Scientists have discovered the alarming possibility that rising ocean temperatures may not be the reason coral around the world are dieing off. It could be people's usage of sunscreen.
Reduced social interaction and ultrasonic communication in a mouse model of monogenic heritable autism. WHHAAaaaa? That is the title of the paper that describes how scientists have been able to induce autism in mice. Using the same techniques, they can reverse it. Why would anyone want to induce austism?
Think of autism like Ritalin on crack. Autistic symptoms include hyperfocusing on mundane tasks and not interacting with others (like cats grooming themselves...or doing anything). Being able to induce and then undo autism could increase personal productivity and allow employers to rid their employees of annoying family obligations since they would alienate themselves from everyone.
From stories that I read where teachers are forced to give kids the answers to standardized tests, to stories told to me FIRST HAND about principals reversing failing grades to increase graduation rate, nothing really surprises me about corruption in our public schools.
Like the story of McKinley High School senior Jayvonna Kincannon. She attempted to speak to the school board in favor of the suspiciously-fired woman's basketball coach, Michelle Stiles. Well, McKinley Principal Crystal Barton was having none of that. Possibly in an attempt to keep the nature of the firing of the coach under wraps, Barton had Kincannon suspended from school for 7 weeks. The reasons were that Kincannon allegedly cut school (which is under dispute), used a cell phone at school (which she admits) and wore a sweatshirt to school with a hood.
I'm sure parents of students at the Buffalo area school feel safer that such a bad influence is having her future endangered because of some vendetta between Barton and Stiles(including any supporters).
A guy won the Lollapalooza ‘Last Band Standing’ competition and part of his prize package included $10k in Gibson music equipment. Well, he won in 2006 and STILL hasn't received his prize, thanks to Don Pitts. I know that Citizen's Bank promotions scoffs at such shoddy work. Gianmarc! Burn your Gibsons in protest!
While Ashley Madison is a website that is morally bankrupt (fixing up singles with unfaithful married people), Conjugal Harmony will arrange for you to meet "hot" lonely, desparate, convicts looking for a little love. You'll never have to worry about neediness because...uh-oh...visiting time is over!
Apparently "the South" stops somewhere around Ocala, FL. While trying to draft the new statewide curriculum for science, several northern Florida counties have protested the teaching of evolution with the EXCLUSION of "other theories". Here's a quote from Ken Hall, a school board member of Madison County:
"I'm a Christian. And I believe I was created by God, and that I didn't come from an amoeba or a monkey."
Pastafarians are expected to support their fundamentalist Christian brethren and insist that along with the inclusion of creationism, Florida include the teaching of the Flying Spagetti Monster.
So Fox News decided to tackle the important topic of nudity in video games with a hard look at the new game Mass Effect. Of course...there is about as much nudity in Mass Effect as in Nip Tuck (side boob is the most you'll get). That didn't stop the eager Cooper Lawrence from joining in one the fun and claim that more boys play video games than their dads (actually incorrect since the majority of game players are my age). Neither she nor the host actually played the game.
Well...gamers don't like it when people talk about games they obviously haven't played. They hate it less when they outright lie about them. But they LOVE it when they find out the person who is doing the lieing is ALSO trying to sell a book on Amazon. Here's an exerpt of one of the 200+ comments that appeared since the Fox News interview.
How much will this book help you with coming to peace with overachieving? About as much as there is sex in mass effect. Which isn't much.
I'm pretty much an expert on sexy women books, I know all about them and my friend white-blonde-chick has done a survey with his peers and came to the conclusion that this book sucks. I'm sure you have some fine evidence to prove me otherwise, but unfortunately I'm going to stick to the facts and go with my friend white-blonde-chick. Oh yea did i mention I just got my masters in bullshet?
This book contains full frontal nudity on the cover!!!!, you can clearly see two naked woman arms and a woman face. Also the sex scenes are fully interactive IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN HEH-HEH. This book plays out like a goosebumps novel for teenage girls so they can dream about sex before they even develop a brain, because teenagers don't have brains yet. Pretty sick, how can they even market this stuff? This book should have an adult only rating and you must be ID'd before you buy it, and if you try to buy it at borders they should yell at you because you might be buying it for your child. Because you never know. It could happen.
SPOILER ALERT****
This book contains full frontal nudity and will posses your children with evil Christian spirits if they read it aloud. Its the necronomicon but worse, its like...Chick-nomicon as the spirits will clearly cause you to grow the sexy figure thats on the book... mmm nice curves..
