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Spike Milligan & The Irish Olympics

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:19:36 GMT

clipped by: celestialdancer
clipper's remarks: I have read some of his poetry - very funny...

Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan was born in India to an english mother and an Irish father who was serving in the British Army. During his teens and early twenties Spike performed as a Jazz musician and was already starting to write comedy sketches.

On his return to England during the late 1940's he continued appearances in several musical comedy acts, Spike then had a big break into the world of radio both writing scripts for and performing in the now famous 'Goon Show' with other comedy greats such as Peter Sellers and Harry Seacombe. The Goon Show ran from 1951 with the last one in 1972.

From Radio Spike naturally progressed onto TV appearing in numerous TV show including 'A show called Fred', 'The World of Beachcomber' and 'The Q Series'.

Spike also excelled in the writing of nonsense poems and verse having many books published and to his credit some of which are still taught in schools.

Spike was without doubt a comedy great and helped shape the landscape of British comedy.

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Zero Friction Fat Loss Review

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:13:21 GMT

clipped by: brodan
clipper's remarks: Fine though it seems too secretive and does not give much hint on what foods to eat. The principle is similar to the use of herbs and special foods in Chinese Medicine.

Clip Source: zerofrictionfatloss-review.weebly.com

Zero Friction Fat Loss Review

Finally! A No-Nonsense Formula for Fat Loss!

the Zero Friction Fat Loss program is a Meal Plan Generator

Your body is expected to
be a fat-burning machine without the need to starve with diets or torture yourself with

strenuous physical activity.

Bottom line: Zero Friction Fat Loss is based on ideas that really work. It is the first time I have been encouraged to review a product online. I feel good reviewing this one. It's actually a simple yet amazing formula for success at fat loss. This should be a must-read for anyone seriously interested in producing results.

Tags: weight loss, fat loss, fat loss food, fat loss diet, zero friction fat loss

Disneyfied Vaginas Questioned by Cranky British Researchers

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:19 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: It's distracting to have imperfections while naked with a man,[or woman]... Being a human being with idiosyncratic features can feel weird after taking in the cultural obsession with cookie-cutter beauty, and if you're cursed with a partner willing to vocalize his [or her] disappointment with your human body, it can be even worse. But it's a shame that most of us absorb this nonsense.

... if you can clear your head of all this perfectionist, conformist pressure, appreciating people's little differences can be more fun and certainly more sexy ... In fact, I often look at the sea of airbrushing and plastic surgery and Brazilian waxing, and I see a profound prudery at the bottom of it, a fear of truly embracing sexuality. The airbrushed plastic perfection promoted by Playboy and Maxim magazine are to sex as EPCOT Center is to world travel: experience simulation for those too cowardly to truly dive in, but too egotistical to admit their cowardice.

Clip Source: www.doublex.com

The British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology recently published one of those "no duh" studies, this time indicating that it might not be the greatest idea in the world to have a plastic surgeon hack away at your genitals so you can look in the bedroom like a flat picture in Playboy post-airbrushing

Reading between the lines of the BBC article, it's clear that the dispute is over whether or not it's legitimate to deem it a "sexual problem" worth medical intervention when you're partnered with a man who regularly vocalizes his belief that he's entitled to have an airbrushed vulva before him. Or, to spread the blame around, whether or not it's a medical issue if a woman has looked at a great deal of porn and has decided that she's broken because she doesn't fit the mold

like all surgery

slicing back your labia tends to create at least some scar tissue

scar tissue decreases sensitivity

We Must Be On Guard For Extremism

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:38:40 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "When dealing with soldiers far from their homes and families and subject to the greatest imaginable stress, the Army needs to be on the watch for the predatory inroads of any form of political or religious extremism -- whether it be the jihadism to which Hasan was drawn or the Christian identity nonsense that inspired Timothy McVeigh."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

There is a profound difference between watchfulness and a witch hunt.

In the aftermath of the Ft. Hood shootings, that's a crucial distinction, though nothing the authorities -- and particularly the U.S. Army brass -- have said so far has done much to help people make it

federal anti-terrorism operations intercepted 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al Awlaki

On Monday, he praised Hasan as a "hero" on his website and urged other American Muslim soldiers to emulate his example.

Clearly, the FBI screwed up here, but so did the Army.

