Me too! Maybe they were really in love. ;)

Child custody battle? Dude's not missing, he's hiding.

"The 32-year-old actor, who played John Connor in "Terminator 3," is
thought to have been last seen in Los Angeles' run-down Skid Row district
on May 9, according to the missing-persons police report Stahl's wife, Rose Murphy,
filed with the Los Angeles Police Department at 10 a.m. on Monday."

I'm sorry. I thought he was a hobo. :(

from Bowling Green (KY) Daily News



Yes, you read that right, the pipe carries more time than the dope.:facepalm:

Oye'

OregonLive.com
Everton Bailey Jr
6/7/12

Love tote to downtown Portland apartment runs afoul of police

Got Bandaid?

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...g-in-your-leg/

Nice catch! "soft tissue" indeed.

:eek:

RPGintheleg...Man, I hate when that happens.

Interesting situation (I thought RPG was a Role Playing Game), weird scenario and brave man but awful article. Very sloppy journalism.

ABC News
By KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse)
June 29, 2012

Man Plagued by Porn-Induced Headaches
Maybe it's a male version of the same problem Linda Lovelace had in her famous movie. :eek:

Have you ever SEEN Indian porn? That'll give ANYBODY a headache!

Right, this isn't weird news so much as wtf coverage.

Here's the story as I initially saw it on the BBC news site:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18702968


Quite an interesting story so I read on, and then scrolled down to the bottom of the page where it gives external links to other coverage of the incident:

Study Links Cat Litter Box to Increased Suicide Risk

A common parasite that can lurk in the cat litter box may cause undetected brain changes in women that make them more prone to suicide, according to an international study.

Scientists have long known that pregnant women infected with the toxoplasma gondii parasite -- spread through cat feces, undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables -- could risk still birth or brain damage if transmitted to an unborn infant.

But a new study of more than 45,000 women in Denmark shows changes in their own brains after being infected by the common parasite.

The study, authored by University of Maryland School of Medicine psychiatrist and suicide neuroimmunology expert Dr. Teodor T. Postolache, was published online today in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The study found that women infected with T. gondii were one and a half times more likely to attempt suicide than those who were not infected. As the level of antibodies in the blood rose, so did the suicide risk. The relative risk was even higher for violent suicide attempts. ...

Interesting stuff, but then one of the conclusions...



He also cautions against trendy food production techniques that let animals roam free. "The risk of infection could go up," he said, "and increase the rate of toxoplasmosis."


hmmm... so man has been cooking meat for 125,000 years. Large scale confinement agriculture has built up over what, 50 years? So free-ranging food animals is trendy?

I'd like to take a moment to caution against trendy pet ownership techniques that don't let cats roam free.

Not every cat owner is able to allow their cat to roam free. If I were ever to have a cat I'd be inclined to rear it as a mostly indoors cat. The roads are just too dangerous. And I am in a semi-rural village.

Friend of mine lost three of her five cats to car accidents.

After the first, why did she let them borrow the keys?

They were very persuasive :p

Diz now has a choice.
He is still mostly a house cat.

I didn't realise this made me trendy. I'm off down the discotheque to get my groove on.

The Greatest News In The History Of The World
 

Ladies and gentlemen of The Cellar, I present to you the greatest news in the history of news...Nay:

The Greatest News In The History Of The World

You ladies know I was just going for the ironic parallelism there, right?

"He also cautions against trendy food production techniques that let animals roam free. 'The risk of infection could go up,' he said, 'and increase the rate of toxoplasmosis.'"

I don't actually have an opinion on indoor vs. outdoor felines. I was just noting that the rate of toxoplasmosis in humans is almost exclusively due to cat litter boxes, yet this douchebag is trying to blame it on my free-range burger.

Free range cats kill everything in the neighborhood smaller than they are... for fun.

Video at the link. I love the top end.

Free range cats also have a life expectancy of two years or less; and they spread Toxo. They've trashed the songbird population in urban areas ...

I have two cats myself, strictly indoor pets. When I bred Siamese/Balinese cats, I only placed them with people who were clearly committed to keeping them indoors.

My cat, easily 16-18 years old, moved out a few years back. She escaped by dashing through the front door as we were using it and refused to be recaptured. She never left our yard, so I left her alone. When we'd go for walks, she'd follow along at a distance.

Then a neighbor complained. Her complaint was that my cat's fleas were infesting her yard, and biting her while working in it. :eyebrow:

I don't suppose it was mosquitoes or sand fleas or chiggers or no-see-ums. Nope, my cat's fleas migrated to the neighbor's lawn.

I protested that my cat never left the yard, how could she be bothering anyone.

To which my neighbor responded by reminding me, none too gently, that our county leash laws apply to cats as well as dogs.

So I had to curtail my cat's outdoor life once again.

Now we live next to a major 4 lane highway, so I wouldn't dream of letting her hang around outside.

At least, it's a nice big two story house, with plenty of room to roam!

Don't worry, I got it :)
It wasn't an "Ahem, excuse me!" post.
I just wanted to be trendy for once..

Although in Diz's defence he has only ever caught one bird.
And that was after Mia took a swipe at it; confused, it hit the patio windows. Diz lunged for it and carried it upstairs.
He gave it up quite easily and I set it free. It may have died later from shock, but it was unharmed enough to fly away immediately.

