dre in the morning

Earthquake hits off Hawaii’s coast
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Hawaii on Monday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. (cnn)

Japan’s top web forum an outlet for free speech — and hate
A massive hacker attack from South Korea crippled the site in retaliation for users’ online slights against Olympic skater Kim Yu-Na, after she beat Japanese rival Mao Asada to take gold at the Vancouver Winter Games. (independent)

Women who drink are less likely to gain weight
Some women avoid drinking calorie-filled cocktails, wine, and beer because they’re worried about packing on the pounds. Now, a new study suggests that women who are moderate drinkers actually tend to gain less weight over time than teetotalers. (cnn)

Is The ‘iKey’ Apple’s Next Big Thing?
iPhone, iPad, iTouch, it seems everywhere we look there is some gadget which starts with an “i”, rumors has it there is yet another “i” gadget on its way the iKey. Really!!! what is the iKey and what is its purpose despite the obvious. (mygadgetnews)

Hate By Numbers — 5 Reasons Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ Causes Wetmares
If you’re a human being who lives on Earth, Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” is inescapable. This can be troubling. For our friend Gladstone, it’s worse than that. Miss Gaga’s jingle is currently haunting his nightmares and causing him to soil his mattress. (asylum)

6 Unfortunate Celeb Tattoo Choices
It can’t be denied that celebrities are impulsive. It seems like every other day someone’s getting married, divorced or, more recently, a tattoo. And often, their inclination to get inked ends in disaster—like a spelling mistake heard around the world or a permanent reminder of a failed relationship. (womansday)

Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?
The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation’s lowest-achieving big city district. He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence. Here’s a sample from an e-mail he sent to friends and supporters on Sunday night, uncorrected for errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage. It begins: “If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.” (detnews)

Mark Linkous, Leader of Sparklehorse Band, Dies at 47
Mark Linkous, a singer and songwriter whose music, released under the name Sparklehorse, was renowned in indie-rock and alt-country circles for its haunted, allusive themes and fragile beauty, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 47. (nytimes)

For Movie Stars, the Big Money Is Now Deferred
When Wolfgang Puck lays out the annual post-Oscar banquet in Hollywood on Sunday, he might want to think about doggie bags. (nytimes)

Why work? Calling time on the 9 to 5
There must be a few people out there who have never dreamed of giving up work – but you wouldn’t want them for a colleague. The rest of us can occasionally indulge in that Monday morning fantasy of going cold turkey on wage-slavery. And we might turn for support to an unlikely source: those supposed evangelists of dedicated productivity – the economists. After all, Karl Marx imagined a world in which citizens hunted in the morning, reared cattle in the evening and dabbled in literary criticism after dinner; while Keynes fancied that by 2030 the British would be working no more than three hours a day. (guardian)

How To Be an Exotic Dancer
Learn how to pick a club to work at, what kind of clothes, shoes, and accessories to buy, how to give lap dances, and a slew of other useful information. NSFW. (beanexoticdancer)

The New Commandments
The Ten Commandments were set in stone, but it may be time for a re-chisel. With all due humility, the author takes on the job, pruning the ethically dubious, challenging the impossible, and rectifying some serious omissions. (vanity fair)

How to train a rat to find your mines
During the socialization phase, the rats are familiarized with people as well as different environments and sounds. This process eliminates fear in the animals and allows them to be more receptive to training. Thereafter, a “clicker” is introduced, the click sound is associated with a food treat, and serves as reinforcement for the desired behaviour. (apopo)

Types of Bitches 1-14
My friend’s cousin found this on the floor of a 3rd-grade classroom at a DC charter school. (flickr)

Jon Stewart Plays Chatroulette With Keith Olbermann & Katie Couric, Etc!
The Keith Olbermann bit is high-larious. (mediaite)

Should Carla Bruni have worn a bra?
No. (timesonline)

Leno’s Tonight Show Reality Hacking, adds Laugh Track to Sarah Palin Appearance
Cuz she’s not funny. (daily kos)

