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Beads by Natasha St. Michael
Not your average beadwork. Natasha St. Michael creates organic-inspired structures from beads. Lots and lots of beads. I mean, wow, that’s a lotta beads.
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The 9 most badass Bible verses
Funny Cracked article about nine “badass” parts of the Bible. (When did Sylvester P. Smythe’s humor magazine start using such naughty words?)
We’ve all been there. You’re walking along, minding your own business, when a gang of cocky, young bastards start hurling abuse at you. Most of us would just keep walking, or maybe, yell some insults back or flip them the bird. Elisha (commonly regarded as the Luke Skywalker to the Prophet Elijah’s Obi-Wan Kenobi), however, decides to take it one step further. Invoking the name of God, he summons motherfucking bears to come and claw the shit out of them.
Christians are constantly asking for prayer in schools to help get today’s kids in line, but we beg to differ. We need bears in schools. If every teacher had the power to summon a pair of child-maiming grizzly avengers, you can bet that schoolchildren nowadays would be the most well-behaved, polite children, ever. It’s a simple choice: listen to the biology lesson, or get first-hand knowledge of the digestive system of Ursus horribilis.
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Tase! or “Youtube Justice”
Refusing to sign a speeding citation in Vernal, Utah? That’s a tasing. Requesting an investigation of the incident? That sounds like a job for YouTube.
I was also struck by the bizarre levels of politeness demonstrated by both parties during the incident.
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Cancer-resistant Mouse Developed By Adding Tumor-suppressor
A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called “Par-4” in the prostate.
The researchers discovered that the Par-4 gene kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. There are very few molecules that specifically fight against cancer cells, giving it a potentially therapeutic application.
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Union Jack to be redesigned?
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Tasers
Is it just me, or are a lot of people getting zapped by tazers lately with very adverse effects? I’ve read a ton/seen a ton in the news, and its getting rather disturbing. A buddy of mine tazer’d me once as a test (I was a willing subject) and I was fine… Now its starting to worry me a little bit.
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Taser death at Vancouver Airport
Here’s a video of the distraught non-Engish speaking man from Poland who died from being tasered at the Vancouver Airport. He can be seen throwing a chair and trying break other things. When security arrives, he calms down and doesn’t appear to be acting in a threatening manner. It’s hard to tell though, because the video was taken through a pane of glass with glare.
Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him.
The 40-year-old construction worker, who had never left Poland before, was immigrating to Canada to join his mother, 61, who lives in Kamloops, about a five-hour drive from Vancouver.
They had arranged to meet at the baggage carousel in the international terminal at YVR….
Mr. Dziekanski arrived at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.
“He made his way to primary customs in the ordinary fashion … he went through there in the normal time frame … he then proceeded through and was directed to secondary customs, which is normal for someone who doesn’t speak English and is immigrating to the country,” Mr. Kosteckyj said. His papers were in order and he proceeded without difficulty.
But what happened after that was far from normal. For nearly 10 hours, Mr. Dziekanski stayed in the Arrivals Hall, growing increasingly frustrated and eventually becoming frantic.
Outside, in the public area, his mother spent nearly six hours pacing the corridors and, in broken English, asking airport officials for help in locating her son.
Mr. Kosteckyj said she visited one booth in international arrivals “at least three to four times and conveyed to them that she was concerned about her son being in the area and she wanted to get a message to him and how could she do that? They wrote her name down and said that they would make inquiries.”
At about 10 p.m., she was told he wasn’t there. She made the long drive home, only to find a phone message waiting, saying her son had been found.
“She called back to immigration when she got in, which would have been around 2 a.m., and spoke to someone there and was advised that her son was somewhere in the area and was fine. And she advised, you know, ‘Please take care of him because he can’t speak English and I’ll get there as soon as I can.’ And of course he had died, been killed really, some time on or about 1 or 1:30,” Mr. Kosteckyj said.
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Police in UK taser man in coma
From the BBC: The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in England is investigating an incident involving police who tasered a man in a coma because he was unresponsive.
Mr Gaubert said he was on his way to meet friends when he suffered a hypoglycaemic fit on the bus which left him slumped on his seat clutching his rucksack.
Armed police were called to the bus depot in Headingley and when he failed to respond to their challenges he was shot with the Taser.
He said as this was happening, another officer was pointing a real gun at his head.
He was restrained and eventually came round in the police van.
