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Fans of Gang Starr should recognize the name and voice from Krumb’s verse on “Make Em Pay” from the Moment of Truth album. Expect more boom-bap hip-hop with his latest offering, “Hidden Scriptures,” which features production by Pete Rock, Da Beatminerz, and Large Professor.

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This article was written on January 18, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

Back in November, a Funny Friday feature we wrote about was “Dumb Laws from Around the U.S.” It included a list of some crazy and funny laws from each state in the United States that made you say to yourself “hmm…. what were they thinking when they came up with this one!” One of the commenter’s asked that we do an encore with stupid laws from outside of the United States because other countries have crazy laws too! We thought it was a good idea so we went to look at our site statistics to find out where a majority of you are coming from.  Next to the United States, we receive the most visitors from the United Kingdom and Canada. So today we thought we’d take a look at dumb, crazy, not to mention funny laws from those two countries.

Canada – laws found in all or some of the country

• Citizens may not publicly remove bandages
• You may never use dice to play craps
• When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn
• It’s illegal to climb trees
• It is illegal to right turn on a red light at any time
• You may not park a car in such a way that it is blocking your own driveway
• Citizens may not relieve themselves or spit on the street
• It is illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft
• Comic books which depict any illegal acts are banned
• Businesses must provide rails for tying up horses
• You may not work on your car in the street
• Wooden logs may not be painted
• In Hartland New Brunswick, you are not allowed to make jokes about people with mustaches unless that person or persons first name begins with the letter “A” and last name begins with the letter “N.”

Crazy Canadian Laws

Sources: Here and here

United Kingdom – laws deemed the “Most Ridiculous”

• It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
• It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
• In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
• Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
• In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
• A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet
• The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen
• It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
• It is illegal to enter the houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
• In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow

While it’s not the best quality, the video below goes through some of the laws listed above, but includes a few additional funny ones as well:

Source: BBC

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One of medicine’s future goals is to develop methods and devices to be used for non-invasive keyhole surgeries. Designers have borrowed numerous elements from nature to make prototypes of tools such as snake-like robots before. Another one that stemmed from biomimicry is a wasp-like probe that is theorized to make keyhole surgeries safer. Apparently, female wood wasps of the Siricidae family have two dovetailed shafts with backwards-facing teeth that they use to deposit eggs into pine trees. The wasp bores into the wood by oscillating the shafts back and forth, with the teeth holding the needle-like body part in place within the wood.

The same mechanism is designed on a robot by Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena of the Imperial College of London. This robot is designed with two shafts, each with 50-micrometer-long teeth to mimic the wasp’s movement. The device is flexible and can avoid high-risk areas during operation, going straight to its goal. The current prototype has successfully been tested on pig muscle tissue and proved to be able to crawl across brain-like gel without damage, according to New Scientist.

We’ve seen many types of calculators over the years – from ordinary ones to those that can compute the body’s fat ratio and others that can compute one’s carbon footprint. Far removed from most everything we’ve seen is this rather quirky calculator from Japanese company Wiz. You see, it’s meant to compute for something quite intangible – emotional damage. It does sound crazy, but it seems Wiz has its proverbial tongue fully pressed against its cheek upon this toy’s development.

Classified as a “gag” toy, this device aptly called “Consolation Money Calculator,” can tell your offender just how much their slight means in concrete money value. Users have to input details of their personality, details of the offense and their relationship to the offender to get the final amount. There are even bundled invoice sheets you can hand out to those who cause you grief. The Consolation Money Calculator will be available this January 24 in Japan for around $30.

Whenever someone comes up with a tech toy or gadget specially made for the feminine persuasion, my knee-jerk reaction is to roll my eyes and snort. After all, I’ve seen a lot of gadgets for the ladies that turn out to be nothing but pink-colored or dumbed-down versions of another device. This toy by Bandai isn’t any better, albeit a bit different from any I’ve seen. If you’ve ever chanced upon any of those “tests” or “tips” for single women in glossy ladies’ magazines, then you’ve got the gist of Bandai moteQ, except this one’s in toy form. Think Tamagotchi with a twist.

The moteQ is a small toy, akin to the size of a compact, with a monochromatic LCD and plastic chassis. It contains some sort of a trivia game to help single women understand the male psyche a bit better by answering questions Bandai asked 1,000 dudes from across Japan. Questions are numerous and diverse in nature, ranging from the more mundane subjects such as fishing to ones more relevant to the aim such as romantic relationships. Of course, to pique interest on the toy, the Bandai moteQ will launch before Valentine’s, on February 7 in Japan for $28 per.