Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I’m liking Schwarzenegger more and more…
Religious right fumes after Arnold signs gay rights bill
The religious right is fuming after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law that requires schools that receive state funds to introduce nondiscriminatory practices relating to sexual orientation, RAW STORY has learned.
California Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa said earlier that this month that […]
Irony, Politics, Uncategorized |
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Call for fertility ban for obese
BBC - Very obese women should be denied fertility treatment, experts say.
The British Fertility Society is recommending women with a body mass index of 36 and over should not be allowed access to fertility treatment.
Underweight women and those classed just as obese (BMI over 29) should be forced to address […]
Oddities, Misc. |
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Starting on Tuesday, Aug 21st 2006, indulging in goose liver snarfing can earn you a citizen’s arrest.
(CBS) CHICAGO For some chefs here in Chicago, the foie gras fight is officially on.
Starting on Tuesday, the gourmet delicacy is off the menu when a city-wide ban goes into effect. Chicago will be the first city in the […]
Politics, Food, Misc. |
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
…with this article:
Don’t Marry Career Women
Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career.
Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While […]
b.s., Irony, Hubris |
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
montgomeryadvertiser.com: Giant nests perplex experts
MOBILE — To the bafflement of insect experts, gigantic yellow jacket nests have started turning up in old barns, unoccupied houses, cars and underground cavities across the southern two-thirds of Alabama.
Specialists say it could be the result of a mild winter and drought conditions, or multiple queens forcing worker yellow jackets […]
Oddities |
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Crazy video here
Lessons learned:
A) Don’t stick your fat head in a cephalopod’s house. They don’t like you.
B) Never go diving without your deep fryer and some lemons.
Good job everyone, good job.
octopi, Hubris |
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Link to video. Freaky.
Gordian worm live inside crickets for long periods, feeding on the cricket’s diet. Once fully grown, they inject chemicals into the cricket’s brain brainwashing it and forcing it to kill itself by jumping into the water. Once in water, the worm wriggles out of the writhing body and swims off in search […]
Pimping, Oddities |
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
link
“During a prime time segment on his MSNBC show last night, anchor Keith Olbermann presented ten clear examples where the Bush administration had issued terror alerts days after politically damaging revelations and questioned the credibility of each of the alleged plots’ authenticity in light of astounding evidence to the contrary.
Olbermann overwhelmingly documents the staged timing […]
Politics |
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
God I love the internet:
1-19-06
Good news, gentelmen! An appropriate candidate for the testing of The Zero has been located! Boone, one of five seemingly viable subjects available, was the only feline willful enough to resist the bonding process. Not only did his system not reject The Zero entirely, but he seemed to be totally indifferent […]
imagination, Humour |
Friday, August 11th, 2006
UCSF: Drinking juice is no better than drinking soda
“People think juice is healthy, but it’s not,” says Dr. Robert H. Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at UCSF and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Clinic. “Drinking juice — even if it says “100% natural” — is no better than drinking […]
Irony, Childhood |
Friday, August 11th, 2006
These guys test out the strength of a steel pole by crashing a truck into it at a high speed. Check out the truck after the collision; its completely destroyed.
Link to video
Misc. |
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
BEIJING (Reuters) August 8, 2006 - A giant panda in China has given birth to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins, Xinhua news agency reported.
The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but was still the heaviest panda ever […]
Misc. |
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Secret Soy Sauce Ingredient: Human Hair!
In an article called “Hair Soy Sauce: A Revolting Alternative to the Conventional” for the Internet Journal of Toxicology, Alexander Tse-Yan Lee exposed that a cheap soy sauce brand in China marketed as “blended using the latest bioengineering technoloogy” had a secret ingredient: amino acid made from human hair!
The journalists […]
Oddities, imagination |
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
ABC News: ‘Morgellons’ Mystery
Dr. Greg Smith of Gainesville, Ga., has been a pediatrician for the past 28 years. He claims a fiber is coming out of his big toe, and he has video footage to prove it. “It felt like somebody stuck a pin in my toe and wiggled it and it just continued to […]
Oddities |
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Germany: Sex-starved wife asks police to intervene
Germany (again): Woman finds frozen dog in her fridge
India: Cyclopian child born in Chennai, India
Funny 1965 anti-pornography educational film
“I started punching the otter in the face which I felt really bad about because it’s cute”
10 Most Bizarre Celebrities
Linkapalooza |
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
My annoyingly talented friend Mike Quernemoen made a pretty major leap with his painting sometime in the last few years. Here’s a few of his recent pieces:
More of his stuff is viewable here, including some pieces for sale.
Mike, do you take commissions?
Friends, Pimping, Art |
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Lets all thank the MN Dept of Health for keeping us safe from lawless meerkat gangs. That meerkat should have known the difference between a little girls finger and a A FUC*ing cocktail weiner.
5 Minnesota Zoo meerkats killed after girl bitten
Star Tribune - Five meerkats at the Minnesota Zoo were destroyed and tested for rabies […]
b.s., Minneapolis |
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Fashion statement: NFL refs to sport new uniforms
AP - Gone are the traditional vertical black-and-white stripes that have been a staple of the league seemingly since its inception and that live on in Foot Locker stores and DJ booths around the country. In their place is a flashier look that features wide white stripes and […]
NFL, sports |
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Duluth Bedbug Reports Part Of A National Trend
(AP) Duluth, Minn. Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite, your mom warned you. At one apartment complex in Duluth, that got difficult after an infestation of crawly creatures.
Residents of the Tri-Towers Apartment and Senior Complex recently got a one-page letter informing them of the unwelcome visitors. […]
Poorhouses, Misc. |
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Ummm, DUH.
BBC: Men who are full are more attracted to skinny women; hungry men prefer heavier women.
They asked the men to rate how hungry they were on a scale of one to seven. Using these responses, the researchers selected 30 hungry and 31 satiated men to take part in the study.
The men were then asked […]
Irony |
