a great quote on apathy by George Carlin

October 6, 2009 soul1383 Leave a comment

 

I loved George Carlin.  His comedy is timeless. 

“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”

-George Carlin

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Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin

October 6, 2009 soul1383 Leave a comment

Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin.

Here’s a sampling of some of Liu Bolin’s Camoflage Art:

Can you find the man in these pics?  Personally, I found this photograph to be the most difficult.

These are a little easier:

camoflague2

camouflage09

Categories: Art, Photography

10 Most Horrific Russian Torture Devices

March 26, 2009 soul1383 1 comment

Interesting article on Russian torture devices.  The handsaw torture technique seems especially barbaric…
hand saw torture technique
Image via: Corkscrew Balloon 

Torture devices don’t come more downright extreme than the Hand Saw, and the diagram leaves little to the imagination. The victim was hung upside down to supply the brain with oxygen and slow down the blood loss so that they didn’t lose consciousness and died a suitably slow and excruciating death.

10 Most Horrific Russian Torture Devices.

Women’s Health: “8 signs women over 40 shouldn’t ignore”

March 15, 2009 soul1383 1 comment

By Ginny Graves
More magazine
TODAY
updated 11:54 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 13, 2009

Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something more serious. Since it’s often hard to distinguish between the no big deal and the dire, most of us err on the side of ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. “Women in midlife are often juggling 20 things at once, so they tend to neglect their own health,” says Nieca Goldberg, MD, author of “Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health.”

“That’s why it’s especially important for them to be informed about what really needs medical attention.” Here, a guide to eight important symptoms: when you should see a doctor and when you can just keep cruising.

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Live from New York, it’s “Sarah Palin”!

September 14, 2008 soul1383 1 comment

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets the SNL treatment.

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Categories: Humor, Jokes, Political Humor, Women

Natural Hallucinogen

September 14, 2008 soul1383 2 comments

http://www.skytopia.com

Try this out, and experience natural hallucination. Stare at the center, keep your eyes still & look away when instructed. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those lame “something pops up & scares you” videos.

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Inspecting YouTube’s ban on “drug abuse” videos

September 14, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment

A lot of attention was paid this week to several categories of controversial YouTube videos. The New York Times reported on the trend of videos depicting users smoking Salvia divinorum, a highly potent natural hallucinogen. Web Scout took a look at the thriving online pot video culture, much of which lives on YouTube. And yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieb

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Thank God for Barbara Walters?

September 13, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment

The veteran journalist and her co-hosts on The View vet the GOP ticket far more effectively than any mainstream journalist in recent memory–and that’s kind of embarrassing.

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Hurdles Keep Street Drugs Out of Medicine Chest

September 13, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment

From cannabis to ecstasy, scientists fight to study illicit drugs’ medical properties. The DEA, FDA, other governmental bureaucracies, and other barriers also remain in the way of conducting medical research on these illegal drugs.

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Categories: Health, Society, Uncategorized

Woman Crawled 8 Miles in Tunnels Collapses From Poison Gas

September 13, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment

A woman found dead in a sewage tank may have become lost in a maze of tunnels before being overcome by poison gas.

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Wax Hitler Returns to German Museum After Being Beheaded

September 13, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment

Madame Tussaud’s says it has returned a wax figure of Adolf Hitler to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German.

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MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless

September 13, 2008 soul1383 Leave a comment
blame it on Tom

blame it on Tom

An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day. “I’ve just been wandering in and out of my cubicle in a daze, not knowing what to say and who to talk to,”

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