Breakfast in your cupholder! There’s no better way to start your day than with a healthy breakfast. Drink this while you drive to work and taste that crispy bacon, fluffy egg and buttery toast! But use a straw! You don’t want any of that delicious beverage to stain your business suit!Best enjoyed at body temperature!
Now that’s my kinda water drink!!
Via MeatWater
It’s true… Headline Time
A green puppy was born last week in New Orleans.”It’s surprising, alarming to see,” Louisiana SPCA CEO Anna Zorrilla said. “Sometimes, when a puppy is born, the amniotic fluid mixes with the placenta and dyes the coat of the puppy and it almost always happens to very light colored puppies.”
Zorrilla said the puppy will not be green forever, and will likely turn white or a light tan color in the next few weeks, reported WDSU-TV in New Orleans.
She also said the health of the puppy won’t be affected.”There are not health concerns,” Zorrilla said. “It’s really just a discoloration in the birthing process.”
Via WFTV (with Video report)
(Matthew Gonzalez, left, and Kevin Jones have been charged with the misdemeanor offense of abuse of a corpse.)
The teens first came to police’s attention during a vehicle burglary investigation. While being questioned by police, Jones revealed the morbid tale of desecrating the gravesite a month or two months ago, which Adkins believes was a diversionary tactic intended to distract police from the vehicle break-in.
Jones claimed he and his friends used shovels to dig up the body and removed the corpse’s head with a garden tool, Adkins said. Jones also revealed he and the other two boys took the severed head to the juvenile’s home, where they used the skull as a “bong” device to smoke marijuana, the officer said.
Police made three separate trips to the heavily wooded, snake-infested graveyard near the Eastex Freeway feeder road and FM 1960 before finding the disturbed grave several days ago.
“The grave was uncovered, and the headstone had been thrown off the grave and broken,” Adkins said. “The dirt was piled out of it in large piles.”
Full story over at Chron
I’m so lovin this series.
Do more- do more..
If you have a tendency to sleepwalk you might not want to in a ground floor apartment. This man learns that lesson the hard way.
WHY??
To which - I agree… (for all the wrong reasons of course)
(found on the web)
Starbucks re-introduced its 1971 brown-and-white logo featuring a two-tailed mermaid. Okay, technically it’s a siren, but regardless, the image of a female figure brazenly spreading its tails has made a few Christians vow to boycott the company.
“The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” explains alarmist Mark Dice, of a Christian group called The Resistance. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”
While I’m curious what the value of a Slutbuck is relative to a Schrutebuck, I’m worried that Dice doesn’t seem to understand the Starbucks siren is half-fish. She doesn’t have legs to spread, much less a vagina to go between them. The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education, but it’s certainly not the first time spunky Christians have boycotted the multinational company.
Just last summer, a group of Christian ladies boycotted Frappuccinos because there was a homosexual-agenda-pushing Armistead Maupin quote on some of the cups. Others have boycotted the company because of anti-God quotes.
You know, there’s an awfull lot of people who REALLY need to get a life. And TBH, I hadn’t noticed the logo had changed.. which just shows how awake I am after getting of a train in the mornings.
Via Mother Jones
Sheyla Hershey during a recent photo shoot. She’s a famous model and actress in Brazil. She says breast implants have given her a high self esteem for the first time in her life.“I want to look better each day. Everyday. Everybody’s got their dream inside. It’s good when you can make you dream come true,” Hershey said.
Eight years ago Sheyla weighed close to 200 pounds
“I wasn’t happy the way I used to look. That really depressed me.”
Her whole life she wanted to be like country music star Dolly Parton.
“I was 9 years old and she was on Tv on a concert in England. She was singing and I saw a beautiful angel.”
Then she took it to the extreme. Her goal was to make history with the largest breasts. Now she’s done that in country’s version of the Guinness Book Of World Records with size 34 triple f.
“It’s kind of serious. My doctor he says he don’t want to operate on me no more. Because in 5 years I’ve changed 8 times.”
Sheyla’s implants are filled with a thousand CCs or two quarts of silicone.
Local plastic surgeon Dr Joseph Perlman says most of his patients choose less than half that size.
The average woman is probably a 3-400 CC implant.