He said it was only then that the officers realised it was a medical emergency, despite him wearing a medical tag round his neck to warn of his condition, and took him to hospital.
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Daily Show writer explains writers’ strike — if digital content isn’t worth anything, how come Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion?
In this youtube clip, Daily Show writer Jason Rothman delivers an hilarious monologue about the Writers’ Guild strike against the studios, who claim that they can’t compensate writers for digital media because no one knows how much this stuff is worth. The clip delivers a Daily Show-style montage of coverage from the $1 billion+ Viacom lawsuit against YouTube, including clips of Viacom’s CEO talking about how digital content is worth tons of money and getting paid is the name of the game. The clip includes a nice guest appearance from Daily Show correspondents, too.
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robpongi
Meet Rob Pongi (sometimes known as Evil Pongi) an american, doing something different in Japan. Sometimes he’s chillin with some sexy and beautiful Japanese women enjoy a very exciting Tokyo dance party! Other times he translates North Korean soap operas into english for our edification. He just finished his first Hollywood movie, and he’s very proud of it. Join his fan club here. You can watch all of his videos here.
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Man wins physics (maybe)
An exceptionally simple theory of everything has been released by a snow and surfboarding physicist. String theorists are grumpy feeling it doesn’t have enough dimensions to be a proper theory. Others question and discuss. In it’s favour – it’s pretty! 10 Mb Quicktime
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A Look Back at Jon Stewart’s Greatest Gay Moments.
“There’s a whole lotta gay going on in the brand-spanking-new archive of The Daily Show video clips.”
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US intelligence honcho channels Orwell, redefines privacy
Donald Kerr, the US Principal Deputy Director of Intelligence, has decided to kill privacy. He says that human beings can no longer expect governments and companies not to spy on them; instead “privacy” will now mean having the right to expect that governments and companies won’t tell other people what they learn when they spy on you.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information…
He noted that government employees face up to five years in prison and $100,000 in fines if convicted of misusing private information.
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Cross-border car shopping in overdrive
Wow, we shoulda gone south…
The number of vehicles being bought in the United States by Canadians has exploded since the loonie shot even with the U.S. dollar, new figures show, even as a growing number of carmakers here dangle cash goodies to buyers to prevent cross-border shopping.
Canadians imported 24,873 vehicles north in October alone, according to figures provided this week by the North American Automobile Trade Association, a trade group of vehicle importers and exporters. That’s a 68% increase from September, when the loonie matched the greenback for the first time since 1976.
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You like the sauce?
Fire Roasted Salsa. Chipotle Salsa. Pico De Gallo. Salsa Verde. Five Green Salsa. Orange Salsa. Apple Salsa. Cucumber Salsa. Yogurt Salsa. Rosemary Salsa. Bean Salsa. Conejo En Salsa De Chocolate. Roasted Poblano and Coconut Salsa. Monterey Jack Salsa. Salsa Negra. Mango Salsa. Holiday Salsa. Artichoke Salsa.
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Need some inspiration for turning up for work?
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Get ready to octorock
The only interactive Zelda overworld map you’ll ever need. (Flash)
unless you’re doing the second quest. Found at the ever-useful vgmaps.com
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Understanding the WGA Writer’s Strike
As the Writer’s Guild of America strike wears on into its second week, it seems appropriate to remember why they’re striking in the first place. If you ask me, the terms seem almost too reasonable. But in the defense of the studios, I’m sure the businessmen involved have gotten used to spending those millions of dollars, and wouldn’t want to see them go. Now that Broadway has shut down in allegiance to their Hollywood compatriots, things are looking grim for anything to be resolved without more financial bloodshed.
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Grow your own
Stop paying ridiculous prices for your cigarettes, cigars or pipe tobacco, growing your own tobacco, by growing your own tobacco, you can smoke for about $10.00 a week or less. Surprisingly, not many people know that’s it’s perfectly legal to grow your own tobacco for ones own consumption.
Tobacco is a member of the Solanaceae or nightshade family. This family includes tomato, pepper, eggplant, Irish potato, and a number of other plants. Tobacco belongs to the genus Nicotiana, and almost all commercial tobacco is of the tabacum species. The Nicotiana rustica species was commonly used by American Indians and may still be used for ceremonial purposes in some areas. Many homeowners wish to grow a few plants of tobacco in their yard or garden for ornamental purposes or for personal use. Tobacco plants are usually no more difficult to grow than many other garden plants.
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