Interesting/Funny/Amusing News.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/american-airlines-reportedly-found-loose-seats/story?id=17372830#.UGxJLa7AHZl

A third set of seats reportedly came loose on an American Airlines flight last week, a day after news first surfaced of loose seats on American Airlines flights that triggered two emergency landings in the span of three days.



WHY DID A ROW OF SEATS COME LOOSE on a BOEING 757 mmmmmmmmm???? Maybe because the plane is FARKING OLD as their crew! SS

Police raid car wash offering free sex after 9 washes. That's some bullshit. If a fine lady wants to do sex with you just because you like a clean car, the cops should mind their own business.

New fashion style in Japan: Bagel Heads. Huh you ask? Well, it's a technique where you inject a liquid into your forehead, creating a large water-based hematoma, and then push in the middle of it to make a donut like shaped. All the rage, I guess.

Will 3D printers end up being regulated? As they become cheaper and more abundant, people will be able to do things like print guns, which raises all of the kinds of questions that legislators love to try to tackle...usually poorly.

Reporter tracks a missing iPad to the home of a TSA member. Whoopise.

Army scientists sprayed St. Louis with radioactive particles for years testing chemical warfare technology. Hrm. Well, you gotta test that shit on someone, might as well do it to the folks that have foisted Budweiser on us.

People from Florida rent alligators for their childrens parties. In related news, people in Florida don't like their children.

and here's a movie shot by a seagull

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Moving on...

Woman stashes 36 vials of crack in her hoo-ha for her man. True love, ain't it beautiful?

Man arrested for his 7th DUI claims an elephant caused the accident. I would be more impressed, except you have to consider that he's had a lot of practice at coming up with excuses, seeing as this is the 7th FUCKING TIME he's gotten caught.

Brewery to make beer out of bull testicles. Okie dokie. Sign me up for zero bottles.

Mayor of Tonasket, Washington goes on twitter, threatens to eat Big Bird and says other idiotic things. Boy they'll elect just about anyone, won't they? At one point in his anti-Public Broadcasting Television rant he started using Stone Cold Steve Austin "Professional" Wrestling taunts. A mayor. Of a whole town. Taunting people on twitter with Wrestling slogans. Unbelievable.

Lawyer drops joint on floor of courthouse; gets arrested and pisses off wife. Way to set an awesome law-abiding example, Mr. Prosecutor.

Man sues stripper because she slid down the pole and ruptured his bladder. Fool. Take a leak before you get your lappy.

China's first aircraft carrier launches. The punchline: They don't have any planes that are capable of landing on an aircraft carrier.

Most citizens of the Star Wars galaxy are probably illiterate. You never see them reading. Never really thought about it, to be honest...probably because I don't think much about Star Wars in general.

Teenager has her stomach removed after drinking cocktail. That sounds weird, because, you know, it's just a cocktail. Then you read that the cocktail was made from LIQUID FUCKING NITROGEN! What the fuck? Nitrogen is only liquid at temperatures of -200C. Some dumbass bar decided to gimmick up a cocktail with that crap in it. Welp, you probably shouldn't do that, you know? Now this girl has to go through life with no stomach.

Man dies after eating dozens of cockroaches. Also worms. But hey, he won the contest, so at least he went out in a blaze of glory. Except the winner of the contest got a snake, so, you know, more like a whipmer of glory. And excruciating pain as the cockroaches and worms destroy your body from the inside.

Jenny McCarthy apparently blew a guy at a truckstop for $20 bucks when she was younger. This isn't really "news" per se, but I thought I'd include it anyway. Also, this is the person who is giving health care advice for peoples children that is literally killing people. So, just, you know, take that into consideration.

And since I included one piece of "celebrity news" I figured I'll include this one too: Taylor Swift doesn't drink alcohol because she doesn't drink anything that doesn't taste like "candy or sparkles." Yeah, this girl is insane. When she's not obsessing over dudes either much older or younger than her, then breaking up with them and making songs about them, she's saying stupid shit like this. What the shit do "sparkles" taste like? Maybe champagne? Ugh.

