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The End: the best movie endings ever

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:52:50 GMT

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Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

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Leonard’s amnesiac quest for revenge has turned him into a serial killer, doomed to repeat his actions ad infinitum.

Taylor realises that he’s not on another planet but on postapocalyptic Earth! “You maniacs!” he screams. “You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to Hell!”

Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Gone With the Wind

that classic tear-stained close-up, announcing: “I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Thelma & Louis

Sarandon floors the accelerator and sends the car hurtling over a cliff.

The Sixth Sense

it dawns on Crowe that he himself is a ghost.

Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. touches the blubbering Elliott’s forehead with his flashlight finger, saying: “I’ll be right here.” Then E.T. disappears up inside a giant Fabergé egg. Brilliant

Carrie

one of the few survivors, visits Carrie’s freshly dug grave. She lays flowers. Carrie’s arm thrusts out of the soil and grabs her.

Tags: movies, entertainment

New Coral Reefs Discovered

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:38:36 GMT

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Clip Source: timesonline.typepad.com

A series of coral reefs estimated to cover more than 110 square miles of the sea floor have been discovered in the Southern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.

The reefs vary from 9 to 124 miles from the Brazilian coastline and have been found at depths ranging from 60 to 220 feet.

The discovery, announced at the International Coral Reef Symposium held in Fort Lauderdale, in the United States, doubles the known size of the Abrolhos Bank reef system.

Abrolhos Bank is already considered to be one of the most important reefs and it boasts a huge number of marine animals, including some corals, molluscs and fish found nowhere else in the world. Wildlife is even more abundant in the newly discovered areas.

Due to their relative inaccessibility and depth, the newly discovered reefs are teeming with life, in some places harboring 30 times the density of marine life than the known, shallower reefs.”

Tags: ocean, ecology, biology, science

Blooming enormous: Queen Victoria's knickers

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:38:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

They are knickers fit for a queen or - given their size - maybe two.

Able to accommodate a 50in -plus waist, they belonged to Queen Victoria.

Doubtless she would not be amused to have her undergarments - or her vital statistics - discussed in public.

Quite apart from the primness of the age in which she lived, Britain's longest- reigning monarch could be a little sensitive about her appearance.

At less than 5ft tall, the tendency towards plumpness she inherited from her German forebears was pronounced.

The knickers appear very plain, save for a tiny embroidered crown and the initials 'VR'.

The items being sold by Mr Hanson, a regular on BBC1's Bargain Hunt antiques show, once belonged to the family of one of Victoria's servants and also include a chemise and a nightdress.

The knickers are expected to fetch £500 and the chemise and nightdress £300 each at a sale in Mackworth, Derby, on July 30.

Tags: uk, england, royalty, underwear, auction

The Wilhelm Scream

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:11:01 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Wilhelm scream is a near famous stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums

The Wilhelm's revival came from Star Wars series sound designer Ben Burtt, who tracked down the original recording (which he found as a studio reel labeled "Man being eaten by alligator"). Although Distant Drums was the first known use of the sound, Burtt named it after "Pvt. Wilhelm", a minor character who emitted the same scream in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River.

Clip Source: ace.mu.nu

Since then, it's been used in over 130 movies; Spielberg and Lucas use it an awful lot (and are responsible for the popularization of the kinda-cheesey scream).

Here's a compilation of many (but not nearly all) of its uses:

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Tags: movies, entertainment, funny, humor

Dumb Criminals

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:58:38 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Dog Vomit Chain of Custody Questioned

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Attention Shoppers! Free Balls Now Being Offered In Aisle 6!

Antonio Casique-Gasco allegedly stripped naked in the women's bathroom of the On The Go store in Palmetto, FL.

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Paramedic Helps Herself to Patient's Purse

Forte was caught on camera, wearing an EMS shirt, using the woman's stolen cards

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Man Released From Jail Gets Naked; Arrested

Apparently, Merit thought the clothes the jail issued him might be stolen. So he removed them.

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Man Who Has Sex With Table Gets 6 Months

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Brooklyn Bundt Bust

Three high-school seniors in Brooklyn are facing up to seven years in prison after serving their teachers a laxative-laced bundt cake

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Man's Lemonade Stand 'Hold-Up' Goes Sour

Maybe you've seen the awesometastic story of the little girl in Indiana chasing down a man named Steve Tryon (pictured) who, cops say, robbed her lemonade stand of its entire $17.50 kitty.

