May 18, 2013
New Periodic Table song
Well played!
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Unclear on the concept (3)
Man arrested for 'soliciting prostitute' on HONEYMOON after he leaves bride in hotel so he can meet hooker who is actually a copThe honeymoon is over for Mohammed Ahmed.
The 21-year-old Illinois man was arrested for soliciting a prostitute last week while he was honeymooning with his new wife in Florida. [....]
Ahmed left his newlywed in their room at the Omni Hotel in Champions Gate when he went off on his sojourn to pay for sex.
When he never returned, the worried bride called the sheriff's office to report him missing.
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Surprise! (6)
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May 16, 2013
Surprise! (5)
Mind the volume - it gets loud in a hurry.
Via TYWKIWDBI. Details from Reddit comments: "This happened in South Korea. This clip was shown today on Korean SBS TV, where every Monday morning they have a 20 minute segment with only black box recordings and interviews. The lady survived but is still in hospital."
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Vigilantes 1, vulgarians 0
Gothamist issues a certificate of commendation.
Heroic Theatergoer Smashes Cell Phone, Gets Thrown OutWe can't count the number of times we've wanted to enact vengeance on some inconsiderate audience member whose cell phone goes off during a performance. But, like most people, we just bottle that fury up deep down inside and take it out on the break room vending machine later. Not Kevin Williamson. Last night the National Review writer was in attendance at the marvelous new musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 when one theatergoer's incessant cell phone use finally drove him over the edge... into vigilantism. [...]
Although each table is explicitly told that photography and cell phone use is strictly prohibited during the performance, the people seated around Williamson were, he says, unbearable. "They were carrying on a steady conversation throughout entire show," Williamson, who also writes a theater column for New Criterion, tells us. "They had been quite loud and obnoxious the entire time. There were two groups, one to the left and one to the right who were being loud and disruptive."
During intermission, Williamson's date complained to the theater's management, but he says he didn't personally witness the theater managers admonish the disruptive audience members. And once the performance resumed, the woman sitting to Williamson's right on his bench would not, he says, stop using her cell phone. "It looked like she was Googling or something," Williamson tells us. "So I leaned over and told her it was distracting and told her to put it away. She responded, 'So don't look.' "
Blood boiling, Williamson says he then asked her, sarcastically, "whether there had been a special exemption for her about not using her phone during the play. She told me to mind my own business, and so I took the phone out of her hands. I meant to throw it out the side door, but it hit some curtains instead. I guess my aim's not as good as it should be." Asked if the phone was damaged, Williamson says, "It had to be; I threw it a pretty good distance."
Title comes from Mr. Williams' account of the events.
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Manipulated photos
Here's 1 of the Top 10 Extreme Photo Manipulations by Michael Oswald.
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May 15, 2013
TGFB (17)
Some might call this "chicken fried bacon." But I'd call it "Southern fried bacon" to avoid the confusion some have with the term "chicken fried."
A few years ago, I was in a restaurant that had both chicken fried steak and chicken fried chicken on the menu. What the...?! I took that tautology to mean: chicken fried the way you fry chicken. Yep, that's how you do it.
I can remember when restaurants in the US South and Midwest routinely called their fried chicken "Southern fried chicken." But I haven't seen that on a menu for some time now.
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Why New Yorkers are so popular
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney WorldThey are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.
Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.
The "black-market Disney guides" run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.
"My daughter waited one minute to get on 'It's a Small World' — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours," crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.
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Keep trolling and carry on
More "nice" people - but in England.
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May 14, 2013
Dutch drifting
A sight-seeing boat in narrow canals. I've been to Amsterdam but I don't remember seeing this.
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And God is her copilot, I'll bet
North Miami mayoral candidate says she was endorsed by JesusNorth Miami's unpredictable election exploits entered the final day on a divine note: a mayoral candidate claiming she was endorsed by Jesus Christ.
Anna Pierre, who previously said she was a victim of Vodou sorcery, posted the message in a campaign-style flier featured on her Facebook page.
This woman seems to have a lot going on.
