johnny Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 They are good. They inflict fear but that's how they get the message across I guess.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I like the first picture comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I like the second picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 They're fakes . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 [big]Man surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone[/big] [smaller] Written by James Benfly Wednesday, 08 August 2007 North Denver News[/smaller] Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. At least, he did, until he had his thumbs surgically altered in a revolutionary new surgical technique known as "whittling." "From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses," explains Martel. "Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it's saving me in frustration - that's priceless." "This is really, on the edge sort of stuff," explains Dr. Robert Fox Spars, who worked on developing the procedure. "We're turning plastic surgery from something that people use in service of vanity, to a real tool for improving workplace efficiency." The procedure involved making a small incision into both thumbs and shaving down the bones, followed by careful muscular alteration and modification of the fingernails. While Martel's new thumbs now appear small and effeminate in comparison to his otherwise very large hands, he says he can still lift "pretty much anything I could lift before the surgery - though opening spaghetti sauce jars has been a problem. That was a big surprise." Thumbs Down on snopes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 [big]Eight-year-old girl completes 3,500km run -- China dad denies abuse[/big] [smaller]Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:13AM EDT By Liu Zhen Link[/smaller] BEIJING (Reuters) - The father of an eight-year-old Chinese girl who ran 3,560 km (2,212 miles) to Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympics on Tuesday denied accusations of child abuse. Zhang Huimin arrived in Beijing on Sunday after she started her extraordinary odyssey on July 3 from Sanya, at the southern tip of the island province of Hainan, with her father following on a motorized bicycle. Huimin got up at 2.30 a.m. every day to train for the run and would have had to have run about 65 km a day for 55 days -- the equivalent of about one and a half marathons a day. Domestic media and some experts accused the father, Zhang Jianmin, a businessman, of abuse, saying the Beijing run would damage the girl's body and affect her growth. Zhang told Reuters he was not concerned. "I don't care about what the experts say. Although they accuse me of being cruel or abusive, I think I'm right," he said. "She is always healthy around me and never said her legs hurt or that she was tired after running 30 kilometers," Zhang told Reuters in Tiananmen Square. "I am suffering huge media pressure. But I have never worried about her future health. As she was able to endure the long distance running and has grown up healthily from the year three to eight, which are the weakest ages, there's no reason she could not endure this in the next years." Huimin started running 3 km a day when she was three and was hitting 23 km a day by the time she was seven, the China Daily said. Liu Hong, director of the China School Sports Federation, was quoted by the newspaper as saying the exercise regime was extremely hard, even for an adult. "The running will certainly harm her," he said. As for her future, Dad had one eye on the Olympics. "If she is interested in running then we will keep working on it. She'll be 18 in 10 years time and it will be possible to take part in the Olympics... Whatever she is interested in, I'll do my utmost to support her." On the Beijing trip, she only rode twice on her father's motorized bicycle, the China Daily said -- when she was chased by four wild dogs and when it was too steep to run down a steep mountain road. Huimin herself appeared unfazed by the whole marathon event and the attention it had brought. "I've liked running since I was very young," she said. "Running makes me happy." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jenny Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Strange and sad news about rubber clogs: Crocs on the escalator Sorry to anyone who owns these, but I really HATE these "shoes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Parking Lots Outnumber People Sprawling suburban parking spaces outnumber drivers by three to one in a Midwestern county, a finding that typifies a troubling trend nationwide that increases urban heating and pollution, researchers say. Digitalized aerial surveys taken in 2005 were used to calculate the total area devoted to parking lots in Indiana's Tippecanoe County and revealed the paved lots covered an area larger than 1,000 football fields and that there were three times as many parking spaces as drivers who lived in the county, said study leader Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University. Pijanowski said that his study was relevant across the country because generally Americans are paving an increasing amount of land each year on which to park when they go to the store, work, school or other places. The results of the Tippecanoe study—355,000 parking spaces in a county that is home to 155,000 residents—are cause for concern because parking lots are a major source of water pollution, contributing 1,000 pounds of heavy metals into water runoff every year, he said. "The problem with parking lots is that they accumulate a lot of pollutants—oil, grease, heavy metals and sediment—that cannot be absorbed by the impervious surface," said study member Bernard Engel. "Rain then flushes these contaminants into rivers and lakes." The research findings were presented at a recent conference of land-use experts in the Netherlands. Because parking lots also prevent the rain from soaking into the ground, they can worsen local flooding and erosion, Pijanowski