http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/technolo...avd/vdxNaQyoXug

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/superman-vs.htm

Thais stop topless drug smuggler
Kitten beheading shocks SPCA
Zambian man exhumes and eats grandson's corpse
Man tries to convert lions to Jesus, gets bitten
Romanian mistakenly cuts off penis, dog eats it
Aborted baby's head left inside woman
Suicide On A Live Webcam!?!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

green penis lol.

I just love in the first one where it's like

The brains behind the pilot rat

lol too finny

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/06/29/electri...s.ap/index.html

In a recent (June 26th) interview , J.K. Rolwing said, inter alia, that she's going to kill off 2 of the main characters in book 7 and that she had written the final chapter around 1990. :P

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Or if you have trouble hearing it because they lazily trail off on some sentences <_<: Transcript

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43441

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...nsascity_nation

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5766288

George Bush gets DS Lite

Fake?

May 15, 2007 06:50 PM

PAT HEWITT
CANADIAN PRESS

One-third of Canadians identify themselves as workaholics, but a study released Tuesday says working more isn't improving their quality of life.

Statistics Canada says people who admit they are workaholics are much more likely to be dissatisfied with the balance between their work and family lives than other employees.

The study, titled "Time Escapes Me: Workaholics and Time Perception," found 31 per cent of Canadian workers aged 19 to 64 identified themselves as workaholics in 2005. That was unchanged from 15 years ago, despite the proliferation of cellphones, BlackBerrys and home computers that keep people connected.

Study author Leslie-Anne Keown, an analyst for the Statistics Canada publication Canadian Social Trends, said in an interview from Ottawa that she was a little surprised by that finding, but doesn't know why the percentage hasn't changed since 1992.

"But my sense of that is that it's very likely because they're defining themselves as workaholics in the form of a label or a perception or as a form of identity," said Keown.

"And if that's indeed the case, then it's not tied so much to their working conditions or to changes in employment, it's tied to their perceptions of themselves."

Among workaholics, about 39 per cent said they usually worked 50 or more hours per week, compared to 20 per cent among employees who did not consider themselves workaholics.

"It turns out that workaholics, probably not surprisingly, tend to work more than 50 hours a week . . . . They have a lower satisfaction with their lives overall and particularly with the time they spend outside work. And they tend to be stressed about the way they spend their time away from work," said Keown.

Almost two-thirds of workaholics worried they don't spend enough time with family and friends, compared to 45 per cent for non-workaholics. And more than half of workaholics said there's no time for fun, compared to about one-third of other employees who felt that way.

"Workaholics were much less satisfied with their work-life balance. They worried more . . . that they weren't spending enough time with their friends and family," said Keown.

She said they also complained of more sleep problems and they were more likely to report that they were in fair or poor health compared to non-workaholics.

However, satisfaction with their jobs and financial situation was the same for both groups, suggesting it's not money that's driving people to log long hours on the job.

The study found time management was a problem for workaholics, as they were more likely to report they felt rushed, trapped in a daily routine and unable to accomplish their "to do" list during the day.

"If you ask them, workaholics versus non-workaholics, what they do if they can't get everything done, workaholics are more likely to say `I cut back on my sleep or I'm stressed when I can't get accomplished everything I want to do.' So it's like they're trying to grasp and get everything done but that's just not happening for them."

The study found no significant difference between self-identified workaholics and non-workaholics in terms of their personal incomes, education, marital status, family structure, or place of residence.

But compared with non-workaholics, workaholics were more likely to be managers and tradespeople including plumbers, electricians and welders and less likely to be professionals.

"We suspect that may be due to the fact that many of them (tradespeople) are self-employed, as well as there's high demand for trades and so more work than people to do it," said Keown.

The study also said it is possible that professionals accept that working longer hours is an integral part of their professional role.

The study, which is based on 9,700 respondents, is published in the May online edition of Canadian Social Trends.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19088976?GT1=10056

ROFLMAO

ahah

the most exciting moment of his life, no doubt.

sounds so fun..

Just look for news on Internet

Wow

...

