Man went as pregnant Beyonce
Ursala the Sea Witch
She wanted to be the wolf.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
FIPID - 12/24/12
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HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering (And no one is going to jail?! Too big to fail. Too big to go to jail.)
Instead, HSBC announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to a record $1.92 billion settlement with authorities. The bank, which is based in Britain, faces accusations that it transferred billions of dollars for nations like Iran and enabled Mexican drug cartels to move money illegally through its American subsidiaries.
The Huge (And Rarely Discussed) Health Insurance Tax Break (Great story. Please take the time to read or listen.)
Believe it or not, dollar for dollar, the most tax revenue the federal government forgoes every year is from not taxing the value of health insurance that employers provide their workers.
Corporate profits hit record as wages get squeezed
In the third quarter, corporate earnings were $1.75 trillion, up 18.6% from a year ago, according to last week's gross domestic product report. That took after-tax profits to their greatest percentage of GDP in history.
But the record profits come at the same time that workers' wages have fallen to their lowest-ever share of GDP.
How to get targeted ads on your TV? Try a camera in your set-top box.
Verizon has filed a patent for a DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room. In the application, the company proposes to use the technology to serve targeted ads appropriate to whatever you’re doing in the, uh, privacy of your own home—fighting, cuddling, or hanging out with your cats.
High-Speed Traders Profit at Expense of Ordinary Investors, a Study Says
Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them…
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Raph Nader on a simple way to avoid the fiscal cliff: tax stock trades
A financial transaction tax would apply to purchases and sales of derivatives, options and stocks. The tax would be small, half a penny or less on each dollar of the transaction value, depending on the product. This idea is often called a "speculation tax," because it would hit hardest at frothy high-volume trading as opposed to sober long-term investment.
Should the US Reform the Student Loan System
Here’s how it works. Once you graduate from college in Australia and get a job, you begin repaying your student loan via paycheck withholding, exactly the same way you pay your income taxes.
The repayment scheme is highly progressive: if you make less than about $45,000, you owe nothing on your student loans. Make between $45,000 and $50,000 and you’ll pay 4% of your income. Make over $91,000 and you’ll pay 8%.
The repayment amount is tied to your income, not the amount of your loans. You can pay extra on your loans at any time, and you receive a bonus for doing so.
Noam Chomsky: What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
2011 International Aid Donated (USA ranked 19th)
Almost all of the deaths from hunger and disease that you see on this site can be stopped. The cost to do this is about $195 billion a year, according to the United Nations. Twenty-two developed countries below have pledged to work towards each giving 0.7% (a little less than 1%) of their national income in international aid, which would raise the $195 billion. Some countries are slow to meet their pledge.
Crime On The Farm: Hay Thefts Soar As Drought Deepens
FedEx Overcharged Customers for Years, Sealed E-Mail Says
How raising low wages ripples through the economy
Bob Schieffer: If Sandy Hook Shooter Had Arab Name, ‘People Would Be Going Nuts’
Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms
Faster falls in firearmdeaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without massshootings
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Scientists claim that homosexuality is not genetic — but it arises in the womb
Honey Chrome Add-In
Honey automatically finds the best coupon codes and gives you the best savings.
Professor Walter Tschinkel makes a Molten cast of an Ant Colony.
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British Boy Scouts consider atheist oath
VIDEO: Ohio sinkhole, size of 4 football fields, swallows highway
How Jets' Cromartie fathered nine kids with eight women over six states
Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
'Men don't have to worry about being caught': Sex mobs target Egypt's women
What is a merkin?
In the 1610s, 'counterfeit hair for a woman's privy parts'.
Videos
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The Disappearing Pig - Tah dah! Bacon!
Piggy gets a warm bath
Breaking the Taboo
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman.Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.
"I'd been asked by the food industry to give this talk at an industry breakfast, but 3 days prior to the event they got cold feet and dis-invited me. The good news is, the internet's a much larger audience than a room full of food industry folks who likely wouldn't have cared much about what I had to say in the first place. So here's my take on what the food industry can do, why they're not going to do it, and what we can do about it."
Heron uses bread as bait
Shark eats shark (profanity)
Guilty dog
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It's the flatmobile.
Great ad campaign for a science museum
Sea creature Christmas wrapping
Fog makes a difference
Spinning Christmas tree
At 8 months and 6 years
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
FIPID - 11/28/12
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Nova Science Now: Can I eat that?
