In a bizarre turn of events straight out of Mr. Ripley’s personal files, comes this true story of a 92-year-old woman who delivered a child (albeit not a live baby) she had been carrying for over half a century! (Long pregnancies are one thing, but THAT is ridiculous!)
Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948.
via Woman Delivers ‘Stone Baby’ After 60 Year Pregnancy « Derren Brown Blog.
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Daily Digest for July 22nd http://tinyurl.com/kk2rso [#]
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Home (166/365) http://tinyurl.com/mlm6l9 [#]
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Daily Digest for July 22nd http://tinyurl.com/meknaw [#]
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@nonkiskeef MPHO was featured in iTunes weekly new music email [#]
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The Great American Bubble Machine http://tinyurl.com/kshxz6 [#]
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Colours in the courtyard (165/365) http://tinyurl.com/n5obxq [#]
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Enjoying Derren Brown’s blog muchly http://derrenbrownart.com/blog/ [#]
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BUBBLE #3 The Housing Craze
Goldman’s role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace. Here again, the basic trick was a decline in underwriting standards, although in this case the standards weren’t in IPOs but in mortgages. By now almost everyone knows that for decades mortgage dealers insisted that home buyers be able to produce a down payment of 10 percent or more, show a steady income and good credit rating, and possess a real first and last name. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, they suddenly threw all that shit out the window and started writing mortgages on the backs of napkins to cocktail waitresses and excons carrying five bucks and a Snickers bar.
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Daily Digest for July 20th http://tinyurl.com/nwuogs [#]
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Learning about New York [#]
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Finsihed buying loads of video / computer kit for the project starting next week [#]
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I was told "My Sweet Lord" was number one when I was born. In fact it was "Grandad" by Clive Dunn!! Yours? #fb http://alturl.com/xo4s [#]
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Early apples? (164/365) http://tinyurl.com/mn8m59 [#]
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crawled, trawled, battled, spun through the cure’s back catalogue. disintegration is the best, i would say [#]
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From Australopithecus to Homo sapiens in 5 minutes.
You don’t want the song on – mute it away
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@diaper_district What!? Surely no joke [#]
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testing fb integration http://tinyurl.com/n4scd9 [#]
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testing fb 2 http://tinyurl.com/ns7ag5 [#]
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test fb 3 http://tinyurl.com/knj2ur [#]
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@tarastiles http://twitpic.com/b1fdj – It looks like a fantastic studio. Definitely want to visit when I come to NY. [#]
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A lot of evolutioness http://tinyurl.com/l4p88n [#]
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The festival at Matterley Bowl, at Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, this year run by Glade Festivals of Glastonbury fame. Massive rain this afternoon so there’s going to be some soggy camper dancers.
Thursday night is indeed pizza night!
I love how this picture gives a very different image of the place.
Finished Zeitgeist: Addendum this evening, and continued to read Let The Right One In. Both very good in their ways. Zeitgeist representing the challenge we face in front of craziness each and every way you look, along with corruption, violence, greed. We are in for an incredible century, whatever happens. I can’t see an end to this all-pervasive monetary system but I can see capitalists realising there is mileage in some of the alternative technologies the established corporations have been resisting.
One of those low energy days where your muscles ache and all you really want to do is lie down. Steady work on the new translated books, preliminary organisation of the online audio and downloads shop, specifications of the Matrox and Mac for Vish. At lunch, watched Top Gear – racing Royal Mail from Scilly to Scotland, and rally car versus the army. Also, muscles aching from day two of the medium workouts on EA Sports Active. It’s a good program, excercise without seemingly doing exercise. Very convenient. Have switched from the femal trainer to the male, who seems more genuine somehow.
Back to work after having Friday off and fewer hours worked the rest of last week.
Vish rang to say he has a new technician lined up for the video project, which is great news after months of delays. He just needs to get the visa sorted and the rest of the equipment ready, and then we can start.
Wendy’s mum died today. We were all in shock from her shock of the news. Death moved a step closer and could be felt in all of us as we continued the morning, Wendy having gone home. Caroline and I talked about it this evening, of course it made me think of the time Mum called to tell me Dad had died.
Working on a direct recording this afternoon about a new kind of education; this recorded around the time of the start of Brockwood Park School. The short direct recordings making a change after the 35-page school discussions; been selecting ones for the reunion MP3 disc.
Emailing this evening after a clearup after the weekend after Carl Fredrick leaving on Friday.
Watching Zeitgeist: Addendum yesterday evening and will continue now. Money from nothing. Then 90% on top of that. And built in horrors of inflation and interest. Hardly anyone understands the whole system and as long as we are under the spell of growth and increased profit, we are basically slaves to debt. No conspiracy is needed.
No yoga these days but took up month two of EA Sports Active, and actually went for a walk after lunch.
Falling Awake 