Thursday, September 27, 2007

just stfu

"Angelina Jolie blasted the U.S. over Iraq, insisting the government's war expenditure could be better spent on education. Angelina spoke out at the Clinton Global Initiative, an event organized by Bill Clinton to address the most pressing global concerns. Urging the world to get its "priorities in order", she claimed a UNICEF appeal for educational needs was dwarfed by America's military spending."

angelina jolie and daughter zaraha have matching handbags. appt cost of said valentino handbag for 2 year-old zahara? $1150.

for some perspective on how much $1150 is: at $6.50 an hour, 40 hours a week, 4.5 weeks a month; the total comes out to $1170. so yay! you have $20 left over. oh wait... only if you bought it duty free.

women & racists

makeup-eating face (that's right! not face-eating makeup!)

wheel of fortune visits south park (video)

chinese granddaughter as pincushion (thanks to ting for the link!)

space bombs

this caught my attention, probably because my dad's in peru right now: meteorite in peru making people sick! scientists are now saying it was probably just mass hysteria: that people went crazy with fear and physically manifested their own sickness.

when i first heard of the illnesses i had major doubts it actually came from the meteorite itself. when a meteor comes into our atmosphere the temperature heats up enormously so it wouldn't be very likely that any bacteria or viruses could survive. ...of course, it might have been some type of special space bacteria. after all, we only know wat happens here on earth: that illnesses are always caused by living bacteria/viruses (or watever) and that normal earth organisms die in super high temperatures. and maybe space stuff might be different. maybe it thrives in super hot environments. or maybe the dead stuff still infects? or simply, maybe not all of it was killed. but anyway, i'm glad that the people aren't really sick. altho it seems a little... unmodern(?) that people would have such a huge fear of these space rocks falling out of the sky... ...maybe i'm just being elitist...

papercuts

su blackwell's art is amazing! she cut pages from vintage books and makes them into art. absolutely incredible.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

mintage

i love the new nickels, but the new pennies? yuck! ...will still collect them tho.

no preggo!

+----------- Bizarre Methods of Contraception -------------+  
  
Back in 23-70 AD, Roman nobleman Pliny the Elder believed that if you took two small worms from the body of a certain species of spider and attached them -- wrapped in deer skin, mind you -- to a woman's body before sunrise, she would not conceive.  

It was believed in ancient times that if a woman spat three times into a frog's mouth she would not conceive for a year.  

Supposedly, a pebble clasped in the hand during coitus would also stop conception.  

St. Albert the Great (1193-1280) advised women to eat bees as an effective contraception procedure.  

Aetios of Amida (fl. 527-565) suggested that a man should wash his penis in vinegar or brine before having sex and that a woman should wear a cat's testicle in a tube across her navel to avoid contraception.

free ebooks

free books! ebooks anyway. :) (thank robert for the link)


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Sunday, September 23, 2007

zigguwhat?

100 words every hs grad should kno. ..wtf? a lot of these are harder than the gre vocab! i don't think i've ever even seen the last word before, ziggurat? i honestly think these editors randomly put together a list of rather heteroclite and recherche words (two can play at this game!) to make themselves feel smart. to their credit tho, some definitions should be well known: euro, irony, and respiration for instance. but a few of the others...

gelaskins

i don't want an ipod. i never have (altho i do love the new nano colors). but when nearly all the cool accessories are being made for only ipods... so if you do have an ipod, an iphone or razr, or a laptop, you should get a gelaskin for it! cause they're sooo pretty.

assertations

accidental hermaphrodite dolls for children! ...maybe this ballsy chair is made for them?

Saturday, September 22, 2007

wtf?

+--------------------- Bizarre Facts ----------------------+  
  
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.  

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.  

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.  

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it.  

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.  

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.  

27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

men good?

interesting article: is there anything good about men? if you have the time, you should read some of the comments too; some are surprisingly good.

deap see!

if you've been following this site for a while, you shoud kno that i love deep sea animals. so here's another amazing photoset. :)

historical facts

+--------------------- Bizarre History --------------------+   

Beer was the first trademarked product - British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.  

Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.  

Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.  

Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.  

In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.  

In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.  

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD. 

Sunday, September 16, 2007

lighting

amazing home lighting fixtures! glowing pillow, double lightbulb, creepy baby head candle holder (i would LOVE this!).

bizarre convict lawsuits

+---------------- Bizarre Convict Lawsuits ----------------+  

In April 1996, inmate Kirk Livingood attempted to sue his cell mate, Phillip Negrete, for routinely beating him.  

