Space invaders... with people... what?!

Posted by liam on July 18, 2006 8:50 PM

Space Invaders recreated by stop-motion animation of people sitting in auditorium seats.

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Which came first - finally we know

Posted by liam on July 17, 2006 9:32 AM

Dear readers Geek Chic is proud to answer a philosophical question which has plagued argumentive people for decades. Finally we are able to answer which came first thanks to an email sent to me:

Chicken and egg debate unscrambled Egg came first, 'eggsperts' agree LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg. Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear. The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said. "Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns. Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken investing stock came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens. He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents. "I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said. "If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp. He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

The debate, which may come as a relief to those with argumentative relatives, was organized by Disney to promote the release of the film "Chicken Little" on DVD.

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How to get on the property ladder (part 2)

Posted by liam on July 10, 2006 9:57 PM

In one of my earlier postings i mentioned about a chap who was trying to trade a red paper clip for a house. Well apparently he's done it, here is his site. In fourteen trades his red paper clip has been swapped for a pen, a stove, a party, a van and a movie role amongst others.

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A video to ease the guilt of over eaters

Posted by liam on July 6, 2006 1:30 PM

Over in Coney Island, New York, Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest was held to celebrate American Independance day. The winner was a man dubbed 'the Tsunami' Takeru Kobayashi who managed to munch 53 & 3/4 hotdogs in 12 minutes. That almost 4 and a half hots dogs per minute.

The really impressive/ downright disgusting (depending on how you look at it) fact is that by eating 53 hotdogs he consumed 16,500 calories (almost 7 times the recommended daily amount of calories) and a entire kilo of fat (about 16 times the recommended daily amount of fat)

A website called Callorie Lab has broked down Takeru's meal scientifically here

But to see The Tsunami himself in action view the videos here; part1 part 2 and part 3

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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww do not view this page if you're eating

Posted by liam on July 6, 2006 9:33 AM

Here's a really gross story, after being electrocuted a man in India has discovered a chunk of his skull has come off

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