Save Your Precious Eyesight for Television
Why do we like, have to like, read so much in school? Why can’t there be like, a library with only like, books with like, not a lot of pages? Lazy Library, for those with short attention spans, tight schedules, or a report due tomorrow.
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Man placed on sex offenders register for sex with bike
The Daily Telegraph reports on a bizarre case in which a man
staying at a hostel was surprised by workers with a master key, having
sex with a bicycle. He has been placed on the sex offenders register,
despite apparently indulging in his practices in private with an
inanimate object. I am wondering how this is different from using, say,
a vibrator or blow-up doll? Do people in hostels have no right to
privacy?
The real killer paragraph is the last one – apparently someone was
jailed in 1993 for having sex with the pavement – or sidewalk in US
English.
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199 Peter Cook videos
199 Peter Cook videos (in case you don’t know who Peter Cook is, he’s often considered the funniest English comedian of the 20th Century, this myspace page has a concise biography).
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AIDS Invaded US in 1969, Study Finds.
Long before storied ‘Patient Zero‘ Gaëtan Dugas [previously] scientists now believe that HIV/AIDS “invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic.” A new study to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
indicates that researchers conducted a genetic analysis of stored blood
samples from early AIDS patients and now believe that HIV first entered
the United States in the 1960s — and not the 1980s. Other “studies suggest the
virus first entered the human population in about 1930 in central
Africa, probably when people slaughtered infected chimpanzees for
meat.”
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The Man In Black
Ray Charles – Ring of Fire (this, my brothers and sisters, is how you cover a song and make it your own)/
Bob Dylan – I Threw It All Away/
Derek and the Dominoes (w/Carl Perkins)/
Roy Orbison – Crying/ The Cowsills/
Joni Mitchell – The Long Black Veil (sublime)
Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash “Girl From The North Country”
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Cranky Geeks with John C. Dvorak
John C. Dvorak, whose crankiness knows no bounds, is a contributing editor of PC Magazine, for which he has been writing two columns, including the popular Inside Track, since 1986.
Cranky Geeks is a weekly webcast/video podcast starring John C. Dvorak and other technology ‘cranks’
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Winemaking
Jack Keller’s winemaking site has not only the basics of home winemaking in 5 parts [12345], but also information on more advanced topics, including acidity, blending, and using a hydrometer. Equally interesting is his extensive collection of recipes for making wines out of things other than grapes, including dandelions and other edible flowers, wild plants (including nettles!), cabbages and beets, tea and coffee, mint, pomegranates, and pumpkins. A complete list of recipes is here, if you’d like to click through alphabetically, and a list of specially-requested recipes is here (scroll down a bit).
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Things I Have Failed To Masturbate To
Things I Have Failed To Masturbate To. I’ve tried wierder then this guy.
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Gap Unveils New ‘For Kids By Kids’ Clothing Line
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I don’t believe you, you’re a liar. Play it fucking loud!
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Roswell incident not explained to Richardson’s satisfaction
If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.
Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the 1947 incident in which many people still believe a flying saucer landed near the eastern New Mexico town.
“I’ve been in government a long time, I’ve been in the cabinet, I’ve been in the Congress and I’ve always felt that the government doesn’t tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues,” said Richardson, who is governor of New Mexico.
Of course he could just ask Kucinich
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Dry erase cheese board
This cheese board set has dry erase functionality so you can more easily label each selection. It’s $20 from Macy’s, part of the Martha Stewart Collection .
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De-evolution imminent, claims scientist
The first sentence of this actual news story from the Daily Mail would make HG Wells proud:
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.
For those who want to move past the silliness and actually consider whether there’s any science to this story at all, Bad Science’s Ben Goldacre wrote a column for The Guardian that’s a good place to start.
I’ve actually been observing and claiming the same thing for the past few years, as food for thought, check out the Movie “Idocracy“. Yes Mike Judge made it, but he’s actually pretty good, think Office Space and King of the Hill.. if you ignore his Beavis and Butthead years, he’s pretty good… wow I hate that show.
