The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
Your creative energy is all fired up and ready to go -- so make something awesome happen!
It's time to bust out your artistic toolkit -- whatever it is that lets you noodle around and explore all kinds of ideas.
You're sure to feel inspired -- in fact, you may have so much fun playing around that you look for ways to incorporate play into your regular, everyday life.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Annecy, Rhone-Alpes, France

Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bremen, Breman, Germany

Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark

Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Coffs Harbor, New South Wales, Australia

Helmstedt, Niedersachsen, Germany

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

Novosibirsk, Novgorod, Russia

Grand Praire, Alberta, Canada

Mexico City, Distrito, Federal, Mexico

as well as Namibia, and the United States in such cities such as Tiverton, Gaffeny, Antelope, Woodbine and more

Today is Saturday, May 8, the 128th day of 2010.

There are 237 days left in the year.

Today In History May 8

Today's unusual holidays and celebrations are:

No Socks Day

Mother Ocean Day

Stay Up All Night Day

National Train Day

National Miniature Golf Day

and 

International Migratory Bird Day

President Obama's Weekly Address

Gardening, Recycling and Nudity, Oh My

So, we’ve heard of gardening nude… a couple was recently in the news for doing just that and there’s even a World Naked Gardening Day - which is today by the way (link NSFW)… but we’ve never seen it used as a marketing tool. 

Until now.

More.

As The World Turns

As The World Turns

War criminal attacked in prison

Full story

The first Bosnian Serb convicted of genocide for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica has been attacked in a British prison, sources said.

Confusion in China as murder 'victim' reappears after 11 years

Police in central China are re-examining the case of a man convicted of murdering his neighbour 11 years ago after the "victim" suddenly reappeared in good health. Zhao Zuohai was convicted and sentenced to death by a court in Henan province on charges of killing his neighbour Zhao Zhenxiang in a 1999 dispute over a woman they both were seeing, the Beijing News said.

His sentence was commuted to life in prison and later reduced to 20 years. Zhao Zuohai confessed to the killing after a headless body was found in a local well in Zhecheng county, where he lived.

However, his "victim" suddenly returned to the area this week after an 11-year absence, stunning police, the report said. It said Zhao Zhenxiang apparently fled the county after the 1999 dispute and relocated without telling anyone, leading to his being listed as missing.

Police were now looking into whether the "killer" should be freed - and also trying to ascertain the identity of the headless corpse. The report said it remained unclear why Zhao Zuohai had pleaded guilty to the murder in the first place but added that there were suspicions police had tortured the confession out of him.

Scientific Minds Want To Know

Scientific Minds Want To Know

One mystery reexamined, another solved

NASA opens an old investigation, while a voracious-looking sea creature may be a big softie.  

Science buzz 

Also: 

• 'Alien' signs of life
• The colossal squid
• Recent meteor shower

"City of gonads" jellyfish

Sporting a reproductive "skyline," a new species of jellyfish is like nothing else known under the sea, a new study says.

Shaped like flying saucers, both males and females of the new jellyfish have gonads on the outsides of their bodies, unlike any of the approximately 3,000 other jellyfish species known to science­.

Gonads are the reproductive glands that produce sperm in males and eggs in females.

Arranged in a "crater" at the center of the jellyfish's top side, the gonads, upon close inspection, resemble "skyscrapers in a downtown business district," said Lisa-Ann Gershwin, curator of zoology at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Australia.

Accordingly, Gershwin gave the jellyfish the species name "medeopolis," Latin for "city of gonads."

"It's just so completely different from anything we've ever seen before," Gershwin said—in fact, the jellyfish has forced the creation of a whole new family and genus, Csiromedusidae and Csiromedusa, respectively.

From: Nat Geo

It's The Economy Stupid

It's The Economy Stupid

'Mancession' may now be a myth

Women like teacher Sara Wade are proof that the recession isn't hitting just men hard.  

Report's surprising finding 

Also: 

• Details from the report
• Find: 'Mancession'
• The unemployable men

50 Surprising Fashion and Beauty Products Made From Oil That You Probably Use Everyday (Even if You're Green)

Photo: Silicon Valley Moms Blog

With all the news and talk about the Gulf oil spill during the past two weeks, we've (unsurprisingly) been talking a lot about the science behind oil and oil production, the future of energy, and the economics behind the whole shebang. We talk about this stuff a lot anyway, but when you really think about, petroleum pervades almost every single aspect of our lives. It's what we use to power our cars and make machinery go, of course, but it's also seemingly omnipresent in thousands of unsuspecting products we use every day. And for women in particular, petroleum and petroleum-derived byproducts are hiding in some pretty sneaky places.

Article continues: 50 Surprising Fashion and Beauty Products Made From Oil That You Probably Use Everyday (Even if You're Green)

Trip to hospital interrupted as pregnant woman robbed by boyfriend for beer money

When a pregnant Two Rivers woman thought she needed to go to the hospital to deliver her baby on Wednesday, her boyfriend refused to arrange transportation, robbed and threatened to kill her, police and prosecutors alleged. Two Rivers police arrested Michael Vinson, 46, at about 2 a.m. Wednesday after responding to a disconnected 911 call the woman placed from their residence. Vinson's bail was set at $8,000 cash and he is being held in the Manitowoc County Jail.

Instead of seeking medical attention for his 36-year-old girlfriend, Vinson demanded money from her to buy beer, Assistant District Attorney Mike Griesbach said during Vinson's Wednesday bail hearing. She gave him $50 of her $150 monthly disability check, Griesbach said.

According to police and prosecutors: When the woman told Vinson she didn't have the rest of the money, he punched her in the head twice and waived a butcher knife in her face. The woman tried to escape to the bedroom, using her weight to hold the door shut. Vinson followed with the knife and tried to push the door open.

He told the woman he was going to kill her and swiped the knife at her three times. When he forced the door open, he hung up the phone while she was trying to dial 911. The woman suffered pain and swelling to her forehead. She was taken to Aurora Medical Center but her condition was unavailable. Vinson was arrested for battery, robbery and endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon. Griesbach added a charge of intimidation of a victim during the bail hearing.