The Army's apparent willingness to ignore this may have had less to do with promoting "diversity" or "multiculturalism" than it did with the service's large financial stake in Hasan's medical training and the hard time the military has in recruiting competent mental health professionals.

there is a need for perspective that doesn't impugn the more than 3,000 Muslim soldiers now serving their country in the Army

'meep' 'meep' 'meep'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:57:59 GMT

clipped by: bookwormy
clipper's remarks: Uh-oh. I hope I don't get suspended from clipmarks

Clip Source: www.salemnews.com

What's wrong with 'meep'? It's all in how you say it

DANVERS — It's no surprise that using bad language in school can get you into hot water. But "meep"?

Danvers High parents recently got an automated call from the principal warning them that if students say or display the word "meep" at school, they could face suspension.

Meep doesn't mean much, unless you are Beaker — the hapless, orange-haired assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on "The Muppet Show."

While meep may be nonsense, what it represented was no laughing matter to the high school's administration. High school Principal Thomas Murray said students were using it and other words to disrupt school in a particular part of the building on Cabot Road. The term later became part of a disruption some students were planning online.

Ayn Rand on Rights of An Embryo

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:38:01 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: "Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings."

"By what right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?" ---- This quote is precisely the way I feel about mandating people to buy health care / insurance! I agree we need reform (of some type), but not to mandating coverage with penalties.

Clip Source: aynrandlexicon.com

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?

Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable . . . .

Nuclear Profiteers at Sandia Labs

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:24 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: No comment - they say it all.

Clip Source: pogoblog.typepad.com

Lifestyles of the Rich and Nuclear

Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes a whopping $1.7 million per year, and that Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio makes $800,348 per year. As Dan Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center pointed out, this means that Hunter makes four times as much as the President of the United States, and that Anastasio makes twice as much.

We found Sandia’s defense of the high salaries quite laughable. “They are making complex decisions that are actually affecting the security of the United States,” Sandia spokesman Neal Singer said. “They’re paid for the difficult decisions they make.” Unlike the President??

Tags: greed, nonsense, nuclear-follies

Climate stuff

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:52:33 GMT

clipped by: gsurtees

Clip Source: network.nationalpost.com

NP, you're as guilty as the unquestioning acolytes in swallowing the nonsense that passes as settled science these days. Is the earth warming? Not in the past 10 years. Human activity is likely to blame? England warmed 4 degrees from 1700-1735 whilst the earth warmed 1 degree in the 20th century - small problem here - the 4 degrees warming was before a little thing called the Industrial Revolution, you know machines, gases and stuff. Climates are changing - Greenland's glaciers have gotten thicker not thinner. Unless you mean low lying areas like the Big Easy circa 2005, the oceans have risen at most 8 inches the past century. Why, the Goracle is so concerned that he bought an oceanfront condo in San Francisco.

PICTURES: 2012 Doomsday Myths Debunked

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:45:01 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clipper's remarks: People actually believe this nonsense? Whatever.....

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

MYTH: Space Phenomena Will Send Continents Spinning

November 6, 2009--The end of the world is near--December 21, 2012, to be exact--according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie.

In some 2012 doomsday prophecies, the Earth becomes a deathtrap as it undergoes a "pole shift," courtesy of an asteroid impact (illustrated above), a rare alignment with the center of the Milky Way, and/or massive solar radiation destabilizing the inner Earth by heating it.

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

MYTH: Planet X Is on a Collision Course With Earth

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

MYTH: Galactic Alignment Spells Doom

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

MYTH: Maya Predicted End of the World in 2012

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

MYTH: Solar Storms to Savage Earth

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MYTH: Maya Had Clear Predictions for 2012

The Maya did pass down a graphic--though undated--end-of-the-world scenario, described on the final page of a circa-1100 text known as the Dresden Codex (detail above).

Tags: dumb

Controversial New Video of Obama's Pastor

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:57:46 GMT

clipped by: WhatAreWeDoing

Clip Source: www.worldviewtimes.com

Controversial New Video of Obama's Pastor

By Cliff Kincaid

A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by

In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism."

In the video, which captures Wright's appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the "corporate media" provide a "binary lens" of the world, in such terms as "communist versus Christian," Monthly Review offers what it calls "no-nonsense Marxism."

