Australian doctors have kept an Italian tourist alive by feeding him vodka through a drip for three days, medical staff in Queensland say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7037443.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a great commentary on it:  http://www.kittyhell.com/2007/10/09/hello-kitty-ak-47/   Here is how to buy it! : http://www.glamguns.com/hk47.html    

 

 

 

In the 1950's and 1960's America drank. And drank. And drank. Here's a piece I did on the nations' experiment in alcohol self- medication!

 

 

 

A stray kitten has found a new mother in a golden retriever, who began producing milk for the gray tabby after hearing its cries.The hungry kitten, found in an old tire at a concrete plant, refused to drink from a bottle and her rescuers feared she would die. That's when Honey, the family dog who hadn't given birth in 18 months, stepped in with her motherly instincts.  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Dog_Nurses_Kitten.html?source=rss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even stunning women sound like stuttering school boys when it comes to Angelina Jolie:

http://www.usmagazine.com/bai_ling_and_angelina

Ten best tombs! http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/01/10-most-fascinating-tombs-in-the-world

 

 

Bungie's Community Leader Brian Jarrard has revealed that Bungie are already at work on another Halo game, but strictly speaking it is not Halo 3 but is based on the Halo universe and is a collaboration between Bungie and Peter Jackson. http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=21529

 

Global warming snowjob video: http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/

 

Movie Moocher was built on a few simple premises. Many students bring DVDs with them to college. Most people enjoy watching DVDs, especially DVDs they don't already own. While there is probably a Blockbuster close by, that costs both time and money. Wouldn't it be easier if you could borrow the DVD from someone nearby who already has it?  
 
So that's what Movie Moocher is. You sign up, and add DVDs you're willing to share with classmates. You search through the collective DVD library of your school. And you can request DVDs with a single click. http://www.moviemoocher.com/

Amazing bridges from around the world  http://1nf0rmat10n.com/2007/09/27/amazing-bridges-from-around-the-world/

Ron Paul appears on Good Morning America. This means the press can no longer avoid him! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfa2yuPTDQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eronpaulnation%2Ecom%2F

This t-shirt is actually no normal tshirt. Its a “Wi-Fi Detector Shirt” which actually displays the signal from 802.11b/g with glowing bars on the front. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/991e/

 

The Ramones in their heyday -- here's one of their most popular boots, a stereo soundboard recording from their show at The Palladium in New York on New Year's Eve 1979. The setlist hits the high points of their first four classic records, and even includes one song from End Of The Century, their album produced by the now-infamous Phil Spector, which at the time was about six weeks from being released 

http://thattruncheonthing.blogspot.com/2007/10/classic-bootleg-series-vol-21-ramones.html

The World Bank on intangible wealth- finally gets something right! http://reason.com/news/show/122854.html

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Here is a diverse list of useful websites - some you may know, but many you probably don't, that are there just to make life a little bit easier. From fitness and travel, to online coupons and recommended reading lists, this collection has a little something for everyone.

 http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/15-Ridiculously-Useful-Websites.50487

 

 

How did Gertrude Stein survive the Nazi occupation of France? Stein and Toklas were Americans, lesbians, and Jews, which would have made them triply hateful to the Vichy regime and its Nazi masters. How did they manage not just to survive the German Occupation, but to spend it in complete tranquility in their beloved country house?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activision keeps bringing on the fun. It has released a list of 17 new tracks for upcoming Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock bringing the total up to 59. The new list includes songs from Disturbed, The Killers, and White Zombie to name a few. http://news.filefront.com/guitar-hero-iii-seventeen-new-tracks-confirmed/

 

Ron Paul’s 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A convent in Italy is being shut down after a fight between its last three remaining nuns. So badly did relations deteriorate between the sisters of Santa Clara in Bari that the Mother Superior ended up in hospital with scratches to her face. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7023245.stm

 

 

 

 

Ron Paul calls for an end to the drug wars  http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/69038/detail/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html 

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Jack Kerouac does his poetry

"The social organization which is most true of itself to the artist is the boy gang," Allen Ginsberg once observed. It's a sentiment that Frank Sinatra would have appreciated. The time of "Howl" and "On the Road" was also the time of "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely" and the original "Ocean's Eleven," and although by many measures a taste for the product of North Beach is incompatible with a taste for the product of Las Vegas, the Beat Movement writers and the Rat Pack entertainers were shapers of a similar sensibility.

