Johnny Knoxville sued by actor after stunt leads to "personal" injury.
If you're stupid enough to put your penis in a mousetrap before that $10,000,000 check is in your grubby paws, you deserve whatever misery you get.
No, scratch that...if you're stupid enough to put your penis in a mousetrap, PERIOD, you deserve whatever misery you get.
ESPECIALLY if Johnny Knoxville and Jimmy Kimmel are the ones telling you to do it. Use your brain; to quote Tom Hanks' character in A League of Their Own, "It's that lump that's three feet above your ass!"
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People up in arms about new DRM-free technology on iTunes.
Apparently, when you download this music, it's no longer attached to your email address in such a way that other people who've ganked the file from you computer won't be able to play the songs before verifying the purchase with a username and password.
That sentence was a little garbled. Let me explain further:
Say you're on AIM, and a friend sends you some tracks via file-sharing that he wants you to listen to. You download them, and then open them in iTunes. When you click on them to play them, a little window pops up with the username/email of your friend, along with a box for a password, in order for you to "verify" ownership of the track. This...is annoying.
However, with the DRM-free technology, your personal data becomes permanently attached to the file (internally, rather than externally, as in the DRM method described above), so that if someone chooses to investigate the path of a song, they can trace it back to whomever originally downloaded it, and possibly sue them under that creative licensing stuff (sorry, I'm a little fuzzy on why people would be pissed about their personal creative efforts being virally shared online when they're still attributed to their name, and thus add to their notoriety. Maybe it's just because I'm a blogger and I don't get paid for this - but I don't get paid for my paintings or photography, either, and both of those mediums get seen by hundreds of people).
BBC Online adds a helpful little tidbit to getting around that pesky little setback, however:
"Apple uses a technology known as Fairplay to limit what people can do with downloads. Fairplay can be circumvented by burning tracks to a CD and then converting them to another format."
Thanks for the tip!
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Gene therapy could be used in the future to help erectile dysfunction.
I see any story about people wanting to mess with genealogy for perfectly selfish reasons, and it makes my brain twitch.
Call me a bitch, but if you're not able to get a hard-on, your genes might not be the problem you've got to solve. Try exercise. And stop smoking. Or drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Limit your intake of fat and sugar. FRANKIE SAYS RELAX.
Funny - these are the same tidbits of advice that are given to women who have a hard time conceiving.
And either way, if you're having trouble with either activity, maybe you need to give it a rest for a while and focus on other things. Obviously you're just not meant to bump uglies/have a kid at this point in time.
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Mis-timed bomb in Iraq kills civilians rather than the police squad it was intended for.
Who's surprised? Anyone? Bueller?
On a different note, it's strange how this kind of headline can be splashed all over the news about a country such as Iraq, and nobody bats an eye.
But when something comes up that's not even half that bad here in the States, everyone has an opinion, and people scramble to try to build their own agenda on top of the "tragedy".
Just sayin'.
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Castro is up and about, and meeting with people informally.
Am I the only one who thinks that Castro and Mahn look like the happiest inter-racial gay couple on earth in the article's photo?
Sunday, June 3, 2007
*waves hands maniacally in an effort to get even more attention*
Hey guys!
Look at the left sidebar!
I'm one of the cool kids!
And I got it by being a geeky bitch!
:-D
Thanks, AD!
Here are a few more exclamation points for dramatic effect: !!!!!!
EDIT: DUDE! I hit 3000 page views and 2000 visits this morning:
Neat!
Look at the left sidebar!
I'm one of the cool kids!
And I got it by being a geeky bitch!
:-D
Thanks, AD!
Here are a few more exclamation points for dramatic effect: !!!!!!
EDIT: DUDE! I hit 3000 page views and 2000 visits this morning:
Neat!
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Woo-hooooo!
This year was the first year my boyfriend and his friends decided to form a team for the Italian Festival here in Memphis.
Yesterday they won first place in the grape-stomping contest (which is basically an excuse for people to get out all of their nervous energy while trying to see who can extract the most juice out of a bunch of grapes by jumping around like monkeys), which is just fun to say.
I went today with 4 other family members to visit their booth (I'm technically a member of the team, but I haven't done much in the way of significant contributions to the competition as a whole, so I'm going to keep my tee shirt and shut up), and I decided to stay for the announcement of the winners in the other areas of the festival.
We (I feel like I can say that here) won 3rd Place in the tee-shirt design contest.
How cool is that? I think there were 40-some-odd teams there, and, this being our first year, I'm pretty happy with that result.
Not to mention, my boyfriend designed the shirts (I helped!), so we get to keep the plaque in his house. *preens*
P.S. I'm sunburned. Again. And Pimm's with Coke is really good. Does that make me ghetto? Or British? I can't decide.
Friday, June 1, 2007
A bleg? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
I have a request.
I get approximately 40 people visiting my site each day. Of those, maybe 20 are returning visitors.
