This is pretty cool. This guy read all the Sherlock Holmes stories and drew a floorplan of 221b Baker Street. Heh heh, Holmes has a cocaine bottle on the mantlepiece. The 1800s were such a different time.

Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled

They said Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, her heart stopped and she had no pulse. A respiratory machine kept her breathing and rigor mortis had set in, doctors said.

Looks like Val Thomas is Patient Zero of the forthcoming zombie outbreak.
[ From Boing Boing ]

The Bocci power outlets are so cool looking. The coverplate is flush with the wall and meant to be drywalled over, so all you see is two circular outlets. Very minimalist. They also have phone and ethernet jacks and light dimmers.

Trent Reznor\’s becoming really prolific. The new NIN album The Slip was just released, this time completely free and in a bunch of formats. I haven\’t even received my CD copy of Ghosts yet.

Designer Erik De Nijs created keyboard pants, pants with a flexible keyboard sewn into the lap for all the times you need to type something on the go. They also have sewn in speakers, an attached mouse, and a joystick controller behind the front zipper (not sure if that\’s a joke or not).

Next up he\’s gonna make a t-shirt radio with volume and tuning buttons where the nipples are.

Home extension horror as mum discovers ten skeletons buried under her dining room

\”Some skeletons are just a few bones but others have been dug up intact actually still in their coffins.\”

And it is thought up to 40 more bodies could be buried at the cottage in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire – on the site of Quaker burial ground from the 1700s.

Isn\’t this how Poltergeist started? Although Quakers might not be as pissed off as Indians.