Upset about tax cuts for the rich?

Apparently I'm not the only one who was miffed that the Bush tax cuts were extended even for Americans at the top 1% of the income spectrum. A group of professors recently started up a website to help the wealthiest among us calculate and donate their tax cuts to philanthropies. Not only does this idea generate funds for worthy causes, it also acts as a protest to the fact that the tax cuts were given to this sector of the population in the first place.

Check out this great idea at http://www.giveitbackforjobs.org/ .

Ten tech tips for 2011.

Nowadays it's not just that guy from Nigeria asking for money that you have to worry about. Here are ten things to look out for to keep yourself protected in the digital world...

1.Geolocation programs like FourSquare

2. New media platforms like Facebook

3. Mobile phones

4. Mobile gadgets like iPads

5. URL shortening

6. Friendly fire

7. The end of spam. What?

8. Cloud computing

9. Hactivism outbreaks like Wikileaks

10. More Targeted Malware, backed by nation-states

Read the explanation of each point here.

The perspective of 6 billion others.

A project carried out by Sibylle d'Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire sent cameramen to 75 countries in 4 years to interview the inhabitants of the Earth. Each bit has a different theme, from God, to Happiness, to Family, and the Meaning of Life. You can watch them all on YouTube.

Things Meatloaf would do for love.

A better chain gang.

Putting inmates to work in programs such as the one featured in this video gives them a sense of purpose, helps the environment, and saves the prison system money.

Sickness! Girls skate the Maloof Money Cup.

Watch The Side Project video of the girls finals here.

 

Why not recycle EVERYTHING?

I've seen old skate decks turned into bookshelves and adirondack chairs and I've made a clock out of one myself... Now they're turning into wall tiling. What next???

Diamond Dave rules!

I saw this guy last night at Petar's in Lafayette and he blew me away. He does everything from Sinatra to Gaga and is definitely worth the trip.

Happy holidays!

The deeper side of autotune.

Hide your kids, hide your wife.

Just in case you were hiding under a rock somewhere as I apparently was, here is the newest YouTube craze. As Cubby says, he's a soldier of love!

Take that Limbaugh! Motor Trend tears Rush a new one.

After Rush Limbaugh strongly criticized Motor Trend for picking the electric Chevy Volt as the 2011 Car of the Year Motor Trend's blog spells out exactly why he's wrong- with a much better sense of humor, I might add. A highlight:

"All the shouting from you or from electric car purists on the left can’t distort the fact that the Chevy Volt is, indeed, a technological breakthrough. And it’s more. It’s a technological breakthrough that many American families can use for gas-free daily commutes and well-planned vacation drives. It’s expensive for a Chevy, but many of those families will find the gasoline saved worth it. If you can stop shilling for your favorite political party long enough to go for a drive, you might really enjoy the Chevy Volt. I’m sure GM would be happy to lend you one for the weekend. Just remember: driving and Oxycontin don’t mix."

Way to go Motor Trend. Keep it classy Rush.

A complete, succinct explanation of what caused the financial crisis.

If you've tuned out the analysis of the causes and effects of our current financial crisis, you're not alone. Most of it has been worth ignoring since it's so out of our hands. With the perspective gained through hindsight people are finally able to give a coherent synopsis of how we got into this in the first place. Give this a read so we don't have to go through this mess again: All the Devils Are Here by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean.

Free tunes.

Girl Talk is a mashup dj who streams his music online for free here. I like the track "Jump on Stage" to start. He's an interesting dude...

Pretty Lights is an electronic artist who lets you download ALL of his music for free here.



Enjoy!

Girls, girls, girls!

Sick new Girl skateboards...

Damn you autocorrect!

This blog is something we can probably all relate to. I say enough stuff that I regret already without autocorrect getting me into further trouble! One of my favorites:

Relive your middle school days from the safe distance of middle agedness.

This blog is at times hilarious, kind of always sad.