If the 20 of you who come on a regular basis would please pass on the following information, I would be much obliged (from my livejournal):
The entire story and her reasoning are on the LJ entry in which I linked. Her style is very eclectic, and despite the one NSFW painting on that page, the rest would even be appropriate for a child's room, should any of you be interested in that.
I'm re-adjusting to actually having income again, which is why I can't partake. Otherwise I'd commission 4 or 5. No joke.
So if you've got plans for re-decorating, and you have an idea in mind for a painting that Shira might be able to recreate, don't hesitate to at least ask her. She's more than happy to do it, and the income would be greatly appreciated.
I get approximately 40 people visiting my site each day. Of those, maybe 20 are returning visitors.
If the 20 of you who come on a regular basis would please pass on the following information, I would be much obliged (from my livejournal):
Red Shira is in a bit of a pickle. Her mother has a form of breast cancer which WOULD be easily treated if not for the lack of a functioning lymphatic system.
In order to raise money for the treatment her mom DOES need, Shira is offering her services as an artist.
You can find samples of her art here on her blog.
She's very talented. If I had enough moolah, I'd totally go for it.
But...I don't. Which is why I'm asking you guys to go over and look at her samples and see if maybe you'd want something painted by her.
The entire story and her reasoning are on the LJ entry in which I linked. Her style is very eclectic, and despite the one NSFW painting on that page, the rest would even be appropriate for a child's room, should any of you be interested in that.
I'm re-adjusting to actually having income again, which is why I can't partake. Otherwise I'd commission 4 or 5. No joke.
So if you've got plans for re-decorating, and you have an idea in mind for a painting that Shira might be able to recreate, don't hesitate to at least ask her. She's more than happy to do it, and the income would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, Memphis...again, you defy my expectations.
Do me a favor, guys.
Go to the Eyewitness News website.
Browse around a bit.
Find some positive news.
If you find it, post it here in the comments.
Aside from the polar bear being returned to its exhibit, I got nothin'. And even that article is stupid, because it shows how the zoologists on the staff at our zoo didn't even have the foresight to realize that, hey, a polar bear could get hurt if there's a freakin' 14-foot dry moat in the exhibit.
YOU GUYS STUDY ANIMALS FOR A LIVING!! Can't you do better than that? Seriously. You charge us $20 to go in and look at these guys, and for my money, I want happy animals. Not gimpy, sad animals. Work on it, plskthxbai.
Go to the Eyewitness News website.
Browse around a bit.
Find some positive news.
If you find it, post it here in the comments.
Aside from the polar bear being returned to its exhibit, I got nothin'. And even that article is stupid, because it shows how the zoologists on the staff at our zoo didn't even have the foresight to realize that, hey, a polar bear could get hurt if there's a freakin' 14-foot dry moat in the exhibit.
YOU GUYS STUDY ANIMALS FOR A LIVING!! Can't you do better than that? Seriously. You charge us $20 to go in and look at these guys, and for my money, I want happy animals. Not gimpy, sad animals. Work on it, plskthxbai.
YGTBKM
TB-infected lawyer flies around the world.
He claims to be told that he was not a risk to anyone else. Honestly, I can believe that, with the doctor experiences I've had.
Personal tangent: I went to get my TB test, which is required in order to be admitted to stay in a dorm at college (but the meningitis vaccine isn't required...weird). I was told to wait 24-48 hours for a response, but that it was a pretty sure bet that if I had it, things would show up within a few hours. I was also told that I could call my results in, rather than having to make another appointment.
2 days later, my arm was totally fine. I had a teeeeeny dot where the needle had gone in, and the pen marks had washed off, but there was no change in the injection site, so I called it in. The nurse who answered the phone scoffed at me a bit when I said that there was no change in the injection site, alluding that I didn't know what I was talking about, but she seemed to be okay with taking my word for it until I vaguely mentioned that the pen marks had washed off the day before. Then she FLIPPED and told me I HAD to come in...presumably because she assumed that, since the pen marks weren't there, I wouldn't be able to tell whether or not my arm had swollen up or formed a rash. It must say "mentally retarded" on my chart. They pull this shit on me all the time.
I spent $77 (I didn't have insurance back then, either) to have her look at my arm and say, "Okay. You don't have TB." and send me out again.
Oh, and to have her bruise my arm with the blood pressure cuff. Again.
Anyway, you get two extremes when it comes to TB - the people who fuckin' freak when they hear any mention of it, and the people who treat it like it's no big deal. Obviously this man was exposed to people who didn't care and weren't interested in exploring things further until it was too late.
My favorite quote of the article: Thinking back on his decision to return to the United States on commercial jets, Speaker said, "In hindsight, maybe it wasn't the best decision."
Ya think, Einstein?
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Kevorkian is free.
In the case of something like Lou Gehrig's disease, there's pretty much a guaranteed mortality, so deciding to die while you can still swallow (as a man in a video we watched in a moral issues class outlined) isn't anything that I see a problem with.