LOL I didn't see that earlier. No wonder I blocked him.

Sometimes I'm wondering...

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...D=2007706050352

That's good for FFR's popularity. :unsure:

"no no no you got it all wrong, we were practicing dance moves!"

I personally find it entertaining.

Miss Teen USA hopeful a superstar after flub
Aug 29, 2007 04:30 AM
Antonia Zerbisias
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/250752

Lauren Caitlin Upton may not have won Miss Teen USA but she may be the smartest adolescent in America.

Hard to believe, what with the 18-year-old's brain-dead moment on You Tube – more than seven million hits, if you count the parodies – as she stumbled in the skill-testing portion of last Friday's pageant.

When asked why, supposedly according to polls, one-fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map, Upton replied:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us."

By the time this has run through its full news, blog and late-night comedy cycle, more people will have seen this clip than have watched all the beauty pageants on U.S. TV in the past year. She'll be a superstar.

What's more, Upton has already entered the inevitable "redemption" phase of the process, with talk show appearances and high-fives from network TV hosts.

Aw, come on. She's just a kid. And so all-American, blond-haired, blue-eyed, Barbie-doll pretty. She's also got grit, in the pageant game, she said in an interview last week, "to prove I was able to accomplish anything I put my mind to." She has it all going on.

As for entering Miss Teen USA, the incentives could have included the New York City apartment, the rich shoe wardrobe and a $30,000 (U.S.) diamond-encrusted watch – all of which went to the actual winner.

And who was that again? Oh yeah, Miss Colorado, Hilary Carol Cruz, who was challenged in the question round with a choice between Paris, Nicole and Lindsay.

After professing that none is a role model – only not so grammatically – she went on to say she prefers Paris "because, in the end. She showed that she knew what was right and what was wrong."

Meanwhile, Miss North Carolina Kaitlin Coble (second runner-up) said something about Canada being "down there."

Beauty pageants have never been called brainy pageants.

Despite feminist protests in the late `60s, and endless columnizing ever since, they continue not just to survive, but to thrive, all over the world. Sure, their Nielsen ratings are not what they used to be but, my guess is, that's because the show format is just outdated. You can see hotter girls competing in fiercer fashion on The Bachelor.

Upton inadvertently won by being dumb or, at best, struck dumb.

That's because, if she were smart – but not shrewd – she would have used the platform to pronounce on the sad state of U.S. public education, perhaps even President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind program.

That would have earned her cheers from some progressives – who would also have trashed her for being in a bimbo contest. But she also would have been Dixie Chicked by the right-wing radio talk show hosts and Fox News types. So, damned if she did, damned if she didn't.

Now, she's just another not-so-dumb blonde waiting to sign the endorsement deals – for Maybelline or even map companies.

Bet that gets more coverage than cuts to education, which nobody is talking about.

Oh, and by the way, Upton placed third runner-up. That's fourth.

But most of the people attacking her intelligence online say she came in third.

Looks as if Americans can't count either.

Americans making Americans look like idiots. That's great.

The thing is with the 1/5 of Americans can't find America on the map is that 1/5 of Americans are children. D'oh Canadians didn't think about that.

AHAHAHAHAHA she's dumb. But let's not be harsh, there was a lot of pressure on that question.

The family that beats a robber together...

Probe reveals disturbing details of Virginia Tech gunman who wanted to duplicate Columbine
Aug 31, 2007 04:30 AM
Tim Harper
WASHINGTON BUREAU
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/251911

WASHINGTON–The worst mass murderer in American history showed aberrant behaviour as early as the age of 3 and was diagnosed with a syndrome known as "selective mutism," marked by an obsessive fear of hearing his own voice.

But Sueng-Hui Cho ultimately ignored a high school guidance counsellor's warning that enrolling at a huge university like Virginia Tech could undo any progress being made in dealing with his difficulties, and the school accepted him without any knowledge of his extreme psychological problems.

The release yesterday of a Virginia state panel probing the April 16 murders of 32 students and staff at the school by Cho unearthed a wealth of new information on the killer, much of it troubling and indicating he was a danger to others, but no one at the university was able to put all the warning signs together.