When we are out in the garden together (me reading, him dozing) birds will often land on the lawn. What does the mighty hunter do? Start yowling as if another cat has entered his territory. "You tell them Diz" I say, "Make those dirty birdies flt away!" And unsurprisingly, they do.

When my ship comes in I will have a good sized place with room for a cat tree, and empty shelves in optimum places for jumping and watching and dozing in later afternoon sunlight. And he will not go outside again as he has shown no particular pleasure in it. That's my weird news for the day.

Well, I wasn't sure if there was some sort of hipster trend for indoor cats and lead walking going down over there.

Why don't we let Toonces drive the car?

Bus Driver Catches Autistic Girl Falling From 3-Story Window: Fall Caught on Tape
 

from abcnews via Yahoo

Bullshit.


Embedding is disabled, so here's the YouTube link.

from AP via Yahoo

Good moo-rning: Breakaway cow herd stampedes down street

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/good-moo-rn...wn-street.html

Reminds me of the time Momdigr said "A policeman just went by the window, with his gun out." Like the smart people we are, we went outside to see what was what.

He was chasing/being chased by a humongous semi-feral hog.

He, the hog, just decided to come to town, I guess.

Belarus police detain student in 'teddy-bear mystery'



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/belarus-pol...142807671.html

Was there a tell-tale trail of teddy bear hair?

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly....
Now, my daughter-the nurse, says the background story from the family is more involved...

The cat caught a mouse... seemingly a large "mouse"... but couldn't swallow it.
The man thought the cat was choking, and so tried to get the mouse out of the cat's mouth.
The cat bit him.
The man thought the cat was choking, and so took to his gun to put the cat out of his misery.
Now, on with the new article...

The background story continues...
Since the man has something that is obviously NOT cat scratch fever,
the family goes home and digs up the cat's remains and delivers it to the lab.
The lab says they isolated plague bacteria from the cat.
Now that, in and of itself, is a news story. But to continue...

Next our question is, was the "mouse" still in the cat's mouth ?
This is relevant because here in the west, because the plague bacteria
are carried by fleas on rodents, particularly the California ground squirrel.
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So be cautious about feeding the local campground fauna.

There are indeed wild reserves of bubonic plague in wild animals in the US.

However, there is serious doubt about whether the "Black Death" was actually bubonic plague and not some Ebola-like hemorrhagic viral fever. Most notably, if there was black death in a house, quarantining that house for 40 days usually seemed to contain it. There is no way rats obey quarantine.

Man with ‘world’s biggest penis’ stopped at SFO security:

link here

Again? That's three times this week! ;)

lol @ zen

Ichiro traded to Yankees (PTUI)--left at Will Call


The Mariners are the premier club among the NY Yankees' (PTUI) farm organization. You remember Alex Rodriguez? You saw him here first. Now Ichiro. We have such an intimate relationship with the Yankees (PTUI) that we don't just develop players for them, they pick them up at will call here. Ichiro was a Mariner two hours before game time, then the trade, then Ichiro appeared in the opposing dugout. He didn't even have to fly to NY, just walked across to the 3rd base dugout.

There goes the last thing I cared about the Mariners.

Now now, the Yanks only grab these guys when they've got nothing left in the tank. ARod has been a very good defensive third baseman since leaving his bat in Texas, I expect similar play from Suzuki all be it with much better locker-room attitude. NY did send you Montero (for a fat kid which a sore arm) who will be the best hitting catcher in MLB once he smooths out his defensive game. I still don't know why Seattle insists on being a small market team. They blew a chance at owning Japan when they failed to surround Suzuki with talent.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7p75czmFk1qln1cq.jpg

found it on tumblr so I can't possibly vouch for its accuracy or anything, but...

THUNDAHSTRUUUUCK!

:lol:

Lucky it wasn't TNT

From youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk if you care.

Hey! Rock and Roll ain't noise pollution!

No, but it might be radioactive waste.


Heck, that'll probably be AC/DC's next album title.

Why? WHY???

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-2...t-race/4159090

WWHHHHYYYYYY??????????

I've often wondered, especially about "jogging", if a person's LLI is greater than 1.

Length of Life Index = Age at Death with Jogging / Age at Death with NO Jogging

Cunningham seems to have a pretty normal personality.
But would he be disappointed if his LLI was exactly 1.000 ?
(I would after having spent that much time and effort.)

Worse, what about his Adjusted Length of Life Index?

ALLI = (age at death with jogging - time spent jogging or preparing for or recovering from jogging) / Age at death with no jogging

Somebody is having entirely too much fun.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say our hacker is a 48 year old white male. :)

That leaves ME out!

But that did look like a fun time.

I learned to drum by listening to them. Now, I'm a fan, jut not crazy.

Ha!

Oh Darwin, I love you.

Both the scientist who explained the importance of thinning the herd, and the city in the Top End where the herd thinning takes place.

Cheeky!

There must be a hundred videos on the net of people making that same mistake. :rolleyes:

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This makes me laugh.

It's like a scene from a movie. I hope video camera footage make it to the internet.