“Well, a lot of doctors say I might have a huge problems with back pain but so far I’ve never had any problems so I might do have in the future,” she says.
She turns around and there’ll be a total eclipse..
Via MyFox
Some little kid is running around and generally being annoying while this band is performing for a crowd. The tuba player in the back right doesn’t put up with that kind of crap.
This guy was on the corner of Stockton and Columbus in San Francisco yelling at a homeless man. Anger, conflict, drama — sounds like a great shot to me. I crossed the street but was unable to get anything interesting, since I only had my 50mm lens on the camera and I was just too far away.
However, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man decided that he now had a problem with me. He confronted me, demanding my camera. Of course, I refused. He got in my face and started threatening me, telling me that I cannot take his photo without his permission. I told him that yes, in fact, I can. He then walked up and bumped into me, trying to act tough. I told him that one more touch and I would call the police.
Of course, he didn’t like that very much, and at that point told me that if I put his picture on the internet, he would call his laywer. I assured him that his photo would be on the internet, and he then walked up and grabbed my camera lens. Well, that’s just not something that I will put up with, so I pulled the camera away from him and reached for my phone and started dialing. Once he saw that he turned away, still yelling threats, and continued on his way.
I felt bad for his daughter, who was with him, because she was obviously embarrassed by his antics and kept pleading with him to stop. I have a great shot showing her looking up as if saying “Oh boy, here he goes again”. But I’m not going to post that one, as she was not acting like an idiot and I don’t want to embarrass her. Mr. Angry Overreaction Man seems to do enough of that.
So, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man, your photo is now on the internet. Call your lawyer. Tell him somebody on a public sidewalk took your photo while you were on a public sidewalk. Then tell him you physically assaulted the photographer. See what he says.
Pic and words by Jeremy Brooks
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A mystery man surprised drivers at a Brandon gas station Wednesday morning.A man dressed in a shirt and tie reportedly walked up to drivers and handed them cash. One woman says he gave her $55.He did his random act of kindness at the Mobil gas station on Bloomingdale Avenue in Brandon. Hours later, drivers were sad they missed out.
“I think he probably felt sorry because the price of gas is so high now. So he was trying to help people out. I think it’s great, I just wish I was here,” said Becky Gaines.
No one knows why the man did it, but drivers have their theories.
Randall Williams speculates that the man was ill, or maybe he just had a moment, and decided to go out and make somebody’s day. And make somebody feel good about the world.
With gas prices well over $3.50 a gallon, drivers said this man must have wanted to make someone’s day.
Via FoxTampaBay
Way back in 1975 — when Kodachrome color slides and Kodak Instamatics were all the rage — Kodak researcher Steve Sasson built the first digicam, cobbled together from spare parts and bleeding edge digital technology.The lens was from a used parts bin on Kodak’s Super 8 camera assembly line, it used a futuristic CCD image sensor (now commonplace) and took 23 seconds to record a crude 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape.
Sasson explains, “On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation stolen from a digital voltmeter application, several dozen digital and analog circuits all wired together on approximately half a dozen circuit boards, and you have our interpretation of what a portable all electronic still camera might look like.”
The device was semi-portable, and a massive VCR-sized microcomputer was used to display the images on a TV screen using a primitive frame store, but I doubt that the Kodak executives saw digital technology as a credible threat to their existing product line.Way back in 1975 — when Kodachrome color slides and Kodak Instamatics were all the rage — Kodak researcher Steve Sasson built the first digicam, cobbled together from spare parts and bleeding edge digital technology.
The lens was from a used parts bin on Kodak’s Super 8 camera assembly line, it used a futuristic CCD image sensor (now commonplace) and took 23 seconds to record a crude 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape.
Sasson explains, “On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation stolen from a digital voltmeter application, several dozen digital and analog circuits all wired together on approximately half a dozen circuit boards, and you have our interpretation of what a portable all electronic still camera might look like.”
The device was semi-portable, and a massive VCR-sized microcomputer was used to display the images on a TV screen using a primitive frame store, but I doubt that the Kodak executives saw digital technology as a credible threat to their existing product line.
