Tuesday, April 29, 2008

NFL draft a swap meet with a record 33 trades

Go Blue!
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

Via: MEIGNORANT
This reminds me of myself playing Chess. His next move will probably be 'Sore Loser's Fist to Queen Killer's Face'

Smarter ladies have worse sex

BRAINY babes find it harder to have an orgasm – because they are too busy thinking, a study claims.

Top ten greatest experiments

Newton
George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world

The Billy Letters

Bill Geerhart
What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America's most notorious killers are happy to oblige

Friday, April 25, 2008

Everything I know about women . . .

Hooray for boobies.
As a single man in my mid-thirties, I’ve spent 20 years trying to understand women, with mixed results. It wasn’t until six months ago, however, that I was given a clear insight into how the female mind works.

What’s So Wrong About Porn?

Not 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

Nap time
I have a solution, and it’s not original I’m sure but it surely isn’t as common as it should be: break free from the clock. Get in touch with the rhythms of life, of your body and of nature. Be more relaxed and reject the notion that time rules us.

What's Inside: For a Refreshing Hint of Tear Gas, Light Up a Cigarette

I only smoke after sex. I'm down to a pack a day.
How can anyone not pickup a smoking habit, especially with all of these delicious ingredients? I mean look at all these chemicals. Yummy.

8 Irrelevant Facts About the NFL’s Last Draft Pick

The Lowsman Trophy
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

You put rice here.
It’s time Wheaties started thinking outside the box. At least about the outside of their box. And that’s why we’re asking for America’s support.

8 Fictional Cities You Wouldn't Want to Live in

I would so Smurf Smurfette
Creators of fiction are always coming up with new and exciting places for their characters to dwell in, but not all of them can be utopias. In fact, some are cities and towns that would make you wish you were back in your boring old suburb again. Let's take a look, shall we?

The world’s biggest balls

Here Honey, touch it.
What compels people to make their balls so big? We may never know — we can only admire them, and pay homage. Which is just what this list intends to do. So without further ado, here are the world’s biggest balls

Thursday, April 24, 2008

How To: Change Your Child’s DNA

He going to be a soccer player
When Willie Nelson admonished mamas everywhere to not let their babies grow up to be cowboys, he had no idea how accurate his assessment of a mother’s power really was. Turns out, moms have a lot of control over what their babies become, both before and after birth.

The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio

The Amen Break
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

Carrie Bollwinkle
MONTREAL, April 22 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they've discovered cancer cells spread by releasing protein "bubbles" -- a finding that might alter our concept of how cancer works.

Free Song

Free MP3 download of Nine Inch Nails new tune Discipline.

7 Sides of the World’s Most Infamous Street Artist

Banksy
Banksy is probably the most popular, yet most mysterious, urban street artist in the world - and he works at incredible extremes. He has become an internationally known as a subversive graffiti artist - yet manages to maintain a secret identity

Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong

Didn't see it coming.
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

Check out her melons
We have all been victim to a few of Mom's lies. "Stop cracking your knuckles...it will give you arthritis!" was just one of the many things mothers tell their children to keep them in line. What lies did your mother tell you?

Economics 101: The Price of Gas

I'd pay it.
Gas prices are up and oil executives are once again testifying before Congress. Clearly, many politicians, pundits, and consumers lament the rising cost of gas. Before we join them in their chorus, let us take a step back and ask this question: Are gas prices really all that high?

10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out

4:20 24/7
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.

10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out

4:20 24/7

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

I love nuts.
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

Duct tape, is there anything you can't fix?
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

Foot Fetish
It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the human foot. But we’re wrecking it with every step we take

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?

Cocksuckers
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

Carell, Steve
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!

Chaplin
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.

Denationalisation of Money

PDF from Institute of Economic Affairs
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

Charles Manson
On the 15th anniversary of the Waco conflagration, a catalog of the murderous and suicidal groups that stunned the world

Here Comes the Next Mortgage Crisis

Buy, buy,buy
Subprime was just the beginning. Wait until California's prime borrowers start handing their keys to the bank.

She Had Sex for the Sake of Science

sex in 4-D ultrasound
Mary Roach's book "Bonk" tracks the slow-moving study of sexual problems and pleasures

The Lure of Great Wealth

http://www.fool.com
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.

Secrets of an Ancient Killing Machine

Bites like a house cat.
Why Komodo dragons and great white sharks are the ultimate in predator design.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions

Walk like a man
If you think you understand it, you don't know nearly enough about it

Ultimate Chick Repeller?

Fisting Fetish?
This you have to see.

Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing

Fucking Russians
A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.

"We were drinking and what doesn't happen when you're drunk?" he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying.

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.

The delicate line between genius and madness

Channel Seven executive Adam Boland
WHERE do you draw the fine line between brilliance and madness?

Sony World Photography Awards finalists

Bad ass mut
These stunning images are the finalists in the Science and Nature categories of the professional Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year competition.

This dog just looks so fucking mean!

Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists

Silly boy, Monkey Man will make you belive.
A pack of 25 of the Barbary macaques have “run riot” on a beach, have broken into hotel rooms and have been caught scavenging in bins in the town centre.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Do animals have personalities?

Pugly
Pet owners are quick to attach personalities to their pets. But what do scientists say about this concept? Is it possible for animals to be irritable, adventurous, neurotic or even a mixture of these characteristics?

Sky-High Ads Float Like Clouds

Peace
Now, one company aims to indulge those flights of fancy by actually making "clouds" in the shapes of, well, anything, from the Atlanta Braves' tomahawk to Mickey Mouse's iconic head.

Treehouses for All Occasions

Ewoks rock!
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

Jack Daniel, Hero? I think so.
In Lynchburg, Tennessee, tales of Jack Daniel are taller than Paul Bunyan on a step stool. The question is, are any of them true?

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

Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism

Legend
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

You can have any color you want as long as its black.
We’ve all made mistakes … but probably not big mistakes like making snot beer, saying no to The Beatles, or turning down the patent for the telephone. In fact, here are some of the biggest business blunders in history:

The Nine Lives of Andrew Jackson

The Hot-headed Gunslinger
It’s a wonder Andrew Jackson was able to defeat the British during the War of 1812. And found the modern Democratic Party. And become President of the United States. After all, Jackson should’ve died many, many times before he had the opportunity to do any of those things.

Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'

Rub one out for your homie, the Prostate.
Thanks to the Internet I have reduced my risk to near zero.

Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.

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

Oh God, Oh God!
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.