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Thursday, May 31, 2007

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company

100 Words That All High School Graduates — And Their Parents — Should Know
BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat
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Boing Boing: LOLbots


Boing Boing: LOLbots

"Goddammit. Every time I swear I'm gonna put a kibosh on any plural noun that begins with LOL, someone reboots the meme in a genuinely funny way. And so it is with LOLbots, which was created by Dieselsweeties' R. Stevens.

I hate myself for blogging you. LOLS. ROFL. NSFW. LMAO."


Cap, gown and ... some cocaine?

Cap, gown and ... some cocaine?

"A Mission man arrested Saturday night after a routine traffic stop in Goliad told deputies that the cocaine found in his vehicle was a graduation present for his son in Houston.

"I have no idea what he was thinking," said Sgt. Danny Madrigal, investigator with the Goliad Sheriff's Department. "We've never had anybody saying, 'I'm taking this to give to my son. He's graduating.'"

However, Madrigal said, "The following day I spoke to him, and he told me it was for personal use.""

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Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores - The Boston Globe

Hahaha! Oh my, how dumb. "THE TERRORISTS ARE USING BAD CLIP ART OMG!!!"

Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores - The Boston Globe

"ASHLAND -- In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat."
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YouTube - BOOGIE NIGHTS- STAR WARS EDITION

YouTube - BOOGIE NIGHTS- STAR WARS EDITION

Great remix of Boogie Nights trailer audio with Star Wars footage.



A convention almost killed 'Star Wars'
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Portman Reps Upset About 'Star Wars' Snub Story San Francisco Chronicle
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Coming to TV, Star Wars is
Waterloo Record, Canada - 3 hours ago
Even though the show's scheduled debut remains two years away, fans at a global celebration of Star Wars in Los Angeles cheered, hooted and clapped after a ...
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Elites TV - Contactmusic.com
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Nintendo News | Light-saber Star Wars on Wii?
Cubed3, UK - 1 hour ago
Could this be the game we have all been waiting for, or simply Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga? No doubt the answer will rear its head in the near future. ...
New Lego Star Wars trailer and Toshiba in-car HD DVD player: the ... Mobile Digest
LEGO Star Wars completes the saga Virgin.net
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Coming to TV, 'Star Wars' is
Glens Falls Post-Star, NY - 9 hours ago
Even though the show's scheduled debut remains two years away, fans at a global celebration of "Star Wars" in Los Angeles cheered, hooted, clapped and even ...
First Footage From The Clone Wars Debuts IGN
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Rockets, 'Star Wars' stamps help Wilder students feel The Force
Green Bay Press Gazette, WI - 6 hours ago
Students received a brief history of Star Wars and its creator, George Lucas, then eight fifth-graders read essays about how Star Wars and Lucas helped them ...
Rockets, 'Star Wars' stamps launched at Green Bay school Green Bay Press Gazette
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Space and Astronautics News

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Jack Davis - A Show of (crocheted) Penises

Jack Davis - A Show of Penises

Crocheted? Or just crotch?
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Friday web zen: strange games zen

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lazy River Prank - ebaumsworld.com

Lazy River Prank - ebaumsworld.com

Description: Check out these people's reactions to being sprayed with water in a special way.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Cliff Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cliff Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962September 27, 1986) was a bass guitarist, best known for his work with the heavy metal band Metallica from 1982-86.

Burton's early influence was essential in creating the unique musical style for which Metallica would later become famous. An angry, working-class sound, characterized by a driving bassline, stylised lead and powerful rhythm guitar, the band would be seen as innovators of heavy metal music through much of the late 80s and early 90s.

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

YouTube - breathe for bro floyd (acoustic guitar and vocal)

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Slashdot | The Human Mutation

Slashdot | The Human Mutation
eldavojohn writes "Scientists in China have announced finding the gene that makes us human. The article explains that prior work has shown that humans, as compared with the great apes from which we diverged over 5 million years ago, have a longer form of a protein (type II neuropsin) located in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain. From the article: 'Gene sequencing revealed a mutation specific to humans that triggers a change in the splicing pattern of the neuropsin gene, creating a new splicing site and a longer protein. Introducing this mutation into chimpanzee DNA resulted in the creation of type II neuropsin. "Hence, the human-specific mutation is not only necessary but also sufficient in creating the novel splice form," the authors state.' The team is urging further analysis of the extra 45 amino acids in type II neuropsin since they believe that chain may cause protein structural and functional changes. The research didn't link anything with this protein, simply identifying it as a very distinct difference between us and our closest cousins."
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Naughtiness on the Nintendo DS - DS Fanboy

Naughtiness on the Nintendo DS - DS Fanboy
The Nintendo DS's software library is diverse enough to satisfy almost every genre craving or niche interest. If what you're looking for, however, is a game with more mature themes -- nudity and sexual content -- it's doubtful that your needs will be met. Japanese dating sims and witch fondling titles notwithstanding, the DS doesn't have any Leisure Suit Larrys, Hot Coffee mods, or even porno-Tetris clones.