Man thinks his house is being robbed when his dog calls his cell phone. Seems a reasonable assumption. The best part of the story is the last line where they shoehorn in an advertisment for buying the puppies of the dog that called him up.

Feds bust man who returned used enemas. Note the plural. He did this more than once. He would buy an enema, use it, then put it back in the box, reseal it, and return it to the store in order to get a refund.

High salary for executives doesn't work as intended. Shocking. From the article: "Compensation committees are reluctant to give CEOs any less than the median pay for the peer group. Compensation packages generally range from the 50th to the 90th percentile, which inevitably inflates pay over time."

1. Stipulate in contract that one is to be paid above the median rate for your position.
2. ???
3. Profit!

Hot-dog crust Pizza comes to North America. PizzaHut to start selling their pizza with a hot dog stuffed crust in Canada! Yah heart disease!

Pumpkin burger coming to a Japanese Burger King near you. A while back there was a comedian (Brian Regan, I think?) who did a skit about how the cranberry sales guy did an amazing job sneaking cranberries into everything. Well, I think we've reached the point where the pumpkin sales guy has easily surpassed the cranberry sales guy. (edit: It was Brian Regan)

So much eww in this latest update:

Eating cockroaches

Returning used enema kits

Hot dog crust pizza's

Just....eww.

Some pieces from my weekend reading:

Young blood is the key to youth. Basically, these researchers connected the circulatory systems of young mice to old mice, and noticed that the old mice had improved brain performance when compared to old mice without the young blood infusion. So, if you're old and worried about cognitive decline, maybe become a vampire that feasts on young people?


Trojan wants to give away free vibrators as part of promotion. Large cities act as buzzkill. , see what I did there? Anyway, the Puritan Douches, also known as public officials in those cities, are, for some dumb fuck reason, objecting to these giveaways.

PA man mistakes 9 year old in costume for skunk, shoots her. Jesus fucking christ, you clown. Really, if you see a skunk, is it fucking imperative that you have to shoot the goddamn thing? If you're this stupid you really shouldn't be allowed to own a weapon of any kind. Plastic knives throughout your kitchen by order of Emperor Lindros.

What we can learn about war from chimpanzees. Interesting to me. You may or may not agree. Relatively short article, as are most on Slate.

Dominique Strauss Kahn says he was naive to try to get away with attending orgies. Well, you can get away with them, just don't expect to publicly do it and expect to be named the head of the world bank or whatever the crap. He also says that we'd be surprised by who turns up to those orgies. So, I'm kind of thinking that super-high level world elites actually exist in some world that's like Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" movie.

The more chocolate a country consumes the more Nobel Prize winners they produce. Well, I'm convinced. I'd better get to eating some chocolates.

The swinger's guide to Islam. I have no comment. Just...um...if you wanted to know the swingers guide to Islam, there you go.

Condition makes man's scalp look like the folds of a brain. Click just to look at the picture, if for nothing else.

Why do elephants have hair?. SPOILER ALERT: To keep cool.

British engineers create petrol out of air and water. Still to energy intensive to be useful for carbon sequestration or anything fun like that, but it's a neat advancement.

Clever dolphins use sea sponges to catch fish. More interestingly, it's only a small group of dolphins, but they pass on this trait to their young, so this one group of dolphins has been using this trick for 200+ years, and have been keeping it to themselves. Dolphin IP!

Is facebook turning into myspace? They both suck and are full of narcissistic clowns who actually think anyone else is interested in their day to day thoughts and feelings, so in some ways they're already the same.

Gotta run out to dinner. Here's some newsy stuff:

A study of microbes around the house. Fun sentence from the article: “The pillowcase and the toilet seat actually have a lot in common,” says Holly Menninger, the project’s director of public science. In fact, there is so much overlap between the bacterial strains in those two locations that it can be difficult to tell where a particular sample came from." That's right, they can't tell the difference in microbial life that comes from your pillow or your toilet seat. Think about that next time you lay down to sleep.

Thief made $70,000 a week crawling around on the floors of movie theatres snatching purses. That's $70K A WEEK! That translates to $3,640,000 a year. ($3,5oo,ooo if he takes two weeks off for vacation).

