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YOU ARE BEING WATCHED

We all know the scene: the departmental coffee room, with the price list for tea and coffee on the wall and the “honesty box” where you pay for your drinks — or not, because no one is watching.
In a finding that will have office managers everywhere scurrying for the photocopier, researchers have discovered that merely […]

WHAT AMOUNT OF DRIVING IS SAFE?

Answer: none, even if you don’t get mangled in an accident. Hell, I’ve stopped driving, but I could still get run over by some maniac who, despite all of the evidence, continues to operate a deadly vehicle. This proposal doesn’t go far enough. Let’s just ban automobiles outright.

It’s about time we ban automobile advertising, like […]

SMOKE ALARM

Despite containing more than 727 pages of extensive review of nearly every possible health manifestation of exposure to secondhand smoke, the Surgeon General’s report released today does not conclude that there is any severe or fatal cardiovascular impact of a single acute (i.e. 30 minute) exposure to secondhand smoke, as currently claimed by more than […]

ARMED GIRLS LURE IDIOT VICTIM ON MYSPACE

The so-called Natalia did tell the victim that she was 18, so he was shocked to learn he was actually talking to a 14-year-old. He says he has since removed personal information from his MySpace profile, like his salary and the kind of car that he drives.

Teenage Girls Rob Man they Met on MySpace (WOAI, […]

FED-UP BIKE MESSENGERS START COLLECTIVE

A bike messenger quitting isn’t so unusual–messengers will tell you they all develop a strategy to extract themselves from the job, which is defined by a high risk of bodily harm, low wages, and few or no benefits. Michael Carey, Cudal’s boss at On Time Courier, was a former messenger himself. But Carey, a big, […]

ENGLISH LESSON

Zuiikin Gals II (YouTube, via Springheel Jack)

COOL NEW ANIMATED VIDEO

Röyksopp, “Beautiful Day Without You”(Quicktime, via Cliptip)
Röyksopp website

EAGERLY AWAITING: PHONOGRAM

EAGERLY AWAITING: PHONOGRAM

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I NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION

The results of the James Joyce poll are in, and it would seem that most of you are quite well-read. Either that, or not many people answered the poll who weren’t into Joyce.
New poll:
So…do you garden?

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Heat-seeking sheep pave way for roads that generate energy