This is one of those fake “Public Service Ads” That was on the air about a month ago.
You watch this and think it has to be some kind of Saturday Night Live phony commericial. Right? Wrong. Believe it or not this is a real ad…

And so the question […]

Hmmmm.. I wonder if this is somehow related to the popularity of things like the “Twinkie Cookbook” from the previous story.
From Time.COM: 
If Your Bra Doesn’t Fit, Go Shopping
That’s the agenda behind all the bra-size propaganda you’re hearing
If you are a woman, and you are wearing a bra, you are probably wearing the wrong size one. […]

From YahooNews: 
Twinkie Burritos? Twinkie Lasagna?
CHICAGO - Twinkies, they’re not just for dessert anymore. The new “Twinkies Cookbook” has recipes for everything from a Twinkie Burrito to Twinkie Lasagna.
 
Theresa Cogswell compiled about 50 recipes for the book.
Many were submitted to Hostess, as part of Twinkies’ 75th anniversary celebration last year.
Cogswell tells Illinois’ Daily Southtown newspaper that […]

 
20 Question Civics Quiz on MSNBC
Woo Hoo!  I got a 100%.  I think that means I get a special gold star or something.
They are all pretty easily actually, except the one about the immigration form, which I got lucky on with my guess.   
Take the quiz and tell me what you got.  Maybe we’ll need to […]

 
Last weekend my camp mates and I went up to the Great Black Rock Desert for a little Pre-Burning Man celebration.   Well, ok the trip was to organize our storage unit in Empire for this years burn, but then afterwards we took a few couches and dragged them off to the playa and had the entire […]

The MegaPenny Project will give you a new insight into Pennys.
Pennys are everywhere, but what would a billion of them look like?  
What would it look like if you took all 200,035,318,672 pennies in circulation and stacked them next to each other?   (They would cover a football field end to end at a height of 127 […]

Bernie Ward is a local talk radio host here in San Francisco for KGO Radio.
He was on MSNBC debating the latest instance of Bush and Co. spying into our lives, this time with the whole bank account thing.   Watch as Bernie smacks around idiot Chris Baker,  he can’t even debate the issue at hand.  (The […]

And all this time I thought it was shoes. 
From NewScientist.COM: 
Seat of Female Libido Revealed
By Andy Coghlan
The precise part of the brain likely to be the seat of heterosexual desire in women has been revealed by experiments on mice.
The study confirms that the hormone oestrogen is vital for arousal, but only in the specific area of […]

From YahooNews:
Bush ignores laws he inks, vexing Congress
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain thought he had a deal when President Bush, faced with a veto-proof margin in Congress, agreed to sign a bill banning the torture of detainees. Not quite. While Bush signed the new law, he also quietly approved another document: a signing statement reserving […]

 
Ok this has to be the last draw if you’re a Fat Bastard on the fence.   I mean come on, if an 88 year old great grandma can do a dozen triathlons don’t tell me you can’t get your fat ass into the gym 3 days a week.
From YahooNews:
88-Year-Old Woman Faces 12th Triathlon
‘I Don’t Realize How Old […]

From YahooNews: 
Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth July 3
An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth.  There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July […]

From The BBC: 
Computers ’set to read our minds’ 
 
The team aims to refine the program’s ability to read expressions
 
An “emotionally aware” computer system designed to read people’s minds by analysing expressions will be featured at a major London exhibition. 
Visitors to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition are being invited to help “train” the computer how to […]

It’s a geek dream come true…

Very Clever.
The best part is Piccards little speech about Darth Vader at the end. And of course, seeing the hottest woman in the history of SciFi on the screen again…
 
 

 
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From Jacksonville.com: 
One dream, one village
Barbara Gilbert, a waitress, doesn’t own a home. But when she heard about desperate poverty in Jamaica, she found a way to build there.
BARBARA’S VILLAGE, Jamaica — She looked out at the crowd and smiled. After three years, she’d realized her dream of helping the […]