He’s done it again…I wish they would release a photo of this guy…it would be funny if he turned out to be a woman dressing as a man dressing as a woman…. cd A bank robber who disguises his appearance from surveillance cameras hit a Kalihi bank for the second time in a week. Police…
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Smokers more likely to quit if decision is spontaneous
This story is about so much more than smoking…it’s about success. Think about it. cd LONDON (Reuters) – If you really want to give up smoking then do it. Research by British scientists shows that smokers who decide to quit immediately, without making plans about how or when, are more likely to succeed. “Contrary to…
Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man
Watch out, Brad Pitt. Sarcasm aside, I really do want to see this. People are loving this movie. Why couldn’t someone have managed to portray a charming and charismatic Gore when he was running for president?? (Or maybe Gore isn’t the attraction – it might be those Katie Holmes nude scenes in the middle of…
Fantasy vs. Reality….Dead Animals put to good use.
Here’s a site I am posting just for Mink Hippie. The rest of you might find it amusing, disturbing, or otherwise too. The first link is to a gallery in New York and contains the following picture among many others…. Wake Up Teddy! is a giant stuffed toy whose fur is made from the real…
L.A. Times writer defends incendiary Iraq column
I can only be happy that there are still people out there who are not afraid to say how they feel or what they beleive, even if it flies in the face of popular sentiment or sanctioned government thought. I support John Stein and his views 100% without agreeing with them. Personally, my belief at…
Scientists Use Web Site to Predict Disease
This is a pretty neat story. The where’s george website is also pretty great….cd f By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Wed Jan LOS ANGELES – Scientists think they may have found a better way to predict how diseases like a global flu epidemic could spread: Follow the money. Using the popular “Where’s George?” Web…
Campaign to seize US judge's home
When I saw this story, I thought that the idea of activists trying to seize someone’s home was frightening and that the activists were going too far. Then I figured out what they were responding to (and that “seize” didn’t mean “storm and occupy”)… The government can now seize homes for “public benefit” – like…
Liberia gets first traffic lights
I have not been to Monrovia, but Freetown, the capital of neighboring Sierra Leone, sounds very similar – in a city of almost one million (bigger than Honolulu), there was almost never electricity and the traffic lights had not been functioning in many years. There was no shortage of drivers, however, and the gridlock was…
Nude scenes of Katie Holmes mysteriously disappear at Sundance! Tom Cruise suspected.
The biggest mystery at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: Who gave Katie Holmes the snip? At a sold-out screening for his new satirical comedy, Thank You for Smoking, rookie filmmaker Jason “Son of Ivan” Reitman was shocked–shocked!–to discover that a 12-second scene of a hookup between Holmes’ journalist character and a tobacco lobbyist played by…
Mental Conditioning
As adults, virtually all our actions are conditioned responses. That is, we generally react to whatever happens (a stimulus) in our daily life in the same way each time. This is largely because we live in the same environment day after day, and nearly all of our daily activities are a pattern. We’re programmed to…