A posting sample... Student definition: “Strident- when you chew Stride and Trident at the same time”. Yikes, at least she’s creative.

Here's what the author says of his blog: I am a Middle School English teacher, and a vast percentage of my students have NO common sense whatsoever. Some of the things I see and hear are absolutely hilarious. Some of the things are overheard from conversations between students, others (unfortunately) are spoken aloud in my classroom and posed as legitimate (in their minds) questions. In this blog, I will be posting the best (worst?) things I hear my students say or see them write. IMPORTANT: at no point in any of these posts will I make fun of or ridicule any students with learning disabilities or difficulties of any kind. All of the students quoted are standard students without Individual Education Plans or any evidence of mental disabilities.

Why did we choose gold as the standard for wealth?

Gold has represented wealth to humans for centuries and I've always wondered why. In India gold is so popular that around auspicious dates for weddings the demand for it actually affects the price in the entire world market! NPR's analysis of the periodic table reveals why gold is the only element known to man that could be worthy of such status. Listen to the story here.

Service time swapping.

A bartering bank in Maine helps people develop community and get services they need but can't afford. Like Burning Man, without the nudity and drugs. Watch the story on the PBS Newshour.

Fact free "news".

There is a HUGE problem with some sectors of the American news media - the lack of actual truth in what they report. Thomas Friedman wrote about it recently in the New York Times. I think that Rachel Maddow said it well that when you just repeat what you've heard without checking it's veracity that's not news, that's publicity. Although MSNBC and other more liberal cable news outlets may seem like the mirror image of Fox News, the difference is that the former still relies on real journalism instead of just talking heads. The speed with which rumors spread across the world thesedays makes it ever more important to speak truth.

Don't be fooled.

Vaccinate!

It's not just so you don't get the flu - it's so you don't turn around and give it to the rest of us. That's what's called "herd immunity". If you have an ounce of altruism you'll get over the hype and skepticism and believe in science. You trust your doctor when he or she gives you a cancer diagnosis, so why don't you believe them when they tell you to get a flu shot? Vaccines are, on the whole, very safe and effective. Read more about this issue here.

Cat fends off alligator.

Even my puppy Blue is less deterred by these tactics, but I guess it's an opponent this alligator's never seen.

One giant leap past autotuned music.

Computer generated Japanese pop star Miku sings songs that you create on your computer. "She" also sells out concerts performing her own songs as a hologram backed by a live band. And you though lip synching Ashlee Simpson was bad...

Dog genius.

The lazy way to eat with a clear conscience.

Do you want to support local, family owned farms instead of companies like Monsanto? Would you rather eat food that's organic and doesn't guzzle gas on its way to your grocery store? Don't have time for the farmer's market, or don't have one in your area?

Get a subscription to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). You can get fresh, seasonal, locally grown fruits and veggies delivered to your door on a schedule of your choosing. If you'd rather, you can even go pick it up at the farm iself, turning grocery shopping into a fun and educational field trip for kids.

The kids are alright.

Apparently lesbian moms don't abuse their kids, and they may actually contribute to a greater openness in their children's sexual identities. As Jezebel says, it's time to panic!

The power of China.

This time lapse video of the construction of a hotel in China puts a visual to the title of that country as an emerging world superpower. Without thinking about the socioeconomic and political contexts in which this takes place, I'm kind of jealous of the productivity...

No H8.

Props to Mrs. McCain for taking a difficult stand.

Flip it and reverse it.

So cute. 3 year old recites poetry by heart.

Watch my favorite clip where he recites "Litany" here.

You may be worth more than you realize.

But you probably won't see a dime of it. Why? If you work for a large corporation there's a chance that they've taken out what's called a "dead peasant" insurance policy on your life. This isn't the same as your employer insuring you as an asset because they have a vested interest in keeping you safe, like they did with Mary Hart's legs. It's pure economics: "...the purpose is basically profit. The life insurance proceeds are tax-free. The policies have an investment component that allows companies to earn tax-deferred returns while the employee is still alive. And, of course, companies can take out tax-free loans on the policies. All these gains and income are used to fund operations, pay for executive compensation or boost other benefits", according to MSN. They can even cash in on these policies if you die after you leave the company.


