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A man in North Carolina was arrested after he insisted that his 1M dollar bill was legit. The man was attempting to buy $476 worth of items at a Wal-Mart. I would love to see a picture of the bill in question.

The story is awesome, but i want to hear the recordings. Its basically original recordings of Alexander Graham Bell working on his recording experiments that have been hiding in the Smithsonian for ages. We think about the space aged technology we have today as if its something that is developed by super geeks with super computers. This guy had fiber optics invented already in 1880.

If someone knows where i can listen to these recordings, post the link here =]

On Monday, the controversial organization issued a press release attacking iconic Nintendo mascot Mario for wearing a 'Tanooki' suit in his latest adventure, the Nintendo 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land, which hit shelves on Sunday.

"Tanooki may be just a "suit" in Mario games, but by wearing the skin of an animal, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur," PETA says.

I think I might be a little sad if PETA ever died. So much humor would die with them .

By now everyone has had their chance to ridicule Rick Perry for his brain fart during the Republican Debates.

Being a nerd though, I would really like to hear a memory expert chime in on this career catastrophe. Specifically, could Perry have saved himself by simply rambling out random ideas in hopes that something jogs his memory?

Years ago I heard an interview with a scientist (Fittingly, I can`t remember the name) who had a theory about `tip of the tongue` moments. He explained that trying to force ourselves to remember something in these tip of the tongue circumstances usually doesn`t work. The reason being we are relying on the same neural networks that failed the first time to give us the answer eventually. But simply trying to ``thinking harder`` is a flawed strategy because we aren't incorporating any new information (or clues, or neurons) into our thought process, and thus the outcome is always the same.

So when Rick Perry decided to list his three government departments over and over again, sure enough he was left blank every time.

It seems a much better strategy might have been to start speaking (and thinking) of anything else. As our memories are likely all linked together in one way or another, neuronally speaking, the chance that -any- random idea or thought might lead to an association with the ``tip of the tongue`` target is greater than those that have already failed.

So perhaps Perry might have been better to start discussing his coworkers or something he ate for lunch. But of course, if he had succeeded, it just wouldn't have been as funny.


Update: A neuroscientst did chime in on this. It turns out the amygdala is to blame. / http://www.theglobeandmai.../article2232403

This is actually a really impressive story. Bryon Widner is an ex-skinhead who wants to provide for his family but finds it very hard since his face is covered in skinhead tattoos. He goes on a mission to find someone willing to work with him on getting rid of the tattoos. He finds a doctor willing to do the job and even an unknown beneficiary to pay for the removals. Talk about repenting. Now If I can just get someone to recognize the malice and hate towards the negaverse implied by my sailormoon tattoo, maybe they would donate to have it removed.

Okay, maybe not The Rock, but Beavis and Butt-head will be reinvented for the network with Mike Judge at the Helm. But apparently since music television doesn't have music on it anymore, the guys will be ragging on MTV programming instead...shows like Jersey Shore are up for review.

I doubt I'll watch any of it as I can't ever figure out what channel is what on my tv, but I bet I'll enjoy random youtube clips from it.

The title says it all.

The Alamo Drafthouse movie theater people kicked this chick out of a theater for texting during a movie. She called and left an angry message with the management. They turned it into a "please don't text" clip that plays before movies start. The link provided has the censored version. Im embedding the uncensored version. I lolled.

Kevin Costner is investing in a 'gauntlet' that tazes people and records the incident.

Primetime Propaganda a newly released book by Ben Shapiro reportedly has tons of interviews with liberal big wigs in Hollywood admitting that there is a liberal bias there.

Apparently videos of many of the interviews will be released in piecemeal to the internet on a time line that promotes a conservative agenda.

Shapiro claims the book is to get Hollywood to stop discriminating against conseratives. "...or at least stop mocking them."

I guess I am supposed to be abhorred by the idea of producers purposely calling out conservative politics on war and discrimination but I'm just plain looking forward to the videos. Apparently someone calls Ann Coulter a bad word. Shame on them...but i sure hope the word is cunt

That toll only express lane extending from downtown Miami to the Golden Glades Interchange is set to get an extension into Ft. Lauderdale. The article states that this is great news except that its not. These "express lanes" are nothing but a money scheme. The claim is that they ease traffic, but they just cause it. Aside from the fact that you can have a 20 mile commute and still have no available entrance or convenient exit to the lane, it's claiming to make better use of the carpool lanes that would be astronomically more useful if they didnt exist at all.