But just like any other scene, the Nintendo DS has a network of people working outside of the fringe to create those illicit goods you'd never ask for at a respectable shop. They hustle their homemade software from the back-alleys of the internet, each downloaded bit transferred in a nondescript paper bag.

We're going to take you through that DS underworld, previewing a selection of homebrew games that are sure to arouse your interest. So put the kids to bed, light those candles you've been saving for a night like this, and slip into your robe and wizard hat. This feature is for adult eyes only!
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Slashdot | Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales

Slashdot | Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales

DrBenway sends us to Ars Technica for a report that Florida and Utah have placed draconian restrictions on the sale of used music CDs; Wisconsin and Rhode Island may soon follow suit. In Florida, stores have to hold on to CDs for 30 days before they can sell them — for store credit only, not cash. Quoting: "No, you won't spend any time in jail, but you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the 'right' to treat their customers like criminals."
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Monday, May 07, 2007

The Tech Report - Saturday science subject: Life after 'death'

The Tech Report - Saturday science subject: Life after 'death'

Common medical knowledge dictates that after a few minutes of "clinical death," whereby a person's heart is no longer beating, that person is unlikely to be successfully resuscitated. The conventional reasoning behind this knowledge is that oxygen-starved cells in the person's brain and heart die after a few minutes, causing irreparable damage to those organs. However, as MSNBC reports, new research suggests those cells don't actually die after a few minutes of oxygen starvation. In fact, MSNBC quotes Dr. Lance Becker from the University of Pennsylvania as saying the cells may take hours to die:
That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.

But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead.

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The Disappearing Ball Trick

The Disappearing Ball Trick

Other popular links from i-am-bored.com:

How to Pull a Tablecloth Out from Under Plates Fun project to try when your Mom`s out shopping.
Maxwell Dorian, Valedictorian Finally, a rap song for all the brainiacs.
Domino PCs Gather up all the PCs in your office and give it a try.
Ryan vs. Dorkman 2 Sequel to the home made Star Wars light saber battle video.
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Sunday, May 06, 2007

FARK.com: (2785306) Iowa is the nation's phone-sex crossroads - proving that if you build it, they will cum

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YouTube to pay users (but probably not you, so don't get excited)

YouTube to pay users

YouTube Inc. will start paying "the most popular and prolific" members of its video sharing website, the company announced Thursday.

"Up until now there’s been a distinction between the content you create and the content created by YouTube's professional content partners," a post on YouTube's corporate blog stated.

"We want to start changing some of the perception here. Which is why we’re adding several of the most popular and prolific original content creators from the YouTube community to our partnership program."

YouTube will initially move a handful of its top video-posters who have "built and sustained large, persistent audiences" to a revenue-sharing arrangement similar to those enjoyed by broadcasters such as CBS and NBC, professional sports organizations such as the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League, as well as music and other entertainment companies, including Universal Music Group and video game publisher Electronic Arts.

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Faked Eggs: The World's Most Unbelievable Invention

Faked Eggs

Abstract

This article is the first in a series of case reports addressing the problems of some selected artificially made food products in Mainland China (These food products are sold to consumers in Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries). Drawing on reliable data extracted from Chinese newspapers, magazines and the Internet, this study takes a closer look at the problem of faked eggs in Mainland China. It seeks to inform the scientific and medical communities regarding the problems of consuming these products as well as the short- and long-term epidemic consequences.
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time stereo: "YOUR TAPES!!!!!"

time stereo: "YOUR TAPES!!!!!"