Shady.

Unbelievable.

A new approach to an old issue.

A heterosexual couple in London want to tie the knot, but don't want to get married. They want a gay civil union.

Going to Vegas?

Here's something to do that's off the beaten path and does not involve drugs, alcohol, or gambling.

WATCH THIS MOVIE.

Blue Gold: You'll never guess how deep the world's water problems run.

WTF has Obama done so far?

Check out this site to see a funny take on his first half of his first term's accomplishments. Just remember that this was HIS agenda, but it was made possible by our CONGRESS. Now let's see how much the Republicans can do...

What's YOUR comfort zone?

Richard Renaldi is a photographer in the midst of an interesting project - to document strangers touching each other. Read the NPR interview of the artist here.

One step closer to robotic soldiers.

Watch the "robot mule" at minute four maintain its balance after being kicked and slipping on ice. More on robots here .

Signs from The Rally to Restore Sanity.

See the entire list.

Ranking drugs.

A British study conducted recently has ranked drugs based on their cost to individuals and to society as a whole. Overall, alcohol actually beat out heroin and crack cocaine as the most damaging drug with pot, ecstacy, and LSD rounding out the bottom of the list. Read the full article here.

WOW there is some random stuff on the internet.

I mean, this whole website is dedicated to "turtles eating things"! And I love it.

Poor Dubya. Go Giants!

George W. Bush and Nolan Ryan watching their Rangers struggle on their way to the World Series.

Ever heard of fainting goats? Enter fainting kittens...

Another great idea for recycling, reusing.

These vacuum cleaners work just like any other, but they're made from bits of plastic found on beaches and in the Pacific Ocean. If you haven't heard about the North Pacific Gyre, which is made up of this kind of refuse, read up. The Story of Stuff also explains how to avoid adding to this problem in the first place.

Exercising doesn't necessarily make you an "active" person.

According to research, "the amount of time you exercise and the amount of time you spend on your butt are completely separate factors for heart-disease risk. New evidence suggests, in fact, that the more hours a day you sit, the greater your likelihood of dying an earlier death regardless of how much you exercise or how lean you are."

Apparently, even standing more often can make you "active". So if you don't have a job that keeps you moving, sit on your exercise ball at work or get a standing or treadmill work station. Make sure to use your legally mandated 15 minute break to get outside for a walk, or even just to sit outside in the sun for a few minutes, soaking up some rays to help boost your vitamin D.

How quickly we forget.

Despite the absence of news coverage following the capping of the well in the Gulf of Mexico, there's still plenty of oil remaining in the water.

So maybe Jersey Shore isn't ALL bad? Now I'm confused...

And another thing about taxes in America...

Do you remember how much you paid in taxes last year? Probably not, but I'm guessing you know that you paid at least SOMEthing, right?

So how does it make you feel to know that "Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress"? The next time you hear people complaining about how the sky high corporate tax rate is putting American businesses at a competitive disadvantage, remind yourself and others of that statistic. Sure, a tax rate of 25-35% is really high! But when you're paying exactly $0.00 in taxes that 35% doesn't seem so bad.

And would someone please explain to me how you're supposed to cut ANYthing out of zero dollars???

Obama picking policy over politics. How refreshing.

Did you know that according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll last month, "fewer than one in 10 respondents knew that the Obama administration had lowered taxes for most Americans"?

Furthermore, "Half of those polled said they thought that their taxes had stayed the same, a third thought that their taxes had gone up, and about a tenth said they did not know."

The reality is this: "...the tax cut was, by design, hard to notice. Faced with evidence that people were more likely to save than spend the tax rebate checks they received during the Bush administration, the Obama administration decided to take a different tack: it arranged for less tax money to be withheld from people’s paychecks.

