two in one!

obviously, this is a photo of albert einstein. but get about 10 feet back of your computer screen and who do you see now?!

it only takes a second

Men take a fraction of a second to decide if they are attracted to a woman or not – but they should not be called shallow because they are genetically programmed to do so, scientists say.


Men weigh up potential partners almost instantaneously based on their appearance because their “ancient” genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to, experts claim.
According to research, a woman with an attractive face is taken by men to be fertile and able to continue the family line, appealing to the man’s survival instinct.

In contrast women take longer to decide their feelings for a man because they need to weigh up whether he will be a committed partner who will provide for them well – part of their survival programming.


Professor Mark van Vugt and Dr Johanna van Hooff, from the University of Amsterdam, and postgraduate student Helen Crawford, from the University of Kent, were behind the study which is to be published by the Oxford Journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
They tested men and women’s bias towards looks by conducting a series of tests on 20 women and 20 men, making them perform tasks while recording their brain activity.
While the subjects were doing the task they were shown a series of photographs of faces of the opposite sex, ranging from attractive to ugly.

Men were easily distracted when they saw a pretty face but women stuck to the task.
Prof van Vugt said: “Men definitely have the most wandering eye but it is because they have evolved to pay attention to cues of fertility and one of those cues is facial beauty – it’s not that men are shallow.

“But we found they do make snap judgments about women, much earlier than was previously thought. They make that decision on whether a woman would be a good mating partner in milliseconds.

“This is something very ancient and a way of helping men find the best mate to produce children.

“Women were not distracted by attractive male faces because women need more proof of whether a man is a good mate.

“Women make that decision on behavior, whether a man is trustworthy and committed. They make their decision much later than men.”

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killer bunnies, snakes beware!

A pair of rabid rabbits has been caught killing a series of snakes near Cairns.
For three weeks Armando Del Manso believed his dog was responsible for the dead snakes showing up with teeth marks all over them on his East Barron property’s lawn each morning.
But it turns out it was a pair of rampaging rabbits killing the snakes.
The 42-year-old boilermaker first made the discovery Tuesday night when he spotted the two wild rabbits attacking a king brown snake.
“The snake was raised up in the air in the striking position and the two rabbits worked their way around him and killed him in two minutes,” Mr Del Manso said.
“I’m gobsmacked, it’s absolutely incredible.
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“We were watching from the veranda with a spotlight, and I thought, who is going to believe this, they’ll think I’m crazy.”
Wildlife expert Paul O’Callaghan of the Cairns Wildlife Safari said it was the first time he had heard of rabbits attacking snakes.

jumping frenchmen!

"Among the medical oddities mentioned in a December Wall Street Journal roundup was "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Disorder," in which a person, when startled, would "jump, twitch, flail their limbs and obey commands given suddenly, even if it means hurting themselves or a loved one." It was first observed in 1878 among lumberjacks in Maine but has been reported also among factory workers in Malaysia and Siberia. It is believed to result from a genetic mutation that blocks the calming of the central nervous system (but could be merely psychological, from the stress of working in close quarters)."

30 days

30 day email detox
what couldn't you do without? i think for me, it would be recreational reading. i'm usually reading at least one book. ..altho i have gone before wit a few empty weeks of only reading magazines (every couple months i'll catch up on my newweeks). and i'd have a really hard time witout a car. i mean, i guess i could ride my bike to work. but wat about chinese school and dragon boating? oy!

touch me!

jezebel's commentary on men's health article titled "30 hottest things to say to a naked woman."

"2. 'Squeeze my hand when it feels really amazing.' If someone ever said this to me, I would burst out laughing. I would then continue laughing as I stood up, got dressed, and grabbed my things. Right before I walked out the door, I'd squeeze the guy's hand, and then get the hell out of there."

ha!

stick me

voodoo doll toothpick holder. ha!

zombies!

the zombie survival quiz. let me kno how you score!

i got physical rating C, mental rating C, experience rating F, emotional rating F. total survival rank A.

btw, you can actually get a "z+" score, which is better than an "a" for survival rank. but the quiz doesn't tell you how they got the scores or wat each thing really means.

underground

an underground city! how amazing is that? ...altho, whenever i think of this, i think of that movie, silent hill. which was just scary. =\

bears

scary: bears hunting scientists.

funny: bears, as defined by stephen colbert.

photobombers

lol, you gotta check this out. i haven't encountered very many photobombers in my lifetime but now i'm starting to wish i had!

drivin'

+------------------ Bizarre Motorists -------------------+  
  
Former traffic policeman William Alexander set out to drive the 15 miles from Hereford to Ross-on-Wye in 1996. He and his wife were found confused 36 hours later, after a 1,000 mile drive, going the wrong way down the MI near Barnsley.  

In 1994, a nun who said she was rushing an injured dog to the vet was fined for reckless driving after refusing to stop for armed police in New York State.  

Leroy Linen, a scrap-metal dealer from the Bronx, was banned from driving 633 times between 1990 and 1994.  

Assuming she had failed after hitting the curb during her 1995 test at Lowestoft, Tcheeka Johnson punched the examiner on the leg, screeched to a halt and pushed her out of the passenger door.  

