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Who’s to say the humane availability of beer isn’t worth dying for, eh?

There was a not-so-distant time when Helen Hunt was hot. Sadly, now isn’t that time. Now, Helen is a walking-and-talking endorser of this little interesting enterprise called WHOAHLY SHIT ANOREXIA!

That, plus nine more Hollywood actresses they should stop putting in movies, seriously.

A brain-scanning study of people making financial choices suggests that when given expert advice, the decision-making parts of our brains often shut down.
The problem with this, of course, is that the advice may not be good.
“When the expert’s advice made the least sense, that’s where we could see the behavioral effect,” said study co-author Greg [...]

When the big head and small head work in synergy, miracles happen. Or not.

If you still don’t know this very important world-changing news, Jennifer Aniston has dumped John Mayer over his excessive “twittering” — or to put it bluntly, John tells Jen he has no time for her, yet he twitters every few minutes his innermost thoughts about, say, doing things more important than sticking your penis in [...]

Alfred Sirleaf runs a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia, which he lovingly calls the “Daily News.” Alright, it’s just a freaking blackboard, but Alfred says it gives news to those who couldn’t even afford to buy newspapers, especially in a language these people understand.

And he even [...]

If you’re a really pissed off owner of an Xbox 360 console who recently scratched his head over the E74 error, like me, you should know you’re not alone. Some blog just found out a rising incidence in e74 errors, based on Google Trends data and the readers’ responses. One possible important word: NXE.
As we [...]

If you’ve seen how frighteningly efficient the quadruped pack mule robot BigDog is, maybe it would soften you a bit if you’d see this video of BigDog during its uneven beta stage.

Just some helpful piece of kidnapping-related information from your cheerful friends at the IRS.
Topic 357 – Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children
You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements are met:
1. The child must be presumed by law enforcement to have been kidnapped by someone who is not a [...]

Here’s a really clever way to recycle old cassette tapes: turning them into works of art. Sort of. For instance, below is Bob Dylan.

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The world’s first synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells, courtesy of vampire-dodging British scientists.
The ground-breaking project could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions free of the risk of infection.
Because stem cells multiply indefinitely, it would be possible to enormous quantities, researchers said..
The cells can be made from universal donor embryos – [...]

No time to actually pray? For a reasonable price, Information Age Prayer will do all the praying for you, automatically, so you can continue living your life AND communicating to your favorite deity. Caters to all religions.
Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. [...]

Skinny Blonde Beer features the image of a woman on the bottle label. Pretty normal stuff, but here’s the clincher: the woman’s bikini disappears as the beer is consumed.
Another very important product made even better by dudes.

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Vachira Phuket Hospital on Wednesday morning received a transfer patient in a lot of pain from a somewhat embarrassing illness – a broken penis.
Being transferred from Patong Hospital as he was, one might assume that the patient had done the damage in an over-energetic nocturnal romp.
However, the patient – a 28-year-old Phang Nga native who [...]

Cool guerilla advertising for the HBO series Trueblood.

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A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate”.
That, and 19 more most ridiculous comments made by tourists everywhere.