They reasoned that people would be more likely to spend a small, recurring extra bit of money that they might not even notice, and that the quicker the money was spent, the faster it would cycle through the economy."

Read the full NY Times article here.

Maybe that why people don't see Democrats as having helped our economy and are making them pay at the polls this election.

Make sure to VOTE on November 2nd!

As if we needed another reason to think Glen Beck is off his rocker.

Just because we don't see half monkey-half human-like centaurs walking around doesn't mean that evolution isn't true.

Justice Thomas' wife asks Anita Hill to apologize, 19 years later.

This woman is crazy. Get over it already!

NPR: "In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction twist, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas earlier this month left a voice-mail message for Anita Hill, asking Hill to apologize for her 1991 testimony accusing then Supreme Court nominee Thomas of sexual harassment."

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Let's review the Constitution, people.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was SOME sort of prerequisite for becoming a politician?? I mean, I had to take years of college level science classes to even be able to APPLY to medical school and yet people like Christine O'Donnell from Delaware can run for the U.S. Senate without even knowing what's in the first amendment. The scary thing is, she's not the only one to worry about this election season.

"...in a debate before an audience of legal scholars and law students at Widener University Law School, as O'Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons' position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine.

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that "religious doctrine doesn't belong in our public schools."
"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"

Her comments, in a debate aired on radio station WDEL, generated a buzz in the audience.
"You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp," Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone said after the debate, adding that it raised questions about O'Donnell's grasp of the Constitution."

The statistical truth about the gays.

OK Cupid has mined the data from its online dating site users to come up with some interesting statistics...

Whitehouse whiteboard. Cool.

I love this kind of presentation tactic in general, but it's especially helpful to explain complicated government policy ideas. This one's great, although they neglect to mention that it's basically stolen from Ezra Klein's article in the Washington Post.

The foreclosure story.

I had to watch this twice to make all the connections! This stuff is complicated on purpose so that the American people will disengage from the debate, which is the LAST thing we should be doing right now. Make the effort to understand for yourself, and for the nation as a whole.

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Here's a follow up article on the foreclosure bill that Obama promises to veto that will help you understand Stewart's rant.

Another reason to choose your meat more carefully or to stop eating it altogether.

This is a photo of "mechanically separated meat".

Fooducate explains: Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve.

From Pineapple Express to Milk, now crossdressing for a trans mag.

This guy is so interesting.
















And props for making the magazine in the first place.


CANDY 2 from Luis Venegas on Vimeo.

Politics is so much more engaging with some good beats to back it up.

Walking the walk.

Obama plans to have solar panels installed on the White House by the spring of 2011. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush also used solar energy while in office, however only to power some offices and amenities such as the pool, whereas Obama's new panels will supply the living quarters as well.

An unconventional approach to dealing with homeless alcoholics.

San Francisco is looking into adopting "wet houses" similar to the government-subsidized housing project in Seattle that "caters exclusively to 75 hard-core alcoholics who came from the streets and are allowed to keep drinking, snub treatment and still keep a roof over their heads". This may sound counterintuitive, but according to a study of the project conducted by the University of Washington the city has saved more than $4 million in its first year of operation due mostly to fewer ER visits and periods of incarceration, and reduced stays in subsidized rehab programs. Researchers followed 95 residents and found that on average they each racked up $42,964 in health care and incarceration bills in the year prior to moving into the "wet house",  compared with $13,440 during their first year of residency. Furthermore, residents' daily alcohol consumption has dropped from 15.7 drinks a day to 10.6.

Just so you know, we've got three wars going on. Not two.

I like Obama just as much as any other liberal Democrat, but I'm opposed to the American people being misled into war. Tricking us through secrecy is as bad as telling us but lying about the reasoning. Just because we may lack combat troops on the ground somewhere doesn't mean we're not at war in that place.

This will make you a pet person.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Contest this weekend.

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision put to action.

