Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Spelling Bee Winner
This kid must have been a real treat to interview... a real conversationalist.
Unemployment Check: Spelling Bee Winner
Posted YesterdayThis is why you don't homeschool your children.
Monday, June 4, 2007
VIDEO: T-Pain Buy You A Drink
Watch the first video then the second. I wouldn't recommend watching the first video very long.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
VIDEO: Shift Happens
If you think the U.S. is going to be a superpower forever, you better think again.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Increase your Gas Mileage
I'm a little sketchy about putting acetone in your tank and turning off your car at traffic lights is ridiculous, but the tire pressure, air filter, spark plugs, wires, and cleaning out your trunk are good tips.
Double Your Gas Mileage! 2X - The funniest videos are a click away
Double Your Gas Mileage! 2X - The funniest videos are a click away
Win At Blackjack
Ruin those casinos. Check out bagman at the end.
Cheat Blackjack Win Money $$ - Free videos are just a click away
Cheat Blackjack Win Money $$ - Free videos are just a click away
Win A Kidney - TV Show
I'm sorry but this is just sick. There's no way you should have to compete on a television show for a kidney to save your life. Maybe the tv show should spend their money elsewhere and save more lives than broadcasting about how they helped save one person and then said sorry to the rest of the contestants because they didn't win the competition.
Win A Kidney Show creates uproar.
Class Finder
Determines what class you fall in through type of job, level of education, income and wealth.
What Class are you in?
Monday, May 28, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Skyscraper in Dubai that rotates
Skyscraper in Dubai rotates. That would be awesome. A different view outside of your house all the time.
| In skyscraper-crazy Dubai, tall isn't enough. In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form. |
18-yr Old Completes the Seven Summits
18-yr old is the youngest to climb all seven summits. What an animal.
Here's a list of the Seven Summits and climbers that have completed them.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Pastor Buys $4.0mm House, AVOIDING Taxes
What a bunch of BS. Everyone else in this world pays taxes, tax these people too.
| NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP -- A Redford Township church that believes wealth is God's reward is raising eyebrows for buying its pastor a $3.65 million mansion and taking it off the tax rolls. This month, township officials grudgingly conceded they had no choice but to remove the 11,000-square-foot home overlooking Maybury State Park from its assessment rolls, losing $40,000 annually in taxes. They concluded the plush pad is a parsonage, but that hasn't quelled debate among township officials and neighbors about whether Christian charity extends to the Detroit World Outreach Church's purchase in September of the home for Pastor Ben Gibert and his wife and co-pastor, Charisse Gibert. "I also have faith in God, but I don't expect to live in such opulence," said Evgenia Asimakis, a single mother of two who lives nearby and has trouble paying her property taxes. Her neighbor, Gary Wall, is blunter: "You don't need a multimillion-dollar place to see God. He'll take a lot less." Detroit World Outreach Church isn't apologizing. In fact, members say the mansion is proof God has blessed them. |
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Housing Prices Down
Home prices fall fastest rate in 13 years.
| Prices will probably continue falling, said Goldman Sachs economists in a research note. "We expect [the index] to be down about 5% by the end of 2007. If anything, it's getting there a bit faster than we anticipated," they wrote. Prices fell year-over-year in 13 of the 20 cities, led by Detroit (down 7.8%), San Diego (down 5%), Boston (down 4.7%) and Washington (down 4.3%). On the other hand, prices have risen 10.6% in the past year in Seattle, 7.7% in Portland, Ore., and 7.3% in Charlotte, N.C. Other cities in the index: Atlanta, up 2.1% year-on-year; Chicago, up 1.7%; Cleveland, down 2.7%; Dallas, up 1.3%; Denver, down 1.6%; Las Vegas, down 1%; Los Angeles, down 0.4%; Miami, up 2.9%; Minneapolis, down 1.6%; New York, down 1.8%; Phoenix, down 2.1%; San Francisco, down 2.2%; and Tampa, down 1.1%. |
Dollar Hot Dogs Shipped to Your Door
This guy offers to cook and ship you a hot dog in the mail for $1.