The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.
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Failed futuristic predictions
Here’s a fine collection of 87 bad futuristic predictions from years gone by — many of them are risible because of their skepticism (see the “telephones” section below), but I’m very fond of the optimistic ones, too, like “Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years” (Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955).
# «This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.» A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
# «The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.» Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
# «It’s a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?» Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. President, after a demonstration of Alexander Bell’s telephone, 1876.
# «A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires.» News item in a New York newspaper, 1868.
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Go Go Mania!
The year 1964 was a watershed period in British music. Before that year, British popular music was barely heard outside of the U.K. But when the Beatles achieved American success, a seemingly endless number of British bands and singers were suddenly able to crack the American market.
By the end of 1964, some enterprising filmmakers decided to create a cinematic year-in-review to highlight this new wave of British music talent. The result was “Pop Gear,” a strange but jolly little production that serves as a celluloid time capsule for that remarkable musical year.
The features opens with footage from a November, 1963 Beatles concert in Manchester – She Loves You
…and continues with
Little Children – Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
Make Him Mine – Susan Maughan
Juliet – The Four Pennies
The House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
A Little Loving – The Fourmost
He’s in Town – The Rockin’ Berries
Have I the Right – The Honeycombs
Rinky Dink – Sounds Incorporated
World Without Love – Peter and Gordon
Walk Away – Matt Monroe
I’m Into Something Good – Herman’s Hermits
Humpty Dumpty – Tommy Quickly and the Reno Four
Watcha Gonna Do – Billie Davis
My Babe – The Spencer Davis Group
Tobacco Road – The Nashville Teens
What In The World’s Come Over You – The Rockin’ Berries
For Mama – Matt Monroe
Black Girl – The Four Pennies
William Tell – Sounds Incorporated
Google Eyes – The Nashville Teens
Eyes! – The Honeycombs
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – The Animals
Closing credits courtesy of the same Manchester show:
Twist And Shout – The Beatles
These are only the bands’ performances. The review was hosted by Jimmy Savile and punctuated with some truly glorious dance sequences.
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teh cute being fed and feeding others
Bonus links: kitten eating melon l puppy eating apple l duckling feeding fish.
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What’s in a Name?
Our notions of names and gender may be showing some ‘fluidity.’ A long-time trend of male names losing their popularity or even their acceptibility once the same names become popular for girls may be shifting to a new ‘gender fluidity.’ While it’s still true that fewer and fewer boys are named Leslie, Shirley, Kim, Ashley, Shannon, Whitney, or Carol, other names have emerged as unisex monikers: Jordan, Angel, or Peyton. Logan has re-emerged as a more clearly male name. See this article in today’s N.Y. Times Magazine. The essay was penned by Sam Kean: is that Samuel or Samantha? Does it matter?
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Never run after a bus. There’ll always be another one.
A 400 year old clam has been slaughtered by ruthless ‘scientists’. How much could this clam have told us about history, about longevity, about life? Probably not much–it’s a clam.
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Condom earworm PSA from India
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Last Supper gets 16bn pixel boost
A 16 billion pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper has been posted on the internet, giving art lovers a detailed view of the 15th Century work.
The image is 1,600 times more detailed than those taken with a typical 10 million pixel digital camera. Experts will be able to see segments as though just centimetres away and examine otherwise unavailable details.
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
This is the first in a series of conversations about the “Big Questions” the John Templeton Foundation
is conducting among leading scientists and scholars.
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How to Read A “Book”
How to Read a Book attempts to inculcate skills that are useful for reading anything. These skills, however, are more than merely useful–they are necessary–for the reading of great books, those that are of enduring interest and importance. Although one can read books, magazines, and newspapers of transient interest without these skills, the possession of them enables the reader to read even the transient with greater speed, precision, and discrimination.
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Your child was sold into slavery in Japan
Jon Ronson on a cruise with controversial psychic Sylvia Browne.
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