How to eat a triceratops. How T-Rex ate the armored dinosaur.

The most awesome anatomical cupcakes you'll ever see. Apropos this time of the year.

A whale with a human-like voice. It's more than that, actually. The whale is actively trying to mimic human voices, which the authors attribute to a desire to communicate with us. Yes, that's right, this whale is trying to talk to people in our own language (even if it really doesn't know our language). I find shit like this amazing; our underestimation of the congnitive abilities of animals knows no bounds.

NYPD officer arrested for plotting to kidnap, torture and kill multiple women. "To Protect and Serve" ...ITS ACTUALLY A COOK BOOK! Seriously, this is some really, really fucked shit.

Brazilian student sells her virginity for $780,000. Good lord. Someone overpaid. By a lot

Puppycide. So sad. In a similar article I read that approximately 250,000 dogs are killed each year in the US by police.

Chinese man sues his wife for giving him ugly daughters. Wins $120,000. Apparently his wife had a ton of plastic surgery before he met her, so she was genetically predisposed to having less-than-attractive offspring, but he didn't know that going into the marriage. Seems kinda harsh, but maybe that's how they roll in China. They take false advertizing like that seriously, I guess.

And in other China news:

Doctors shocked by size of sex toy in man for days. This is actually a relatively common issue in hospitals, although I suppose the objects aren't typically gargantuan like this fellas was.

Wikipedia is almost full. What to write about when everything has already been said?

Here's a terrible way to die:




Italy finds scientists guilty of manslaughter. Get this. Italy convicted these scientists of manslaughter for NOT predicting the earthquake that killed 309 people. Technically, they said the scientists misled people by giving a falsely reassuring statement before the quakes happened. This is completely idiotic. Earthquakes CANNOT be predicted.

Ethiopian kids learn English on their own, hack computers, after only 5 months. This is pretty amazing. These kids were given a computer in a box with no instruction, an English OS (despite them not speaking English) and within five months hacked the OS to unlock the camera.

World's first vertical farm opens in Singapore. When you run out of space you gotta build your farm upward.

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories. This isn't really news, just a link to the amazon page where you can buy the book. But it's something you can read and it seems interesting, to say the least, so there you are.

Fish caught at Fukushima are still as radioactively tainted as they were a year ago. Welp, that sucks.

Shark falls from sky onto golf course. End of days are here, guys. Get an umbrella.

How big of a yard would you need in order to live off the land for a year? A lot. 1.5-2.0 acres, depending if you want to cheat or not.

Beauty is rarely worth it. Well this is bullshit. It's awesome being beautful. Anyway, the article talks about scientific research that beautiful people tend to be conformists rather than independent, are less tolerant and are more focused on self-promotion. (Which all makes sense from a rational-actor standpoint, but that's a tangent for another day).

...except...

Women with stable but not-so-sexy mates become more distant, critical during periods of high fertility. When women are ovulating they subconsciously want hot bros, not their safe and dependable (but unsecksy) mate. Sorry moderate and ugly looking jabronis. On the bright side for you guys, the women don't want to end the relationships, it's more of a fleeting desire. So they just want some quick hot-guy dick to impregnate them, and then stay with you.

And in other cheerful news:

Researchers say drinking up to the legal limit inhibits neuron production. Basically, moderate to binge drinking can decrease the production of adult brain cells by up to 40%. Not ideal.

Two Verizon employees charged with stealing customer's nude pics from her phone. These geniuses then bragged about it and were showing the pics off to people. It's like those guys in Goodfellas who start showing up to Tommy's bar in new cars and mink coats and whatnot right after the Lufthansa robbery. Just asking to be pinched.

Men and women can't be just friends. Because the guy is all kinds of off in his assessment of her interest.

4 die at a local bazaar when the floor of the toilets in the car park collapse. Man, that's got to be one of the worst ways to go - dying in a shitter collapse. Ugh. Link goes to the google-translate version of the story, I think

How a domination fetish sheet led to the capture of the Long Island Zumba instructor prostitute. Such a weird story. Also, sucks her life is ruined for basically agreeing to have sex with people who wanted to pay her to have sex.

