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Korean Convenience Store Buffet ACHTUNG!!! -US Food-borne Illnesses Cost $152B!

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So; hrm, next time you're deciding whether or not to microwave that affordable steam-tray roadkill
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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Hey, Let's All Play Along! -It's Cellphone Football!!!

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Hey look Junior, it's the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

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Posted by Will on 08/ 6/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button




Vegetarians Responsible For Global Warming

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Thank GOD there is at least 1 man out there talking sense.

And that man is Carlos Mencia.

Love him or hate him, he's right. Vegetarians, especially ones addicted to leafy greens instead of Tofu-snorting, are themselves the planet-destroying enviro-pariahs they love to dehumanize and rag on.
Keep Destroying the Earth's Photosynthetic and Carbon-Fixation capacity by eating nothing but plants, you dirty post-hippie patchouli-soaked Gastro-snobs!!! -Vid after the jump. (NSFW)

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Posted by Will on 06/ 3/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

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I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

TRIPLE FRAK!!! =>Rocket Fuel In Water. EPA Sez, "What, me worry?"

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-Probably won't do anything to get it out of the water or pass any laws that "represent a meaningful opportunity for reducing risks to human health" -yay.

Wait, what was that about buying a really good home water filter?

I could fantasize about the Rocket Fuel functioning like

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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The "Clean Plate Club" Can Actually Be A Bad Thing

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SOLUTION???
-smaller plates...

++ Less French People.

-Many Americans have been schooled by their parents, in the spirit of puritanism in part, that Waste is Sinful.
While the Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has its place, certain consequences of it can mean Big Fat Americans.

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Posted by Will on 02/23/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Fat Is Contagious

fat is contagious
I KNEW IT!!!!!

-How sitting next to a Fat Person can make you fat.
by Kimberly Brittingham
Link

Actually,

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Posted by Will on 02/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Save the Fireworks for 4th of July! :)

-video excerpt from my Favorite Food Geek. The fun stuff is half way through.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Posted by Will on 11/22/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

F-Cup Tea Makes Boobs Happy!

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Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.

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Posted by Will on 09/20/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Colbert Report Demystifies DNA

An in-depth look into "Why am I Ugly?" and "Who's my Baby Daddy?"

-religious jokes aside, still funny!

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Posted by Will on 08/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tainted Love 2, Fouling Nemo

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6/29 [fishy, eh ;)]UPDATE to: The China Syndrome: Bargain Basement Price = Tainted Love Now it's sewage & environmental pollution-fighting but carcinogenic antifungals in the Catfish, Eel, Tilapia, Shrimp, Basa, Dace Carp & Clams in the 18% of our total Fish imports ...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 06/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Spock Found! -Patient Bleeds Green Blood

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If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you cut us, do we not bleed ...-green?

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Posted by Will on 06/12/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The China Syndrome: Bargain Basement Price = Tainted Love

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Ah yes; first it was: "Dat ain't chicken u just ate."
Now it's "Soylent Green iz Melamine!"
Have a little Ersatz Protein & Antifreeze with that Toothpaste, Chicken, Pork, Domestic Pet, "Wild" Salmon,etc.
Race Ya To The Bottom! -bets on...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 06/12/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

A Little Rocketboom Luuve

Awwww, Yeaah.
Pirate Photoshop makes it to RB, baby! :) :) :)
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Thanks Joanne and Andrew!!!

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Posted by Will on 05/31/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Akiyoshi Kitaoka!!??!! -Dees Eeez My Head A-Splod-iiin' !!!

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(Note: These images might make observers feel sick)
Full Size Version

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Posted by Will on 03/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

metaVitae.com as DNA

metavitae website rendered as red DNA plate by WEB2DNA
-cool, eh?

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Posted by Will on 02/28/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Bomb Your System, Drink a Coke

surrealist magritte coke cola bar
(-or most any soda, for that matter)

I admit I used to be a big fan of Coke, until I found out a few of the joys of what High Fructose Corn Syrup, that Crack Cocaine of sugars, does to you. -So it's back to tea, because artificial sweeneners don't look much better.