Posted: 11/02/09

The future of interface design

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:37:35 GMT

clipped by: Bareface
clipper's remarks: It's amazing to think what we can control and interact with, alot of these ideas were in Hollywood sci-fi only 10 years ago, the rate of development is staggering.

Great article showing the technology and how we can use it in the real world.

Clip Source: www.uxbooth.com

Did you know the first “brain-tweet” was sent out this year? How about that we may someday be customizing windshields with widgets? In the not-to-distant future, we may be interfacing with computers in exciting and innovative new ways.

In the grand scheme of history, it wasn’t long ago that the first telephone conversation took place. Relatively speaking, that makes the personal computer an invention of yesteryear, and social networking only a blink of an eye later. Just imagine what’s coming in the near future…

The future of how we interact with computers is exciting to say the least. What once seemed like nonsense outside of Hollywood and Science Fiction is now starting to find it’s way into reality, and some of the technology is a bit overwhelming. Have a taste of what the future of interface design has to offer:

Last but not least, interface designers are tapping into something almost as ubiquitous as air itself: surfaces.

Facebook survival guide for awkward adults

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:16 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

What you need to know to avoid embarrassing your kids (and yourself)

Thirty-five percent of adults would like to know 25 stupid things about you. Actually, that's an overstatement, but 35 percent of your peers are actually using the sort of sites where that nonsense occurs.

Still, the fastest growing group on Facebook is infamously the 35-54-year-old segment. And since grown-ups have quadrupled their likelihood of using these sites in the last four years, you might find this orientation guide to Facebook useful.

Tags: facebook, social networking, adults

College Snuggie

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:48:25 GMT

clipped by: seenontvproducts
clipper's remarks: More College Snuggie nonsense but I'm getting used to seeing them

Clip Source: ezinearticles.com

Collegiate Snuggies Support Your School

A collegiate snuggie is the latest way to support your school at those cold windy stadiums this fall. However, my contention is that collegiate snuggies are hideous but slightly on the fun side. If you've been living under a rock and don't know what a college snuggie, or any other of the millions of types of snuggies are then you're really missing out.

A Snuggie is a blanket with sleeves. The idea of wearing a blanket around seems to be pretty cool but there's no way it can ever be considered fashionable, or could it? Last year, snuggies hit the runaway at New York's fashion week and have been the subject of video parodies and mockery ever since. But sales keep rising and new snuggies hit the market place nearly every month.

Tags: collegiate snuggies, college snuggie, college snuggy

'Man Up, Obama' and Other Nonsense

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:46:11 GMT

clipped by: infidel70

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Earlier this month, New York Times "visual op-ed columnist" Charles M. Blow blasted Barack Obama for his refusal to stand "up for his convictions."

In reality, they are usually the kinds of people who send their kids to Oberlin College, swoon over Andrea Bocelli, and think Jimmy Carter was a macho man.

Only a portion of the Democratic Party belongs to the left.

Barack Obama got elected president in large part because an awful lot of blue-collar Democrats in Pennsylvania and Ohio and the border states voted for him. He didn't get elected simply because of liberals in Malibu and Massachusetts.

It derives not from the

fact we should be running the country because we are so radiantly principled and implacable and, well, special. It's based on the idea that if take-no-prisoners types like us were in charge we would pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, imprison half of Wall Street and jam that single-payer plan right down the GOP's throat.

Rush Got Punked

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:46:39 GMT

clipped by: ljsdesign
clipper's remarks: Let's hope someone kept their sense of humor in all this. Still, for a humble post to go from humor blog to major media outlet sure seems impressive. Someone ought to write their thesis on it. For real.

Clip Source: buzz.yahoo.com

It must have seemed so perfect.

The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama's disdain for the Constitution.

The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, who quoted from the supposed thesis on his radio show, sure wasn't laughing. Here's how it went down.

made-up post meant as a joke

Rush Limbaugh jumped on it, which immediately sparked Web searches on "obama thesis."

Supposedly titled "Aristocracy Revisited," the excerpt revealed the president had "doubts" about the "so-called founders." Juicy. Except not true. Limbaugh discovered halfway through his show that he'd been had, but defended himself by saying basically the thesis felt true. Listen in to Rush's mea sorta culpa.

Joe Klein finally jumped in, and called the report "nonsense" on his Swampland blog, and the blogger who thought the hoax was real also apologized.