| If you're hungry for a hotdog, you're in luck. For only $1, I will cook you a hot dog and mail it to you. Just PayPal me a buck, and I will personally cook you a delicious hotdog, and then ship it out to you! I'm really good at making hot dogs, so you may even want to buy a few! Generally speaking, I throw them on the Foreman Grill, to give them a nice even cook. But if I have a lot to cook, I might put them on the regular grill outside. I can boil them, or cook them on an electric griddle, by special request only. I suppose I could even microwave them if you want. If you buy 5, I'll throw one in for free, and send you 6 hotdogs. Now, because your hot dog may get cold during shipment, I also include instructions to re-heat your hot dog, at no additional charge. They make great gag gifts, so if you need a joke gift for a friend, a white elephant exchange, or just want to play a prank on someone, order them a hotdog or two (definately add the Deluxe Condiment Pack as well, which is the second PayPal button) and I'll totally mail it to them...I will even include a personalized message of your choice. Just type it into the "Special Instructions" section on the PayPal checkout. |
What a weird idea. He even includes reheating instructions when you receive your dog, unbelievable.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Illegal Bones Factory Discovered
Illegal Bones Factory. I've never heard of anything like it. Weird.
| Indian police discovered a human "bones factory" in an eastern state on Monday and arrested six people for illegally trading in skeletons, a senior officer said. The arrested men told police the bones were sold to medical students and used in traditional medicine, district police chief Peeyush Pandey said. Investigators found dozens of skeletons -- treated with chemicals -- laid out to dry in the sun when they reached a river bank in Keshia, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state. "We received complaints that several bodies were missing from graveyards and, while investigating the case, we stumbled on the secret bones factory," Pandey said. |
Monday, April 23, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
First Day of Work, Plumber Burns Down Mansion
17-year old plumber begins career by burning down a $12 million dollar mansion. Not bad for the first day on a job.
| "I heard it was started by a teenager on his first day. You have to feel sorry for the poor lad. He must feel terrible," a neighbour said. Nobody was hurt in the incident. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Toyota Prius Stinks Up the World
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Just when you thought the Toyota Prius was an environmentally safe car, it fails emissions tests in Georgia. This is hilarious because you see these environmentalists driving them, thinking they are doing something good, when in reality they are just stinking up the place.
Virginia Tech Shootings - Professor Saves Lives
Article. Professor saves students lives by holding door closed at Virginia Tech Shootings. Condition of the professor or whereabouts is unknown.
| Mallalieu said his professor held the door shut while students darted to the windows. Some climbed on desks, ledges and a radiator cover to pull down the screens and kick at the metal-framed glass, Mallalieu said. Three windows easily gave way and swung open on hinges as the gunshots got louder. Closer. "It sounded like he was going out into the hallway," said Mallalieu, a civil engineering major from Luray, Va. Once the windows for the sec ond-floor classroom were open, Mallalieu and most of his classmates hung out of them and dropped about 10 feet to bushes and grass below, he said. Some students ran to a nearby building. Others waited to help students who had been injured in the fall, Mallalieu said. But then the sound of gunfire filled their classroom, sending all who had escaped toward nearby Patton Hall, he said. Mallalieu said he never saw Librescu escape. "I don't think my teacher got out." Librescu, a professor of engineering science and mechanics who was educated in Romania and is a U.S. citizen, could not be reached Monday. As of 4 p.m., his wife had not been able to find him either. "I am looking also. I know that he was shot, but I cannot find him," she said, panicked, in a phone interview. "How is it possible that a wife cannot know?" |
Monday, April 16, 2007
Toilets Catch Fire in Tokyo
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Toilets catch on fire, recall imminent.
| "Fortunately, nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries," Tanaka said. "The fire would have been just under your buttocks." The popular Z series features a pulsating massage spray, a power dryer, built-in-the-bowl deodorizing filter, the "Tornado Wash" flush and a lid that opens and closes automatically. Prices range from $1,680 to $2,600. |
Friday, April 13, 2007
Conan O'Brien's 2000 Harvard Commencement Speech
Harvard University Commencement Speech by Conan O'Brien.