PRINCESS DRAGONMOM upcoming shows

"PASSPORT TO INFINITY"
January 19 DAAC Grand Rapids, Michigan (you missed it)
March 23 MoCAD Detroit, Michigan FREE ADMISSION!!!! (You missed it!!!)
May 17-20 NO FUN FEST Brooklyn, New York

HIS NAME IS ALIVE WINTER CONCERT SERIES PICS AND VIDEO

HNIA WINTER CONCERT SERIES !!!
Last week's free concert at the museum was unbelievable!!!
and so were the other two shows!!!
Thanks to all the people who came to these special shows!!! here's some pics:
Thursday March 8th 2007
METROTIMES HAMTRAMCK BLOWOUT
Friday March 9th 2007
THE HALFWAY INN video
PRINCESS DRAGONMOM website!!!

After over 12 years as Michigans great noise&performance groop PDM has finally started PRINCESSDRAGONMOM.COM!!! Now the grown-up PDM is ready to leave the TIME STEREO website that has been helping with the news, the videos, the concerts and the products ever since PDM was a little baby. But don't worry---TIMESTEREO.COM will still post a bunch of PDM info all the time but if you really love PDM then you should check PDM'S NEW WEBSITE because it has a SPACE theme which is much more fitting of PDM lately than this silly green website with logs.
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Mind Control Made Easy - Cult Brainwashing - Google Video

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Costco is selling Mexican Coke made with sugar instead of... (kottke.org)

Costco is selling Mexican Coke made with sugar instead of... (kottke.org)

Costco is selling Mexican Coke made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, at least in the San Francisco area. "Costco has conformed to CA and U.S. rules, such as CRV (the sort-of deposit you pay for the bottle) and 'nutrition' labeling, so everything appears to be nice and legal." (via serious eats)
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Friday web zen: sweet treat zen

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Sumotori Dreams (silly sumo game in 96k file size)

A little but very serious game in 96k.
This is the game where beginners can beat hardcore players
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Ugh!! Derek Flint Calls ABC’s Geico CAVEMEN Pilot ‘Astoundingly Awful’!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Ugh!! Derek Flint Calls ABC’s Geico CAVEMEN Pilot ‘Astoundingly Awful’!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

“Cavemen” has a lot of people talking since it was first announced. People will continue to talk… about just how astoundingly awful it is.

“Cavemen” is literally a thirty second commercial expanded to twenty-two minutes. But… it’s actually much worse than that. Just like their source material, the origin of these domesticated Cro-Magnons is never explained. I guess “Encino Man” is part of the prequel trilogy. We meet these humanoids already fully integrated into society and living in a mid-west apartment with a bunch of Ikea furniture. Think about it, a show based on a commercial is bound to have a lot of product placement.

Now comes the most mind numbing, stupendously stupid and astoundingly misguided part of this fiasco: The creators have tried to infuse social satire by making the show an allegory for prejudice. They draw astoundingly leaden parallels to every minority group in the world without a laugh in sight. It’s jaw dropping horrendous and actually makes “American Dad's” lunkheaded topicality seem sophisticated.

The supposed “plot” of the pilot revolves around the Cavemen trying to crash an upscale country club, invoking the ad for the movie “Caddyshack”: “Some people just don’t belong.”

This pilot is slow, talky and dull… with the only real visual flourishes revolving around the Cavemen donning different costumes throughout the show in their bid to fit in.

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YouTube - Star Wars: The Aardman Version 2

YouTube - Star Wars: The Aardman Version 2



Really nice choice of editing pre-existing footage to alternate audio!
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Bikini Motorcycle (pic) - Pictures - Funny Hub

That's all kinds of classy. Suction cup action ACTIVATE!

Bikini Motorcycle - Pictures - Funny Hub

"I guess she forgot her leather pants. "

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BRITNEY SPEARS - SPEARS TO LEAK HER OWN SEX TAPE?


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William Monahan (The Departed) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Monahan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Monahan is a novelist and Academy Award-winning American screenwriter. Monahan went to work in Hollywood in 1998, when Warner Bros. bought the film rights to Light House: A Trifle, which had not yet been published, and contracted him to adapt it to the screen for director Gore Verbinski. In 2001, 20th Century Fox bought Monahan's spec script about the Barbary Wars called Tripoli, with Ridley Scott, who was to become Monahan's primary collaborator, attached to direct. Monahan, immediately successful as a screenwriter, has since worked with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, among other filmmakers. His first produced screenplay, Kingdom of Heaven was made into a film by Ridley Scott and released in theaters in 2005. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film which earned him a WGA award and an Academy award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Monahan prefers that screenplays should be written by one writer rather than a collaboration of multiple screenwriters writing competing drafts. Thus far he has followed his scripts through production, and is one of very few sole credit writers in the film business. (more...)
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