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Which celebrity do you look like?

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:18 GMT

clipped by: l1wulf
clipper's remarks: Upload a photo and it is compared against a database of celebrities. Fun and pretty accurate. This didn't clip very well and there wasn't an actual description that was clipable. Try it with different photos.

Clip Source: www.myheritage.com

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Tags: fun, celebrity, photo

Study: IPCC wrong about global warming

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:56:36 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.copenhagendiagnosis.com

In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago.

"Sea level is rising much faster and Arctic sea ice cover shrinking more rapidly than we previously expected. Unfortunately, the data now show us that we have underestimated the climate crisis in the past."
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans and a Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Tags: global warming, ipcc, copenhagen diagnosis

Have Sex, Live Longer

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:52:11 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Sequel to the Eat Less, Live Longer article. Now I wish I clipped the Drink Wine, Live Longer clip, hehe.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

According to a spate of news reports on life extension that have spread across the internet like influenza just about everything out there ads a little time to your mortal coil. Wine, calorie reduction diets, low body temperatures have all made news for their ability to give you a few more good years on earth, and now, so too does sex. According to a 1997 study in the British Medical Journal men who have regular orgasms live longer. The also have a better sense of smell, reduced depression and improved heart function.

This article in Forbes list a few good reasons to keep knocking boots until your boots can knock no more.

So with pot helping Alzheimer's, red wine helping you age gracefully, and sex improving just about everything else, you have to like the direction modern medicine is going.

Tags: health, science, medicine, body, biology, sex, life

Thousands Protest Tuition Hike at UC Berkeley

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:19:44 GMT

clipped by: sahara

Clip Source: blog.puppetgov.com

Getty photo by Mark Ralston / November 19, 2009 ) College staff members are escorted by police officers from a vehicle blocked by students during a protest against an increase in student fees at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent tuition increase.

Clip Source: blog.puppetgov.com

After two days of marches, protests and rallies about 100 students at UC Berkeley have occupied Wheeler hall, a building on the Berkeley campus. The students moved into the building after the UC Regents voted to raise fees over 32%. Student and faculty supporters have surrounded the building.

Clip Source: blog.puppetgov.com

University of California students' walkout. Photo:UPI

According to KGO there have been at least 41 arrests, including one professor.

“They are using batons on them. They physically abused them and after that they arrested them,” said student Raul Hernandez, according to KGO.

Clip Source: www.upi.com

protesters who occupied a campus building to protest skyrocketing tuitions have been arrested and removed

John Ziegler: “AP Blows it in Palin Book Analysis”

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:59:23 GMT

clipped by: Jacob173

Clip Source: www.mediaite.com

John Ziegler: “AP Blows it in Palin Book Analysis”

Second of all, Palin’s analysis of what really happened with the now infamous (and totally misunderstood) Couric and Gibson interviews could not be LESS whiny — it is instead full of fact-filled writing that finally provides the full story of what really happened in the way that only a book can do (my documentary, which I am told Palin handed to her collaborator and said “here, this is what happened” could only provide a foundation of understanding that is magnified in much greater detail in Going Rogue).

The bottom line is that the AP is either purposefully or out of their own profound unconscious bias, badly missing the most important points of Sarah Palin’s book. Considering the role the mainstream media played in creating the need for her to write this book in the first place, that should not be a big surprise.

Book: Ikea payed bought Greenpeace's silence

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:18:00 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

According to Stenebo, since the mid-1990s, Ikea has "muzzled" a number of several non-governmental organizations by paying them money. The author gives the example of Greenpeace. He claims that Ikea representatives visited Europe's only remaining virgin forest in the Russian region of Karelia "hand in hand" with people from Greenpeace. Greenpeace then got "a lot of money" for a media project that made other multinationals -- like the giant Finnish paper manufacturer Stora Enso -- look bad.

When shortly afterwards Ikea was apparently responsible for the felling of huge segments of rainforest in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo, Greenpeace kept their side of the perfidious deal and publicly defended the Swedes, Stenebo says. Other well-known NGOs have also benefited from generous donations from Ikea, he claims: "Ikea is making these organizations into financial hostages."

Tags: ikea, greenpeace, corporate-malfeasance, ngo-malfeasance

Kurdish girl stoned to death, filmed on camera phone

Mon, 07 May 2007 02:30:58 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: There is only one word for this: EVIL

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Du'a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year old Kurd who was being killed for having had a relationship with a Sunni Muslim boy

the girl is seen being ambushed on her way home by a group of up to 1000 men who were waiting for her to return; the men killed her in the most brutal way possible, by throwing large stones on her head. The following clips show that while she is alive and crying for help she is taunted and kicked in her stomach until someone finishes her off by throwing a large stone on her face.

From the clips it appears that the girl was first stripped naked to symbolize that she had dishonored her family and her Yezidi religion. She is lying on the road naked while her smashed face is covered with blood and still breathing.