Don't let the pic of the cockroach fool you. This is a great show on the science of taste. I highly recommend it.
This graph should scare you (slow recovery happening)
Another scary graph: Tuition vs. Earnings
Global Ranking of Education Systems (The US is ahead of Hungary, Slovakia and Russia.)
Wall Street Professionals Admit: Yes, Lots of Us Are Corrupt
Nearly one in four "believed that financial services professionals may need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct in order to be successful.
Mine Kafon (video)
A short documentary portrait on a designer who has created a low cost solution to landmine clearance.
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart
But not everyone is happy with Costco's business strategy. Some Wall Street analysts assert that Mr. Sinegal is overly generous not only to Costco's customers but to its workers as well.
Costco's average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam's Club. And Costco's health plan makes those at many other retailers look Scroogish. One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco "it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder."
Mr. Sinegal begs to differ. He rejects Wall Street's assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up prices to meet Wall Street's profit demands.
Plastic's fantastic for thieves in California
Authorities in Southern California say there's an epidemic of plastics theft in their region, but it's become a nationwide problem. Authorities estimate businesses lose up to $500 million a year to plastic pallet and crate thieves.
What Does Poverty Mean to Children?
Child poverty has reached record levels with over 16 million children affected.
Is this the end for the filibuster?
Filibusters used to be relatively rare. There were more filibusters between 2009 and 2010 than there were in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s combined....Party polarization has turned the filibuster into a noxious obstacle. Filibusters are no longer used to allow minorities to be heard. They’re used to make the majority fail. In the process, they undermine democratic accountability, because voters are left to judge the rule of a majority party based on the undesirable outcomes created by a filibustering minority.
Buffett Says Wealthy Avoiding Taxes Among Romney’s 47%
Writing on the door: "Obedience to the law is Liberty"
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President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday that affords greater protection to federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations.
Naughty or Nice? See which companies made our list this year and why
Six out of every seven doctors agree: Our health-care system doesn’t work
Shadow Banking Grows to $67 Trillion Industry, Regulators Say
World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Devastate Global Economy
US judge says tobacco firms must spend their own money on a public campaign admitting deception about the risks of smoking
Westland/Hallmark Meat Settlement Reached After Major Meat Recall
A California slaughterhouse where videotaped mistreatment of cows prompted the largest meat recall in U.S. history has reached a symbolic $500 million settlement with an animal welfare group and the federal government.
What happens when a woman is denied an abortion?
A new research project at the University of California at San Francisco is studying a group of 231 women who were turned away from 30 abortion clinics across the country. Dubbedthe Turnaway Project, its researchers recruited women who had shown up at an abortion clinic days after its limit on gestational period had passed. It compares those women, who carried their pregnancies to term, with others who had abortions.
State highway safety chief has long driving record, recent accident
Her driving record includes seven accidents, four speeding violations, two failures to stop for a police officer, one failure to stay in her lane, one driving without registration or license in possession, and one driving without wearing a seat belt.
How tech giants are like feudal lords and users are like serfs
The economics of wasted leftovers
Willson says she hates to waste. But with that much food, it’s inevitable. She estimates that 5-10 percent of the family feast goes in the garbage. But compared to the rest of us, they’re doing pretty well. The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that Americans trash 40 percent of our entire food supply. For a family of four, that works out to more than $2,000 a year. Dana Gunders is a food project scientist at NRDC. She puts the numbers in perspective.
“Imagine going to the grocery store, buying three bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and not bothering to pick it up," she says. "That’s essentially what we’re doing in our food system today."
For Restaurants, Food Waste Is Seen As Low Priority
Some of the Dumpsters aren't properly sealed, so there are grease and putrid juices pooling beneath them. They may attract pigeons, rats, cockroaches, ants or flies...
But in spite of the fact that as much as 10 percent of the food a restaurant buys ends up in landfills, hardly anyone in the restaurant industry gives it a second thought.
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What's The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out
Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late
"Fully Autonomous Weapons Would Increase Danger to Civilians"
Phone patents: An absurd battle
"You only have to look at some of the ridiculous numbers involved in the smartphone wars to see why they continue to rage."
