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some facts about sex 2008-10-18 14:05:00 -Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
-22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
-Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
-For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
-Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
-A man's beard Read more:facts
Yahoo to cut 3,500 jobs -- party on! 2008-10-17 01:29:00 A tipster tells us that Yahoo
plans to cut 3,500 jobs, chiefly in sales and finance, on December 10 — while keeping plans for a multimillion-dollar holiday party days before the cuts:
I work in the finance org at Yahoo and have learned that the layoff date is Dec. 10. Finance will be cutting 50% of the workforce, engineering 10%, and sales and the rest of G&A [general & administrative]
THE (EX) BIGGEST HEROIN DEALER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD 2008-10-17 01:27:00 Vice: Tell me a fond memory of your drug-dealing days.
Suleyman Ergun: There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you’ve got 100 kilos of heroin in the trunk of your car. Just to be near it, to smell it. Driving along at 120 mph in France somewhere and thinking: “I know what I’ve got in the car.” Police stopping beside you. A gun under my seat. Wouldn’t think twice about shooting t
The "Joe the Plumber" Story Hits an Amazing New Low 2008-10-17 01:26:00 Just when you didn't think things could get worse for John McCain -- they go in the toilet.
Literally.
So, you remember Joe the Plumber, who John McCain kept relentlessly bringing up. And up. The apparently undecided plumber who had complained to Barack Obama that he couldn't buy his own plumbing company because he'd have to pay 3% more in taxes. The plumber who John McCain lauded as an Read more:Amazing
Three Years Later, Buying MySpace Looks Like One Of Murdoch’s Smartest Bets 2008-10-17 01:21:00 Three years ago today, Rupert Murdoch
bought MySpace
and its parent company Intermix for $580 million. That turned out to be money well spent. The last time we ran the numbers, we figured that MySpace alone is worth between $3 billion and $20 billion, depending on how much you value each user. Fox Interactive Media (which is mostly MySpace) accounted for about $850 million in revenues last Read more:Buying
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Scramble 2008-10-16 05:00:00 Whoever compiled this must have too much free time or must be extremely good at Scrabble....
PRINCESS DIANA
When you rearrange the letters:
END IS A CAR SPIN
MONICA LEWINSKY
When you rearrange the letters:
NICE SILKY WOMAN
DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM
ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER
DESPERATION
When you rearrange the letters:
Public at Last: Guantanamo SERE Standard Operating Procedures 2008-10-14 13:54:00 One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program has just become publicly available for the first time. This is the JTF GTMO "SERE" Interrogation StandardOperating
Procedure, now posted on the website of the new documentary, Torturing Democracy. This document clearly specifies that the abusive interrogation techniques to be used at Guantamo [JTF GTMO] are based upon the m Read more:Procedures
, Public
Brain boost drugs 'growing trend' 2008-10-14 13:50:00 Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, say experts.
Up to a fifth of adults, including college students and shift workers, may be using cognitive enhancers, a poll of 1,400 by Nature journal suggests.
Neuropsychologist Professor Barbara Sahakian of Cambridge University said safety evidence is urgently needed.
Experts gather Read more:Brain
Bush critic wins 2008 Nobel for economics 2008-10-14 13:41:00 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - U.S. economist Paul Krugman, a fierce critic of the Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel
prize for economics on Monday.
The Nobel committee said the award was for Krugman's work that helps explain why some countries dominate international trade, starting with research published nearly 30 years ago.
While
Armstrong to race in 2009 Giro d'Italia 2008-10-14 13:40:00 MILAN (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong
will race in next year's Giro d'Italia
for the first time as part of his cycling comeback, the seven-times Tour de France winner said on Monday.
The 37-year-old, who retired in 2005, will compete in the May 9-31 race before bidding for an eighth Tour title in July.
"I will give my utmost, and not only to prepare for the Tour," Armstrong said in a state
Internet TV Remote: Quick Links to Free Streaming Shows 2008-10-14 13:36:00 You already know about all of the different ways to watch TV online. Now you just want links to your favorite shows (plus all those new ones) as quickly as possible so you can ditch your TiVo and TV once and for all. Our Internet
TV remote has the best links to every prime-time show currently streaming online at full length. Bookmark it and check back often, we'll update it as new shows come out. Read more:Quick
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Researchers discover baldness gene: 1 in 7 men at risk 2008-10-12 23:14:00 Researchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness
. Their results will be published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. The condition's social and
Turning carbon dioxide into fuel 2008-10-12 23:10:00 LONDON, England (CNN) -- You might have thought that recycling is limited to paper, plastics and glass. Well, think again. A Californian company is developing a new technique for recycling carbon dioxide, or CO2, and turning it back into fuel.