If you haven't heard about the Citizens United Supreme Court case from last year, read about it here. It's something we should all be aware of because it's an affront to American democracy as we know it. In essence, it says: "Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads". This means that campaign contribution limits that apply to average citizens like you and me are irrelevant when it comes to corporations because they can subvert campaign finance rules by posting ads on television to support their candidate of choice with NO LIMIT to how much they can spend.

Kind of makes that $25 contribution you made online during Obama's campaign seem pretty puny, right?

An important message from Ellen.

This needs to stop.

Hybrid assistive limbs.

No really. Levi Johnston is running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Forage: where you can sell your excess produce from backyard farming to your local restaurant.

One Los Angeles chef decided to take organic and local to another level by having customers bring fruits and vegetables from their backyards to put in the restaurants dishes. The county intervened, but the restaurant figured out a way to get its customers involved with the menu again.

Fox "News" is not news.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

It DOES get better...

Dan Savage of Savage Love launches a campaign to let LGBT kids out there that life for them does get better after high school.

If you're going to be religious, at least know what you're believing in.

A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths...

Transgender teen denied Homecoming King title.

The silver lining to me is that in Michigan in 2010 he won the vote to be king in the first place...

Opening up the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, allows its data to be freely used by by The Weather Channel and news organizations so that people can stay informed about their local weather conditions. So, too, could we use the data gathered by HHS to make informed decisions about which hospitals we use, what neighborhood we wish to live in, etc. Statistics on local health outcomes could even affect property value, just as school district ratings already do.

Can't we all just get along?

This wild monkey adopted an abandoned kitten and is caring for it as his own. The long-tailed macaque monkey was spotted in a forest in the Ubud region of Bali, Indonesia, protectively nuzzling and grooming the kitten.

Baby carrot vending machines.

Great idea. Weird/hilarious marketing.

Know and share the truth about healthcare reform.

Please go see this movie.

Wipeout!

Do you live in the past, the present, or the future?

AMAZING Clinton interview on The Daily Show. A MUST watch.

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Urban Walmarts coming to a city near you...

I'm hoping this means healthy, affordable produce for low income neighborhoods that currently rely on corner stores full of processed foods for their groceries.

"As part of its new "urban strategy," the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is looking to open two dozen stores in the Bay Area... Wal-Mart's move reflects an "enormous paradigm shift" among consumers, away, in this economy, "from what they want to have, to what they have to have." Top of the list is food - reasonably priced, fresh and within walking distance."

Breakdown of race in major cities.

Red = White
Blue = Black
Orange = Hispanic
Green = Asian

San Francisco:

OK Go's PeeWee machine.

I love this on so many levels. My favorite part is when the spoons hit the glasses...

More Gaga on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

I don't know about the whole prime rib analogy, but I'll take support wherever we can get it!

Eat responsibly.

Every time we buy food we're essentially voting for what kinds of food we want to be available and how we want it to be grown. Buying organic may stretch your budget too far, but simply buying local and in season can also have a dramatic impact on your health and on farmers' livelihood.

Watch Food Inc.

The rise of women and the "mancession".

Did you know...

- Men’s share of the labor force has declined from 70 percent in 1945 to less than 50 percent today, and in the country’s biggest cities, young, single, childless women—that is, the next generation—earn 8 percent more than their male peers

- Women have matched or overtaken men as a percentage of students in college and graduate school, while men have retained their lead in alcoholism, suicide, homelessness, violence, and criminality

- Of the 3.6 million people canned since the downturn began in December 2007, more than four fifths have been men

- The American Time Use Survey shows that in fact laid-off men tend to do less—not more—housework, eating up their extra hours snacking, sleeping and channel surfing (which might be why the Cartoon Network, whose audience has grown by 10 percent during the downturn, is now running more ads for refrigerator repair school). Unemployed women, in contrast, spend twice as much time taking care of children and doing chores. Nor do former working stiffs necessarily reconnect with their families: following alcoholics and drug addicts, they're the most likely demographic to beat their female partners.

Time to rethink the classic gender binary...