Florida woman arrested for masturbating in a Starbucks. (The store, not in an actual drink - I think you could get burns that way) She was also apparently high on crack.

Queens borough residents arm themselves after looting from Hurricane Sandy. Parts of New York have turned into a crazy real life version of Mad Max.

The hunt for cancer treating drugs has stalled. Presented without comment.

A fun video history of the Middle East. Comes with a handy legend! (Might post this in the political low-content thread too)

Human Intelligence peaked thousands of years ago and we've been getting dumber ever since. Interesting theory. Not much evidence to back it up (although there is evidence brain sizes are shrinking over the long-term)

Arizona lady drives her car over her husband because he didn't vote. Reasonable response, right?

CEO of Waffle House accused of sexually harassing his assistant for years. She rebuffed most of his advances, but one condition of her employment was having to regularly give him handy-jays, she says. Sounds awful.

Anti-Virus pioneer John MacAfee suspect in murder of his neighbor. When police came to look for him he buried himself in the sand with a box over his head and escaped. This is really crazy and the guy seems a bit unhinged.

Ohio Marijuana dealer asks judge for one last joint before being sentenced. Not the smartest of cookies, this one.

Doctors use fMRI machine to communicate with vegetative patient. He was able to tell them that he's not in pain by just watching which areas of his brain show high levels of oxygenation when they asked him certain questions. Neat stuff which will require some re-writing of medical textbooks.

Death of the Twinkie. In response to a worker strike, Hostess, the company that makes twinkies, is ceasing operations and liquidating the company. RIP Twinkie & Wonder Bread

Landlord discovers meth in his rental property. Is arrested. I guess the lesson here is...uh...don't report crimes you find to the authorities? Seems weird.

Donald Trump's Las Vegas Steakhouse is a shithole. There was month old caviar and "inspectors found no measures to destroy parasites in undercooked halibut and salmon." Yummy.

Elmo resigns from Sesame Street amid second allegation of sex with a young boy. Elmo always seemed a bit sketchy if you ask me. Who is always that excited? It's like he was a twink on meth or something. Stupid Elmo.

Nose cell transplants allow paralysed dogs to walk Researchers were able to get paraplegic dogs to imporve to the point where they could walk with support on a treadmill. It's still quite a way from being able to be used in humans though.

There is a gene that can predict the time of your death. Sort of. The gene affects the sleep-wake pattern in people, so that people with one variant are "morning people" and people with the other variant are "night people" and then there are people with one of each nucleotide which are in the middle. Turns out these circadian cycles also affect when you die, so patients with the "night people" variant typically die near 6 pm, while the others die around 11 am. That said, this is kind of useless since there is no date associated with the gene, just a time.

Drive by pumpkin attack leaves woman in the hospital. It's all fun and games until you get smashed in the chest with a 70 kph pumpkin. Then it's a sport.

Charlie Sheen pays Lindsay Lohan's $100,000 tax bill. You know, like friends are wont to do. Not metioned is the strain of Super-VD from whatever sexual tryst between Lohan and Sheen that was the motivation for his "gift." Seriously, if that ever gets off of either of them we're all probably doomed.

Theives steal 18 tons of chocolate from a factory in Austria. Some crook's girlfriend is going to have a really chocolatey Valentines Day this year.

Saudi men now recieve text messages if their women leave the country. In case you didn't know, women in Saudi Arabia aren't allowed to leave the country without written permission from their male guardian. Sort of like how when you're in elementary school you have to have your parent approve field trips to the zoo. Except for grown ups. Awesome misgynistic country you have there, Saudis.

The stars are beginning to burn out. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. Basically 95% of all the stars in the visible universe that will ever exist already exist now. New star formation is grinding to a halt. Plan accordingly.

Female Porn Stars have higher self-esteem and better quality of life than other women according to new study. Interesting, and I'd like to support the conculsion that every chick should go out and be a hot sex-having porn star, but I don't. There's a lot of self-reporting in the study, which isn't exactly reliable, especially so for a group that has chosen to buck societal "norms" as a career. There are probably plenty of 'normal' girls in porn, but there are likely a high number of functional dysfunctionals, who aren't getting treatment or report any negative effects even though they likely exist. Anyway, like I said, interesting.

