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…
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other odd stuff
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…
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…
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…
Omigod, it's a rabbit!!!!!!!
I CAN NOT stop laughing!!! This woman raises angora rabbits. Yes, rabbits. And, not surprisingly, sells things made out of their fur!! In breeder parlance, the unbelievably fluffy parts around the face are referred to as “furnishings.” (Thanks, neatorama by way of boingboing, for pointing this out!) BEFORE…. AFTER….. Betty Chu’s English Angora, Home of…
Japanese nurse jailed for cruelty
This creeped me out so much that I am going to impose it on all of you…… A Japanese nurse who tore off patients’ toenails and fingernails because of a work grudge has been jailed for three years and eight months. A court imprisoned Akemi Sato after she admitted tearing 49 nails from six female…
Chinese Astrology – 2006, the Fire Dog
As a metal pig born born into the birth chart of the fire dog, I am looking forward to this year…promises to be the best year of my life…that is, unless a tsunami wipes out my little town of Kailua…seems that natural disasters involving water are somewhat common in fire dog years….The last year of…
U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia – Yahoo! News
A pirates life for me…I had a friend that wanted to get that tattooed on her once…I wonder if she was aboard? cd U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia – Yahoo! News DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Navy boarded an apparent pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for…
Bill would allow disabled Georgians to keep monkeys as helpers
I almost thought this was a fake story…it’s not. Click on the Helping Hands link to find out more. Isn’t this how the planet of the apes ended up becoming what it became? Before we know it the Statue of Liberty will be all freaky…. cd Bill would allow disabled Georgians to keep monkeys as…
Miss America Leaves Jersey Heads to Vegas
Somehow, I think Vegas is a much more appropriate home…wonder what sort of changes will occur…a no swimsuit competition? cd Faithful Follow Miss America to Las Vegas – Yahoo! News Cast off by ABC in 2004 for its low viewership, its bank balances dipping dangerously low, the nonprofit Miss America Organization announced plans last August…