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Archive for January, 2007

Mexican Tortilla Prices Rise - Another Example Of The Law OF Unintended Consequences

Monday, January 15th, 2007 by Chad

In Mexico tortilla prices have risen as much as 400% since November causing President Felipe Calderon to promise publicily that he will look into the matter.
The cause of this price surge? Ethanol, or more accurately speculation about the large scale deployment of Ethanol vehicles:
Mexico now imports much of its corn from the United States, […]

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My New Obsession - Polish Pop Music Featuring Ewa Sonnet

Monday, January 15th, 2007 by Chad

I have no idea what she is singing about, but frankly who cares?
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Nie zatrzymasz mnie (which apparently means “you can’t stop me” in Polish)

As a plus in the second video a guy gets hit in the the groin with a volleyball. Always good for a laugh, or to quote the most prolific sage of […]

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We’re writing about the Screech Sex Tape because someone has to

Sunday, January 14th, 2007 by Insider

A sex tape with Dustin Diamond, AKA Screech from ‘Saved by the Bell,’ has surfaced in which the former TV star cavorts with two unidentified women. TMZ has a lame “preview“.
Other than the oddity of it all, is there anyone out there who has really wanted to see Screech naked, let alone doing the dirty […]

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Mountain biking that is best left for others

Friday, January 12th, 2007 by Insider

What is both spectacular and stupid at the same time?

I received these from Dr. Hoist via an email that was aptly titled “when bike helmets are unnecessary”.
I found more Victor Lucas photos at his website.

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Mannequin chests are getting bigger

Thursday, January 11th, 2007 by Insider

According to the Metro UK Mannequins’ breasts are growing to cater for the number of women who now have plastic surgery (or men’s increased fondness for gigantic boobs). Shop mannequins with 40″ DD breasts are now being used. Given that breast augmentation surgery has increased by 700 per cent in America in the past 10 […]

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LA Times: A Tale of Two Headlines; Same story given different headlines in print and electronic version

Thursday, January 11th, 2007 by Insider

An opinion piece by LAT columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan was given the headline “A Boomer’ Lament.”
However the electronic version of that same story located on LATIMES.com had this headline “Survivor’s guilt at 45
Looking back at the first generation to grow up without legal racial segregation.”
Why would the Times go to the effort of essentially branding […]

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Welcome to the Third World California

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 by Chad

Yesterday Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced
his plans to drive California into third world status. 
Officially a Health Care Reform plan if adopted it would:

Require all employers with 10 or more employees to provide insurance or pay 4% of their payroll into a government program designed to provide coverage to the uninsured.

Tax Doctors 2% of their Gross […]

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Malibu Fire Shows Readers Do Have a Role In Traditional Journalism

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 by Insider

Today’s Malibu fire (which burned 4 homes possibly including a home owned by Suzanne Somers) demonstrated the value of citizen journalism to a traditional media company like the LA Times. Along with the excellent photos by the Times staff photographer dispatched to the blaze, the Times website had reader-submitted photos of the fire as well.
The […]

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Day at the Beach

Monday, January 8th, 2007 by Insider

This photo is from Holland. You can thank me for putting in the little black box. This picture raises so many questions. Why is this guy at the beach? Couldn’t the photographer have found a different angle? Don’t Dutch swim suits have that netting that keep your privates, well private?

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Because What Really Kept Me From Buying A Taser Was The Limited Choice of Colors

Monday, January 8th, 2007 by Chad

Taser launches ’stylish’ stun gun
US stun gun maker Taser is unveiling a sleeker version of its controversial weapon aimed at safety and fashion conscious members of the public.
Available in pink, blue, silver and black, the gun fits into a handbag like a mobile phone. It will be launched at a Las Vegas electronics […]

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Ro Sham Bo: the Japanese Game Show

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 by Insider

Before you go on a Japanese game show, make very sure you understand the rules. Also, be very vary if you see the words Ro Sham Bo.

Ro Sham Bo
tags: ro+sham+bo

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Russian Identity Thieves Really Suck at Writing

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 by Insider

Is it really that hard for Russian identity theft criminals to find someone with decent English grammar skills? I’m amazed that criminals go to the effort to SPAM millions of people, painstakingly recreate letters from banks and so forth and then blow it with a poorly written letter. Couldn’t they go to Yahoo Answers and […]

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USC Cheerleader Upskirt? Instant replay shows all

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 by Insider

You’ve all heard about the panties vs. no panties question about the USC Cheerleader. For you we’ve got the still image and a butt-shot blown-up, plus the video. You review and make the call.
From this shot I call it an “upskirt”

Definitely an upskirt.

The video feed:

Update: Sadly Digg has an HD image and we can indeed […]

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Bad Parenting: You let your kids re-enact a hanging

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 by Insider

A young Pakistani boy who tried to copy the televised execution scenes from the execution video of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein hanged himself resulting in his death.
Mubashar Ali, 9, was aided by his elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home.
The father of the deceased boy […]

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