Carbn Sciences are developing a "breakthrough technology" to make fuel out of waste CO2.
Their biocatalytic process converts CO2 into basic hydr
Hanged for being a Christian in Iran 2008-10-12 23:06:00 Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christian
ity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer. Alasdair Palmer reports.
A month ago, the Iranian parliament voted in favour of a draft bill, entitled "Islamic Penal Code", which would codify the death penalty for any male Irani Read more:Hanged
Sticky Substance Could Turn You Into Spider-Man 2008-10-12 22:59:00 Peter Parker needed a radioactive spider bite to be able to climb walls. And Mohinder Suresh joined the wall-climber club after downing his superpower formula, and we all know that doesn’t end well. So, rather than have us expose ourselves to unpredictable mutations, a pair of researchers have developed a material that will let you let you stick to the ceiling without the unfortunate side Read more:Spider
, Substance
Psychologist Says Intelligent Men Have the Best Sperm 2008-10-12 22:57:00 University of New Mexico evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller has said that the quality of sperm is indicative of the brain power in men.
According to the tests conducted by the expert, it was found that men who scored high on a battery of intelligence tests boasted high counts of healthy sperm.
Whereas, low scorers tended to have fewer and more sickly sperm.
The finding suggests Read more:Intelligent
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Scientist warns: Financial crisis will be 'devastating' to science 2008-10-12 22:57:00 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be "just devastating" to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.
Leakey, who once served on a government economic team in his native Kenya, said much of the support for science comes from wealthy philanthropists, foundations an Read more:Financial
, warns
Palin uses her elected office to promote religious causes, at times with public money 2008-10-12 01:30:00 WASILLA, Alaska (AP) _ The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office
.
What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane Read more:causes
, religious
Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling 2008-10-11 21:07:00 Three days before the Canadian
elections, the party leader of the New Democrats
has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them “fundamental to democracy.” At the same time, isoHunt, the largest Canadian BitTorrent site advises its users not to vote for the Conservatives, considering their stance on copyright issues.
Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian New Democrats is a proponent o
Palin E-Mails: Judge Orders State To Preserve 2008-10-11 21:02:00 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mails that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge
Craig Stowers ruled Friday in the lawsuit brought by Anchorage resident Andree McLeod against Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state Read more:Preserve
, State
The Top 10 Most Athletic Presidents in U.S. History 2008-11-05 11:39:00 Let’s see, McCain is a Phoenix Suns fan who played junior varsity football in high school and boxed in the Navy. Eh.
Obama is a White Sox fan who threw out the first pitch in Chicago before Game 2 of the ’05 ALCS. He led Occidental College’s basketball team in scoring. He recently played hoops with North Carolina All-American Tyler Hansbrough and ESPN’s Stuart Scott and can, for some reas Read more:History
, Presidents
Women Carry More Bacteria Than Men 2008-11-05 11:37:00 Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find.
"One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between hands on the same individual," said University of Colorado biochemistry ass Read more:Bacteria
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Teen's 'Fantastic' new name 'Super' long 2008-11-05 11:36:00 GLASTONBURY, England, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A British 19-year-old has officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic
Faster Than Super
man Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."
The Glastonbury, England, teenager -- originally named George Garratt -- said his new name, which is thought to be the world's longest, has so outraged his grandmother that she is no longer speakin
Phone company: Heavy Internet users to pay more 2008-11-04 09:57:00 (AP) -- Phone company
Frontier Communications Co. will probably charge its subscribers a dollar or two per gigabyte of Internet
traffic if they go over the monthly allotments the company plans to introduce next year, Frontier's chief executive said Friday.
The company is at the forefront of what CEO Maggie Wilderotter believes is a trend among Internet service providers toward billing for the Read more:Heavy
, users
Release Dates *November 2008* *PC* 2008-11-04 09:56:00 03
. Space Trader
04
. James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
. CSI: New York
. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
11
. Call of Duty: World at War
. Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice
. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
. History Channel Civil War: Secret Missions
13
. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
17
. Left 4 Dead
. Need for Speed Undercover
. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff
. Chronicles of Read more:November
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