Scientists develop 3D tissue printer that prints cartilage
$12.8 billion budget approved for European Space Agency
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The report explains, for readers in other countries: "The Thai saying, 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat,' is therefore a common joke and immediately understood at all levels of society".
Chess was introduced to Persia from India and became a part of the princely or courtly education of Persian nobility. In Sassanid Persia around 600 the name became chatrang, which subsequently evolved to shatranj, and the rules were developed further. Players started calling "Shāh!" (Persian for "King!") when attacking the opponent's king, and "Shāh Māt!" (Persian for "the king is helpless" – see checkmate) when the king was attacked and could not escape from attack. These exclamations persisted in chess as it traveled to other lands.
2 Tons Of Pigeon Droppings In Swedish Church Tower
Man Faces Death Threats and Jail for Pointing Out That Weeping Jesus "Miracle" Is Just Faulty Plumbing
Man accused of killing Jacksonville teen charged with second-degree murder.Teen was killed over loud music dispute. Man says teens had shotgun. However, there is no evidence of a shotgun.
A WOMAN whose unfaithful husband threw acid in her face after she divorced him has now been coerced into remarrying her violent former partner.
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Norwegian Zombie commercial deemed too scary
Physics lesson
Taking revenge
Talent Audition: Didn't except that from her.
How to fool a baboon to show you where the water is.
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"horns" to expand the skin
Austerity protests (1, 10, 11, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31)
Urechis unicinctus a.k.a. *The Penis Fish*
New Hobby: Cupping
I'm sorry.
Watermelon sculpture
Friday, November 16, 2012
FIPID - 11/16/12
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Colbert Super PAC SHH! - Secret Second 501c4 - Trevor Potter
"Stephen learns how to give Colbert Super PAC money to himself and thereby hide it forever from all eyes and use it in a way that he wishes."
Some Nonprofits Look Suspiciously Like For-Profits
Steve Inskeep talks to David Evans, of Bloomberg Markets magazine, about his article in the current issue, which focuses on the plethora of nonprofits — not charities, hospitals, or religious groups — that claim tax-exempt status even though they make millions in profits.
Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
Studies Examine Effect Of Tax Increase On Wealthy
Americans Underestimate U.S. Wealth Inequality
America's voting system is a disgrace
A new book that examines the evolution of copulation since the dinosaur era will amaze.
"These little catfish live in really fast-moving currents, and shedding sperm in such water is not a good thing, so they’ve developed this incredible way of instantly fertilizing the female through very subtle canals that go from the mouth and gill chambers down to the ovaries."
How to help after the superstorm
Thomas Jefferson quote: "I never considered a difference of opinion..."
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Nate Silver gets a big boost from the election
"Across the media and twittersphere Tuesday night, Nate Silver was a clear winner in the 2012 presidential election. The polling data guru, who runs the fivethirtyeight.com blog for the New York Times, saw sales of his book spike as a result.
Sales of the book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't" shot up 850% on Amazon.com (AMZN, Fortune 500) during the last 24 hours."
Ron Paul Says Goodbye To “Psychopathic Authoritarians”
Congressman Ron Paul's Farewell Speech to Congress Video
Oklahoma Doctors vs. Obamacare Video
Oklahoma Doctors vs. Obamacare Article
Surgery center provides free-market medicine.
Five Misconceptions about our Tattered Safety Net
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How Windows 8 would look if you ported it to your coffee table [video]
'Smoke-free' laws lead to fewer hospitalizations and deaths
New Research: Cow Pee Can Spread Antibiotic Resistance Through the Soil
New WiFi protocol boosts congested wireless network throughput by 700%
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South Korea: Parental pressure to achieve good grades has led to a soaring number of children on the streets who are selling sex.
Porn sites appear in Islamic countries’ most-visited online rankings
Library of Medicine - Accidental condom inhalation
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Terminator Arm Dad!
Computer graphics are getting better at the human form
Tugger, The Cutest Labrador Puppy EVER
Wasp vs Spider Death Match
High and low voices through chemical intake
Two Dogs Dining
Dog loves chasing owner while he mountain bikes
Getting ready to play frisbee
Big Fail Compliation
(profanity warning)
Crazy cat doesn't like reflection
This is why you don't speed and why you do wear your seatbelt. (warning: gore)
Gets good towards the middle.
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China
Palouse Falls
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