Tour of secret smuggling tunnel
CNN tours a pretty amazing tunnel between the US and Mexico used to smuggle drugs. The entrance on one side is in the bathroom of a warehouse. The entire floor of the bathroom is on a hydraulic lift to bring people up and down.
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Roll your own Solar Cell
Make your own solar cell out of powdered donuts, Everclear, Tazo Passion tea, and other common ingredients.
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The Ugly Side of Crafting
Crafting can be great. But beware: crafting can also go spectacularly wrong. Fortunately for the benefit of those of us who might become so proud of having made something, anything, all by ourselves, that we are oblivious that the result is an aesthetic travesty, there are websites making a valiant attempt to document the legion of ways in which crafting can get totally out of hand. Before you pick up those needles or scissors or fire up the kiln or soldering iron, check out: Glitter Gone Bad; Handmade Gone Wrong; What Not To Craft, Homemade Hilarity; and Kraftomatic. The sturdy souls at CraftFail deserve special credit for documenting their own crafting mishaps, and Regretsy and Etsy WTF will help you choose wisely from among Etsy’s hand-crafted wares.
I can’t begin to warn you about all crafting’s pitfalls, but I will give you a few pointers. Knitting your own toilet paper is extremely time-intensive and hard on your plumbing and municipal sewage system, so I recommend you don’t do it. For that matter, it’s probably best to avoid all toilet-related crafts, even the commemorative “I just potty trained my kid” craft. Think twice before you choose to let Edward Cullen leer at you while you’re peeing. And TMI is always TMI, no matter what the medium or how painstaking the needlework.
Much as I respect the skill and ingenuity that goes into food-related crafts, I’m always struck by their sheer pointlessness. But hey, not here to judge. If it makes you happy to dress up like a burger, go for it.
Do use consideration when making gifts for others. If you can kick your substance abuse problems through crafts, great, but I strongly advise against slyly replacing your loved ones’ drugs or cigarettes with homemade substitutes, however lovingly made or well intended.
And please do be extra careful about what crafts you inflict upon your children. This yarmulke will not make your son’s bar mitzvah “fun” and “edgy”, regardless of how good-humoured your Egyptian friends are. And if your child is used as billboard, expected to play with a Knitler, or an anthropomorphized vibrator, or even simply subjected to a sewing project gone wrong, the long-term consequences may be serious.
In general, the results of all your hard work may not be what you envisioned: your plastic bag jewelry may be less than elegant; your attempt to hide the cigarette burn in your scarf may make the scarf look worse; your significant other may never wear the sweater you made him or her; and your clown paintings may give people clown phobias. None of this is meant to discourage anyone from crafting, of course! It’s just a word to the wise, etc.
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Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
LA County detectives are investigating an assault on on a 12-year-old boy which may have been incited by a Facebook group message referencing a 2005 South Park episode. “The boy was kicked and hit in two separate incidents (…) by as many as 14 of his classmates.” The attack followed a Facebook message promoting that date as Kick a Ginger Day.” Sadly, not the first time for such stupidity.
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Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players
Nerve is running “Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players,” answering questions about RPGs, role-playing, and finding mating opportunities among the nerdy. It’s a delight.
What’s the best way to pick up a D&D player?
If you’re a geek and you see a girl geek browsing the comic books and players’ manuals, don’t make assumptions. Nothing irritates me more than having someone tell me what I’m holding. I know what I’m holding. Aside from the fact that I came in here specifically looking for it, I CAN READ. Instead, try a trivia tidbit or a commentary on the quality/author/whatever. Your goal is to sound interested, not condescending. For the non-geek, we’re really not that strange and different, but we tend to be a little defensive. Be willing to listen, stumble through some conversation you don’t have the lingo for. Don’t mock. Unless your romantic candidate starts talking about their characters in detail. No one finds that interesting. Really. Get out while you still can.
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16 Golden Retrievers Teach You About Atoms
I’ve often found that, when I can’t understand a concept in science or math, putting it into pictures will make everything make more sense. It’s like magic. Now, none of the visualizations I used as a kid involved a cadre of trained golden retrievers, but maybe that’s a flaw the Kansas school system needs to correct.
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I’m the goddamn Batman.
So, in a recent Batman, there appeared a snippet of dialogue which has gained instant fame among his fans (and, I dare say, the detractors) for being quite possibly the worst and least Batman-like comment ever uttered by the Dark Knight Detective – and that’s saying a lot. It’s not even cheesy bad, but just “Jesus, what the hell were you guys thinking?” bad.
The line is “What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I’m the goddamn Batman.”
Don’t believe me?
All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder #2 (Frank Miller)
So, the idea was this: seeing that Bruce is obviously more comfortable expressing his utter prick nature now, what other classic Batman appearances can this little gem be inserted into for fun and profit?
