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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Feb 1, 2008
VEGETARIANISM = DEATH, UK: STOP TEACHING PATRIOTISM, THE 1000 POUND PIG, STUFF MADE OF CANS,PANHANDLERS UNION!
Richard Crowe sends us images of the naked devil in churches!
Catherine Michalski sends us a 1000 pound pig!
Catherine also sends us 25 of the weirdest animals on earth!
City erects fence to stop homeless people from sleeping in an underpass. Panhandlers' union responds by launching a lawsuit.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The ultimate Elvis Presley website!
Posted at 07:53 am by Psychomike
Jan 30, 2008
Surf W/Junk Food Miracle!
AMERICA STILL WORKS, TARANTINO IS LOSING IT, THE AWESOME TURNTABLE WATCH, GEEK HEAVEN, AUTOPSY CLOTHES!
Environmental groups are now openly advocating the extinction of the human race!
Quentin Tarantino is losing it. Here he is punching up a cameraman. Very sad.
Cisco rolls out new data-center switch that will allow a user to copy all the porn on the Internet in less than four minutes
Why is there such a gap between all the usual pessimism about America's future and the actual trends?
You will never forget these pictures of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival!
10 things you probably didn't know you could do with baking soda
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
A polar bear and a husky- become friends and play with each other!
Posted at 07:04 am by Psychomike
Jan 28, 2008
SurfW/ Believe It Or Not!
TODAY'S THEME IS DEDICATED TO RIPLEY: THE MAN WHO GAVE US THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER!
THE SONG DIXIE IS ABOUT THE NORTH, J. EDGAR HOOVER DID NOT WEAR DRESSES- BUT...., WAS JOE McCARTHY RIGHT?!?, WAS LINCOLN A RACIST?, THE THOMAS JEFFERSON SEX SLAVE QUESTION - IS IT REALLY SETTLED?, WAS JFK A LEFTIST?, DID WE CREATE OSAMA BIN LADEN?
I was a kid when I first discovered Ripley's Believe It Or Not (and many of my pals say my unique way of looking at history was formed by him). Today we look at the strange and unusual facts lost in history. Have fun!
In 1929 Robert Ripley, the man who created the RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT franchise discovered that America had no national anthem! Six attempts to make the song the anthem were stopped by Congress who recognized the tune to be a note for note copy of a British drinking song. Ripley did a short fim for movie theaters in which he explained that we had no anthem in 1930, and Herbert Hoover would make the song our anthem. The concession to tee totalers to keep people from drinking during the song? Placing your hand over your heart, so you couldn't drink! Find that in your history books!
Ripley has had TV shows, museums, and even old time radio shows. Check out the Ripley website for old time radio shows (with cool music), amazing baseball facts and just loads of cool stuff! http://www.ripleys.com/
Did J. Edgar Hoover wear dresses?
The above answer however does not mean that Hoover had no scandal about his life:
Not all slave masters abused their slaves - Some actually treated them like family and bore children by them, like the Mississippi plantation owner, William Hoover. He had eight children by my Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Allen. One of those children was my Grandfather William Allen, and one was his brother, Ivery Hoover, who later had one son; J. Edgar." Millie McGhee, author of Secrets Uncovered, J Edgar Hoover - Passing For White?
A new book entitled Secrets Uncovered, J Edgar Hoover - Passing For White? has been published revealing that J Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI for most of its early history from 1924 until his death in 1972, had black ancestors. http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/hoover_fbi.htm
Everyone knows that Thomas Jefferson had sex with one of his slaves, resulting in a kid. The bad news? Those are also the same people (the press), that thought Hoover wore dresses. Get ready to have that belief turned upside down! http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/mayer-hemings.html
The song DIXIE is now hated and seldom played. The original "Dixie," was actually Johan Dixie (or Dixy), a Manhattan slave owner (yes, there were such things) in the 1800's. With the abolition of slavery in the northern states, Dixie, known as a decent slave owner (a debatable concept, to put it mildly), had to send his slaves to the South. Faced with harsher treatment in the South, the slaves remembered "Dixieland" (later shortened to just "Dixie") as a land of contentment. It's true. THE WORD IS ABOUT THE NORTH! http://www.word-detective.com/back-i2.html
Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts.
But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.
Soviet documents released now back up McCarthy's claims!
Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended. http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/140008105X
The true story of the adopted black child of Jefferson Davis! Hidden for a century!
Jim Limber Davis was rescued from an abusive guardian by Varina Davis when he was only five years old. Jefferson and Varina Davis welcomed him into their home, the Confederate White House, as one of the family, and Jim lived with them until the fall of the Confederacy.