You see, the carpool lanes might actually be useful if it weren't for the fact that they are enforced. Every time a state trooper sees someone in the carpool lane, what do they do? They pull them over right next to the carpool lane. Now if you know and follow the "Move Over or Slow Down" law then legally you are required to do what in the carpool lane when you see the FHP cars? Slow down or merge right. During rush hour, from Miami to the Golden Glades, you will have to react to this exact situation at least 2 times a commute. It creates a bumper to bumper bottleneck for miles. Now you know why the carpool lane causes traffic. The simple solution, get rid of it. Don't steal a lane from everybody make it expensive to use for some and systematically irrelevant for others and explain how its going to ease the congestion. The fact is they are charging money to the lucky few that can make use of the limited entrances and exits to avoid the congestion that the toll is designed to create. I know that Miami is run by corrupt retarded politicians, but for some reason I thought the Broward guys would be a little more on the level than this. I guess its time to move north again.

Apparently a game developer (Hothead Games) is developing a game modeled after Douglas Adams' popular fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If they mess it up, I'll be pissed. Borrowing The Swarm and Deathspank next week from the store, anyone played a Hotheads game that can attest over whether they make decent games?

Mother loses newborn and holds the baby tight even after it's death for almost two weeks. This act of grieving isn't unusual of gorillas but these pictures are touching nonetheless. You can see the family gathering around the mourning mother in the pictures as well.


Virunga veterinarian Jan Ramer said, "While we can never know what is really going on in their heads, it sure seems some gorillas do mourn—or don't accept that the individual is dead.

"When an adult female died last year, her three sons stayed with her body for 24 hours," added Ramer, a regional vet manager for the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project who has studied mountain gorillas since the mid-1980s.

"I believe they were sad and confused, which is how I feel when I am mourning."

—Stefan Lovgren

Prison guards in China have found a way to profit off their inmates – by forcing them to farm gold in MMOs in exchange for real-world currency. While they're busy doing manual labor during the day, these prisoners are forced to earn virtual cash by night. A 54 year-old man referred to as Liu Dali (not his actual name) is in prison for petitioning about government corruption, and he described the conditions to UK newspaper The Guardian

If Duke Nukem Forever is the story of how to not make a video game, then Atlas Shrugged is surely how to not make a movie. Here is the story of many almosts that sound much more promising than what ultimately occurs. This guy Aglialoro buys 20 years worth of rights to make the movie and waits till the last few months to start...sounds like the time line for many science fair projects. Anyways, 1 3rd of the story will be released in limited theaters and will be marketed towards christians and mormans as conservative propaganda (never mind than Rand was a devout atheist). It is directed by one of the best directors they could find...a guy who has directed nothing but did star in episodes of 'One Tree Hill'. I'm tempted to seek out this movie if for no other reason than - how often do you get to buy tickets to a prescheduled train wreck.

I hope Orson Scott Card is paying attention. Mr. Scott Card...I have so much respect for you, but please give someone else at least some creative control over an Ender's Game movie because someday you will be dead and then you will have no control. Do really want your story to be brought to the big screen by snooki and the situation?

Article reviews how the social networking practices by police officers can haunt them...in court and in the media. Defense attorneys are digging through social networking info on cops to try and get the cop's testimony thrown out.

In one case in New York, a jury dismissed a weapons charge against a defendant after learning that the arresting officer had listed his mood on MySpace as “devious” and wrote on Facebook that he was watching the film “Training Day” to “brush up on proper police procedure.”

I couldn't help but lol.
Theres a few other examples in there. Its worth the short read.

Scienceblogs reports on a study of yawning in chimpanzees carried out by scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

The scientists showed chimps videos of other chimpanzees yawning and recorded the frequency at which the test chimp yawned back.

Interestingly, they found that the chimps tended to yawn significantly more often when the video displayed a chimp from their own social group, suggesting that the contagious nature of yawning has a strong empathetic element.

I can only assume that yawning rates would have skyrocketed had they shown the chimps videos of Ben Stein, though such a cruel act would never have passed ethics.

Bristol Palin, teen mother and daughter of abstinence pushing, anti birth control conservative fucktard Sarah Palin earned 262 thousand dollars last year for preaching anti teen pregnancy. You couldn't make this shit up if you tried. If the formula works, I am going to get filthy rich preaching anti masturbation.

Keanu Reeves confirms that Bill and Ted 3 is going to happen.

The question isn't whether or not i am interested to see this movie (cause i totally am). The question is - How derailed is Keanu Reeves career? The good news is, Alex Winter is getting an extra 15 minutes of fame. Still, part of me can't help thinking this story is residual of some april fools joke Neo wants to play on the world...and on my heart. Either way...

SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Here is the interview with Reeves

While it has long been recognized that there is a symbiotic relationship between spotted salamanders and algae, new research is showing that the algae actually grows inside the cells of the salamander and is passed on to embryos.

you know...like The Force?

Anyways. the pictures are neato-mosquito so follow the link.