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Chris Wysocki
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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M. and the guys at GetSatisfaction.com where they have "community powered support for Technorati".
Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.
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Recent headlines from my Posterous Blog:
Monday, 05 October 2009
Introducing ... The Gas Mask Bra!
![[gas mask bra]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01493/elenaBodnar1_1493790c.jpg)
It's the ultimate in multipurpose protection. It lifts and separates, and came
right out of Q's lab from the James Bond films. It's
a bra that doubles as a gas mask. The cups detach to provide protection
for you, and for a friend.
The unique accessory took top honors at the "Ig Nobel" awards, a Harvard University ceremony honoring offbeat inventions that actually have practical, real world applications.
It sounds silly, but Bodnar, a Ukraine native who now lives in Chicago, started her medical career studying the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. If people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster, she said, they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation sickness.
The bra-turned-gas masks could have also been useful during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and for women caught outside during the dust storms that recently enveloped Sydney, she said.
"You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra," she said, noting that a bra cup, no matter what size, is the perfect shape to fit over the human mouth and nose.
Her patented devices also look pretty, no different from a conventional bra, she added.
![[gas mask bra]](http://media.wfts1.com//photo/2009/10/02/0_21_Ig_Nobels_20091002074600_320_240.JPG)
Victoria's Secret kind of takes on a whole new meaning.
Still, the thought of wearing a bra on my head brings back memories of watching Anthony Michael Hall and Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science.
Yesterday's fiction is today's addendum to Whip 'Em Out Wednesdays.
Terrorists take note, the gas mask burqa isn't going to save your
ass.
Posted at 00:27 by Chris Wysocki
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