Another reason to like Web 2.0. How else would one find a pack of creepy monkey children get killed off one-by-one in various bicycle safety mistakes:
Certainly one of the strangest safety videos ever made.
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“The cubicle was not born evil”
- Fortune’s Julie Schlosser, in Cubicles: The Great Mistake, in which we learn that the cube was originally intended to improve the work lives of office workers stuck in open bullpens.
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H/t: Good Morning Silicon Valley
Today was a stellar day for an epic ride and one of the best cycling places in the LA area is Simi Valley. This shot is of the Ronald Reagan Library which was about the 1/2-point of the ride.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Boston University researchers report that smokers are 70% more likely to have root canals than nonsmokers.
From WebMD:
Root canals are done when a tooth’s dental pulp — which includes nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue — becomes infected and inflamed. The infected tissue is removed, and then the hollow area is cleansed and filled to prevent […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)OK, I missed Valentine’s Day, but it’s still funny…
Little Thelma comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine’s Day. And, “Since Valentine’s Day is for a Christian saint and we’re Jewish,” she asks, “will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?
Thelma’s […]
In Hermosa Beach, it looked and felt like summer today — the parking lots were certainly as crowded as they are in July. Bodyboarders were in the 6′+ waves without wetsuits, enjoying the extended Santa Ana conditions we’ve had all week. Who needs that midwinter trip to Cabo or Hawaii anyway?
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Business 2.0 magazine has published its’ annual 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list. Taking a page from Esquire’s perennial Dubious Achievement Awards, some of our favorites include:
Bollocks the yellow moons and green clovers. Get yer fat arse down and be givin’ me 50 push-ups, boyo.
Amid a rising tide of child obesity, General Mills launches a […]
323 pounds (against other “heavy weight” opponents who weigh 1/3rd less)
7 feet tall
85″ wing span reach
mean
If you haven’t heard of Nikolay Valuev, you soon will. Don King wants to give him the nickname “King Kong.” In Russia he’s already known as the “Russian Giant.” In the rest of the world it’s the “Beast from the […]
Alamo, California residents have been faced with a rash of “Gaywood Road” sign thefts–which cost approximately $600 per sign to replace.
“At first, we made a joke out of it, and everybody pitched in to buy a new sign,” said 10-year Alamo resident Linda Buschmeyer. “Then, it wasn’t so funny the second time on. It is […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Independent Sources had not been in existence during the first public scandal for the Condit family so it was nice of them to drum up another one for us to enjoy. (Kind of like what Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, and Scott Peterson keep doing for us).
About a year ago, Larry King interviewed the Condit kids, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)From Snopes.com which reports this story as “true”:
A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa.
The above-quoted account, which has been circulated widely on the Internet, is but one of the […]
From today’s Fry’s newspaper ad:
Is “corded” really a feature worth calling out?
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Here’s a prime example of “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” offered by an English professor from the University of Phoenix:
The professor told his class one day: “Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting […]
If you’re writing about “weaponized weather control,” don’t you want to establish the credibility of your primary source a little better than … this?
It’s late fall of 2004. Fred McKenna surveys his beloved radionics equipment with sorrow. “I am expecting a visit from the boys in black,” he sighs to me. Because he has been […]
All the PR flacks who were brazenly predicting that Michael Jackson would lay low and then slowly work to rebuild his career after his devastating child molestation trial once again under-estimated the utter wackiness of Michael’s world.
We have learned that Jackson is now converting to Islam. Why not? He’s tried everything else to destroy what’s […]