Update:
Mayoral candidate in Florida defeated after claiming endorsement by JesusAnna Pierre, a registered nurse, claimed she was endorsed by Jesus Christ, but still finished last among the seven candidates in the North Miami mayor's race.
She didn't have a prayer.
A mayoral candidate in Florida was soundly defeated in her election on Tuesday despite claiming an endorsement by Jesus Christ.
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Bad architecture
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May 13, 2013
Say 'Cheese!'
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Senhor Testiculo
Danilo writes, "[H]ere in Brazil this is like a joke. Many people here can't understand how people can think that way. It's like a shame."
Senhor Testiculo (AKA 'Mr. Balls') Is Here To Save Brazilians From Testicular CancerWe've got to hand it to this Brazilian cancer organization: Having a huge testicle as a mascot is pretty ballsy.
"Senhor Testiculo" (aka "Mr. Testicle" or "Mr. Balls"), recently made a very public appearance at an event run by the Associação de Assistência às Pessoas in Viçosa, Brazil. The mascot, which is literally a huge pair of testicles, appears quite cheerful in the numerous pictures from the event. (Just goes to show, you don't have to be testy to represent testicular cancer.)
Picture of this mascot at the link
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Water clock
In Osaka, Japan, I believe
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May 11, 2013
More mean tweets
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DIY invisibilty
Do-it-yourself invisibility with 3-D printingSeven years ago, Duke University engineers demonstrated the first working invisibility cloak in complex laboratory experiments. Now it appears creating a simple cloak has become a lot simpler.
"I would argue that essentially anyone who can spend a couple thousand dollars on a non-industry grade 3-D printer can literally make a plastic cloak overnight," said Yaroslav Urzhumov, assistant research professor in electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. [...]
Urzhumov said that producing a cloak in this fashion is inexpensive and easy. He and his team made a small one at Duke which looks like a Frisbee™ disc made out of Swiss cheese. Algorithms determined the location, size and shape of the holes to deflect microwave beams. The fabrication process takes from three to seven hours. [...]
Just like the 2006 cloak, the newer version deflects microwave beams, but researchers feel confident that in the not-so-distant future, the cloak can work for higher wavelengths, including visible light.
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Spock vs. Spock
A funny ad by Audi.
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May 08, 2013
A little unclear
But I assume the driver of the other car was the one texting.
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Paging Anaïs Nin
Porn studies is the new discipline for academicsPorn Studies needs your contributions. The Routledge academic periodical will debut next spring, and a call for papers appeared this week soliciting submissions for "the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic". Two dons, Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, are the editors.
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Home carbonite kit
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May 07, 2013
Got wood?
H.T. Steve R.
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Markets in everything (18)
IdeaBounty.com has a clever tagline: "The best ideas get paid."
What is idea bounty?Clients: Get thousands of minds thinking about your brief and only pay for what you use.
Creatives: Get paid for your best ideas with no long term commitment from you.
This reminds me of something Heinlein wrote, "To me, the acme of prose style is exemplified by that simple, graceful clause: 'Pay to the order of...'"
Via Carpe Diem
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Nature tat
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May 06, 2013
Snow fishing
I found this at weather.com last Friday (May 3rd) after the snowstorm in the north-central US. There was no legend, so I don't know where it was taken. The snow man's a nice touch, eh?
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Don't it make your brown eyes blue
New laser surgery technique can turn your brown eyes blueOf all the features we notice about a person upon meeting them, their eyes are often the first connection we make. But some people just aren't satisfied with the color of their peepers, wishing their dark corneas away in favor of a pleasant shade of blue. Those unhappy with brown eyes may find just what they're looking for: Laguna Beach doctor Gregg Homer has developed a new procedure that can actually convert brown-colored eyes to blue in just a matter of weeks.
The operation itself is fairly straight forward: Using a laser tuned to a special frequency, the doctor actually alters the cells that produce the brown coloration in the eye. After a few weeks, the darker color begins to fade, revealing the blue pigment underneath. As the doctor explains it, the procedure only works for brown-eyed individuals, as they already have a bluish coloration hiding underneath.