-If only they would start making Coke with Stevia instead of sugar, artificials, or HFCS.

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Posted by Will on 12/20/06 | Comments (3) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

New Health Hazard Discovered: Grenades and Sledgehammers

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A bit moldy yes, and -Strictly Speaking, their motivation Not health related -BUT the effects -> Definitely health related. An important lesson for all:

Apparently a man in Rio De Janeiro has discovered a new potentially lethal substance interaction involving steel, firing charge and PETN; --Rocket Propelled Grenade, meet Sledgehammer. A truer Biohazard

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Posted by Will on 10/ 9/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

WD-40 For Arthritis. ... Sure. Why Not?

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If the big pill companies are years behind a perfect solution, -improvise in the meantime with Absolutely anything!

Sure, this light penetrating oil lubricates everything else; --why not stuck joints, you LifeHacker.com/LifeHack.org blockheads?!

While you're at it, -How about Mobil 1 Full Synthetic Motor Oil for those damn knuckles that won't stop cracking?

(Also reported on more than

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Posted by Will on 08/23/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

Tylenol / Acetaminophen OD-ing Causes Liver Damage   Study Abstract
Human Variant Mad Cow Blood Test Nears Readiness
-The test results you never want to get.
Acetaminophen May Reduce Incidence of Ovarian Cancer
- What's a Girl To Do?
CR Study Raises New Concerns About Mercury Exposure Through Tuna
Researchers Reverse Parkinson's Pathway in Simple Models
-Susan Lindquist's Disease Research Lab Page

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Posted by Will on 07/ 9/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tinfoil Hat Brain Firewall Not So Secure After All

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It turns out that the old "protection" from being brainwashed by radio waves sent out by the CIA and various unnamed government agencies has been soundly debunked by scientists at MIT.

According to them, the foil hats (double-walled, even) Reduced radiowave signals across the entire usable spectrum by up to 10db. -A 3db change either way, would be deemed significant.

AHA! -But before you start breaking out

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Posted by Will on 06/12/06 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

Some Blood Pressure Meds May Raise Incidence of Birth Defects
Harvard to Start Cloning Embryos
Gardasil FDA Approved and Available For Order
Biological Clock Exists for Men
-except Larry King
Drug for Diabetes

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Posted by Will on 06/ 9/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

The FDA Says Gardasil is Safe
--With a few conditions, as it may increase disease factors and doesn't protect against every type of cervical cancer.
Origin of HIV Found
New Fad: Botox Your Prostate
Now, if my wife and I go at the same time, can we get a 2 for 1 special?
No Link Found Between Marijuana and Lung Cancer
... ... ...         - what ...? mmm-brownies...
Increased Mortality Risk From Advair and Seravent
Prozac Mechanism Discovered in Detail
Team hopes new & better antidepressants may be created ++=>.
Merck Shingles Vaccine Gets Approved
Backwards Running. --Sure. ...?neck your in crick the about what But
Who knew it had any application outside of Fraternity Initiation Week? --Backwards clothing optional.

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Posted by Will on 05/27/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The Dangers of DHMO

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Due to the fairly-recent breakthrough research of scientists Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen, Tom Way, Nathan Zohner and others, it has been shown that another chemical compound is pervasively affecting lives all around the country (and probably the world).

This insidious substance is called DHMO, and is sometimes known as hydric acid or hydroxic acid.

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Posted by Will on 04/ 1/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Must... Get... HUGE... ARMS! ARRGH!!!!!

And Now For Something Completely Different...

guy with freakishly huge arms

-Whatever this guy did; don't do it.

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Posted by Will on 02/17/06 | Comments (3) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Woman Loses 170 Pounds on 'Backwards Diet'

Tricia Cunningham says she has gone from 292 to 125 in 9 months and kept it off for five years thus far.
Her secret: Eat Dinner for Breakfast and vice versa.

The real magic seems to be that she just started eating better and that she ate a large meal first and a small meal last.

Her recent second place in a bikini contest

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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/05 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button






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