This video shows why they say “you’re dead meat!” in the same breath  “hollow-point bullet” is mentioned.

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Using every man’s best friend — the couch! — people say this “six packs in six minutes” video works like magic.
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Thousands of activists dressed in “professional attire” are going to March on Washington on Sept. 15 to push for the end of war.

We do not think individuals’ choices of self-expression will undermine the protest’s goals. But we believe that a professional appearance will be more effective in projecting seriousness and determination to the administration, and more effective in swaying the opinions of those who are on the fence about the war.

Some might object that dressing provocatively challenges the status quo that gave birth to the war. This perspective has value: certainly it is worthwhile to push back against the elements in our culture that have permitted the war’s continuation.

Dressing professionally will communicate two ideas to audiences. Firstly, it will symbolize our ease in speaking the language of power. Professional attire is associated with business and politics, but neither of these domains belongs exclusively to the Right, or even the mainstream. Our critique of power will gain added force when we appear calm, intelligent, and articulate. Like it or not, all of those things are associated with professional appearance and presentation.

Secondly, professional attire sends a signal to the community of protesters. Professional attire is associated with organization and, of course, with professionalism. As activists labor to end the war, and as we look even beyond the war’s end to the goal of building a more just society, we have to keep these concepts in mind. The simple act of dressing professionally may help us to feel more professional, more organized, more in charge.

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With the question helpfully answered by veteran climber Dave Hahn, we can now sleep peacefully knowing that when we do find ourselves in freezing, high-altitude places, taking a dump is “freedom.”

You will remember that tidy elimination is not worth dying for and so you won’t hop urgently from your tent onto a steep and snowy slope without proper footwear and possibly a rope to hold onto. You will not give a rat’s ass who is watching your progress (nobody), and you will do your best to get the waste down a steep uninhabited slope (flat rock… toss it carefully) or into a crevasse (direct deposit… you are a good sport, or shoveled in for the faint of heart). Above all… you will keep your sense of humor when things go awry in this department.

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In the process, called resomation, the body is encased in a silk coffin and submerged in water mixed with potassium hydroxide. It is then heated to 302 degrees Fahrenheit, which rapidly turns it into a white dust, The Mail on Sunday reported.

The process is more eco-friendly than cremation, during which a body is heated to 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit, letting off harmful fumes such as mercury, according to Resomation, the firm selling the boiling process. Instead, the company says, it is essentially a much faster version of natural decomposition.

Resomation also is affordable, costing about $600, the same as a cremation, the company said.

Bleak New York in July 1977, after a lightning strike blacked out the entire city. Wired‘s set of photos show the nut-crushing fun New Yorkers had in the dark.

Hippo to gamekeeper: “You can’t stop our luuuv!”

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What you see in this video is George Bush wiping off the poop from an errant bird during a press con at the Rose Garden on May 24. What you don’t see is how he later licked the poop off that finger backstage, like what all distinctive men of leadership must sometimes do.

Eva Cavalli, wife of top fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, accidentally flashed her bum while getting on-board their private cruiser in Cannes. We’re not sure if it’s just us, but doesn’t her ass look like that of a 15-year-old’s?

Naomi Campbell, Eva Cavalli, in happier, non-wardrobe-malfunctioning times.

The four 300-ft nuclear cooling towers at the Chapelcross nuclear power station in the south of Scotland took merely 10 seconds to demolish on Sunday. And never to be upstaged in fun things like this, the British Nuclear Group even installed a webcam for the viewing pleasure of Internet users that captured the last agonizing moments of the towers. And more than that, the BNC is also releasing a DVD! — because everybody simply loves watching these nuclear towers as much as the next guy enjoying the heart-stopping spectacle of drying paint or growing grass.

This report is most heartbreakingly summed up in the line: “No one missed him. No missing person report was ever filed.”

The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.

The police said in a statement the man was 59 and unemployed at the time of his death. He most likely died of natural causes on November 30, 2000, the date he received a letter from the Welfare Office found in the apartment, police said.

Next to the dead man’s bed police found cigarettes, an open television guide and Deutschemark coins, which came out of circulation after the euro was introduced in 2002.

The man’s apartment was in a building with offices and apartments, many of which are now empty.

The vending machines issued by Japan’s Apex Corp. will begin giving free coffee and soft drinks in June — but only after users are made to watch a 30-second commercial.

They’re calling this new revenue-earning scheme “Medicafe,” and it sounds good already except it’s going to be available only in Japan.

Customers can select a drink on the 19-inch liquid crystal display screen built into the vending machines.

While waiting for the drink to fill up the cup, which takes about 30 seconds, they will watch an ad being played on the screen. The same sponsor’s ad will be printed on the paper cup.

The service will first be tried out with several dozen machines.

If ad revenue increases, Apex hopes to gradually spread the service to the 35,000 cup vending machines it currently operates nationwide.

Nine-year-old Jesse Courtney was shocked — shocked! — when his doctor told him a pair of nice, earwax-slurping spiders had been making a home out of his left ear.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader’s left ear canal.

His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — “like Rice Krispies” — before the earache sent them to the doctor.

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him, but he could not immediately identify it. So he irrigated the ear, and the first spider came out, dead.

The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Irvine said it was a first for him as a physician.

The kid is now proudly walking around school, wowing girls with the dead spiders in an attempt to make a full headstart in the getting-laid department.

We don’t know what to do with this overly-cute Asian two-year-old girl as she just breaks our heart. Maybe somebody should teach her how to say “I want my money, bitch!” to make full use of that talent.

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The Antique Wine Company is putting up for sale a heady collection of vintage wines spanning four centuries — the oldest wine dates back to 1787, before the French Revolution.

Even though the provenance of the collection is impeccable, (a number of bottles were stored in the Bordeaux cellars of one of the Rothschild family), The Antique Wine Company is working with scientists and experts in the Universities of Bordeaux and Manchester to carry out a series of highly scientific tests to further certify the authenticity of the vintages.

These tests include a combination of nuclear isotope analysis and gamma radiation and proton beam tests to confirm the age of each glass bottle, supplemented by a molecular and chemical analysis of a microscopic sample of each of the wines extracted via a hypodermic needle pierced through the cork.

Commenting on this extraordinary application of science to the fine wine business Stephen Williams said: “Whilst old wine is hard to find in good condition, let’s not forget that the great chateaux produced tens of thousands of bottles every year. Although I have only personally come across counterfeit wine on only three occasions there is a current perception that a lot of old wine is not genuine. This collection of Chateau Lafite Rothschild is an exceptional assemblage of the world’s greatest red wine. As leaders in our field we are especially interested to use every possible check to confirm the authenticity of the wines we provide to our clients, and will continue to use these scientific checks in many of the future wine collections we present for sale.”

The collection is valued between $1 and $3 million, so if you’re swimming neck-deep in money, snatching up this truly fine collection might be the best means to piss away some of that. Imagine opening grand dinners with reassuring one-liners like “What a delight to taste what the rich French people enjoyed before their guillotined heads rolled into the basket.”