When Union soldiers invaded Richmond, Virginia, they captured Jefferson Davis. Later, they kidnapped Jim Limber in Georgia and spread cruel rumors that he was Jefferson Davis's slave. This true story provides a glimpse of how Jim was accepted as one of the Davis's children and reveals their family's love and compassion for him. The story hidden by the victorious North for over 100 years- is now becoming known. http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Limber-Davis-Orphan-Confederate/dp/158980435X
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the American president revered as "The Great Emancipator" for leading the war to abolish slavery, was really a racist who used offensive language to describe black people and wanted all Afro-Americans deported, according to newly published research which has prompted controversy in the United States.
Far from being the willing forefather of today's multicultural America, President Lincoln advocated reserving the west of the country for whites, supported a law forbidding black people to settle in his home state of Illinois and was fond of racist jokes. He used two State of the Union addresses to call for the deportation of black people and shortly before his assassination in 1865 said of the thousands of slaves to be freed at the end of the Civil War: "I believe it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate which they could have to themselves."
He also habitually used the word "nigger" to describe black people, something which would have shocked and dismayed the hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists in the Sixties who made the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC the focus of some of the biggest demonstrations the city has seen. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/06/04/wlin04.html
Movies and conspiracy theories have as their core belief that JFK was a leftist who threatened the establishment. There is a problem. THE FACTS! Kennedy struck right at the jugular of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Having criticized FDR's people for handing Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta in 1945, he joined Republicans in blasting the Truman administration and the State Department for their culpability in China's collapse before the Communists four years later. Speaking from the House floor, he said, "The responsibility for [this] failure...rests squarely with the White House and the Department of State."
Kennedy also confronted communist subversion at home. As a House labor committee member, he helped convict a communist union official. While in the Senate, he backed Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations. In January 1955, after McCarthy had fallen from power, JFK walked out on a banquet speech by McCarthy-hating journalist Edward R. Murrow. Three years later, at a Harvard dinner, when a speaker compared McCarthy with convicted Soviet spy Alger Hiss, JFK exclaimed, "How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!," and stormed out
http://www.thevanguard.org/thevanguard/columns/031128.shtml
Conspiracy theorists (and sometimes religious intolerants) like to point to the "Eye in the Pyramid" in the Great Seal of the United States and on the U. S. Dollar Bill as being evidence of a Masonic conspiracy.
 The simple fact is that the eye in the pyramid is not now nor has it ever been a Masonic symbol.
http://www.masonicinfo.com/eye.htm
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
It is THE BIG LIE of the war on terror. Did the U.S. fund billionaire Bin Laden in Afghanistan? NO. So why does the press say this? http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jan/24-318760.html
Posted at 01:52 am by Psychomike
Jan 25, 2008
TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A WOMAN, THE LOST WORLD, WOMEN IN FILM, THE 50 UGLIEST GUITARS OF 2007, FREUD LOLLIPOPS!
If you're a Muslim leading a prayer in a statehouse, it might be a bad idea to ask Allah for "Victory over those who disbelieve"
Woman admits she has not had sex with her husband in four years.
In 1925 audiences were wowed by this film THE LOST WORLD about a dinsoaur found and brought back to London. Where it goes on a rampage! Watch it here:
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The Vitaphone division of Warner Bros. was established in Brooklyn specifically for the production of musical shorts. The Vitaphone process was an early sound format that synched the picture to a record. The proximity of the New York stage provided Vitaphone productions with an endless pool of vaudevillian talent. And in many cases, the Vitaphone shorts are the only surviving recordings of these vaudeville acts. For example, a year before the landmark talkie The Jazz Singer (1927), Al Jolson did a Vitaphone short called A Plantation Act. Other Vitaphone acts included Baby Rose Marie shown in Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929), George Burns and Gracie Allen featured in Lambchops (1929), and Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen in Nut Guilty (1936). The Nicholas Brothers also sang and danced their way through the Vitaphone short The Black Network (1936). In 1938, Vitaphone studios was moved West and incorporated into the Warner Bros. Hollywood shorts division.
Enjoy these full-length Vitaphone Shorts and cartoons!
Posted at 01:41 pm by Psychomike
Jan 23, 2008
ROBERT PLANT, BOB DYLAN, DEAN MARTIN, GRATEFUL DEAD, PHIL SPECTOR: SPECIAL CORINA, CORINA THEME!
The song CORINA, CORINA may be old, but it's always kicking around somewhere. So today's ALL NIGHT SURFING celebrates the song!
Here is Robert Plant singing CORINA, CORINA. This version is very celtic.
Phil Spector, the man who invented the wall of sound produced this unusual version.