(As an aside, the video man's family held out hope that he would recover and ignored his wish to take horse tranquilizers/euthanasia drugs when he felt his throat control slipping, and he died of starvation after two days of refusing to eat and being left alone in a room - that ain't right.)
There are definitely some cases where it's questionable whether assisted suicide is the right decision, but if someone truly wants to die, they're going to find a way to do it, anyway, so why not let them go humanely? I wouldn't call it second-degree murder, especially if the person wanting to die has the presence of mind to have a legal document drawn up eliminating the physician/helper's responsibility for the whole thing.
If we're going to split hairs, we could put everyone who's ever sold a pack of cigarettes to jail.
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Nessie spotted?
I have to admit, that's a pretty good video.
Biologically, though, there's pretty much no way a creature could survive for that many centuries (adding up to over 1000 years). If there's a possibility of this thing producing asexually (as some frogs and snakes are known to do), then I could buy that there has been more than one (because there being more than one down there at a time to produce sexually? no WAY they'd have been able to hide). But the chances are astronomical of this thing even existing in the first place, so adding those kinds of chances on top make this a highly unlikely story.
Then again, I have no ideas as to what that shape could be. And it does appear to be swimming in a very direct way (i.e. it's not a slightly submerged tree drifting around). And it's very large.
Who knows? I'd like to believe in Nessie, because that'd be really freakin' cool. I just treat it the same way I treat "God": until I see evidence either way, I'm not going to form a solid opinion (i.e. belief) about it.
He claims to be told that he was not a risk to anyone else. Honestly, I can believe that, with the doctor experiences I've had.
Personal tangent: I went to get my TB test, which is required in order to be admitted to stay in a dorm at college (but the meningitis vaccine isn't required...weird). I was told to wait 24-48 hours for a response, but that it was a pretty sure bet that if I had it, things would show up within a few hours. I was also told that I could call my results in, rather than having to make another appointment.
2 days later, my arm was totally fine. I had a teeeeeny dot where the needle had gone in, and the pen marks had washed off, but there was no change in the injection site, so I called it in. The nurse who answered the phone scoffed at me a bit when I said that there was no change in the injection site, alluding that I didn't know what I was talking about, but she seemed to be okay with taking my word for it until I vaguely mentioned that the pen marks had washed off the day before. Then she FLIPPED and told me I HAD to come in...presumably because she assumed that, since the pen marks weren't there, I wouldn't be able to tell whether or not my arm had swollen up or formed a rash. It must say "mentally retarded" on my chart. They pull this shit on me all the time.
I spent $77 (I didn't have insurance back then, either) to have her look at my arm and say, "Okay. You don't have TB." and send me out again.
Oh, and to have her bruise my arm with the blood pressure cuff. Again.
Anyway, you get two extremes when it comes to TB - the people who fuckin' freak when they hear any mention of it, and the people who treat it like it's no big deal. Obviously this man was exposed to people who didn't care and weren't interested in exploring things further until it was too late.
My favorite quote of the article: Thinking back on his decision to return to the United States on commercial jets, Speaker said, "In hindsight, maybe it wasn't the best decision."
Ya think, Einstein?
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Kevorkian is free.
In the case of something like Lou Gehrig's disease, there's pretty much a guaranteed mortality, so deciding to die while you can still swallow (as a man in a video we watched in a moral issues class outlined) isn't anything that I see a problem with.
(As an aside, the video man's family held out hope that he would recover and ignored his wish to take horse tranquilizers/euthanasia drugs when he felt his throat control slipping, and he died of starvation after two days of refusing to eat and being left alone in a room - that ain't right.)
There are definitely some cases where it's questionable whether assisted suicide is the right decision, but if someone truly wants to die, they're going to find a way to do it, anyway, so why not let them go humanely? I wouldn't call it second-degree murder, especially if the person wanting to die has the presence of mind to have a legal document drawn up eliminating the physician/helper's responsibility for the whole thing.
If we're going to split hairs, we could put everyone who's ever sold a pack of cigarettes to jail.
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Nessie spotted?
I have to admit, that's a pretty good video.
Biologically, though, there's pretty much no way a creature could survive for that many centuries (adding up to over 1000 years). If there's a possibility of this thing producing asexually (as some frogs and snakes are known to do), then I could buy that there has been more than one (because there being more than one down there at a time to produce sexually? no WAY they'd have been able to hide). But the chances are astronomical of this thing even existing in the first place, so adding those kinds of chances on top make this a highly unlikely story.
Then again, I have no ideas as to what that shape could be. And it does appear to be swimming in a very direct way (i.e. it's not a slightly submerged tree drifting around). And it's very large.
Who knows? I'd like to believe in Nessie, because that'd be really freakin' cool. I just treat it the same way I treat "God": until I see evidence either way, I'm not going to form a solid opinion (i.e. belief) about it.
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