The Kodak Apparatus Division Research Laboratory team demonstrated the technology to a number of people within Kodak in 1976 as “Film-less Photography.” I can’t imagine the title went over well, considering Kodak’s position as the world’s leading producer of photochemical film. Still, 32 years later it turns out to be prophetic as Kodak struggles to reinvent itself as a digital company.
A patent was issued for the technology, but it was decades ahead of its time. Sasson kept the prototype as he moved around the company, but Kodak didn’t publicly acknowledge the creation of the world’s first digicam until 2001.
Via RetroThing
The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their crushing 48-0 defeat by Lithuania in traditional rugby fashion - by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday.
Unfortunately for them, passersby caught their naked frolics on video and put the evidence on the Internet.
From there, it was taken up by the Lithuanian news portal Delfi, showed a group of 20 men singing and stripping off their clothes on a street in central Vilnius, while people in a nearby bar clapped and cheered.
They accompanied the strip with a variety of songs and chants, including what appears to be a rubbish Austrian version of the Haka, and a brief burst of something to the tune of Singing In The Rain.
‘Yes, these were the men we played against on Saturday … I guess the defeat could have prompted them to do that,’ Lithuanian rugby federation President Aleksandras Makarenka told Reuters.
Delfi quoted the Vilnius police chief as saying stripping in public could be considered an act of hooliganism - but by then the Austrian team had gone home.
Via Metro with a link to the video (thats if your into men stripping off)
A California man says he can see the image of the Virgin Mary in his leg after a motorcycle accident.
Marc Lipton said he was riding his motorcycle when he lost control and slid about 50 feet along the road.
Lipton said he wasn’t wearing leather chaps at the time because he was close to home. Lipton said he believes the Virgin Mary protected him from further injury when the motorcycle slid out from underneath him.
The Roman Catholic Church has very strict guidelines regarding what is deemed an official sighting of the Virgin Mary. There has been no word on if the Diocese of Monterey will investigate Lipton’s leg as a legitimate apparition of the Virgin Mary.
I just see the leg belonging to someone who needs to get a life
Via WLBZ2
The niece of the conservative head of Spain’s Catholic Church has bared her breasts in a bestselling Spanish soft porn magazine in protest at the “hypocrisy” of her uncle.Magdalena Rouco Hernandez appears topless on the cover of Interviu as well as in eight full-sized photos inside, including one were she is wearing nothing but a necklace of green beads and a red flower.
“I wanted to lay bare the hypocrisy of my uncle,” the 27-year-old mother of two told the magazine. “Through my uncle I discovered the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church which preaches one thing and does the opposite.”
Hernandez added:”My uncle does not stop repeating that the family is sacred, that you must respect it and fight for it, but then he scorns and abandons his own.”
By way of example, she said her uncle, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, 71, turned down her request for financial help when her husband lost his job and did not call her family in the wake of her mother’s death.
She also accused the cardinal of lying about having a meeting with the late Pope John Paul II to justify not attending her father’s funeral seven years ago.
I bet he goes to visit now…
Via YahooNews
A teenager was blown 25ft off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by a 25,000-volt electric shock.Sam Cunningham’s friends called emergency services, who alerted the rail network to stop trains on the main line between Manchester and Wigan.
The 16-year-old is now being treated for severe burns in hospital, where experts say he is “lucky to be alive”.
Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots.
He was knocked unconscious by the fall and all his clothes were burned off.
After paramedics arrived Sam regained consciousness and managed to phone his mother Ann.
Miss Cunningham, 40, a health care assistant, said: “I got there within a couple of minutes and all his clothes had been burned off, he was shaking from head to toe.
“All his hair had been singed and smoke was coming from the bandages paramedics had put on his legs. I can’t believe that he is still alive - I don’t think anybody can.”
She said her son could not remember what happened except ’seeing a flash and then feeling himself spinning around’.
The teenager is being treated in the specialist burns unit at Whiston Hospital, Merseyside. He will need skin grafts but is expected to make a full recovery.
Via DailyMail (with pics of mom holding his charred clothes)
Pope Benedict XVI will give a new meaning to the term religious text by sending “inspirational messages” to mobile phones during Catholic World Youth day in Australia, organisers said Wednesday.World Youth Day coordinator bishop Anthony Fisher said the 81-year-old Pope would go hi-tech at the July event, expected to attract hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Sydney, by reaching young people “in their social space”.
