Tuesday, April 29, 2008
NFL draft a swap meet with a record 33 trades
NEW YORK (AP) — One thing about an NFL draft with this many trades: There were that many players that teams just simply had to have.
This year, more than ever, teams were willing to make aggressive moves to jump the line and snag the player they really wanted. A record 33 trades were made Saturday and Sunday as NFL teams tried to assemble winning rosters for the 2008 season and beyond.
Seven Reasons Why I’m Becoming a Polygamist’s Wife
I want to become the wife of a polygamist. After the high-profile raid in Texas cast a disapproving light on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), everybody’s got a bone to pick with the polygamists. I, on the other hand, am jealous of their rustic and charming lifestyle. I yearn to live au naturale clad in a strapping turquoise dress with a hand-braided up-do. It’s official—I’m going to join the commune and live a life that’s back to the basics.
By: Shyla Batliwalla
(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos
Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotions a photographer experienced when clicking the shot button. Taking excellent pictures is damn hard as you need to find a perfect perspective and consider the perfect timing. To achieve brilliant photography you need practice and patience. However, it is worth it: the results can be truly stunning.
Below you’ll find 50 brilliant photos and stunning pictures — some pictures tell stories, some are incredibly beautiful, some are funny and some are very sad.
All pictures are copyright of their respective owners. Please explore the further work of the photographers by browsing through their work. We’ve tried to cover different themes so that everybody will find something interesting and spectacular for himself / herself. All screenshots are linked und lead to the pages from which they’ve been taken.
Angry Kid Playing Chess
Smarter ladies have worse sex
BRAINY babes find it harder to have an orgasm – because they are too busy thinking, a study claims.
The Billy Letters
Friday, April 25, 2008
Everything I know about women . . .
What’s So Wrong About Porn?
Just because someone likes looking at naked bodies exchanging bodily fluids does not make him a pervert, disrespectful, an infidel, disinterested in his lover or dissatisfied with his lover. It makes him human. It’s about fantasy, imagination, desire, lust. And what, please tell me, is wrong with that?
Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock
What's Inside: For a Refreshing Hint of Tear Gas, Light Up a Cigarette
8 Irrelevant Facts About the NFL’s Last Draft Pick
With the Miami Dolphins prepared to take Michigan’s Jake Long with the No. 1 pick in this weekend’s NFL draft—the team has already signed the offensive tackle to a five-year, $30 million deal—speculation has turned to who St. Louis will select with the second pick. But the more intriguing question might be who the Rams will take with the last pick of this year’s draft, the player who since 1976 has been referred to as Mr. Irrelevant.
10 Sports Heroes You Won’t Find on a Wheaties Box
8 Fictional Cities You Wouldn't Want to Live in
The world’s biggest balls
Thursday, April 24, 2008
How To: Change Your Child’s DNA
The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio
A student recently asked if I had any insights into why the "Amen Break" is so popular in some modern music. "What's that?" I had to admit that I hadn't heard of it. But when we listened to it, a drum break beat, I recognized the rhythm right away. I'd heard it in television commercials and the music of James Brown, and elsewhere. You probably have too. I became intrigued when I saw an image of the audio waves themselves because I immediately recognized the Golden Ratio in the structure of its timing. And I was surprised to find an even deeper relationship to the structure of the human body.
Study discovers how cancer cells spread
7 Sides of the World’s Most Infamous Street Artist
Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong
Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish.
Its central claim - that our human characteristics are moulded by the influence of the Sun, Moon and planets at the time of our birth - appears to have been debunked once and for all and beyond doubt by the most thorough scientific study ever made into it.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
16 myths your momma told ya
Economics 101: The Price of Gas
10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out
10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out
How’s your war on drugs coming along, anyway, DEA? The sun is shining, and if you’d pull your heads out, you’d see it. Pot is here, lots of it available, if this number of people can show up and get loaded on just one day in one city and no one is arrested.
Urinal Elephants invade Japan
Uh oh. Best hide the nuts and urinal cakes 'cause a herd of baby blue elephants with little yellow hats are on the loose in Japan. Meet the Urinal Elephant, otherwise known as the Dasubee toilet scrubbing robot. Back 'er up to a ceramic throne of human effluence and watch big blue wipe down your man-stew with the lumbering grace of a robotic elephant. Video? You betcha, right after the break.
Moondust and Duct Tape
April 21, 2008: At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same way. The sound of gray tape being torn from rolls practically filled the race course as dozens of college and high school student engineers busily assembled and repaired their homemade moonbuggies.
