Blimey, all those cars zhooming past! (not a typo, an attempt at onomatopoeia)
And then some git-face decides to beep him when it must be obvious why he is in the middle of the road. Saving a beaver here, people!

I thought Canucks were supposed to be polite!

We just had a fireman end up in hospital with minor injuries after he fell out of a tree while attempting to rescue a koala.


From a tree.


Errrmmm....


Okay, it was in the suburbs, and said koala had just run across a road, narrowly avoiding death, and was now in a tree from which the most plausible exits were also across dangerous roads. It did need assistance. But, the national parks people have long lasso-on-a-stick devices which can secure a koala without some human attempting to out-climb it.

That's just in the tourist brochures. ;)

FTFY

I have it on good authority that is was actually a drop bear, but that fact was covered up to prevent panic. Actually one fireman was killed and the other was horribly mutilated.

I guess that's why they sent in the drop firefighter.

I think they sent this dude.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McHViMSzQdI&t=5m5s

Ha! :D

US sailor thwarts Dubai bus driver rapist after putting him in strangehold with her thighs and then beating him into submission

Go Navy!

I whole-heartedly approve of this. Sister should go and give lessons to the bus-riding women of India.

Now this really pulling one outta ya ass:

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:lol:

If she vomited, would it look like peas and karats?

Anyone who's had a colonoscopy, knows the doctor didn't retrieve the stone.:eyebrow:

PUSSY SHAVER STRIKES AGAIN

Oh Darwin, you never fail to amuse.

http://www.natureworldnews.com/artic...nes-photos.htm

That's right, the link says http ://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1313/20130410/eel-shoved-up-mans-anus-eats-way-through-intestines-photos.htm

You might want to think about that before you click.

Glad for the warning Zen.
Will I be clicking?

No.

What do Jenny McCarthy and January Jones have in common ?

The Register-Guard
Lauren Gambino
The Associated Press
5/7/13

Senate approves bill to let mothers keep placentas

cannibals

I wouldn't be squeamish about eating placenta.
If it was given freely and well seasoned. Like drinking breast milk - I wouldn't have it direct from the source, but I have no problem with it.

Then again I'm European ;)
Except when I want to call myself a Briton.
Or English.
Or a Southerner....

Kristal is obviously not up on her anthropology. Many ancient societies ate the placenta, and many animals instinctively do it today. When food is scarce, you don't let that many nutrients go to waste.

I'm not saying I would do it, but it's silly to pretend this is somehow a modern invention.

Not to mention that predators can smell that shit a million miles away and will come and eat your defenseless ass and that of your hard-got babbehs.

Clodfobble's obviously not up on her predatory thinking.:p:

But, that's not why I'm here. I'm here for this bit of sickening irony. Enough iron in this irony to build an aircraft carrier...

Talk about letting the fox guard the hen house.

Wouldn't that be the wolf guarding the foxes?

"Research, your honor."

Vegetarian catches anthrax while eating salad at drum circle.

Here's how it happened. An anthrax infected goat in Africa was skinned and made into a drum head. The drum was brought to New Hampshire, and played in a basement multipurpose room drum circle. Hitting the dried drum head aerosolized the anthrax bacteria, which then floated across the room and onto the salad. She ate the salad.

You just never freakin' know.

Aerialized spores from the drums is likely, but this article doesn't
really incriminate the lettuce. But so be it, CDC may have good evidence for it.

It does remind me of my first (1960's) and worst (potentially) career mistake.

As a graduate teaching assistance for a course in Medical Microbiology,
one of my first assignments was to set up a class exercise to demonstrate "virulence".
That is, how one strain of a pathogenic microorganism can
produce severe disease while another strain does not.

So I wrote a letter on university stationery to Fort Detrick, MD,
the US Army's Center for Biological Warfare, asking for
one culture of virulent- and one of avirulent- B.anthrasus.
Within a few days, the cultures arrived, along with a letter giving the LD50 .
This is the dose (number of cells/spores) it takes to kill 50% of the animals infected.

The LD50 for avirulent strain was something like billions.
In other words, you could not inject enough to kill 50% of the mice.
The LD50 for that virulent strain of anthrax was 1. :eek:

This so scared the bejesus out of me and I immediately
autoclaved the entire package for several hours.

It also gave me a lifelong fear of what the military was capable of
doing to "prevent and protect" the US from biological warfare.

Funny how times change. They just mailed that shit to you.

My dad as a physics prof had an underground closet in his old lab that was full of radioactive samples. Dangerously radioactive samples. About 20 years ago, as various regulation were getting tighter, he started worrying about the stuff and worked really hard to get rid of all of it through quickly disappearing appropriate channels. If he had waited any longer, he would have had to devote the entire department budget to paying to get rid of the stuff. He had pulled one sample out of there once to show me, and the sample actually glowed in the dark. Very cool. Actually, now that I think about it, he took my grandmother's radium clock up there to get rid of it. That clock was cool. Its hands would glow in the dark too.

I hope the hackers were also smart enough to get
the movie rights to this scheme.
It smacks of George Clooney and Julia Roberts

NY Times
MARC SANTORA
Published: May 9, 2013
In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

We live in interesting times.

