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Constanza Puente, a Chilean artist, has installed a life-sized statue of herself made of bread in a park in Santiago de Chile.
She told Las Ultimas Noticias: “I chose bread to celebrate the fragility of the human beings.  I am the person who has the most access to my mind, so I should be the starting point of my pieces.”

[ Via BoingBoing ]

Apparently Berlin Suchthilfe, a Berlin drug awareness organization is using Apple’s iPod advert design for an anti-drug campaign.  The copy in the ad translates as “Not all drugs are as harmless as music.”

Diebold Election Systems has announced that it plans to make changes to its electronic voting machines following the release of report by the voting watchdog organization Black Box voting detailing how Diebold’s TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting machines could be compromised by taking advantage of a backdoor built into the Windows CE based devices.  A Diebold spokesman said they can not say when they would be addressing the issue but it could be done in time for the November 7 general election in the U.S.

[ Via PCWorld ]

It’s official.  The 700p has been released and is now available for both Sprint and Verizon.  According to Palm’s site, it has an Intel Xscale 312Mhz processor, 128MB of memory, a 320 x 320 color TFT display, bluetooth 1.2 wireless support, and support for MMC, SD, and SDIO cards.  It’s safe to say that this will be my next phone.  I just kinda hope Cingular starts carrying it by the time I buy it.

[ Via Gizmodo ]

Have you ever watched a business fail and thought to yourself that you would of done things better? Something tells me that Robert Pazornik, CEO of new San Francisco-based LicketyShip had that idea.
Do you remember Kozmo? Me neither but Kozmo was an “immediate delivery” eCommerce site launched in 1998 that offered free delivery, within an hour, of anything you want from magazines to a DVD player. Of course, with such an insane business plan, they burned through $280 million in venture capital and then closed their doors in 2001.

Well Robert Pazornik is going to try the idea again. Pazornik saw that 30% of Amazon orders are shipped using overnight shipping, signaling that there is people out there who are willing to pay a big premium for quick delivery. LicketyShip is going to offer ~20,000 items via their site to people in select markets. When you buy something from their site, you pay around $20 for shipping. They dispatch a courier to a local retailer to purchase the item, and then they deliver it to you within two hours.

Will it work? Only time will tell.

[ Via TechCrunch ]