This is hilarious, here are some excerpts:
| Students of the Harvard Class of 2000, fifteen years ago I sat where you sit now and I thought exactly what you are now thinking: What's going to happen to me? Will I find my place in the world? Am I really graduating a virgin? I still have 24 hours and my roommate's Mom is hot. I swear she was checking me out. Being here today is very special for me. I miss this place. I especially miss Harvard Square - it's so unique. No where else in the world will you find a man with a turban wearing a Red Sox jacket and working in a lesbian bookstore. Hey, I'm just glad my dad's working. ... The point is that, although you see me as a celebrity, a member of the cultural elite, a kind of demigod, I was actually a student here once much like you. I came here in the fall of 1981 and lived in Holworthy. I was, without exaggeration, the ugliest picture in the Freshman Face book. When Harvard asked me for a picture the previous summer, I thought it was just for their records, so I literally jogged in the August heat to a passport photo office and sat for a morgue photo. To make matters worse, when the Face Book came out they put my picture next to Catherine Oxenberg, a stunning blonde actress who was accepted to the class of '85 but decided to defer admission so she could join the cast of "Dynasty." My photo would have looked bad on any page, but next to Catherine Oxenberg, I looked like a mackerel that had been in a car accident. You see, in those days I was six feet four inches tall and I weighed 150 pounds. Recently, I had some structural engineers run those numbers into a computer model and, according to the computer, I collapsed in 1987, killing hundreds in Taiwan. ... After graduating in May, I moved to Los Angeles and got a three week contract at a small cable show. I got a $380 a month apartment and bought a 1977 Isuzu Opel, a car Isuzu only manufactured for a year because they found out that, technically, it's not a car. Here's a quick tip, graduates: no four cylinder vehicle should have a racing stripe. I worked at that show for over a year, feeling pretty good about myself, when one day they told me they were letting me go. I was fired and, I hadn't saved a lot of money. I tried to get another job in television but I couldn't find one. ... So, that's what I wish for all of you: the bad as well as the good. Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the story is never over. If it's all right, I'd like to read a little something from just this year: "Somehow, Conan O'Brien has transformed himself into the brightest star in the Late Night firmament. His comedy is the gold standard and Conan himself is not only the quickest and most inventive wit of his generation, but quite possible the greatest host ever." |
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Royal Dutch to Produce Oil for Half the Price?
Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. At half the cost of a barrel of oil today ($60), we can see benefits. What does this mean? Cheaper energy costs, cheaper gas, less inflation problems, more efficient businesses. The largest source of the shale in the world is in the U.S. If it works, expect cheaper gas, and a wealth of new money for the U.S. The theory could be garbage, but you never know.
Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson) Interview
I had no idea a lady did the voice of Bart Simpson. She also does the voices of Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney and Maggie Simpson's laugh.
The Internet - What people do.
What do users do on the internet Interesting article that shows what people do on the net, and some of the drawbacks.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Grindhouse Double-Feature to Split?
Grindhouse - great reviews, no income
The company may be splitting up the double-feature to possibly bring in more money after the horrible sales the first weekend. It's getting great reviews, I'll have to check it out.
Here's the trailer:
The company may be splitting up the double-feature to possibly bring in more money after the horrible sales the first weekend. It's getting great reviews, I'll have to check it out.
Here's the trailer:
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
VIDEO: 34-Yr Old Fisherman Completes Obstacles
He is only the second to complete the obstacles, out of over 500 people. The last minute in the video is crazy when he climbs to the top of the building.
Monday, April 9, 2007
The Money Race for the White House
Why do presidential candidates need so much money?
| "An American presidential election is like a world war fought on many fronts in which you really have to deploy your forces across a large geographical area," said Ross Baker, professor of political science at Rutgers University. Candidates seeking the nomination of their parties undergo a complex series of tests in individual states' primaries, which occur over a number of months. The earlier primaries tend to be more important because the parties coalesce around the leaders as weaker candidates start dropping out. |
Sunday, April 8, 2007
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