12 men accused of being gay face execution in Lybia. Second lovely foreign story of this update. Jesus you backward fucks, knock off this middle ages type shit.

During the Cold War the US planned to nuke the moon as a display of power. What a fucking repugnant species we are. Really? Nuke the moon just to pound our chests a little bit? Thankfully this never got out of the planning stages and cooler heads prevailed.

Canadian man arrested for telling kids Santa isn't real. Huge dick move, but he wasn't really arrested for that. He was arrested for being drunk in public and causing a disturbance.

Theives are stealing hay bales off of farms due to drought conditions. Not sure which is worse - stealing hay bales or stealing chocolate from the other story. Anyway, the article talks about how drought conditions have left hay scarce and farmers are being forced to find creative ways to feed their cattle.

In all the holiday silliness, you must have missed the gay, underage, elmo sex scandal.

Eh, that was all suspicious. I don't believe the accusers. I guess it's news that he resigned, but oh well, I can't report on everything.

A cool story I actually enjoyed reading

http://www.news.com.au/travel/australia/ride-gives-cabbie-fare-of-his-life/story-e6frfq89-1226534895481

Been a while, so these span the last few weeks of my reading:

Is Ritalin treatment of ADHD responsible for decreased crime rates? Maybe. This study (and it's a fairly large one) claims that you're 10% less likely to commit a crime if prescribed Ritalin for your ADHD. Interesting.

Votes in Washington and Colorado approve decriminalization of marijuana. Federal government tries to figure out how to invalidate those initiatives to keep it illegal. AMURIKAH...FUCK YEAH.

Verizon wants to personalize TV advertizing. They would look at you and take audio from your house to target ads directly to you. Fighting with your spouse? You might see an ad for marriage counseling. Sorta creepy.

The economics of cable TV. How shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad have made fortunes for channels like AMC. (Article also talks about the slow decline of cable television, despite their current record profits)

Woman with runny nose turns out to be leaking cerebrospinal fluid. Yeah, when your sniffles are actually brain juice leaking out, you may have a problem.

Oklahoma housing complex to DNA test dog poop to match droppings to owners. I wonder who the condo board pays to go around picking up the rogue poops and send them out for testing?

How tall can you build a Lego tower? Turns out the answer is about 3.5km before the weight of the legos will crush the base.

Escaped birds are teaching wild birds how to speak English. This is awesome.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57558795-93/google-tweaks-image-search-to-make-porn-harder-to-find/ - Google changes algorithm to make it harder to find porn.

http://m.thelocal.se/44536/20121120 - Woman charged for having sex with a skeleton. Insert <bone-related> joke of your choice here.

Squeezing boobs might be able to stop breast cancer. Link provided by Kanzen. Probably bullshit, but hey, it got published on MSN, so there you go.

Woman gets stem cell treatment facelift. Grows bones in her skin. Link also provided by Kanzen. This is actually pretty neat. The synthetic filler that they injected along with the stem cells was enriched with calcium, which induced the cells to form bone instead of new, fresh, wrinkle-free tissue.

Drugs, cash, and snake found in car crash. If you're transporting $200k, amphetamines and a large python, really drive defensively, I guess is the moral here.

A Swedish woman named Yvonne Ekenskjöld is threatening legal action against the Swedish Film Institute because of their translation of “The Hobbit.”
http://www.k-international.com/blog/swedish-woman-protests-hobbit-translation/

Here's a bunch of stuff I've read lately:

Firerighters don't fight fires. A bit of an old post but it popped up on a "top posts" list that I saw, and it's kind of interesting to see the trends.

Fish quotas dropping as oceanic warming chases off fish.

Carbon nanotubes may be as dangerous as asbestos. This kind of sucks, but on the bright side, they're figuring it out now instead of 50 years after it's been ubiquitously installed throughout the world, so they can avoid some of that crap.