According to Homer, the procedure takes just 20 seconds to complete. [...] Homer and his company, Stroma Medical, have been working on the technology for over a decade, and say it will be available on a consumer basis within three years.
As Dave Barry wrote, "Lasers are amazing devices which emit beams of light powerful enough to vaporize a bulldozer, yet are so precise that they can be used in delicate optical surgery, provided the surgeon remembers to change the setting on the laser to ‘delicate optical surgery’ from ‘vaporize bulldozer'."
Via TYWKIWDBI who references Crystal Gayle's 1977 song.
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Fur Elise revisited
Nicely done.
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May 03, 2013
It's pretty cheesy, all right
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Free range bread
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Anywhere on the globe in 4 hours
That's some serious heat transfer -- I could use something like that in my heat pump.
H.T. to our aviation correspondent SteveR
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May 02, 2013
Sharing the awesome
Last fall I bought a new phone to check out Republic Wireless, which was doing its beta roll out at the time. Since then, Republic has gone into full production mode and we've moved all the phones in our family to Republic.
Why? Well, because...
The deal Republic offers is commitment-free service which includes all the voice, text and data you want to use. Pretty awesome -- it was just the deal I'd been looking for the last couple of years. We reduced our household cellular bill by 50% when we switched to Republic plus we ended up with more services on all the phones.
The only downside to Republic's deal is that you can only get the service on phones you buy from them. Those phones are Motorola Defy XTs, which are fully-featured Android smartphones. They've got good specs and they work great. I haven't found an Android app that I can't run on the Defy. But the Defy XT only comes in one size and it doesn't have all the bells & whistles of a Samsung Galaxy S4 or an iPhone 5.
If you like the idea of full phone service at a great price with no contractual commitment (and you can live without the latest bells & whistles) then Republic's deal can't be beat.
Republic is offering incentives for new customer referrals. People I refer get a $19 credit - and so do I.
Check it out. FTW.
(For more info about how Republic's service works, here's their What's the catch? page.)
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A Boy and His Atom
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Victims take gun from suspects during home invasion, suspects come back asking for their gunEdinburg police continue their search for a man accused of robbing three people early Saturday morning.
Investigators told Action 4 News two men burst into an apartment located on the 1400 block of West Carmen Street around 4:00 Saturday morning and demanded money. [...]
Police said during the robbery the victims were able to get the gun from the suspects; both fled the scene.
The victims called 911 and turned the gun over to police.A few hours later the victims said the suspects came back and asked for their gun back—that is when the victims called police again.
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Boneshaker
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May 01, 2013
This is the exact reason
...that I always check inside my helmet before riding. (Likewise when we take the kayaks out.)
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A little indiscreet, to say the least
She never should have walked the walkSometimes, to make a convincing case for yourself, you have to show as well as tell, walk the walk as well as talk the talk. [...]
Erica Tamburin made the mistake of walking the walk when she ought not have. She participated in the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon in May 2010, finishing in 2 hours, 43 minutes (50th out of 173).
What would have been a respectable performance for anyone was truly extraordinary for a young woman claiming severe, permanent injuries from a car accident in the Cabela’s parking lot just six months earlier. (Ms. Tamburin was also listed as the first baseman for the HJS coed softball team subsequent to her accident.)
Tamburin filed suit against Cabela’s in 2011, claiming injuries to her head, neck, shoulders, back, chest, arms, body chemistry, and psyche. The exact nature of the injuries to her “body chemistry” and “psyche” is not known.
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What would OSHA say?
Via Carpe Diem
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April 30, 2013
FTW (6)
Via The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys
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Meet Mr. Slick
This cat has to be a crazy smooth talker.
Four female prison guards impregnated by same inmateBALTIMORE Four female prison guards in Baltimore fell pregnant to the same inmate, according to authorities who have busted a major smuggling gang inside the jail system.
Two of the women tattooed the inmate's name on their bodies and he showered three of them with expensive gifts including cars and jewelry.
The four women are among 25 people who face federal charges, including 13 female prison guards, CBS Baltimore reports.
The scheme involved smuggling drugs and cell phones into Baltimore City Detention Center.
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Only in Oz
I've had engines that could have used this.
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