Eco speakers.

Urban farming.

Imagine skyscrapers with a grocery store on the ground floor and an organic farm filling the rest of the top floors.

The new far right wing.

They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Get to knowChristine O'Donnell, the Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware who is campaigning for VP Joe Biden's old seat.





Oh, and she has a gay sister.

A rose by any other name... is still not something we should eat.

The Corn Refiners Association trade group is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to replace the phrase "high-fructose corn syrup" with "corn sugar." Either way, it's still unhealthy for people and for the environment.

Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let's stop playing into bin Laden's hands

He's not the first to make this point, but it's worth repeating.

Oh HELL no. The public should NOT have to pay for PGE's fires.

When I heard about the $100 million fund that PGE set up for the victims of the San Bruno natural gas fire I was hopeful that this would mark an improvement over the corporate bad behavior that we've seen run rampant recently (do I even need to mention BP??). And then I read about PGE proposing a bill that would "require customers to pay all costs of catastrophic fires, such as last week's gas-line explosion in San Bruno, that exceed a utility's insurance coverage". Please tell me that the fund wasn't created to counter the inevitable bad press that PGE would receive after news of this bill got out...

Bamboo bikes.

I'm baffled as to why we don't just make everything out of bamboo and hemp instead of cutting down trees all over the world.

Bay area people can get bamboo bikes from at least two places locally and can attend workshops about them too.

Yet another reason to love Ms. Gaga.

First ever double backflip in a wheelchair.

Best existential skate flick ever.

Skaters are Revolutinaries! Even if you never pick up a skateboard, this is a good philosophy by which to live.

Skater saves Quran from burning.

"Dude, you have no Quran" he said...

A Master's in Communication? Really??

Politicians get crazier by the day...

Required viewing for all lesbians, people who once were lesbians, and people who know lesbians.

Surprise! Google and the internet interrupts productivity at work.

Study says that PacMan on Google wasted 4.8 million man hours.

Dog does Merengue!

Do we hold our stress in our hair?

We've all heard the story before - a woman goes through a breakup, chops off her hair, and starts fresh. Or a dude clips his dreadlocks and sheds his karmic weight. That always seemed to make sense for no particular reason, but once again an old adage now has science to back it up.

The most uncomfortable political moment I've ever seen.

I mean, we already knew that Governor Jan Brewer was crazy because of the Arizona immigration bill that she enthusiastically signed into law, but this is just plain AWKWARD. Like I'm blushing FOR her kind of awkward. Ugh.

View the Rachel Maddow coverage of this here.

Double check who you're dialing dawg!

Montana teen accidentally texts local sheriff to buy pot. Ha.

Kangaroo care miracle.

Amazing composure and thoughtfulness from such a young kid.

Does the language we speak shape how we think?

After struggling with having to assign a gender to all inanimate objects while learning Spanish as my second language I began to wonder if working within that dichotomy might change the way people see the world...

Created to fight cancer, useful against HIV?

Two drugs, decitabine and gemcitabine -- both FDA approved and currently used in pre-cancer and cancer therapy -- were found to eliminate HIV infection in the mouse model by causing the virus to mutate itself to death -- an outcome researchers dubbed "lethal mutagenesis."

Elephant + dog = BFF

Better late than never.

Former Bush campaign aid and Republican National Committee chairman comes out as gay and decides to back same sex marriage. He now says, "It's something I wish I had done years ago."

We all need to be concerned with net neutrality.

In case you haven't heard of that term before, or don't understand what it means, here's a quick definition:

Network neutrality is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and governments on content, sites, platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and no restrictions on the modes of communication allowed

Read more about how this principle may be threatened by Google and Verizon's latest collaboration.

Is your husband gay?! 15 signs to look out for.

First of all, the title of this blog says a LOT: "ChrisTwire - Conservative Values for an Unsaved World". Read the following to save your marriage. Or just to amaze at its ridiculousness.

