Let’s hope it doesn’t start a flood.
Millions of tax dollars melting away… guess Katrina victims didn’t need ice after all.
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“I will never use garlic!”
Sicilian chef Filippo La Mantia has sworn off garlic. La Mantia says that garlic is a "leftover from when Italians were poor", and feels it is overplayed and unnecessary. Others disagree, like chef Antonello Colonna: "eliminating garlic is like "eliminating violins from an orchestra".
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Solomon Islands to be clearcut?
In Collapse, Jared Diamond wondered what the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island was thinking as he did so. On the Solomon Islands, he’ll soon have the chance to put that question to that person.
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Black is Guilty
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Go ahead, kick that kitty! You’re covered.
Feel like you’ve racked up too many sins to be admitted into Heaven? Fret not, my evil friend… just hire a Sin Eater to gobble them all up for you. Voila! More here.
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Running of the Not-So-Bright
Bulls on Parade: Rage against the runners. Not for the squeamish (especially the first picture).
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“Double Muscle” Mutants
Myostatin is a genetic protein that affects muscle growth in humans and animals. Scientists have learned a lot about this protein from a noticeable myostatin mutation common in the Whippet dog breed. Whippets with one mutant copy of the gene are faster, so these are desirable for racing dog breeders. But selective breeding has caused increased instances of both copies of the myostatin genes mutating, which results in "double muscle" Incredible Hulk dogs!?
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Sexy Bike!
Got me a sexy new bike, woo hoo. Had a hard time picking the color, but settled on classic black. Very sporty.
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Let Slip The Badgers of War
Dateline Basra: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
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To Boldly Go . . .
Star Trek as you’ve never seen it. In a clever, terribly NSFW voice-over parody of Star Trek, Star Hood Trek takes the crew of the Enterprise to . . . well, it’s NSFW. But Spock falls in love, Kirk shows himself to be an insufferable martinet, and Bones, well, Bones just wants the tang. Eight part series: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
Also, you’d think in the 24th century, they’d have a cure for mono . . . .
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Rule #1: Don’t Post About Yourself Anonymously on the Internet
In January 2005 , someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: "No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share." Who was that random fool? Why, none other than John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. Whole Foods purchased Wild Oats earlier this year for approximately $18.50 a share, but the FTC has an issue with Whole Foods buying out their competitor. Mackey had responded to the FTC’s complaint on his blog, but has not posted since some of his other online comments became publicly attached to his name.
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“They’re dead, they’re… they’re all messed up.”
In the grand tradition of Killer comes Humans Vs. Zombies, a campus game that’s growing in popularity. From its origins at Goucher, it’s spread to a reported two dozen colleges. An interview with the game’s moderator is here, and you can watch the 45-minute documentary from one of the games on Google Video
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The Manual (How To Have a Number One – The Easy Way)
The Manual (How To Have a Number One – The Easy Way). Both light-hearted and thorough, the Timelords, aka the KLF, wrote this tongue-in-cheek manual in 1988 following their own novelty pop No. 1 “Doctorin’ the Tardis“. “If you are already a musician stop playing your instrument. Even better, sell the junk. It will become clearer later on but just take our word for it for the time being.” Oh and apparently have lots of tea on hand.
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Escaped Elephants.
Listen to the Newmarket Police try to deal with “Outstanding Elephants”. Elephants from the circus escape. They wander through Newmarket, Ontario, munching on people’s landscaping. Some people out for a late night walk happen upon them and (mp3) call into the York regional police to report the errant elephants. Then the police (mp3) deal with getting them back to their home.
"Police said no one was hurt, no property was damaged and that the two well-behaved animals spent their free time snacking on plants and trees as they wandered the quiet downtown streets." Sounds like a good way to spend a summer evening to me!
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Everybody was taekwondo fighting
You got served! …by taekwondo black belts? The Korean Tigers is a taekwondo demonstration team that also try to have fun. But chereographing with pop stars and dancing? Considering that one of Korea’s older traditional martial arts is taekyon, a martial art which reflects some aspects of traditional Korean dance and music, dancing doesn’t seem so far-fetched for Korean martial arts.
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NBA Player-Season Map
Completely amazing graph of every NBA player for every season in which he played at least five minutes since 1979. Points Per Game are on the Y-Axis, sum total of every other stat on the X-axis, with the data points colored with RGB depending on the player’s statistical tendencies during that season. Full explanation of methodology here. Gigantic monitor recommended.
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Smack In The Mouth.
"Terry had THC in her system-" THOCK! Some context to the bone-crunching event. Snopes confirms it.
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