No one from Virginia Tech ever told his parents about his detention at a mental health facility, his stalking of students or his macabre writings.

The night before the massacre, Cho assured his mother in their regular Sunday night chat that he needed no money and he loved her.

"The dots were not connected and signals were missed at Virginia Tech," said Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.

But he refused calls by angry parents and others who lost loved ones for the firing of Virginia Tech president Charles Steger even though the red flags were missed at the school and the panel concluded lives could have been saved by quicker notification to the campus that a gunman could be loose.

The report says various university branches did not share information about Cho because they too strictly interpreted privacy legislation.

A year before the shooting, Cho submitted a class paper in which a man named "Bud" gets out of bed extremely early, "puts on his black jeans, a strappy black vest with many pockets, a black hat, a large dark sunglasses (sic) and a flimsy jacket," then goes on to rail about the happy students at school and his desire to kill them.

Later, he flees with a girlfriend without carrying out his plan, carrying two hand guns and a sawed off shotgun.

The portrait of Cho provided by the commission was the most detailed look at a troubled life yet and was drawn from a number of sources, including a three-hour interview with his sister and parents.

His parents said he was traumatized by an invasive heart procedure done by doctors at the age of 3 and from that point on did not like to be touched.

He also did not communicate, speaking very little to his parents and avoiding eye contact.

"If called upon to speak when a visitor came to the home, he would develop sweaty palms, become pale, freeze, and sometimes cry," they said.

"Frequently, he would only nod yes or no."

The diagnosis of "selective mutism" was made in 1999, shortly after he wrote a school paper in which he revealed he wanted to duplicate the Colorado Columbine shootings that spring.

His college entrance test scores and high school grades were excellent, but artificially inflated because the high school did not grade him on class participation – which was non-existent.

They were barred from such grading by law because of his emotional problems.

Although the guidance counsellor at high school had warned that Virginia Tech was too large and Cho would be better at a smaller school where the transition could be smoother, he was determined to attend that school, the report said.

He was accepted based on his marks, his SAT score and a short essay he wrote about rock-climbing as a metaphor for personal striving.

There was no personal interview.

"As Cho looked to the fall of 2003," the report says, "he was preparing to leave home for the first time and enter an environment where he knew no one.

"He was not on any medication for anxiety or depression, had stopped counselling and no longer had special accommodations for his selective mutism."

Neither he nor his Virginia high school provided any of this information to the university, and Virginia Tech officials had no way of knowing he had been classed as a special education student at the high school.

There had been sporadic efforts by roommates to bring him into their social circles early at Virginia Tech, but he would always sit by himself in the corner at parties.

Any outreach ended one night after a group went back to a female student's room to continue a party and Cho took out a huge knife and began stabbing the carpet.

He began to accuse his fellow students of eating little animals, then of cannibalism. He began taking pictures of them with his cellphone, causing many to stop attending classes because they were afraid of him.

I seriously think that every single article on the site www.damninteresting.com is worthy of posting up here. But just follow the link.Damn Interesting

the fuck? what does class participation have to do with anything? Unless they mean oral presentation?

I just don't know what this poor boy is thinking...'Victim refuses to give up child pornographer's whereabouts'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19099553/

Fuck, that was a good one kensai. :clap:

AH FUck. Rick rolled.

Get that shit out of here, this is for news articles.

Yes. Class participation as opposed to attendance.

class participation means asking questions and group discussion, not orals.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Teamwork, group discussions, raising your hand to ask/answer questions, etc. are considered class participation and make up only a very small % of your marks in most classes. So even though the article says his marks were inflated, they would have been increased by only a small amount.

Presentations (oral or written) and projects are considered separate and they are worth much larger chunks of your final grade. His exemption from oral presentations, if the class required them, is what really inflated his marks.

but the article talks about class participation, which is the former and does not mentaion any exemption from oral presentation???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_...elmsley_s_pooch

Man I feel bad for those other 2 grand children, but I really wanna know why she didn't give any money to them.