Hmmmm, wish I had a “fail” tag..
Via YahooNews
A Belgian woman on Wednesday was charged with locking up her ex-boyfriend for almost five months, Reuters reported.The unidentified woman is charged with false imprisonment after allegedly barricading the 29-year-old man in her home in Lessines, Belgium, about 30 miles west of Brussels.Officials say she kept the man captive after calling off their relationship in December. Her brother and new boyfriend reportedly moved into the house, and if convicted, all three could face jail sentences of one to five years, Reuters reported.
“The former partner was mistreated and he was not well-fed,” a court official in the town of Tournai told Reuters.
The suspect’s father informed police of the situation after a family fight Monday.
The victim was wanted at the time of his abduction for drug dealing, and is now in jail.
Belgians, amateurs compared to the Austrians.
Via Fox News
Turns out those blood-thirsty demons just won’t stay dead. Id Software has announced that Doom 4 has begun production as of today. According to the press release, the studio is now hiring for the project. Said CEO Todd Hollenshead, “Doom is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth.”
No other details were given, but we’re guessing it’ll run off of id Tech 5 (or perhaps something greater). Given the ending of the Doom 3 expansion Resurrection was pretty conclusive, we don’t know where the team will take the Doom story next. Our guess? Probably send a space marine to Hell to fight demons.
Just in time for the new machine I’m building - it’d be just my luck that it’ll only work on vista (spit) .
Via Joystiq
With an out-of-control car bearing down, Joseph Richardson grabbed his 4-year-old daughter and held her up out of harm’s way.It was his last act — and one that apparently saved his daughter’s life.
Richardson, a 39-year-old father of three, was killed Monday evening by the car, driven by a man who police say was drunk.
The car pinned Richardson and his daughter Kaniyah against a wrought iron fence at 95th Street and Wentworth, police said.
Kaniyah survived and was listed in critical but stable condition Tuesday evening at Comer Children’s Hospital, where a spokeswoman said she was doing well.
“He held the baby up to keep the car from destroying the baby, but it totally destroyed him,” said Richardson’s father, the Rev. L.V. Richardson.
Richardson was walking his daughter to a McDonald’s for burgers at 6:40 p.m. Monday when a 1990 Chevy Cavalier jumped a curb and careened towards them, police said, citing witness accounts.
He grabbed his daughter just before the car slammed the two into the fence, police said.
Richardson was pronounced dead shortly after the crash — a loss his twin, Timothy, said he felt before he was told.
“All day I just had a real bad gut feeling that something tragic was gonna happen,” the hospital maintenance worker said. “And then when I was at home I could feel him and see, visualize what happened. . . . Right before they called me I could see him being in an accident. I knew he was gone.
“We had a very special connection and I just felt it.”
Hero tag salutes
Via SunTimes
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you’ll ever need.
Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for those who have passed on. It’s starting with $4.3 million in funding, with The Wall Street Journal as a lead investor.
Taylor, who retired from Monster.com in 2005, says Monster was intended to take the jobs section of newspaper’s classified ads online. So online obituaries seemed like an inevitable next step.
Via Wired
A man who accidentally shot himself with a nail gun didn’t call 911 for help, but instead walked to a local pharmacy for help.
Officials said the construction worker walked to a Titusville CVS Pharmacy and told an employee he was doing construction work when a nail gun hit him in the chest.
A medical helicopter took him to Holmes Regional Medical Center.His condition was unknown Tuesday morning.
Via WFTV
Australia: 65-year-old Roy Frederick Francis Bird has been charged with manslaughter over the death of his neighbour, 33-year-old Wayne Smith, after he fatally injured him with a 12-tonne excavator.
The two had been feuding over a boundary dispute and that morning had been arguing over where to bury a dead cow. Bird swung the bucket and struck Smith who responded with stones, before being struck a second time, this time in the groin.
Smith died in hospital from complications resulting from severe injuries to his bladder, pelvis, and groin. Bird has pleaded not guilty, possibly intending to plead accident or self defence. The trial continues in the Cairns Supreme Court.
Via ShortNews