Here Bob Dylan does his version. No real video here- but at least you can hear a very nice version of the song.
This is a latin flavored version
This is different. A fan put together Japanese anime with Dean Martin's version of the song. (Some nice guitar solo in it at the end too)
In Argentina the song becomes part of a medley for a tango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVQforHDUA I have to learn this dance sometime. I don't even know if it's the same song actually, I get lost watching the dancers!
Here the Grateful Dead do their version
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Posted at 11:16 am by Psychomike
Jan 21, 2008
SurfW/ Top 10 Anime 2007!
RALPH NADER MAY RUN AGAIN, THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF MARRIAGE, TODAY IS ROBERT E. LEE DAY- hey wait a second, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE MOVIE PARTY, ARE WE HEADED FOR A NEW WATERGATE?
A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user's friends list. Info about the backdoor has been circulating on message boards for months. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/myspace
This is an incredible article on the history of marriage. Because of marriage's vital economic and political functions, few societies in history believed that individuals should freely choose their own marriage partners, especially on such fragile grounds as love.
Ever see a film called PAPRIKA? Did you see the HIGHLANDER animated film that was as good as the first live action film? This article reviews the top ten animated films from Japan in 2007- you will want to check them out! http://anime.ign.com/articles/843/843118p1.html
A NEW WATERGATE?: THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt U.S. government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets.
The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the agency's investigation of the network. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said on Monday he will decide soon on whether to make a another bid for the White House in 2008, eight years after playing a key role as a third party presidential candidate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080121/pl_nm/usa_politics_nader_dc
Two heavyweights in Artificial Intelligence killed themselves- but there's more to the story http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all
On this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi celebrate both the civil rights leader, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee http://wcbstv.com/topstories/lee.king.arkansas.2.634526.html
John Wilson stepped into the massive refrigerator at his home in northwest Illinois and removed a long plastic bag. Although clouded with ice, there was no hiding its gray and pink contents -- the paws, the limbs, the head.
"This is one of the jumbos," Wilson said, holding the bag up for inspection. "We leave the paws on so people know they're getting a raccoon, not somebody's house cat."
The raccoon hunting and trapping seasons are nearing their close in Illinois. And though it may surprise many who dine on deep dish and Polish sausage, the bandit-masked critter is turning up in kitchens across the state. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-raccoon_18_jan18,0,7051357.story
The top 10 most bizarre videos! http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-10-most-bizarre-videos
Incredible street art signs! http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/100Best/index.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
From David Krys in Chicago:
JOIN HORRORBLES AS WE KICK OFF THE MONTHLY CREATURE FEATURE FRIDAY AT THE HISTORIC PORTAGE THEATER WITH SPECIAL GUEST CONRAD BROOKS!
The Kick-off will be "The Ed Wood Creature Double-Feature" featuring Conrad Brooks who starred in many of Woods films and was friends with both he and Bela Lugosi! The Tickets are only $10 for two features! Brooks will also be doing an interview between films and will be selling and signing personal wares in the lobby!
The schedule is as follows:
7-8pm Conrad Signing in the Lobby
8pm "Bride of the Monster"
9:30pm Interview and Q & A with Conrad on-stage
10:00pm "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
11:30-12:30 Conrad signing again in the lobby
$10 FOR TWO CLASSICS ON THE BIG SCREEN!
Posted at 06:18 pm by Psychomike
Jan 19, 2008
SurfW/Cloverfield Instant Hit!
POT SMOKERS DATING SERVICE, WHEN MODERNISM WAS COOL, SCIENTOLOGISTS MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, 30 LB. LEGO STAR WARS STARSHIP, HOW COMPANIES CAN CHANGE YOUR CREDIT SCORE!
The most powerful American chess player in history, Bobby Fischer, is dead at the age of 64
I expect this to be gone really fast, but hackers got into the Scientology computers and have posted what they found. http://www.xanga.com/lordxenu
Cloverfield opens today, ending months of internet speculation and Slusho tie-in controversies. We spoke to the man behind the movie, Matt Reeves. He took time out of his busy day, where he's poised to count bags of incoming cash and laugh maniacally, to talk to us about Gojira, David Schwimmer, and the big secret at the end of the movie. http://io9.com/346501/io9-talks-to-cloverfield-director-matt-reeves
Ten reasons why CLOVERFIELD has become an instant cult classic (minor spoilers ahead)
10. It's not another American version of Godzilla. (Thank God!)
Let's get this out of the way first. This movie is not 1998's Hollywood version of Godzilla. Nor is it the movie that Godzilla should've been. Really, aside from the fact that both films feature a gigantic creature thrashing about New York, they're so different in style and intent that any comparisons beyond that should be immediately disregarded. In other words, forget Godzilla. That movie sucked. Cloverfield, meanwhile, is something different entirely, and warrants all the hype it's gotten thus far...