Iowa Supreme Court says it's okay to fire a worker because she's "irresistible" to her male boss. I don't know about this. Generally, I think you should be able to hire and fire whomever you like, but boy does this seem shady as all hell.

Three time Olympian Suzie Hamilton says she worked as a hooker escort.. I guess being a world class athlete doesn't have a good pension plan. She charged $600 an hour for her services. She says her husband was not supportive of her decision to become an escort, "He tried, he tried to get me to stop. He wasn't supportive at all." Shocking.

Military prepping for mutant soldiers. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE SOLDIER BANGS WHEN HE'S ANGRY!

Israel bans models with a BMI below 18.5. Interesting anti-anorexia measure. Women that size or smaller cannot be shown in Israeli media, on websites or walk down catwalks in fashion shows.

Controversy arises as elementary school is named after a bandito who killed people and ended up being hanged. And here I was forced to go to a school named after a stupid president. This is much cooler.

Brewery to sell 'Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout'. Rocky Mountain Oysters is slang for bull balls. This is beer brewed with bull balls. I wonder if it's going to be a really heady beer! Ha!

And after I sent Kanzen that link, he sent me this:

Korean feces wine. Yes, this is a real thing, fermented in a pit with animal feces in it. Also, as a special treat, the bottle comes with cat bones in it.

Dolphins bring their scientist friends gifts! Inter-species gift giving is an unusual occurrence, so it's kind of neat to see it her. I bet those scientists really love the dead eels those dolphins are giving them!

How many planets are in the universe? 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Approximately, with some pretty sizable error bars, but that should get you within a few magnitudes of the right answer. Locally, in just the Milky Way, it's probably something closer to 10 trillion planets. Not counting rogue planets that don't circle any star and just float around space. (P.S. - If you take those estimates and then estimate the percentage of planets that are likely to be Earth-like you get somewhere around 17 billion. In just our galaxy. There are ~200 billion other galaxies out there. Just saying. http://t.co/CfOsskIC ) (P.P.S - when I say "Earth-like" planets, I mean size and density. Lots of those 17 billion will be either too hot or too cold for any kind of liquid water or life to exist, but lots will fall into the good category too)

Want to go to Africa and see a lion in the wild? YOu'd better hurry up. Their habitats have been reduced by nearly 2/3rds over the last 50 years and Africa's population is expected to increase at a good clip over the next 50 years. Estimates are that there are now 32,000 wild lions, as compared to 100,000 in 1960. It seems unlikely that wild lions will be a thing that exists in the not too distant future.

Babies learn to recognize their native language by the time they're born? Maybe. Kind of neat.

Vladimir Putin scares the crap out of a little kid. Excellent photos.

Utah law says it's illegal for restaurants to serve patrons alcohol before they've ordered any food; state cracking down in sting operations. Come on. This is what we're spending money on? I know it's fairly trivial, but it's such a fucking waste. Who gives a crap?

And in more paternalistic government news: Mayor Bloomberg institutes policy which will severely crack down on prescription painkillers given to patients at 11 NYC hospitals. I'm curious, which medical school did Mike Bloomberg attend? I'm sure he's got a better grasp of what the needs of medical patients in his city are than, you know, the actual physicians treating them.

Sorry, got a little preachy there. In other news...

In light of school shootings Ohio school board votes for armed guards to protect school. OH WAIT NO! Did I say "armed guards?" I meant, they've decided to ARM THE FUCKING JANITORS. Genius idea guys.

Washington DC is the porn-watching capital of the US. Not surprising. Watching porn is probably the most savory thing politicians and lobbyists do in a day.

University of Notre Dame football player made up the inspiring story of how his girlfriend died in a car accident. I thought most dudes were out of the making-up-out-of-town-girlfriend stage of their lives by the age of 16 or so. Guess not. Also, probably not a genius idea to turn your lie into a national story. And finally, OL at all the national news organizations that don't take 5 minutes to vet a story. Major news outlets have been running that story for a long time, and it takes internet site Deadspin to break it down, with one of the writers being an UNDERGRAD IN COLLEGE. lol pro media, indeed.

Father purchases online-hit squad to assassinate his son's in-game character. That's one way to get your kid off the damn video game box.