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Goat Crimes

Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

Your Dumb is in the Mail...

a crook left his mobile phone at a home he broke into

"man boobs."

Tags: funny, humor, crime, idiots

Singing, Pooping Tigers Teach Japan's Youth

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:43:06 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.trutv.com

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There are some things about Japan that just don't translate: capsule hotels, Pepsi Ice Cucumber and sadistic game shows, to name a few.

Now we can add the following video designed to help Japanese kids learn to use the toilet. It's not that I object to anthropomorphic jungle cats instructing big boys and girls to dump out, it's the oddly communal, musical way they do it.

Honestly, if I had just managed not to wet myself for the first time, the last thing I'd want is a big show-stopping, Patti LuPone number with my parents flanking either side of me, capped by a confetti flourish.

is it really necessary to have both the cartoon baby tiger and a real Japanese boy (at the cartoon's end) grunting and straining in an effort to pinch a loaf?

Tags: humor, funny, japan

Good vibrations may help reduce falls

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:00:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Less than ten minutes standing on a vibrating platform several times a week could help reduce older people's risk of falls, Australian researchers have found.

PhD student Sven Rees of the University of Technology, Sydney and colleagues report their findings in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.

"We're trying to look at interventions to assist with physical function in old age," says Rees.

As people age, they are more likely to lose balance and muscle strength, which makes them more likely to fall over.

Rees says previous research has suggested that vibration of muscles can cause reflex contractions, which in turn strengthens the muscles.

Rees and colleagues tested how steadily participants were able to stand on one leg.

Then they got some of the participants to do light resistance training on a vibrating platform.

The exercise sessions lasted for less than 10 minutes and took place three times a week for eight weeks.

Tags: health, aging

Lolz....Lolz....Lolz....

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:02:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: sry i haz to do this......k thx bai

Clip Source: icanhascheezburger.com

Tags: lolcats, animals, cats, humor, funny

5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:47:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...Think about that when you're walking around the mall: Eight out of ten of those people you see would torture the sh*t out of a puppy if a dude in a lab coat asked them to.

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

The Asch Conformity Experiment

Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test

everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give obviously wrong answers

32 percent of subjects would answer incorrectly if they saw that three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer

The Good Samaritan Experiment

subjects would pass a person slumped in an alleyway, who looked to be in need of help.

only 10 percent would stop to give any aid

Bystander Apathy Experiment

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

Stanford Prison Experiment

volunteers were all male college students who were then divided arbitrarily into 12 guards and 12 prisoners.

It took about one day for every subject to suddenly go as insane as a shit-house rat.

Milgram Experiment

The subject was told that whenever the other guy gave an incorrect answer, he was to press a button that would give him an electric shock.

Subjects will mindlessly deliver pain to an innocent stranger

Tags: science, health, mental health, psychology

Crumbling Pompeii site in "state of emergency"

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:30:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...the ground above it is being used as an illegal rubbish dump -- a result of the trash crisis in the nearby city of Naples -- and is scattered with tires, fridges and mattresses.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

The Italian government declared a state of emergency at the Pompeii archaeological site on Friday to try to rescue one of the world's most important cultural treasures from decades of neglect.

Archaeologists and art historians have long complained about the poor upkeep of Pompeii, dogged by lack of investment, mismanagement, litter and looting. Bogus tour guides, illegal parking attendants and stray dogs also plague visitors.

A report in daily Corriere della Sera this week said most of the 1,500 houses at the site are closed to the public, its frescoes have faded to become almost invisible and restoration work that began in 1978 has yet to be completed.

Every year at least 150 square meters of fresco and plaster work are lost for lack of maintenance

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Two-thirds of the 66 hectare (165 acre) town, home to some 13,000 people in the Roman era, have been uncovered since serious excavations began 260 years ago

Tags: history, archaeology, travel, italy

Optimism Grows in Iraq as Daily Life Improves

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:01:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: German media - Spiegel online

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing and confidence in the government growing. The progress is astonishing, but can it last?