Yes, I am that bored.
Taking the mickey out of Clark and Diana at the end of Kingdom Come
Dumping on the Boy Wonder again in a cheezy 1970s ‘life with Bruce and Dick’ scene
(You know, I’m sure Child Welfare Services would love to hear about the emotional abuse that Bruce Wayne puts his young ward through. And then there’s all those mysterious bruises…)
I was really hoping to find a good spot in Killing Joke, Year One or Death in the Family, but so far? Nada.
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Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?
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Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son
Anna Stephenson stops by Today NOW! to show parents of girly sons costume tips to survive Halloween without accentuating their child’s already obvious homosexuality.
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The First Halloween: SuperNews!
We go back in time to the middle ages where the idea for Halloween is first pitched to a group of enthusiastic villagers who quickly turn it into a bing-drinking, slut-fest.
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The Flight of Kal-El
Look, if there was an alien baby who has been pooping and peeing on the same blanket for a number of years with only the droning of a Marlon Brando to keep him company, you’d better hope that filthy monster lands in the middle of the ocean.
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“What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?”
A disarming video of an 86-year-old WWII veteran from a public meeting on Maine’s marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009
“The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?”
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The Snatchback
“If your ex-spouse has run off and taken your children abroad, and the international legal system is failing to bring them back, what are you to do? One option is to call Gus Zamora, a former Army ranger who will, for a hefty fee, get your children back. Operating in a moral gray area beyond the reach of any clear-cut legal jurisdiction, Zamora claims to have returned 54 children to left-behind parents. Here’s the story of number 55.”
Sweet Jesus, ITS F*CKING RAMBO!
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N.B. premier uses YouTube to spread swine flu warning.
New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham is turning to YouTube to raise public awareness of ways to prevent the spread of the swine flu virus.
The bilingual online video that is just more than two minutes long outlines the provincial government’s plan to deal with the spread of the H1N1 virus.
Graham also urges people to take precautions and get vaccinated against swine flu.
“Those at high risk of complications from pandemic influenza should seek medical attention immediately. Those individuals include pregnant women, people with underlying medical conditions such as diabetes or those with compromised immune systems,” Graham said in his video.
“If you are not part of a high risk group and are have flu-like symptoms, you should isolate yourself from others as much as possible until you are feeling better.”
Graham encourages people to wash their hands and get their flu shots.
The YouTube video is the latest initiative in the provincial government’s public awareness campaign on influenza.
Vaccine expected in coming weeks
The new flu vaccine is supposed to be in New Brunswick in the next few weeks.
Diana Austin will also be among the early wave of people vaccinated against the virus because she has a chronic illness.
Austin has multiple sclerosis and she’s worried about taking the flu vaccine because it contains an adjuvant, a substance used to boost the vaccine’s effectiveness.
She said she is worried that substance could harm her.
“Those of us with MS are advised to even avoid echinacea, which healthy people take all the time because echinacea revs up the immune system,” she said.
However, Dr. Eilish Cleary, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said the adjuvant will not affect Austin’s condition or anyone else who suffers from an autoimmune disease.
“There’s absolutely no evidence to support the fact that it would,” Cleary said.
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Plan B
Plan B, also called the “morning after pill” is an emergency contraceptive. Some pharmacists have refused to stock and fill the prescription, citing ethical reservations, causing the AMA to affirmatively state its support for the contraceptive and urge pharmacists to sell it and for the FDA to allow over-the-counter distribution. A partial victory was achieved in 2006 to allow OTC dispensing without a doctor’s note for those over 18 years of age. However, some pharmacists continued to refuse to fill the prescription, including the owners of Ralph’s Thriftway pharmacy chain in Washington State in 2006, causing some to boycott the chain. Ralph’s was later found by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy to have violated the state pharmacy code in so doing. Ralph’s lawsuit to block the ruling reached the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which has now ruled against the pharmacy chain, saying ALL pharmacists must stock and dispense the contraceptive.
From the ruling:
“Any refusal to dispense — regardless of whether it is motivated by religion, morals, conscience, ethics, discriminatory prejudices, or personal distaste for a patient — violates the rules,” the panel said.
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Moonlight, wine, a kiss, and handcuffs.
The Mormon church’s plaza walkway runs through the heart of downtown Salt Lake. It was originally a public sidewalk, and is still used as such by the city’s downtown residents. It is common to see couples holding hands and walking arm in arm as they stroll. This hasn’t been a problem, until recently. The church claims the couple was necking and groping. Video obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune doesn’t show this., but it does show Mormon security in action. Charges were dropped, and the city’s gay community is weighing in with a series of “kiss-ins.”
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