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later' I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air. Great song, too bad it doesn't appear in this book.
I rate this book 2 stars, one star because the fully interactive sex scene in the book and another so my post doesn't get deleted in the next '1 star sweep'.
****By the way, doesn't she just look like a piece of meat on the cover? What a Hypocrite.
Those wacky folks from Westboro Baptist Church are at it again. Now that they had their ASSES handed to them in court for protesting military funerals(to the tune of $10.9 million), they are switching to softer targets. Apparently the "God Hates Fags" organization doesn't know the difference from reality and make-believe so they are going to protest the funeral of Heath Ledger for his faggery in Brokeback Mountain.
While we remember the life of a great civil rights leader, let's take a walk down racism's memory lane at a few of the worst board games to ever be made.
"the legislators said Sonora...cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money."
The Mexican legislators had no comment when asked how they expected the Arizona municipalities to provide civil services (like education, police servicing, roads, etc.) for the non-tax-paying workers that would remain if this law isn't passed.
Ahhh the good old days of yesteryear when men would beat their wives if they messed up the coffee. Here's some more Ads from the Golden Age of Advertising.
My old roomates remember when I brought mine to a sportsbar on one Fall Sunday. Well, watch what happens when a TV-B-Gone is taken to a geek convention.
Here's how the scam works. Allegheny Power is sending all its customers 2 CFL light bulbs to promote efficiency (without asking them). It then adds $0.96 to your bill each month to pay for them (which is $12/year). If you refuse to pay that $0.96 on your bill, they will threaten to cut off your power (blackmail?). BTW - you can buy a 4 pack of CFLs from Lowes for $2.95.
If you are thinking about creating a website, don't EVER check if the domain is available on Network Solutions. Why? They'll steal it and force you to use them to register it (as opposed to TUCOWS or GoDaddy). If you fail to register it with them in 4 days, there is a good chance that milliseconds AFTER they release the name, a cyber-squatter will grab it up and steal it from you.
Don't believe me? Go ahead and try to register www.thereheisRULES.com (or something like that) on Network solutions. It will say it is available. Then use GoDaddy to do the same thing. It will say it is NOT available and Network Solutions owns it.
If you want to create a website, a good rule of thumb is this: don't check the availability of a web address until you are ready to buy it (and also have a few backup ideas ready). If you don't do it all at the same time, there is a good chance that someone will steal it out from under you and extort ask you to pay a premium for it.
Possibly in an attempt to justify their bloated budget, New Castle, Colorado SWAT team raided a home in the middle of the night because of a report that a kid bumped his head. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctor recommended that the kid continue his parents treatment and drink water, take a tylenol and put ice on the bruise. Garfield County Department of Social Services caseworkers admitted the injury may not have been as severe as they claimed to the judge when seeking the order for treatment.
Yet another man successfully sued the man who stole his wife under the "alienation of affection" law that is still on the books in progressive Mississippi. The take? $750,000. The defendant appealled the decision all the way to the Supreme Court...and lost.
The old mantra of the pharmaceutical industry is the reason they charge $100/presecription of drug x is that drugs G,H and I were failures that cost millions. But a new study has confirmed that while American drug companies spend $31 billion on those non-working drugs, they spend even more on advertising. How much more? Try $57 Billion. Yes, you read that correctly. The American pharmaceutical industry spent $57,000,000,000 on advertising. Perhaps if they did a bit less advertising, senior citizens wouldn't have to choose between their monthly drug bills and their heating bills.
Johns Hopkins had a study/program that had all participating doctors perform a simple 5-step procedure when working with Intravenous stuff. The hypothesis is that by doing these simple procedures, it would reduce the number of infections. The results so far? Infections reduced by 66% resulting in $200 MILLION saved.
So naturally the sponsoring government agency, Office for Human Research Protection, decided to kill the program: "the data gathered in testing it could put not only the patients but also the doctors at risk — by exposing how POORLY some of them follow basic infection-prevention procedures."
Interestingly enough, had she NOT sued, I never would have heard about this ad and THUS she would have protected her precious image. Show us your "O" face!
A guy sued an 8 year old kids for a collision on a ski slope that ended up injuring him. Now he is upset that the whole world is phoning his house, calling him a douchebag. Just because you can do something stupid that is legal, doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't gonna make you pay anyway...