Little did they know, this was in the finest tradition of lunar exploration. Turning back the clock 36 years reveals the key roll of duct tape in NASA's Apollo program:
You Walk Wrong
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
DIY Solar Car - Free Yourself From Gas for $4,500
Tired of paying an arm and a leg for gasoline but can't afford a Tesla Roadster and don't feel like waiting for a Zap electric vehicle? Sunn EV has just the car for you.
Shock pictures: Is this what the Canadian government means by 'humane' slaughter?
The baby seal looks into the eyes of her executioner. Barely a flicker of emotion shows on the fisherman's face as he smashes a steel-tipped club into her mouth. She lies whimpering on the ice, blood pouring from her jaw and nose.
But she is not yet dead, so the sealer hits her in the face another four times before slamming a hooked "hakapik" club into her stomach and dragging her across the ice towards the ship
Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower
Face it: Your IQ is basically hardwired. Still, there are lots of ways to get smarter — to max out your so-called functional intelligence. Think of it as a software upgrade. Our guide to better brainpower shows you how to boost your memory, sharpen your concentration skills, and even pop the right combination of drugs and supplements. Start download now.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Trivia: Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest … and Lost!
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest, and lost! He didn’t even make it to the finals.
In 1915, "Chaplinitis" swept across America and Charlie Chaplin look-alike contests became popular. One such contest was won by a rising young actor/comedian that became quite famous on his own right. His name was Bob Hope
Via: Neatorama.com
10 things you didn't know about pot
4:20 just passed. These are just some interesting tidbits about Mary Jane.
Arguments for and against the legalization of marijuana, express your point of view.
NORML is a nonprofit lobbying organization working to legalize marijuana, stop arrests of smokers, provide educational research, and legal information on the subject.
Legalize Marijuana Petition, hosted at PetitionOnline.com.
Arguments for and against the legalization of marijuana, express your point of view.
NORML is a nonprofit lobbying organization working to legalize marijuana, stop arrests of smokers, provide educational research, and legal information on the subject.
Legalize Marijuana Petition, hosted at PetitionOnline.com.
Denationalisation of Money
In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1976, Friedrich von Hayek argues that the government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop recurring bouts of inflation and deflation. Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed to 'capitalism'.
The Cults That Went Wacko
Here Comes the Next Mortgage Crisis
The Lure of Great Wealth
I think I can guess why it was so widely read and shared. It promised at once to offer an answer to the question of "How do I get rich?" -- the second-most popular question in the history of man, closing in rapidly on the longtime favorite, "What's for dinner?" -- and it offered solace for those not in the "great wealth" category.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing
Definition of rape widened
The state's highest court ruled yesterday that a man can be charged with rape if he ignores a woman's calls to stop - even if she had previously consented to sex.
Sony World Photography Awards finalists
Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Do animals have personalities?
Sky-High Ads Float Like Clouds
Treehouses for All Occasions
There’s something about a treehouse that appeals to all of us. Maybe it’s the view, or getting close to nature, or reliving childhood memories. There are many ways to enjoy treehouses, no matter what age you are.
Whiskey Business: The Many Myths of Jack Daniel
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Today's Quotes
Today's subject: Survival
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
"On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
- Chuck Palahniuk
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
- Stephen Hawking
"Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift."
- Harriet McBryde Johnson
"When an empire fears for its survival, its prime has passed."
- Martin Dansky
Today's quotes were found on ThinkExist.com
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
"On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
- Chuck Palahniuk
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
- Stephen Hawking
"Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift."
- Harriet McBryde Johnson
"When an empire fears for its survival, its prime has passed."
- Martin Dansky
Today's quotes were found on ThinkExist.com
Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism
THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.
It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. Yet in Mr. Biggs’s new book, “Wealth, War and Wisdom,” he says people should “assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.”
The Stupidest Business Decisions in History
The Nine Lives of Andrew Jackson
Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
2008 NFL schedule
The NFL announced Tuesday its 17-week, 256-game regular-season schedule for 2008, which kicks off on Thursday night, Sept. 4 and concludes on Sunday, Dec. 28.
Christians Promote Holy, Hot Sex in Marriage
People of Faith Have Better Sex Than 'Swingers,' Says Pastor
"We discovered that God's word is holy and hot … filled with invaluable wisdom for our sexual relationship," says intimateissues.com, one of the most popular Christian Web sites. It is based on a 1999 book by the same name.
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