said. The paved surfaces also add to the urban heat island effect, which can raise temperatures by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius by absorbing more of the sun's rays than the surrounding ground, said Indiana state climatologist Dev Niyogi, a colleague of Pijanowski at Purdue who did not work directly on this study. The parking lot count focused on lots at businesses, Purdue University and other public properties. Lots on private property and multi-level parking garages were not counted, so Pijanowski says his parking space calculation is a significant underestimate. To back away from the American trend of "paving paradise to put up a parking lot," to paraphrase songwriter Joni Mitchell, mega-churches and businesses such as "big box" retailers could build shared lots, Pijanowski suggests, which would help conserve land and stave off some of the parking lots' negative effects. < musical interlude > Big Yellow Taxi They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees Put em in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Hey farmer farmer Put away that d.d.t. now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please! Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 (edited) a couple of tech news Man from Pennsylvania Sues Google for $5 Billion Microsoft announces Vista to XP downgrade 1GB Twenty years ago and 1GB today Edited September 26, 2007 by Guest changed link #1 to original source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [big]Sister locked up and forgotten[/big] [smaller]By GUY PATRICK SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 The Sun Online[/smaller] A WOMAN was locked up and “lost†for 70 years after being wrongly accused of stealing 13p. Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified†indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery. The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions. She was “found†when brothers Alan, 66, and David, 63 — who thought she was dead — read a letter sent by a care home to their mother, who died 25 years ago. David said: “I was about to throw it in the bin when I saw a name in the corner — Jean Gambell. I rang and they said our sister was there.†The two brothers travelled from their homes in Liverpool to see Jean at the home in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Staff warned them she was deaf and may not remember them. David said: “We were very nervous. We wrote on a piece of card ‘Hello Jean, we’re your brothers’. But she took one look at us and said, ‘Hello Alan, hello David’ — and flung her arms around us.†He added: “Nowadays there are appeals — but back then a doctor could sign away a life with the stroke of a pen. “They basically locked her up and threw away the key and she was stuck in the system. “She just got moved from one institution to another. “What a waste of a poor, innocent girl’s life.†Jean had a stroke after meeting her brothers, believed to have been sparked by the shock of the reunion. She is said to be recovering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 [big]Couple divorce after online 'affair'[/big] A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names. Sana Klaric, 27, and husband Adnan, 32, from Zenica, poured out their hearts to each other over their marriage troubles, and both felt they had found their real soul mate. The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy. They eventually decided to meet up - but there was no happy ending when they realised what had happened. Now they are both filing for divorce - with each accusing the other of being unfaithful. Sana said: "I thought I had found the love of my life. The way this Prince of Joy spoke to me, the things he wrote, the tenderness in every expression was something I had never had in my marriage. "It was amazing, we seemed to be stuck in the same kind of miserable marriages - and how right that turned out to be. "We arranged to meet outside a shop and both of us would be carrying a single rose so we would know the other. "When I saw my husband there with the rose and it dawned on me what had happened I was shattered. I felt so betrayed. I was so angry." Adnan said: "I was so happy to have found a woman who finally understood me. Then it turned out that I hadn't found anyone new at all. "To be honest I still find it hard to believe that the person, Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things to me on the internet, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years." Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skybluesky Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 That is The Pina Colada Song for the 21st Century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Fish Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 poor guys.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 Another Chinese made toy recall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MarcM Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 I have met people that may like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 I have met people who I want to push down a slide like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 I finally saw it, Laurie. That's hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 He's not undead, just unsober... BERLIN (Reuters) - Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveler dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police. The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said Monday. Believing his hands and face were smeared with blood, passengers alerted police after getting no response from him. A first aid team called to the scene soon cleared up the confusion. Police told the man to remove his make-up after which he was allowed to continue his journey. "Bad Segeberg is in a rural area and Halloween isn't very well known there," police spokeswoman Silke Tobies said. "So people weren't expecting anyone to be dressed up in the train." Good costume ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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