Diablo III Monk totally looks like Neal Stephenson
Too bad you don’t know who that is. (imgur)

Why are army boots so much taller than hiking boots?
It’s classified. (reddit)

California deserts will soon burst with wildflowers
A recipe of rain and warmth will turn austere fields in the Borrego Valley, Joshua Tree, Lancaster, Mojave and Death Valley into wildflower paradises with brilliant colors. (latimes)

Nasa image shows it’s a wonderful world
Extraordinary composite picture taken over many months shows Earth in incredible detail. (the independent)

Be Sad and Succeed
People in a bad mood have better judgment and pay more attention to details. (scientific american)

Altercation With Driver Puts Campbell In Bad Light
Despite Being Accused Of Punching & Slapping Her Driver On Manhattan’s East Side, Supermodel Faces No Charges. (cbs)

Just Making A Quick Trip To Walmart For Some Cigs, Warden
a trustee at a minimum-level TDCJ facility in Sugar Land who broke out — if that isn’t too strenuous a word for the effort involved — up to 70 times to stroll down and pick up cigarettes and smokeless tobacco at a nearby Walmart. (houstonpress)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt
Bertrand Russell (wikipedia)

Hot Chicks Plunging Their Toilets
Also, Hot Chicks with Stubbed Toes Making Sex Faces. (hcptt)

Viacom and Hulu Part Ways
In the first major fracture between television show owners and the wildly popular Hulu.com, Viacom will remove “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and other Comedy Central programs from the video site next week. (nytimes)

Right-Wing Rage: Hate Groups, Vigilantes and Conspiracists on the Verge of Violence
The radical right has caught fire, as broad-based anger over the past year has ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. (alternet)

Palin Lies on Leno
Sarah Palin’s penchant for duplicity followed her to Hollywood and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on which she predictably praised the Tea Party Movement and heralded “the fairness, the balance” at Fox News. She even did a stilted turn as a stand-up comic–dishing out sophomoric digs at Congress and the White House while joking about eating moose. Hardy har. (huffingtonpost)

Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera
It’s dogs in slow-mo catching treats. What could be better. (youtube)

Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says
The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said. (bloomberg)

Why did fewer die in Chile’s earthquake than in Haiti’s?
The death toll from Chile’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake looks like being a fraction of the 220,000 people who were killed in Haiti in January. (bbc)

Home of the brave in the USA
In the heart of the American Southwest is the sacred home of the Navajo Nation. It hides a dark, tragic secret. (timesonline)

Russian tanks found abandoned in Urals forest
About 100 modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country’s Ural mountains, footage published on Saturday by websites showed. (reuters)

Over-protected children missing out on “dangerous” childhood
A few suggestions for anxious parents who typically hover on the edge of the playground with a first aid kit: Let your child lick a 9-volt battery, just to see what happens. Encourage them try to drive a nail. And by all means, let them play with fire. (national post)

Rockford Files Redux
The quicker this fails, the sooner I can pretend it never happened. (metafilter)

Dermot Mulroney to star in “Rockford” update
Ugh. (reuters)

Jim Rockford’s Answering Machine
“Jim? Madame Arcala at the Zodiac Resturant. You don’t pay that dinner tab, we’re gonna repo your birthday.” (Rockford Files Homepage)

The Pleasure of Flinching
In the viral video realm, amateur Iraq war footage ranks just behind pornography, celebrities’ drunken exploits, and shark attacks. Do these videos represent what Sontag called our “right to view,” or are they a porn medium made from leftovers of a world filming its self-destruction? (guernica)

The Aging Brain Is Less Quick, But More Shrewd
For baby-boomers, there is both good news and bad news about the cognitive health of the aging brain. (npr)

3301 Waverly Drive
As you know, the 40th anniversary of Tate/LaBianca is this August 8th & 9th. I wanted to go to the LaBianca house around 1am on the 10th to see if anyone else shows up. Would you be interested? I don’t want to walk up there alone at 1am. (the nervous breakdown)

35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. (smashing magazine)

Kentucky Public Library Association READ Posters
“EVERY COUNTY WINS!”

