December 2009
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off to miami! xoxo
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happy birthday to jay smooth, one of my most...
Also, check out his video blog at http://www.illdoctrine.com
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http://fashionforwardmen.ning.com/ →
in love with this website
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The 7 foods experts won't eat (and from now on... →
How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question—“What foods do you avoid?”—we got some pretty interesting answers. Although these foods don’t necessarily make up a “banned”...
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AT&T Looks to Screw Over iphone users again and... →
For now, it looks as if AT&T will try to slow the growth with hefty prices. It will be interesting to see if its competitors follow suit. Verizon has already amended wireless-data pricing for its low-end phones in an effort to squeeze out more revenue from users. But drastic changes in data pricing could scare off some customers and curb smartphone adoption altogether.
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Ashkenazi Jews are Middle Eastern & European... →
With the rise of biological science the characteristics of Jews were used as a way to differentiate them as a nation apart in more than a cultural and religious sense. After World War II other researchers attempted to show that Jews were not genetically distinct with relatively primitive blood group assays. Rather, they were the descendants of converts.
More recent genetic work has given mixed...
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“you seek it out, because you want to have the freedom to do what you want. but...”
– from a friend, and something i need to always remember.
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“The longer you spend sitting each day, the more likely you are to die an early...”
– http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34209499/ns/health-fitness/
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Update: Windows Vista Still Terrible OS
I love that after all these years of running vista on my primary desktop that i can still be assured that any evening of unsaved work will be undoubtedly lost as vista randomly restarts or turns off my machine. effin bloody hell, i hate you windows vista.
I saw a commercial for Windows 7 yesterday where this lady was going on and on about how she told windows to make a safer OS and then they...
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The GOP Has Problems
“Ah, New York City. “I have a Republican friend” is the new (or maybe old) “I have a black friend.””
I love this because i recently acquired two republican friends and did the exact same thing. haha!
mikehudack:
allthecoolkids:
lindsayrobertson:
Sometimes I forget that I have two Republican friends. This conversation happened last night:
Regular Normal friend: So what are her...
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Meat Heals a Damaged Brain →
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Google Search via photographs, pretty incredible →
“Google’s first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone. On Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph.”
“More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed since World War II, according...”
– Kristoff - Cancer From the Kitchen? - NYTimes.com (via rahmin) (via mikehudack)
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Where exactly does food come from? I fear this... →
Really striking images, makes you wonder how the future will consider our culture..
Imaginary 'Tea Party' Party more popular than GOP →
haha a very happy unbirthday, to you!
mikehudack:
southpol:
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
I could have told you that.
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In case anyone was wondering, orange jello + lime jello + frozen blueberries looks like something that came out of a sewer. hahaha
What does your cat do while you’re not at home? →
It’s a question that has riddled cat lovers since the dawn of time, so Friskies decided to answer it once and for all.
To find out, we conducted the first-ever feline focus group, with 50 cats from across the country wearing cat cams on their collars when their owners weren’t at home,
Based on the photos, about 22 percent of the cats’ time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was...
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/232-toxic... →
A 2-year study, commissioned by eco-nonprofit Environmental Working Group and Rachel’s Network, studied the umbilical cord blood of 10 American babies of African American, Asian, and Hispanic heritage born between 2007 and 2008 — to find 232 toxic chemicals. According to Alex Formuzis, EWG’s Director of Communications:
Among the substances newly discovered, in addition to BPA, included a toxic...
7 Things You Didn't Know About Senate Health Bill →
Pay attention: The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” — better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill – is chock full of interesting but little publicized provisions affecting consumers. Sure, the bill is mainly a blueprint for overhauling the insurance system. But look closely and you’ll see a variety of items that would affect people from the cradle to old age...
World AIDS Day
Despite nearly a quarter of a century of treatment and research, nearly two million die from AIDS every year. The pandemic only gains momentum: nearly three million new cases of the disease occurred this year, and only a small percentage of these patients will receive treatment before they die. In June 2008, a joint WHO/UNAIDS report showed that nearly three million people were receiving...