May 23, 2010
Get Drunk Not Fat
Adoption Confidentiality Being Bypassed Through Social Media
UK adoption agencies are reporting "huge numbers of calls from 'deeply distressed' adoptive parents whose children have been contacted" through Facebook and other social networking sites, in violation of the traditional, confidential reunion process between birth parents and their offspring who have been placed with other families. Full report from Channel 4. [more inside]
I BIN NET SO DEPPAT!!!
Die anen foan noch Ibitza die ondren noch Udine
Wir bleiben im Parkbad machen Party in Kabiene
Hallo geile Biene gemma no a bissal schwimmen
i brauch nur mei Handtuch no des in der Kabiene drinnen
Wiener Hip-hop? Vollig Geil! [more inside]
Wir bleiben im Parkbad machen Party in Kabiene
Hallo geile Biene gemma no a bissal schwimmen
i brauch nur mei Handtuch no des in der Kabiene drinnen
Wiener Hip-hop? Vollig Geil! [more inside]
In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Mark Twain wrote an extensive memoir, but stipulated that it not be published until 100 years after his death. This November it will be published.
Surrender Is Out of the Question
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question. "Living with the crazy, fearless young men who risk life and limb to document Burma's genocide."
Previously on Lost
On the cusp of the long-awaited series finale of Lost, people are understandably confused. Fortunately there are plenty of ways to catch up, from the fan compendium Lostpedia to the 2-hour ABC recap tonight at 7:00 EST to YouTube summaries of Seasons 1-5 from ABC (in 8:15) and from costumed fans (in five minutes). As for longtime fans, why not reminisce by revisiting the show's infamous bookends -- the artfully inscrutable scenes which introduce or conclude each season? Look inside for these and more, along with a cavalcade of interesting fan videos and other fun stuff. [Warning: Spoilers (for everything but the series finale) inside] [more inside]
Read These on Your Death Bed
Fucking boom, meet fucking rope.
Oil spill booming 101. Good stuff starts around 1:55. NSFW for very, very, very naughty language.
We have to go back!
Goofy-yet-mournful tribute to LOST, which (sob!) ends its 6-year run tonight. [SLYT]
The Machineries of Joy
more is more when it comes to good movies
Copy Machines, a Security Risk?
Armen Keteyian of CBS News bought four copiers for $300 a piece (video link). He found a great deal of personal data on the copiers' hard drives, easily accessible using free software one could find on the Internet. [more inside]
This mortality thing is bad news.
Little All Right, the Japanese Marvel
When Gladys and Harold Degree pulled the siding off their Colchester, VT home, they made a surprising discovery--five large, full-color posters from an 1883 visit by the Forepaugh Circus. Conservators at the Northeast Document Conservation Center made another surprising discovery underneath--posters for Forepaugh's rivals, the John B. Doris Circus. The newly conserved posters are on display at the Shelburne Museum through October 24th. (via)
Upside Down Everything
Don't jump! At least not without Red Bull wings.
Forget Kittinger's freefall from space at 102,800 feet, now Felix Baumgartner is preparing for a 120,000-foot supersonic fall. Of course Red Bull is involved as the project is named Red Bull stratos. [more inside]
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