XXX ‘Intervention’ — Have Porn Parodies Gone Too Far?
Intervention is hilarious…most popular show in rehab EVER.

Watch Kourtney Kardashian Pull A Baby From Her Vagina!
Yikes! Remind me NEVER to do that!

Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-FI Disappears
I hate it when that happens!

10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone
Guilty as charged on #3…but I think #5 is certainly food for thought!

TV Shows The Networks Didn’t Want To Admit Were About Gay People
But then, what does that make “Party of Five” about??

The power of pink
So if a train is long and pink and goes into tunnels shouldn’t there be an outcry that it resembles a giant phallus?

Shaun White
Ahhhh, redheads….

Tea Party Leader On Obama: ‘Our Half White, Racist President’
More hilarity from the Tea Baggers….

Paris Hilton too hot for Brazil? Gov’t protests
I’m not sure “hot” is the word I’d use…and how DO you say “skank” in Portuguese?

Mont Tauch, A Chinese Take-Away
Yet another reason to stick with California plonk.

Feb 23, 2010 9:03am
Old people are funny.

Star Trek actor’s son found dead
The actor son of Star Trek veteran Walter Koenig has been found dead in a wood in Vancouver, police have said. (bbc)

Lingerie model runs one of world’s largest drug gangs, according to police
Hollywood, eat your heart out. Thanks Bob! (telegraph)

Judge Alex Kozinski: The Fourth Amendment is Gone. “Welcome to the fish bowl.”
This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a person’s home without a warrant, without probable cause, without reasonable suspicion and without exigency—in other words, with nothing at all to support the entry except the curiosity police always have about what they might find if they go rummaging around a suspect’s home. (reason)

I Got Vajazzled
A few weeks ago we wrote a post on Vajazzling, a relatively new concept in vaginal adornment. It’s exactly what it sounds like- bedazzling for your vajayjay. The trend exploded when Jennifer Love Hewitt announced that she Vajazzles regularly to feel good about her privates. (theluxuryspot)

Kevin Smith’s New Movie Sucks
Director Kevin Smith has made some good movies and some so-so movies, but until now he has always been an artist. “Cop Out” represents his first act of cinematic cynicism, his first crime against his own talent. With this action comedy, he has given us 110 worthless minutes, a bad formula movie like every other bad formula movie. (sfgate)

Why I’m Funny
Joel Johnson’s article on being molested as a young boy is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I’ve ever read.

Indiana Jones IV Bennyhillified
Actually improves upon the original. (bennyhillifier)

Hear My Secrets
“My secret? Relax your jaw and stick your tongue out.” (hearmysecrets)

The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It’s Catching on Quickly
An ingenious grassroots union for the unemployed is only a month old — and its numbers are growing. (alternet)

G.M. to Close Hummer After Sale Fails
General Motors said on Wednesday that it would shut down Hummer, the brand of big sport utility vehicles that became synonymous with the term gas guzzler, after a deal to sell it to a Chinese manufacturer fell apart. (nytimes)

Behind The Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie
One of the richest, wittiest pop culture resources on the web is the TV Tropes wiki. A celebration of recurring themes in everything from anime to classic SF, TV Tropes today has 40 thousand contributors. Here is its origin story. (io9)

7 Actors Typecast in Bizarrely Specific Roles
Typecasting is nothing new in Hollywood; it’s not very surprising, seeing as some actors just look and act like the cliched roles they attract. This phenomenon explains why Meg Ryan has never taken a role as a transvestite vampire, and Meatloaf has never been the object of affection in a romantic comedy. (cracked)

7 things in your apartment that will scare a woman away
The second a woman walks into your apartment after a date (or drunken bar make-out), you can usually assume you’ll at least be getting to second base. However, just because she’s taking off her shoes and slurring all her words doesn’t mean that anything is for sure happening. If you have any of the following items in your apartment, it’s a safe bet she’ll walk right back out that door. (guyism)