Patients and doctors alike may have received some fuzzy truth about the effectiveness of antidepressant medication.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, many studies have found that best-selling antidepressants like Wyeth's Effexor and Pfizer's Zoloft may have little or even no effect on patients. Many of those studies, though submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, were left unpublished.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/16/news/companies/antidepressants/?postversion=2008011618
 In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists, provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs, and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books. http://mam.org/FOTO/index.htm
You've all heard the ads, here's how those companies try to raise your credit scores. The credit industry hates it, because it works, at least for now.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Jack Radcliffe created a visual life story of his daughter Alison, capturing moments in her metamorphosis from infant to woman.
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Her relationships with friends, her rebellion, and underlying it all, her relationship with him. Photos are from 1975 to 2007.
Posted at 08:02 pm by Psychomike
Jan 17, 2008
SurfW/Cruise Scientology Vids!
SPECIAL WOMEN'S SECTION: UK WIVES TRAPPED IN LOVELESS MARRIAGES, SCIENCE EXPLAINS BISEXUALITY IN WOMEN, TEACHER CAUGHT IN HOT AD, PLUS- SONGS ABOUT INCEST!
Majority of British wives would leave their husband if not for the money. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508804&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
Bisexuality in women isn't just a phase. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-15-bisexual-women_N.htm?csp=34
British schoolteacher suspended when her students spot her in a raunchy ad, simulating sex with workmen. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3200752.ece
Here is the ad- not ok for work and yes, SHE'S HOT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb47OmMtGaE
Sorority disbanded for playing drinking games, leaving blindfolded girls in a cemetery, and forcing a pledge to get an application from a strip club.
http://news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/NEWS01/801160417/1007/NEWS01
Queen of England does not want women dressing as filthy whores at this year's Royal Ascot horse jamboree. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XA53SV04C3BLBQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/16/nascot116.xml
Rosie O'Donnell thinks the comparisons between Princess Diana and Britney Spears are too compelling to keep quiet about.
O'Donnell is convinced that Spears will suffer the same fate as Diana, Princess Of Wales, if the paparazzi don't leave her alone.
Britney is involved with a British muslim, so was Diana; Britney has two sons, so did Diana; Britney tools around in a Mercedes, so did Diana.
On her blog, O'Donnell write that Spears will die trying to flee the press mob that follows her every move. http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1387340.php/Rosie_ODonnell_on_the_Britney_-_Princess_Di_coincidences
Animals wearing spectacles http://www.antiquespectacles.com/slide_shows/animals/animals.htm
The currency changer, brazenly plying his illegal trade in the Bank of China lobby, pulled out a thick wad of cash from around the world and carefully removed a bill.
The 2003 series U.S. $100 bill was a fake, but not just any fake. It was a "supernote," a counterfeit so perfect it's an international whodunit.
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/441167.html
A glossary of terms that explains what Tom Cruise was saying in his crazy Scientology videos, which are also posted:
Here are the videos: http://gawker.com/345563/tom-cruise-uncut-the-freedom-medal-award-ceremony YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IF YOU BITTORRENT HERE: http://snurl.com/1xoa2
Here is the helpful glossary:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/01/what-tom-cruise-was-talking-about-in-that-scientology-video.php
We are eradicating a major cultural force, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are annihilating melancholia. Does an overemphasis on the pursuit of happiness cause us to miss an essential part of a full life? http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=t5wqrs9hpxt70zjz3bv348pqg1hcxz0r
50 Fun facts about banks! Actually a cool article http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/50-fun-facts-about-banks.html
A news story about two twins seperated at birth getting married led WFMU to post three songs about incest! http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/im-in-love-with.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
WHEN BERLIN ROCKED.........
I spent the most formative time of my life, the years 1931-33, as a Gymnasiast and would-be Communist militant, in the dying Weimar Republic. Last autumn I was asked to recall that time in an online German interview under the title 'Ich bin ein Reiseführer in die Geschichte' ('I am a travel guide to history'). Some weeks later, at the annual dinner of the survivors of the school I went to when I came to Britain, the no longer extant St Marylebone Grammar School, I tried to explain the reactions of a 15-year-old suddenly translated to this country in 1933. 'Imagine yourselves,' I told my fellow Old Philologians, 'as a newspaper correspondent based in Manhattan and transferred by your editor to Omaha, Nebraska. That's how I felt when I came to England after almost two years in the unbelievably exciting, sophisticated, intellectually and politically explosive Berlin of the Weimar Republic. The place was a terrible letdown.' http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n02/hobs01_.html Posted at 01:24 pm by Psychomike
Jan 15, 2008
Surf W/ Happy Birthday Smurfs!