Anti-gay lawyer found guilty of producing porn with underage daughter. Whoopsie. Maybe, you know, let consenting adults do what they want and stop molesting your own fucking child. The evidence against her "included video she took herself of her 14-year-old daughter having sex with adult men, and a video of Biron forcing herself sexually onto her daughter." So, I certainly think she's of sound enough mind to be critiquing the sexual lives of others, don't you?

Nearly untreatable gonorrhea is here, you guys! Perhaps an exclamation mark was inappropriate there? Anyway, there's one drug class left that treats it, and in short order that will likely become ineffective too. Welcome to 1900.

Wrangler coming out with moisturizing jeans. Because the denim can dry your legs, and you really want to keep them nice and sexy-smooth.

Brazilian bikini waxes (and shaving and lasering, etc) are driving crab lice to extinction. Hopefully soon. The fewer STDs it's possible to get, the better. (Although, the untreatable gonorrhea from 2 stories up kind of negates this a bit.

Son of Barney & Friends co-creator arrested for attempted murder. So this kid, who grew up listening to that big fat purple piece of shit dinosaur singing "I love you, you love me!" shot some guy in the chest? Seems about right.

In Greece, they're now throwing their facist, neo-Nazis into the Sea, literally: http://icantrelaxingreece.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/golden-dawn-candidate-mp-thrown-in-the-sea-at-the-harbour-of-chania/

This is a policy I can endorse.

Here's a bunch of news because Omuh misses it.

Creators of the series Mad Men are pitching a new show about NASA's start in the 1960s. Mad Men is fairly well written, and they've done a great job at visually representing the early 60s, so this could be really interesting, especially if you like things like, you know, space and whatnot.

Adobe now can predict the popularity of your facebook post. That's fairly amazing if you think about it.

Mars rover accidentally draws a penis on the surface of Mars.

Porn not being filmed in Los Angeles anymore due to the new law that requires all performers to wear condoms. The studios don't want to produce condom-porn, so they're taking their sex-filming activities elsewhere. A fun thing is to think about who enforces that law...like, are there a couple dudes whose job is to show up to porno shoots and watch the live sex show to make sure that there's no raw dog action?

Why are rich people rich? Family, mostly. Winning the womb lottery. "In the U.S., about 50 percent of variation of wealth and about 35 percent to 43 percent of variation in income of children can be explained by the relative wealth and income (PDF) of their parents, suggest economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis." There's more in the article.

Three men ejected from Saudi Arabia for being "too handsome." So, lesson to you guys, if you're really good looking you might get kicked out of Saudi Arabia. (P.S. I think this might be code for "these guys are gay, but we don't want to call out these guys as gay because they're citizens of a close ally and remvoing people from our country for being gay would look awful.)

McDonalds (in the US, at least) is considering serving breakfast all day long. I know a few people who'll be very happy about this news.

Interesting facts about consanguineous marriage (marriage between close relatives, often cousins)

The population of Spain dropped last year for the first time since 1940. Wow. Apparently the drop is almost entirely due to a drop in resgistered foreign residents.

Portland, Oregon, has a Vegan strip club. O_o

Ant demographics and career changes! Worker ants switch jobs as they age.

The cost of celebrity: shorter lives. An analysis of obituaries suggest high-achieving individuals tend to live longer than average, except for performers and athletes. Odd.

The Strage Beauty of Salt Mines Just a bunch of Photos from Atlantic's "In Focus" blog. If you like Photography, I suggest checking this site out regularly - they post dozens of interesting/topical/gorgeous pictures ~5 days a week.

The Zoo Hypothesis It's just the abstract of an academic paper, and I don't have academic access to the whole thing, and I'm not going to pay to read it, but the abstract is great: "Extraterrestrial intelligent life may be almost ubiquitous. The apparent failure of such life to interact with us may be understood in terms of the hypothesis that they have set us aside as part of a wilderness area or zoo." Yup. They're saying maybe the Earth is a kind of gigantic ant-farm, which allows actual intelligent life to peer in on us as we go about our existence. Interesting thought.

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Here's a bunch of news because Omuh misses it.

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