April 2010
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The perfect wedding gift →
What kind of wedding present do you get for the couple who has everything (or whose wedding you forgot about)? You can do what poet Jennifer L. Knox did and give them a copy of Mark Bittman’s How To Cook Everything (buy it) with Bittman’s name scratched out and your own name written in with a sharpie. And if you’re as awesome as Knox, you could also glue in a new...
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Stand Up While You Read This! →
Your chair is your enemy.
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise...
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Four of the Most Dangerous Fraudulent Scientific... →
With threats of climatic disruption, food and energy shortages, epidemics, waves of extinctions, and other calamities looming larger every day, reports from the world of scientific research are getting plenty of attention in the media. But at times, scientific conclusions become garbled in translation, leading to widespread adoption of some bizarre beliefs.
Climate-induced earthquakes,...
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In the name of science, I offer my boobs →
This little bit of supernatural thinking has been floating around the blogosphere today:
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader.
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Facebook To Twitter: Back Off, We Own People's... →
Be careful what you “like”.
Whoever knows what your interests are right now and can package them up for advertisers has the chance to make a lot of money. Of course, Google does this right now every time you declare your interests in a search box and it offers up matching ads on the side of results. But Facebook and Twitter are trying to capitalize on the shift from search to...
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Extramarital sex 'causes more earthquakes',... →
Women who dress “inappropriately” incite extramarital sex that in turn cause more earthquakes, a senior Iranian hard-line cleric has claimed.
Iran is prone to frequent quakes, many of which have been devastating for the country.
“Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases...
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The Weirdest Threesome Ever →
So, let’s say we’re playing a drinking game. And let’s say it’s Never Have I Ever. And let’s say it’s your turn. And let’s say you rack your brain for the most bizarre thing you can think of. And let’s say that thing is, “Never have I ever had a threesome with two lifesize blow up dolls.” And then let’s say you laugh hysterically because of course no one is going to drink to that because...
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Man caught drunk driving in toy Barbie car banned... →
Paul Hutton, 40, was pulled over by police as he drove an electric Barbie car, which moves slower than a mobility scooter, near his home in Essex. Mr Hutton admitted being a ‘complete twit’. He explained: “I’m in the third year of my electrical engineering course and it was a little project I was doing with my son who is doing a car mechanics course. “When it was done...
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Jai'prakash →
Mai FB page. You come say hi, yes yes. I have cookies.
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7,500 Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls →
A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers.
The retailer, British firm GameStation, added the “immortal soul clause” to the contract signed before making any online purchases earlier this month. It states that customers grant the company the right to...
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Attempted assassination on Malema includes Rubik's... →
Just hours after Julius Malema announced that R2-million had been offered for his assassination, the ANC Youth League confirmed that a package containing a Rubik’s Cube and several other logic games had been intercepted en route to Malema’s office. “This racist Rubik, he is trying to make Julius’s head explode,” said a spokesman. Malema’s latest claim – that a...
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11% of young adults will check texts during sex →
Things are getting hot and sweaty when all of the sudden you hear that sound: a new text notification. What do you do? If you’d actually interrupt sex to check the message, you’re not alone.
A new study of Twitter and Facebook users finds that a growing number of twenty-somethings have no problem checking text messages while they’re eating, going to the bathroom…or...
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Flush Your Husband Down The Toilet →
There’s a place in central Japan called Mantokuji Temple. In Medieval times, the temple served as sort of a safe-haven for unhappy wives who needed to escape bad marriages during a time when divorce was not allowed. But it’s rather progressive function has changed with the times and now it’s emerging as a mecca for modern women with relationship issues.
Celebrating the deity of the toilet,...
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What's Happened With Cell Phones This Decade? →
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The Male Brain: More Complex Than You Think →
Despite all that old talk about Mars and Venus, men and women are much more biologically alike than not. But differences in the way our brains are built shed light on everything from the way we flirt to the way we fight to how we raise our boys, says neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine in her provocative new book, The Male Brain. The author talked to TIME about sex, the daddy brain and...
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Record Labels Are STILL Tracking "Dirty" Non-DRM... →
All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don’t know about the marking of files, or don’t care. Unless those files are uploaded to BitTorrent or other P2P networks, there isn’t much to worry about.
Hidden in purchased music files from popular stores such as Apple and ...
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March 2010
25 posts
Paramore - crushcrushcrush →