When "On the Road" came out, in September, 1957, it was praised in the New York Times as the novel of the Beat Generation, equivalent in stature and significance to "The Sun Also Rises," the novel of the Lost Generation. The book was a best-seller, and it made Jack Kerouac, who had worked on it for ten years, a celebrity. It is sometimes said of Kerouac that fame killed him—that he was driven crazy by being continually addressed as the spokesman for a generation and by endless unwelcome requests to explain the meaning of the term "Beat." Kerouac was certainly undone by something. After the success of "On the Road," he continued to write at a manic pace, as he always had, but he became a suicidal alcoholic, and he died, of a hemorrhage caused by acute liver damage, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven. (He had by then written more than twenty-five books.) The notion of the Beat Generation was hardly thrust upon him, though.

"Beat" is old carny slang. According to Beat Movement legend (and it is a movement with a deep inventory of legend), Ginsberg and Kerouac picked it up from a character named Herbert Huncke, a gay street hustler and drug addict from Chicago who began hanging around Times Square in 1939 (and who introduced William Burroughs to heroin, an important cultural moment). The term has nothing to do with music; it names the condition of being beaten down, poor, exhausted, at the bottom of the world. (It's used often in this sense in "On the Road.")

(Best article on Kerouac ever)  http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/10/01/071001crat_atlarge_menand

 

 

 

One of Japan's hottest bad girls, Tsuchiya Anna is set to embark on a world tour, which can only presumably lead to world domination. Being dubbed the 'First world tour by a Japanese female singer', she'll visit a whopping four countries in a twelve show tour. The first show will be in Los Angeles on the 30th of June at Anime Expo 2007, before heading to Korea, Taiwan and then ending back in Tokyo two months later.

Her planned best of album will also be released in 43 countries and a new single titled 'Bubble trip/sweet sweet song' is also scheduled to be released in August in Japan. Tsuchiya Anna is probably most well known for lending her musical voice in the anime 'Nana' where she sings as Nana Osaki, fronting the rock band Black Stones. Last year she also went to perform in Paris, where she was dubbed as the 'Japanese Madonna'. This year she also starred in 'Sakuran', a movie about an expensive prostitute. http://www.jpop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&Itemid=1   

 

Paris is a city of endless surprises, and walking is the best way to get to know it. Walk, if you can do so. Walk a lot. And if you tire of walking, there are plenty of scenic places and cafes along the way in which to rest. There also is a good Metro system to help you out on the longer stretches.  
 
And now, some of my favorite discoveries, to take you into Hidden Paris. http://www.parisnotes.com/hidden/hiddenparis.html

 

Miss Moneypenny from the Bond films DR. NO and on, has died.

 

Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details.During cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating. It's a trauma alert and people are often declared dead within minutes. But now doctors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital are bringing people back from the dead. Dr. Lance Becker and his team are challenging fate with breakthrough new treatments that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
http://wcco.com/health/health_story_271115428.html

 

From 1899 to the present, an assortment of vehicles that were judged to be the worst cars of all time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686,00.html

 

A team of scientists says it has found a string of vast, rich forests in an unexpected setting: far below the coral reefs found in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The new forests are made out of kelp plants that harbor a huge range of plants and animals.

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14738177&ft=1&f=1001

 

 

AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that "tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries." So AT&T customers aren't allowed to write/podcast/vlog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its cooperation with illegal NSA wiretapping, on pain of having their connections disconnected

 

 

There are only a few days of September left, so here are 38 versions of Kurt Weill's beautiful (and misleading) September Song. The forgotten history of the song is a must read

  http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/09/september-songs.html

 

This pic is not animated..Simply amazing! http://www.socialdailynews.com/diverse/not-animated.php