Trying to test his oil level manually, a Wakefield motorcyclist got his finger stuck in the oil tank and had to summon the fire brigade to release him.

cheekin!

TEMECULA, Calif. - Employees of a Temecula, Calif., McDonald's said they have captured a chicken that had terrorized the restaurant's drive-through lane for nearly four months. The employees said the brave fowl would anger customers by blocking the drive-through lanes and bother  employees by shedding feathers around the premises, the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise reported. Restaurant manager Chona Cauley said the chicken evaded numerous capture attempts, but was finally ensnared after it fell asleep atop a drive-through window. "Normally, the chicken sleeps in the bushes," Cauley said. Esmeralda Ruiz, an employee who helped capture the chicken, said she has adopted the animal as a pet. "She's one of our family members now," Ruiz said.

extra-human

+----------------- Bizarre Humans ------------------+  

Juan Baptista dos Santos - He possessed two functioning penes and three scrota, the outer two of which each contained a single testis.  

Josephine Myrtle Corbin - Known as the The Four Legged Lady, he extra legs were part of a twin that did not split correctly. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs.  

Gabrielle Fuller - Born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, the Half Lady had a perfectly formed upper body which ended smoothly just below the waist.  

The Human Unicorn - In 1930, a Chinese farmer from Manchukuo was discovered by an expat Russian banker. The Russian was able to take a picture of the man who apparently had a 14-inch spire-like horn growing from the back of his head.

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911 emergencies?

+-------------- Bizarre 911 Emergency Calls  --------------+  

A thirty-year-old Maryland man called 911 and reported, "You gotta put out the fire, man. My marijuana plants are burning." When the fire-fighters team arrived they found the man sitting in his kitchen, in the dark, strumming his guitar.  

A man in La Vergne, Tennessee, called emergency 911 to report that he and his wife had had a fight and he needed police to come to his house and stop her from pouring out all his beer.  

Velma Ann Wantlin of Houma, Louisiana was issued a citation for improper use of the 911 emergency line.  Wantlin called 911 to report her husband for preventing her from watching the season finale of Knots Landing.  

[Dispatcher]  911. What's your emergency? [Caller] I'm scared. [Dispatcher]  What's the problem?  [Caller]  I just got a Ouija board for my birthday and now there's writing on my wall and I can't get it off....This thing is going back to Kmart first thing in the morning!  

[Dispatcher]  911.  What's your emergency? [Caller]  Could you send the police to my house? [Dispatcher]  What's wrong there? [Caller]  I called and someone answered the phone, but I'm not there.

for stupids

+---------- More Bizarre Product Warning Labels -----------+  

Batman Costume - Warning: Cape does not enable user to fly.  

European Camera - This camera will only work when film is inside.  

Liquid Plummer - Warning: Do not reuse the bottle to store beverages.  

Toilet Plunger - Caution: Do not use near power lines.  

Little Ones Baby Lotion - Keep away from children  

Hair Coloring - Do not use as an ice cream topping.  

Boot's Children's Cough Medicine - Do not drive a car or run machinery.

crash!

+-------------- Bizarre Driving Test Answers --------------+  

Driving School: Real answers received on exams given by the California Department of Transportation's driving school:  

Q: Do you yield when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road?  
A: What for? He can't see my license plate.  

Q: Who has the right of way when four cars approach a four-way stop at the same time?  
A: The pick up truck with the gun rack and the bumper sticker saying, "Guns don't kill people. I do."  

Q: When driving through fog, what should you use?  
A: Your car.  

Q: What changes would occur in your lifestyle if you could no longer drive lawfully?  
A: I would be forced to drive unlawfully.  

Q: What are some points to remember when passing or being passed?  
A: Make eye contact and wave "hello" if he/she is cute.  

Q: What is the difference between a flashing red traffic light and a flashing yellow traffic light?  
A: The color.  

Q: How do you deal with heavy traffic?  
A: Heavy psychedelics.  

black day

reep and i are doing well, so don't read into this or anything. but we should start celebrating this holiday. next year anyone? i don't kno wat black foods we could eat tho... i don't like korean ja jian mien and the chinese version isn't black. bah.

spam

+-------------------- Bizarre Foods ----------------------+  
  
Perhaps one of life's most mysterious foods is SPAM. Here are some interesting facts that you may not have known about the "other" other white meat.  

Spam stands for Shoulder, Pork and hAM.  

It was launched by the Geo. A. Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, in 1937 and became a great favorite of military cooks during WWII because it contained protein, was easy to digest and convenient.  

A six-year-old Dorset boy became addicted to Spam and ate his way through six tins of the stuff every week for three years. He had to be sent to a child psychiatrist to get him back on a normal diet.  

Over four billion cans of Spam have been sold worldwide.  

The Hormel Plant at Austin contains an oven that cooks 450 cans of Spam a minute.  

Spam came to Britain as part of the Lend Lease Act whereby food given to the U.K. would be paid for when the war was over. Often the only meat available, it became indispensable until rationing ended in 1954.

real life

homer simpson in real life. (thanks to reep for the link)

batman and superman in real life. (thanks to ting for the link)