to slowly recharge the cell phone battery while it’s in standby mode, theoretically offering infinite power — provided you’re not stuck deep underground where radio waves can’t penetrate.

Nokia says it hopes to commercialize the technology in three to five years.

Or at least… one of them:

(you have to watch the embedded video on the top of the web page. Awesome!)

http://www.comfortwipe.com

I especially love how they misspelled the word ‘anatomical’ on their main web page:

“For over a hundred years we’ve been using toilet tissues the same old way. Now there’s a better way with the extended reach and comfortable to use Comfort Wipe™. It grabs and holds the toilet tissue in perfect postions so you can easily wipe yourself. When you’re done, just dispense the soiled tissue right in the toilet with the press of a button. Comfort Wipe™ extends your reach a full 18″ while the anotomical design follows the contours of your body for perfect cleaning. It’s perfect for everyone, especially if you have trouble easily reaching because of physical limitations such as bad shoulder or other mobility litimations. Now you’ll never have to touch a dirty toilet tissue!

This is a pretty crazy story, to say the least, and while reading it one specific question immediately leapt to mind:

How does one obtain tissue samples of their own intestinal tract?

answer: with a very long spoon, I’d imagine?

LINK to the story

By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school.

Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn’t figure out the cause of Jessica’s abdominal distress.

Then one day in January, Terry, 18, figured it out on her own.

In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue — slides her pathologist had said were completely normal — and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn’s disease.

“It’s weird I had to solve my own medical problem,” Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. “There were just no answers anywhere. … I was always sick.”

Terry, who graduated from Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish, Washington, this month, is now being treated for Crohn’s, says her science teacher, MaryMargaret Welch.

For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school.

“She was pretty excited about finding the granuloma,” Welch said. “She said, ‘Ms. Welch! Ms. Welch! Come over here. I think I’ve got something!’ ”

Welch, who has taught the Biomedical Problems class at Eastside for 17 years, immediately went on the Internet to see whether Terry had indeed spotted a granuloma.

“I said, ‘Jeez, it certainly looks like one to me,’ ” Welch remembered. “I snapped a picture of it on the microscope and e-mailed it to the pathologist. Within 24 hours, he sent back an e-mail saying yes, this is a granuloma.”

Although Terry was relieved to finally get a diagnosis, it was also tough for her to hear that she has such a serious disease.

There are treatments, but there is no cure for Crohn’s, a condition in which the digestive tract becomes inflamed. It can lead to ulcers, malnutrition and other health problems.

“As I get older, the disease can get worse,” Terry told KOMO.

Crohn’s disease is often misdiagnosed or diagnosed very late, says Dr. Corey Siegel, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

“Granulomas are oftentimes very hard to find and not always even present at all,” Siegel said. “I commend Jessica for her meticulous work.”

Pathologists also sometimes miss important findings for other diseases, says Dr. Mark Graber, chief of the medical service at the Northport VA Medical Center in New York.

“This story carries a valuable lesson about how errors are found. It’s very often by ‘fresh eyes,’ just like in Jessica’s case,” he said. “Some specialty centers, recognizing the reality of perceptual error and the power of a second independent reading, are now requiring second reviews on certain types of smears and pathology specimens.”

Welch credits Terry’s “fresh eyes” but also local pathologists who volunteered to train her and her classmates on how to view specimens under the microscope.

“We’ve been lucky to have that partnership. It allowed Jessica to think of herself as a scientist,” she said. “The class empowered Jessica to think of herself as being a partner in her own health care.”

As for Terry’s future, she’ll start nursing school in the fall. She’s written a book for children about Crohn’s disease, which she hopes to have published. In the meantime, she’s grateful for her science class and for the pathologist for giving her her slides.

“This has been the highlight of my high school career, for sure,” Terry told the Sammamish Reporter newspaper. “It’s been amazing.”

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Saturday was a record-setting night for a novice craps player at an Atlantic City casino.

Patricia Demauro set a new record for the longest craps roll, hanging on for four hours and 18 minutes at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

Borgata officials say she beat the previous record by one hour and 12 minutes. They say Stanley Fujitake of Honolulu, set that record nearly 20 years ago in Las Vegas.

“This was only my second time playing craps, so this was very exciting for me to be a part of history,” says Demauro, who lives in Denville in northern New Jersey.

Demauro bought into a game for $100 and quickly amassed a cheering crowd. When she finally lost around 12:31 a.m., after 154 rolls of the dice, she was greeted by Borgata with a champagne toast.

The casino wouldn’t say how much Demauro won.

Calling all fans of the 1986 film ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’… Cameron’s house in the movie is now for sale. Snap it up quickly! Only one at this price. ($2.3 million):

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563

Cameron: Ferris, my father loves this car more than life itself.
Ferris: A man with priorities so far out of whack doesn’t deserve such a fine automobile.
[Ferris caresses the car in admiration]
Cameron: No. No! Apparently, you don’t understand!
Ferris: [ignoring Cameron] Wow. Che bella!
Cameron: Ferris, he never drives it! He just rubs it with a diaper!