WHY DO U.S. PICKETS WALK IN CIRCLES?, NEW STAPH DISEASE SPREAD BY GAY SEX, HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY SMURFS!, WHY DO WE CHOOSE THE HEROES WE DO?, CAN AN OCTOPUS LOVE MR. POTATO HEAD?, CAN NETFLIX SURVIVE APPLE GOING INTO ONLINE MOVIE RENTALS?
The Smurfs celebrate 50 years! The Smurfs kick off a smurf year of 50th birthday smurf celebrations today with smurfberry cake and smurf sasparilla juice
Drew Carey has a online TV show that will probably raise more than a few eyebrows- about government http://reason.tv/
Girding for a potential threat from Apple, online DVD rental service Netflix is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.
...the change [became] effective Monday, on the eve of Apple's widely anticipated move into the movie rental industry...
Netflix is gearing up for the increased competition by expanding a year-old feature that streams movies over the Internet instead of making customers wait for their online rental requests to be delivered through the mail http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22636776
Historical studies of the Bible shook beliefs to their core. Now historical and scientific experts are turning to do the same examination of the Koran.
A woman writes up the top 20 Hello Kitty gadgets ever made.
You can actually find a few of the Hello Kitty items at Target!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=83550&in_page_id=2
A woman who went into a coma for 11 days after taking crystal meth is suing her dealer. http://www.methtoday.com/
A precious trove of Tom Cruise's sermons on Scientology could be headed to the Internet."It's the most unintentionally hilarious footage you've ever seen," http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/01/15/2008-01-15_tom_cruise_preaches_to_the_choir.html
Five popular brands the Nazi's gave us! http://www.cracked.com/article_15767_third-reich-fortune-500-five-popular-brands-nazis-gave-us.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Capitalism may deliver wealth and happiness but it does not inspire us. Socialism continues to inspire, despite having never delivered on any of its promises. Why does one inspire, and one not? How do we choose our heroes? Consider:
Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable? For most people, it’s an easy question. Mother Teresa, famous for ministering to the poor in Calcutta, has been beatified by the Vatican, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and ranked in an American poll as the most admired person of the 20th century. Bill Gates, infamous for giving us the Microsoft dancing paper clip and the blue screen of death, has been decapitated in effigy in “I Hate Gates” Web sites and hit with a pie in the face. As for Norman Borlaug . . . who the heck is Norman Borlaug?
Norman Borlaug has saved 1 billion lives according to the UN. Oprah Winfrey opened a school for several hundred kids. Guess who is more well known, has been the subject of thousands of articles, has had documentaries and specials done on their life? There isn't even a documentary on Borlaug!
Yet a deeper look might lead you to rethink your answers. Borlaug, father of the “Green Revolution” that used agricultural science to reduce world hunger, has been credited with saving a billion lives, more than anyone else in history. Gates, in deciding what to do with his fortune, crunched the numbers and determined that he could alleviate the most misery by fighting everyday scourges in the developing world like malaria, diarrhea and parasites. Mother Teresa, for her part, extolled the virtue of suffering and ran her well-financed missions accordingly: their sick patrons were offered plenty of prayer but harsh conditions, few analgesics and dangerously primitive medical care.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?_r=1&=magazine&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Posted at 10:40 am by Psychomike
Jan 14, 2008
Surf W/2007 Darwin Awards!
PETA'S SECRET, BEST MASHUPS OF 2007, CRAZY ADS, INTERNATIONAL SOUNDS, AMAZING FURNITURE!
Britney Spears is getting married, in a Scientology wedding ceremony!
An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 pets.
The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical angel-of-death program , or stop its senseless condemnation of Americans who believe it's perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and critical medical research. http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20080111/DC1129510012008-1.html
Mojopojo in Chicago sends us some standout music tracks of rare international music. . . . http://killergroove.blogspot.com/
Mojopojo also send us these sexy, and often compelling, pics. Not ok for work. http://www.threequestionmarks.com/certified/
How bacon is made! http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/87733/detail/
12 really insane, crazy ads!
A new study by Freakanomics guru Steven Levitt comes to some uncomfortable conclusions about prostitution in Chicago. First, Levitt finds that prostitutes are more likely to have sex with city police than they are to be arrested by them. http://reason.com/blog/show/124358.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Straight Line Design does the most incredible furniture you will ever see.
http://www.straightlinedesigns.com/
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