1) Secretive late night use of cellphones and computers

2) Looks at other men in a flirtatious way

3) Feigning attention in church and prayer groups

4) Overly fastidious about his appearance and the home

5) Gym membership but no interest in sports

6) Clothes that are too tight and too “trendy”

7) Strange sexual demands

8) More interested in the men than the women in pornographic films

9) Travels frequently to big cities or Asia

10) Too many friendly young male friends

11) Sassy, sarcastic and ironic around his friends

12) Love of pop culture

13) Extroverted about his bare chest in public

14) Sudden heavy drinking

15) Ladies, have you dated men in the past who turned out to be gay?

GHB legitimized?

Scientists are taking a new look at GHB, which has been used in the past as a date rape drug, to see if it could help people with fibromyalgia. More surprisingly, a similar drug, Xyrem, is already on the market to treat narcolepsy.

The energy efficient way to search the interwebs.

Apparently, because this search engine's background is black instead of white it saves your computer monitor energy in lighting itself.

iPhone users have more sex.

My favorite quote from this article: "For this analysis of 30-year-olds with smartphones suggested that women with iPhones had an average of 12.3 sexual partners (I am sure the 0.3 knows exactly who he is), while their age-equivalents who had opted to put an Android into their purse scored a mere 6.1.

It was 8.8 for the BlackBerry owners, but some might feel these more businessy types would most likely be having sex while still on their BlackBerrys, so that hardly counts."

The North Pacific Gyre. Also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

For all ocean lovers - if this doesn't awaken your mind to the price of consumption, I don't know what would.

The Story of Stuff Project

This great video about consumption now has sequels! Check out the Story of Bottled Water, the Story of Cosmetics, and more...

Dog sized rats stiff out tuberculosis.

Whatever works, I guess!

Buy this sweet ass Ford Taurus.

Holy crap! What kind of badassary is this?!
A 2001 Black Ford Taurus!
Get the hell out of here!
This car is a god amongst other, smaller cars. It eats dead dinosaur to power its black dinosaur hating heart! IT FUCKING EATS DEAD DINOSAURS!

Ever seen that scene in movies where theres a badass explosion in the background and someones walking away from without even looking back. You know where they got the idea. yeah thats right. This fucking car walks away from explosions and doesnt even look back. Its lost plenty a pair of Gigantic sunglasses doing this so it just lets his best friend Samuel L Jackson dramatize it from now on.

This is what life is like if you dont buy this car














Look at this pathetic punkass. Not a lady in site. Im sure he hasnt been laid since Clinton was in office (everyone was getting laid then. awwwwwwwww yeah).


Now look what happens when you buy the car














BAM SON! This car will get you so many girls. Not weak ass girls. Strong ones. To open jars and shit.
All this for only $2100! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!














Look at that sweet ass lens flare. Its like im watching Star Trek. FUUUUUUCK!!

And this motherfucker comes equipped with an ipod cassete thing. So you can blast Tegan and Sara for fucking Dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Oh shit! What the fuck?! Is that a lego batman Hanging off the rear view? and it comes with the fucking car?! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

So your probably like, "Dude why would you sell such an awesome ass car"
WELL ILL TELL YOU WHY YOU NOSY ASS!!
Im moving to Hawaii at the end of August. Thats right. Fucking Hawaii. Beaches and shit.
And those Coconut Drinks dont come cheap you know. They probably have like a small umbrella tax or something. I dunno. I dont live there yet.
If you wanna test drive the shit out of this and maybe grab some Taco Bell while we are at it. Text me at (510)***-****.

NOTE: I did not write this - I am merely a fan of the original poster. I reposted this after all the losers who couldn't take the awesome genius of this write up flagged it for removal. It was originally here - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/1879395238.html Who would flag something so amazing you might ask? Well people who are not only uncreative losers but cowards too because they hide behind their anon flaggings. Probably a smart move though because I personally would punch someone in the face who would flag this to remove it. If you're gonna flag this - flag it "Best Of." Thanks.