Nut Bra Video
Posted on February 18, 2008
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I don’t know how I’ve never seen this video called “Nut Bra”. The video is way, way more funny than the name sounds. Had me laughing so hard that I almost choked.
Possibly the funniest video I’ve ever seen.
Scientists Develop Orange, Purple and Green Cauliflowers May Be Healthier
Posted on February 16, 2008
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Say Goodbye to the old boring plain white cauliflower. Scientists have developed some new bizarre variants of the veggie in which flowering parts, typically white, now have orange, purple and green variants.
The new colorful cauliflowers are said to have the same exact taste as the original version, but scientists who developed the new strains claim that these colorful veggies are healthier for you.
Andrew Coker, a spokesman for Syngenta, the European plant company who is developing the plants says that the new “rainbow cauliflowers” are not the result of genetic engineering, but from decades of selective breeding.
The cauliflowers will retain their color even after cooking, and should be commercially available in UK supermarkets and stores soon.
Beware of Falling Space Junk and Space Debris
Posted on February 15, 2008
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Just watching a report on CNN, and they showed a map of all the debris and trash that is orbiting the earth. I had no idea…
Here is a map showing just how much there is.
1) Russians Space Debris
2) Geosynchronous satellites
3) Junk from Scientific Missions
4) Junk from Other Countries – including the European Space Agency, Japan, France, India, and several companies.
5) Space Junk/ Debris that Will Fall Soon – old junk falls back through the atmosphere about once a day.
More maps of Space Junk/ Debris
As you can see from these maps, Earth’s orbit is extremely crowded with clutter from many scientific missions (like the Hubble Space Telescope), manned spaceflights, and also the International Space Station.
This space trash, junk, and debris ranges from things as small as a spatula dropped by space-shuttle astronauts to bigger bags of trash dropped by the international space station.
Is this debris dangerous?
In one case, a collision with a tiny space trash particle (only about one tenth of a millimeter wide) resulted in a 1 millimeter wide crack in a space shuttle window.
What you may have called a “falling star” is probably space junk, which falls back through the atmosphere about once a day. Usually the debris completely burns up on reentry, but several 100-pound-plus fragments have crashed to Earth. Surprisingly, there has only been one report of an injury, a woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was hit by falling space junk.
This brings us to the current news of a bus-sized satellite now hurtling toward earth, which is carrying about 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel. The plan is to shoot it down with a star-wars like missile.
There will be one chance / attempt at getting this right, which is going to be about as difficult as hitting a bullet with another bullet. If successful, it will just create millions of little pieces of space junk, which will probably burn up on re-entry, but if it fails, we can only hope that someone will be able to predict exactly where it will land.
Whatever happened to Curly Howard? The tragic life of one of the Three Stooges
Posted on February 13, 2008
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I was watching the Three Stooges with my daughter the other day, and even though she‚Äôs only 3 years old, she loves them. It doesn’t seem to bother her that the films are black and white; it’s funny and she gets it. That’s what good comedy is all about isn’t it? Of the three, she likes Curly the most. I had heard from my dad that Curly did not have a great life, being a sick man and dying relatively young, so I though it would be interesting to find a little more about him.
Curly (born Jerome Lester Horwitz) was introduced to comedy from an early age by his older brothers Moe and Shemp, who wanted to encourage him to be a comedian. Later his interest in comedy grew stronger as he watched Shemp, Moe and Larry perform as the Three Stooges. When Shemp decided to leave, Moe suggested that Curly (Babe as Moe called him), would make an excellent replacement.
I bet you never thought of this, but before Curly was one of the Stooges, he had long, wavy hair and a mustache. He was accepted into the group under the condition that he had to shave them. Opposite of what you would imagine, Curly was an introvert person, did not speak on the set between takes, was shy and the opposite of the crazy TV character we know. He abstained from crazy behavior in private life and acted like this only for his performances, or when he got together with his brothers, Moe and Shemp, or his closest friends.
As in many other Hollywood stories, success destroyed his life. In a few words: sex, drugs and rock and roll (the 1940’s version). He started drinking heavily and was very uncomfortable with the way he looked. Larry said that Curly wore a hat in public, because he felt like a kid with his hair shaved off. Curly also had money-spending problems; he spent it all on alcohol, women, cars and houses (it’s easy to think about other modern comedians that have followed similar steps: John Belushi, Sam Kinison, Chris Farley, etc. to name a few).
Another of his weaknesses was women. The guy married three times (plus a first marriage that was annulled), and it was known, that some of the women he got involved with were only interested in his money (not until a few years before his death he married someone that really cared for him).
During the early 1940‚Äôs, Curly ate and drank as if there was no tomorrow. As a result, he started gaining lots of weight and his blood pressure skyrocketed. In 1945, he was diagnosed as having extreme hypertension, a retinal hemorrhage and obesity. In 1946, he suffered a stroke during the filming of his 97th Three Stooges comedy, Half-Wits’ Holiday. In 1949, his health took a severe turn for the worse when he suffered his second in a series of strokes. His doctors considered doing spinal surgery on him since the stroke had left him partially paralyzed, but they decided not to.
At this point, Curly was confined to a wheelchair and was put on a diet of (listen to this) boiled rice and apples, with the hope of bringing down his weight and high blood pressure (and he did loose a lot of weight). When his condition did not improve, he was admitted into the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in 1950, where he would return periodically during the following two years. After this, Curly returned home confined to his bed as his health continued to get worse.
In February 1951, he was placed in a nursing home and later that year he suffered another stroke and was moved out (by Moe’s orders). In April of 1951 he was transferred to North Hollywood Hospital and Sanitarium. Some months later, in December, the hospital supervisor advised the family that Curly was becoming a problem due to mental deterioration and that they could no longer care for him. It was suggested that he be placed in a mental hospital, but Moe did not allow it. On January 7, 1952, he was moved to the Baldy View Sanitarium in San Gabriel. Curly Howard, the Stooge, the icon, the great comedian, died 11 days later on January 18, 1952 at the still tender age of forty-eight.
This Valentine’s Day, say it with Beef
Posted on February 12, 2008
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I’ve been seeing this billboard just about every day, just at the foot of the cooper river bridge in Mount Pleasant, SC. At first, I just though… “That’s weird.”, but the more I saw it, the more bizarre the whole concept became.
Last week, I pulled off of the road just after getting off of the bridge, and snapped the photo above.
Well, it turns out that I didn’t need to go out of my way to capture a photo of this billboard, because a few days later, I got a few pieces of junk mail with the same advertisement.
So basically, This Valentine’s Day, “Piggly Wiggly” (embarrassing that we even have a grocery chain in my area by that name) thinks that you should show your Valentine’s Day Love with a big slab of bloody beef.
Ad 1
Ad 2
This kind of ad would only ever work in the south. Here’s my rendition of what this ad would look like in Times Square, NYC.
So if you’re looking for that perfect valentine’s day gift, look no further. It’s the meat.