The Columbian
PDX stripper fights $1K federal fine
5/10/13

Sounds he like he was complying with the explicit purpose of the entire procedure--albeit more thoroughly and willingly than was requested. I would rather he ditch the 'free speech' argument and argue directly that this is what they wanted, so this is what they got. What is it--jump this high, but no further? No, goddamnit, if you want to pry into a man's privacy you will pry all the way or not at all--you don't get to pick and choose.

"We only want to look into your anal cavity, we have no desire to look into your pee pee hole, sir."

People need to start defecating and urinating during these searches with an apology of "I was nervous" speaking as someone who has really cleaned up more than enough poop and pee accidents I'm fairly certain that they'll decide they'd cleaned up enough poo and pee.

Or not.

Problem is the people in power aren't the ones cleaning up the poo. So they will just helpfully say "make sure to wear gloves."

waaaitaminit.

Aren't *WE* the "people in power"? I know we're not the people who directly write the rules (or pick up the poo). I like the strategy of making this onerous policy even more onerous in the hopes that it will be abandoned, but I agree that this is applying leverage at the wrong place. I think the right place to apply leverage would be where changes in the policy could be made--those people who make the rules--lawmakers, administrators, etc. If *they* were subjected to the same indignities and hassles and costs (and for the same justification, namely none), I think the likelihood of having some reasonable changes made would improve.

The question then becomes "how can we make those people eat their own dog food?" That, I don't know. I imagine such people are exempted from the searches (and the lines!) and therefore don't really get it. Right now, it works out that the people that benefit (and decide) from the rules are not the people paying the costs. That disconnect is a recipe for trouble everywhere it occurs.

Explosive diarrhea?

Have you been paying any attention at all for the last thirty years???

ouija people
in order to form...

haggii

Ok.. well only a little bit 'Weird' but, the organization I volunteer with was instrumental in making this 'Med-evac flight for a turtle' happen..

http://www.cbc.ca/ontariomorning/epi...peterborough/#

OMG, imagine waiting for this woman to pick out an outfit. :zzz:

link

Well that's cool. I wonder if her ability to see infrared and ultraviolet are enhanced as well.

Certainly some creatures can. I strongly suggest you enjoy this episode from Radiolab, Ripping the Rainbow a New One.

On another forum, I asked a similar question about Hunter's Orange and how it was seen by those who are color-blind.
These pics of a cormorant was one reply.

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When this pic was taken, it was in the process of getting it's head screwed on right.

Here's a simple test. Do you see the number 8?
This measures red/green color blindness.
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How about this one? Can you see the number 7?
This one measures the more rare blue/yellow color blindness.
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[/fucking with you]

:p:

Last year I did a lot of research into deer color vision, it's quite comlpex, actually. There are some programs for web designers that approximate the different types of human color blindness that allow you to test your web colors to see how they will appear to a color blind person.
One is called Visicheck the other is ColorOracle

I'lll look around for some photos and graphs I downloaded. In the meantime, here is a good article.

Saturday's Powerball jackpot now a record $600 million

Now tell me:Someone has to win it, it might as well be...

Euromillions last night was £54m ($83m).
I haven't checked the results yet. It's fun to dream a little longer.

I have my house and car picked out already.

Well, I did give you all of the luck from that penny I found (heads side up). Considering that the universe already owes you some good luck, that should put you over the top.

Good times are coming.

Lotteries are just another way to tax those naive enough to want to pay more taxes.

and stock brokers are just bookies in better suits
and insurance companies are just glorified casinos...

everything in life is a gamble in one way or another - at least it's voluntary

As an investment, lotteries deliver negative return.

As a form of consumption, they entitle you to have daydreams about suddenly becoming really rich.

Thanks hon! In truth good times are already here when someone is kind enough to call me and give me their luck.
You're right. And it's better to spend £2 on daydreams than two cans of cider.

In its entirety from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-3...-visit/4723132

How can it be wrong to throw a vegemite sanger at the PM? That should be a constitutional right!

No-one is at all worked up about this. Being disrespectful to authority figures is a national tradition.

That's awesome. I love you Aussies.

So is Julia the antipodal analogue of Thatcher?

Today, this was in the PC World...

US road safety agency issues policy on driverless cars
As they did when the first automobiles were introduced to the horse-drawn carriage age,
they should also require an adult on-foot carrying a red flag and a lighted lantern
to precede each driver-less car at all times.

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Meanwhile, over the past decade, Google already has driven these automated cars for almost one-half million miles. But only in states that permit innovation and the creation of jobs - CA, NV, and FL.

DARPA's Grand Challenge in 2004 and 2007 should be known to all. Since (if I recall) a Federal law required half the military convoy type vehicles to be autonomous long before 2020.

My latest post above was a feeble attempt at humor. But more to the point...

How many times do drivers demonstrate their intent or courtesy
by interior hand-signals to another driver ? e.g., "you go first"
It's one of the reasons cited for not allowing darkened front windshields.

If a "licensed person" is required to be in the driver's seat and ready to take over.
What's the point of a driver-less car ?

For free-way driving, maybe... and especially on long, uninterrupted trips.
But as someone who thinks some basic decisions were wrong back
when we allowed train transportation to wither in favor of cross-country trucking,
I think car+passenger transport trains running on tracks along side our existing freeways
would be more economical, faster and safer than Google/GM/etc's driver-less cars "just because they can".

ETA: The insurance companies will have a ball figuring out who
is responsible, and who will pay, for accidents that are bound to happen
Alert to Programing Engineers: Get your liability insurance now.