Is the situation truly improving in Iraq? Is it possible to rely on these changes in everyday life or are they merely an illusion? According to the quarterly report that the Pentagon issued in mid-June, the number of armed incidents has declined by 70 percent since last summer

King Abdullah II of Jordan, who was opposed to the US invasion and then voiced his fears of a "Shiite Crescent" developing in Iraq, recently said something astonishing in an interview with the US magazine Newsweek: "I am actually optimistic for the first time on Iraq. It's the first time that I have felt that Iraqis have, as much as they can, bound themselves together into a unity."

It is a deep irony that moderate Sunnis now refer to Maliki, a Shiite, as "batal" -- "a hero."

Tags: war, iraq, politics

An American in Albania

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...The Albanians of Montenegro were lucky, I thought as we approached the customs agents, to live under Josip Broz Tito's relatively lenient communist system in Yugoslavia instead of suffering Enver Hoxha's full-bore Stalinist regime just a few miles away in Albania proper. Hoxha, who ranks among the most thoroughly oppressive tyrants in history, made Tito's dictatorship look libertarian....

Clip Source: www.michaeltotten.com

“Mister, where are you from?” said a little girl.

“America,” I said.

“Yay!” The kids cheered.

Albania is fanatically pro-American, which is perhaps a bit counterintuitive to many Americans since it is at least nominally a Muslim-majority country. The conventional assumption that Muslims hate Americans everywhere isn't true.

“You should have seen President Bush’s face when he came to Albania,” an ethnic Albanian man later said to me in Kosovo. “All over Western Europe he was met by protests, but the entire country of Albania turned out to welcome him. He was so happy. You could see it on his face.”

Albanian pro-Americanism resembles that of both Poland and Iraqi Kurdistan. The unspeakably oppressive communist regime pushed Albanians strongly into the U.S.-led Western camp

More kids tugged at me and wanted their pictures taken. It was overwhelming, and more than a little bit startling.

Tags: europe, albania, politics, america, travel, photography

Obama's Hypocrisy

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men.

That is in contrast to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's Senate office, where women, for the most part, out-rank and are paid more than men.

On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007.

The average pay for the 33 men

was $59,207.

The average pay for the 31 women on Obama's staff

was $48,729

the average pay for the 30 women on McCain's staff was $59,104

The 16 non-intern males in McCain's office, by comparison, were paid an average of $56,628

The Obama campaign did not respond to written questions submitted on the matter

Tags: obama, politics, election, idiots

A Man Who Loves Cats

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:14:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Owning six cats is nothing for a fellow to be ashamed of.......

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

Everyone knows about Mad Cat Lady. She's a social cliché, a cautionary tale,

She's the childless woman who lets her cat obsession take over her life, to the detriment of domestic and, finally, personal hygiene.

The phenomenon of Mad Cat Man is even less widely reported. One of the reasons for this is that us males are still suspicious of cat ownership.

Over the years, cats have dictated the nature of my house moves, my holidays, my interior decor.

It would also be unrealistic to assume that

the male cat-lover is a real-life Dr Evil, or a transvestite secondhand bookshop owner or a metrosexual.

scrutinise the popular history of Mad Cat Men, and it arguably contains more extreme behaviour than its higher-profile female equivalent.

Edgar Allen Poe

Ernest Hemingway

Winston Churchill.

Bill Clinton

Ricky Gervais

Mad Cat Men have been getting away with murder for a long time, and enjoying themselves in the process.

It was I,

who inaugurated the household's Cat Of The Month award

Tags: cats, animals, mental health, insanity, obsessions

Can a pet ease depression?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no evidence about which type of pet brings the most relief. It could be a fish, rat, cat, dog or bird; the important thing is that you become involved and engaged in its life.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

I have a history of depression and have been advised to get a pet. Can you confirm that this would be beneficial?

Nurturing something else and considering its needs will help to shift your focus away from your illness.

Stroking animals is also therapeutic, so make sure you choose a tactile animal that likes human beings.

Pet shop owners say that rats are greatly underrated. They are very clean and can be trained; something that's fun and a focus for the time you spend together.

Another idea is to volunteer to work with animals. This would allow you to test the water first, and to meet people and gain the experience and skills you'll need to look after a pet.

Pets have been shown to have a marked effect on human psychology and wellbeing.

research at the University of Pennsylvania showed that stroke victims had a greater chance of survival if they owned a pet

Some mental health units also have on-site pets.

Tags: animals, health, depression, mental health