Tags: murder, violence, stoning, predjudice

Lobbyists push EPA around

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:07:56 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.stat.columbia.edu

For most pollutants, there's a pro-pollution lobby (the coal industry, the oil industry, the semiconductor industry, whatever). But there's no pro-radon lobby: radon is a natural pollutant. As a result of this lack of counterpressure, there's a tendency to overstate the radon risk. To put it another way, when the EPA is pushing everybody to measure their house for radon, they're pushing at an open door.

Tags: who-rules-america, environment, epa

Glenn Greenwald comments on Sue Myrick's calls for an investigation of CAIR

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:18:29 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: I don't know the full context of this, but it's something I'd like to learn more about.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Glenn Greenwald

GOP House members call for investigation of Muslim political activity

A group of House Republicans is calling for an investigation into whether a leading American Muslim advocacy group tried to "spy" on congressional offices by placing interns on key security committees.

Rep. Sue Myrick, North Carolina Republican, cited an internal January 2007 memo in which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) discussed placing Muslim interns on Capitol Hill to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."

That's consistent with what virtually every political advocacy group in the nation does; it's normally called activism and democracy. But because, in this case, it's a group of Muslims who are doing this, these House Republicans are depicting it as some sort of nefarious espionage plot against the U.S. that demands a criminal investigation.

Tags: activism, conservatives, gwot, islam, pluralism, politics, possible_blog_post, religion

The Kiss...Man's best friend.

Sun, 27 May 2007 02:28:53 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: Is it any wonder we love dogs?

Clip Source: aad.lomag.net

He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.

She is pregnant.

When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, "The Observer," noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.

He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph.

Tags: photos

Is bicycling safer than driving?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:43:24 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: On this forum, a participant misuses statistics to show that bicycling is safer than driving. These statistics do not prove anything about the inherent safety of either mode of transportation.

(the first comment is a sarcastic response by an anti-bicyclist commenting on a Philadelphia bicyclist who got critically injured by a car on a busy intersection).

Clip Source: www.philadelphiaspeaks.com

I am so confused. I just can't imagine why anyone would think that riding a bike in the city is dangerous. The bike rider's injurys may be serious but they can't be as bad as the poor guy driving the truck.

It isn't, compared to driving a car. 43,443 Americans were killed in auto accidents in 2005 versus 784 cyclists.

Tags: bicycling, teaching-statistics, statistics-teaching, rates, comparisons, denominator

Firm cancels health insurance after girl gets celiac disease

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:32:51 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

When 17-year-old Brianna Rice was diagnosed with celiac disease in February, she had health insurance.

She doesn't now.

In the months that followed her diagnosis, her insurance company, American Community Mutual Insurance, combed through her medical records and ruled that her parents lied on her application last year.

In May, American Community not only canceled her policy, but also rescinded coverage all the way back to the day it started -- Nov. 1.

Her parents, Dale and Pat Rice of Deerfield, insist they were truthful on Brianna's application and say the insurance company is trying to back out of covering their daughter because of the February diagnosis.

The family's situation shows just how quickly health insurance problems can lead to financial ruin. With their daughter's unpaid medical bills exceeding $20,000 and mounting, the Rices fear losing their home. Pat Rice said she cashed in some of her retirement account to pay bills.

Tags: health-insurance, american community mutual insurance, corporate-malfeasance, healthcare, health-care

Gardasil HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:47:37 GMT

clipped by: WIDEEYECINEMA
clipper's remarks: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22858356-5006007,00.html

http://www.newstarget.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html

Clip Source: wideeyecinema.com

Gardasil HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed

This video exposes the truth about Gardasil and HPV vaccinations: They don’t work and may actually be dangerous to women. The FDA knew HPV did not cause cervical cancer in 2003. Video alert by Natural News.com

To order book or DVD, click here

Tags: kids, health, vaccine, video

Pray That You Have Insurance

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:52:44 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

WASHINGTON -- I am sitting here, filled with a disbelief so profound about those of my fellow citizens who don't seem to believe that we are in the grasp of horrendous health-care and insurance problems that I could scream, were not so many others screaming!

Two years ago, out of nowhere, I came down with tongue cancer,

Everything was going quite well until, a year ago, my insurance company canceled me. It had obviously stayed up nights searching out a reason to rid itself of this tiresome journalist, and it found I was actually an independent contractor and not a regular employee.

But thank God there was Medicare.

Now I have to say that Medicare has been extremely efficient.

I sit here wondering whether those who are so perfervidly against government-run alternative health insurance care at all about those of us whom the private health-care system has treated with such errant and selfish shabbiness. Who knows? Maybe next time it will be one of them.

Tags: health-insurance, healthcare, health-care

US Govt' National Debt under the different administrations

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:38:33 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: yglesias.thinkprogress.org

Tags: conservatives, hypocrisy, republicans