The iconic Barbie doll turned 50 this year, and Newsweek is celebrating her birthday with a photo gallery of some of her more bizarre iterations over the years (including "pooper scooper Barbie" - check it out at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/185536 (as a side note, the original Barbie was propor...
so the first time I saw this photo (someone posted it on the boards last semester), I presumed it was a spoof. But, it's apparently real, and it's about one of the grossest - and one of the saddest - things EVER, so just thought I'd pass it along for your perusal... Dede Koswara -- dubbed "Tree Man" becau...
ABC, CBS, NBC are scrambling to find shows for their lineup that will be competitive with American Idol, still a wildly popular hit despite being so many seasons old (and a slide in ratings this season)... "...for nearly seven full years "Idol" has prevented other networks, with the notable excepti...
-A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. -Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday...
As a devotee of Diet Coke, I found this article to be most entertaining (and validating ) Interestingly, for many years, Democrats always drank Coke and Republicans always drank Pepsi (unless they were representatives from Georgia - Coca-Cola is headquartered in Atlanta) because the corporati...
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2009LEAD STORY Though India is recognized as a world leader in promoting the health benefits of urine, its dominance will be assured by the end of the year when a cow-urine-based soft drink comes to market. Om Prakash, chief of the Cow Protection Department of the RSS organizatio...
Since CA doesn't have any blue laws to repeal as a fundraising measure (see the Blue/Black post), Assemblyman Tom Ammiano from San Francisco submitted a proposal to the legislature that marijuana be taxed and regulated in the same manner as alcohol. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-...
This morning on the news I saw a report about a couple college students who are going to give up facebook for lent. They said they are even going to have their friends change their passwords. Do you think that giving up a website is good to give up for lent?? or should it be something that meens more to them?...
By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse Scientists have quashed suggestions that a £350m experiment planned for the autumn could cause the destruction of the Earth. The director of the laboratory commissioning the machine says there is "no chance" of the atom-smashing e...
Nadya Suleman was on Dr. Phil for the past 2 days doing an interview with him. It was actually really interesting to hear what she had to say and Dr. Phil actually asked some really good questions. I watched both of the episodes, I hope some of you got to watch it too. I still think she needs A LOT of help, psy...
-The Tamil Tigers (a rebel organization) launched a surprise raid on the Sri Lankan capital late Friday. -The Sri Lankan military shot down both planes, one of which crashed into a government office building, killing one person and wounding more than 40 others. -The attack was the first air raid he...
The remains of a missing five-year-old boy have been found in the stomach of acrocodile caught after floods ravaged northern Australia An examination carried out on a crocodile trapped near the spot had revealed the remains of the boy in its stomach. Hundreds of people were forced to flee and other...
Alex Rodriguez held a press conference yesterday to address his use of performance-enhancing substances during the 2001, 2002, and 2003 seasons. This is, of course, only the latest in a series of such admissions by various MLB players. Among other things, "Rodriguez used the phrase "...
I'm sure a bunch of you have already seen this, but in case you haven't, I thought it was incredible. http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c It works like google maps or google earth. You can keep zooming in on any part of this picture (you can u...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is expected to order all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, closing the door on a war that has led to the death of 4,250 American Soldiers. The pullout recommended by Obama's security advisers would free up troo...
at 6:00 p.m. our time, on every network channel and lots of cable news ones, too, President Obama will be addressing Congress and the nation. Try to find some time to tune in...or watch news coverage after the fact...or read a post-speech story online... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap...
(CNN) -- No one, especially not one of Mexico's top law enforcement officials, denies that killings by drug cartels have reached record levels.
But Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, executive secretary for the National System for Public Safety, has an explanation.
"Mexico all of a sudden st...
Newsweek reported this week that one in five teens have admitted to "sexting" - sending nude photos of themselves to others via cell phones. What that 20% may not know is that the practice actually has led to teens being prosecuted for violating anti-child pornography laws, having to register as se...
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