Monthly Archives: June 2012


Utah State University “Ascending Aggies” team recently won first prize out of 33 teams in the Air Force’s contest to get four soldiers over a very tall wall. They developed what they call a PVAC, or Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber and it works just as you’d imagine: a loud-as-hell vacuum strapped to your back connects to two suction cups and lets you climb pretty much anything, even if the surface wouldn’t have been so good for regular suction cups.

EXCLUSIVE: This Amazing New Gear Allows Users To Climb Up Nearly Any Type Of Wall (Business Insider)

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THE ULSTER Unionist Party has stated remarks by party member Lord (Ken) Maginnis about the “deviant” practice of homosexuality do not reflect party policy.

Lord Maginnis, the former MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone triggered calls that he should be censured after he commented on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan Show about proposals to legislate for gay marriage in Britain.

Lord Maginnis said he opposed gay marriage because it was “unnatural” and he did not believe society should “have imposed on it something that is unnatural”.

Pink is the new orange.

Fabulous.

Maginnis remarks on gay people ‘not UUP policy’ (Irish Times)

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