Jury acquits Wesley Snipes of tax fraud
Wesley Snipes’ attorneys admitted his ideas were crazy – that Americans have no obligation to pay taxes and the IRS cannot legally collect them.
But the star of the “Blade” vampire trilogy was the victim of crooked advisers, promoters of the tax protest movement, they argued, and a jury apparently agreed.
Snipes was acquitted Friday of federal tax fraud and conspiracy, but jurors found him guilty on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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40 Downloadable Open Source Social Software Applications
This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or search application. If you are looking for a great software for your business then check out SalonTouch Studio Software. It will have everything you need.
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Am I Blue?
The allure of blue eyes has long been celebrated. In the Odyssey, Homer gives the goddess Athena “bright blue eyes,” and our fascination persists to this day with actors like Brad Pitt and Naomi Watts. Until recently, however, no one could explain the phenomena.
Research focussed on the OCA2 gene, iinvolved in the production of melanin and pigmentation. However, key to blue eyes wasn’t on the OCA2 gene but rather on a nearby gene called HERC2, that works like a switch that regulates the behavior of OCA2. Interestingly, the evidence suggests that this mutation is not one that has arisen spontaneously several times, but that all blue-eye people are descendants of a single man.
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What would Darth Luthor do?
Can a lightsaber cut through Superman? Through him it cuts, hmmmm?
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Rags to stitches
One dog’s story of her journey from bait dog (a non-fighting dog used as a “training dummy” for fighting dogs) to loved pet. She got by with a a little help from her friends.
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Finally have it figured out…
After years of debating, I finally figured out what I want for a tattoo. Its been a labour of trying to sort it down to the one thing I’d be happy with. And this is it…
Orginal:
What I want:
Opinions? leave a comment
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Take a Break with Faith Fighter
Need a distraction? Check out Faith Fighter, a web-based online game where the friendly animation illustrates the sad reality of ongoing religious conflict. As they use videogames as a political medium, Faith Fighter’s creators, a team of Italian designers and game developers want to remind you that if this offends you, don’t play. “Faith Fighter is the ultimate fighting game for these dark times. Choose your belief and kick the shit out of your enemies. Give vent to your intolerance! Religious hate has never been so much fun.”
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KFC brings boy out of coma
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Dip Once or Dip Twice: A scientific inquiry into the realm of double-dipping
Researchers at Clemson University set the record straight in asking the age-old snacking question: Does double dipping encourage the spread of germs? “OUR annual national snacking binge is almost here. It would take a very large bowl indeed to hold all the guacamole mashed from the more than 100 million avocados that are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. (My rough calculation gives a hemisphere bowl 20 yards in diameter and 3 times the height of the goal post crossbars.) And guacamole is just one of many dips that will be shared around the TV…”
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Sarah Silverman “I’m F*cking Matt Damon” on Jimmy Kimmel
Seriously, she’s hot. Messed up as hell, but hot.
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Global arms transactions, visualized in interactive map
ARMSFLOW.org is a data visualization project that shows international arms transactions between 1950 and 2006. The site (a big ole Java applet) was created by Jeffrey Warren of Vestal Design, based on data from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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Fishtank habitrail
Octopus Studios’ tropical/freshwater fish-tanks assembles into a kind of fishy habitrail, wherein bulbous spheres of water are connected by diagonal tubes.
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Scan of 1950 menstruation primer
Just Between Us…, a booklet for girls about menstration; published by Beltix Corporation, copyright 1950, 1955, 1961.
To me, it’s amazing that the editors of this little booklet allowed the spokesgirl to have freaky swirly eyes — usually a sign of craziness or dizziness! This is either a stroke of genius or incredibly inappropriate — I’m not too sure.
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Man gave birth to a upper jaw.
Grow your own spare parts. At last we’re regenerating properly. Scientists took stem cells from patients fat tissue, cultivated bone cells from them, crafted a nice comfy titanium cage where to grow and put the cage into man’s abdomen. After 9 months, install new upper jaw.
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NO FATTIES
Mississippi considers banning people with a BMI higher than 30 from eating in public. Though its author doesn’t expect it to pass, House Bill 282 attempts to draw attention to the obesity epidemic, exaggerated or no. Predictably, some are upset.
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Sony’s Real Life Holographic Water Monster in Tokyo Bay
To promote an upcoming monster movie, Sony Pictures installed a holographic rig in Tokyo Bay that projects the monster onto a haze of water. What you’re seeing in the video wasn’t added after the fact–that’s actually what it looks like in real life.
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Isabella Rossellini Does Bug Porn
Isabella Rossellini has made a series of short films in which she
dresses up like insects (always the males, for some reason) and acts
out bug sex. You’ll find a quartet of stills at the link.
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Love at first smell, and what stinky t-shirts tell us about attraction
But sometimes the tastes and scents can trick us, or other factors, such as the “divorce pill” make us think something is right for us when it may not be so. These insights found in a pile of stinky t-shirts.
Cover stories this month in both Psychology Today and Time magazine reveal why we kiss, why we flirt, why women’s menstrual cycles sync, and many other keys to attraction. It’s all so…romantic.
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BMW M5 Crashes, Kills 5
A BMW M5 crash that occurred in Ocala, Florida over the weekend. (video – with a car advertisement opening, ironically). The five teenagers in the car flew 200 feet off an airport runway, then hit a tree, splitting the car in half. The driver, Josh Ammirato, was an active member of m5board.com, an online BMW M5 forum community. He was known as AmericanM5, he had posted only a day before the crash, asking about rough shifts when exceeding 140MPH. The thread about his crash.
Edmunds Inside Line has full details of story, including map of the accident.
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Casas’s ballpoint pen artwork
Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas creates his large artworks using just a blue ballpoint pen.
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American Code Words
Would you vote for an articulate horizontal-thinking Canadian? Race and religion in America defined through obfuscation.
RobDurdle.com 
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