Convicted rapist, robber and kidnapper Melvin Leroy Tyler, serving time in Missouri, filed a lawsuit for $129 million to have prisoners supplied with a salad bar and brunches on weekends and holidays.  

A New York City inmate sued for $8.5 million in damages because he smuggled a gun into the prison and accidentally shot himself.  

Richard Loritz filed a $2000 lawsuit against the South Bay Detention Center in San Diego, California, for refusing to allow him to use dental floss.  

Roy Clendimen, a prisoner at the Mohawk Correctional Facility near Syracuse, New York, sued for $1 million because a guard wouldn't put his ice cream in the freezer and it melted.  

A Utah prisoner filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state for suspending a program which provided hair transplants for prisoners. He claimed "emotional suffering."  

Monday, September 10, 2007

landmarks

quicky landmarks by state. who wants to go?!

in the news

CINCINNATI - A 10-year-old boy who said he hated snakes killed a 10-foot python at petting zoo by stomping on the reptile's head. Scott Braunstein, a reptile handler who brought the snake to the St. Bernadette Festival in Amelia, Ohio, last weekend, said he was shocked by the boy's violence, The Cincinnati Enquirer. The snake, named Popcorn, was a non-poisonous albino Burmese python. Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles in Dry Ridge, Ky., said the boy approached him and told him that he hated snakes. The child then raised his leg and stomped down on the snake's head, Braunstein said. A man believed to be the boy's father grabbed the child and said, "This is why I don't take you anywhere," before disappearing into the crowd, the newspaper said. "I've never, never had anything like that happen," Braunstein told the newspaper. 

AUSTRALIA - A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her. The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland. The woman had been given the camel as a birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets. On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire. It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behavior.

stupid advice

...because it's a wife's job to prevent her husband from cheating? maybe he should just not be such a lying, cheating bastard.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

space trivia

+------------------ Bizarre Space Trivia ------------------+  
  
Seven U.S. Delta rockets and a French observation satellite have exploded in space.  

In 1961, Cuban premier Fidel Castro charged that a chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had fallen on Cuba and killed a cow.  

In 1962, a 21-lb. fragment of Soviet Sputnik IV landed at the intersection of Park and North 8th Streets in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  

Over 7,000 objects floating in space are being tracked from earth; only five percent are satellites.  

Dodging space junk is a dangerous occupation. A 0.5 millimeter metal chip could puncture a space suit and kill an astronaut walking in space.  

In 1978, a Soviet satellite came crashing back to Earth, contaminating hundreds of square miles of Canadian territory with radiation.  

Saturday, September 8, 2007

fire crotch!

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been seriously injured in his kitchen after his genitals were set on fire because he wasn't wearing any underwear.  

The TV star admits he was in "absolute agony" after the accident last week which saw him rushed to a private London hospital for burns treatment.  

Gordon, 40, admits he didn't tell friends the real reason behind his hospital visit, blaming the medical emergency on a knee injury.  

He explains, "I was standing too close to the hob when I was cooking. I was wearing these cotton trousers underneath I was going commando.  

Suddenly I felt this searing heat. My bollocks were burning. "I went to the hospital because of the excruciating pain. I had an ultrasound and I get the results on Friday.  

"People think I went in for a knee injury."

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

eediots!

+------------ Bizarre Things People Have Done -------------+  

[The following is from the British Sunday Express giving Gongs (medals) for dubious distinctions]  

To John Bloor, who mistook a tube of superglue for his hemorrhoid cream and glued his buttocks together.  

To Henry Smith, arrested moments after returning home with a stolen stereo. His error was having tattooed on his forehead in large capital letters the words "Henry Smith." His lawyer told the court: "My client is not a very bright young man."  

To Michael Robinson, who rang police to deliver a bomb threat, but became so agitated about the mounting cost of the call that he began screaming "Call me back!" and left his phone number.  

To Paul Monkton, who used as his getaway vehicle a van with his name and phone number painted in foot-high letters on the side.  

To Julia Carson, who as her tearful family gathered 'round her coffin in a New York funeral parlor, sat bolt upright and asked what the hell was going on. Celebrations were short-lived, due to the fact that Mrs. Carson's daughter, Julie, immediately dropped dead from shock.  

To poacher Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock -- and was killed instantly when it fell on him.  

To the passengers on a jam-packed train from Margate to Victoria, who averted their eyes while John Henderson and Zoe D'Arcy engaged in oral sex and then moved on to intercourse... but complained when the pair lit up post-coital cigarettes in a nonsmoking compartment.