Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
The House of Cards
A great article on the promising investment baseball cards once had. I imagine Beanie Babies are in the same boat. Not sure which one is worse off, I suspect the latter.
http://www.slate.com/id/2247677/pagenum/all/#p2
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
I Assume Procrastination?
In Los Angeles today, medical marijuana advocates fell short with signatures. Pot dispensaries in Los Angeles are now at risk of being shut down, due to a law being passed that limits the number of dispensaries to 70. If enough signatures would have been collected this law could have been challenged, but leave it to pot heads to not have their shit together.
The number of needed signatures was 27400 just to put the measure on the ballot. The number presented was 15000.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Another Chile Earthquake
Aftershocks still shake Chile. Magnitudes reaching 7.2
All Black Penguin
This guy showed up a little under dressed for National Geographic photographer, Andrew Evans. This rare pigmentation is "one and a zillion" according to biologist. The King Penguin is in most every case is suited with a white rimed underbelly as shown in the picture. Biologist believe that despite its monochromatic coloring the penguin is completely healthy in every other way.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Real Life Truman Show
Wasn't entirely sure if this was worth posting, However Hulu has created a show composed of 3 beautiful females and 2 handsome males all perusing careers in the "biz." These models, musicians, and actors really have nothing worth exploring beyond their lustful exteriors. The only thing that makes this different from every other over-intoxicated, ikea magazine, unreal, reality show is the fact that any one can tune in at any time and watch whatever character, excluding showering and other business of course. I watched for a total of 3 min, all of which consisted of a blonde beauty checking herself out in the mirror. I feel like this idea is great and in a culture where instant-gratification is in demand, this should work. Unfortunately it just comes across as dull. Take some more hints from The Truman Show, and add some real actors to the equation. Pick some characters people can relate too... alcohol and drug problems, a bulimic girl, a parolee...I don't know...any one. We can only hope they are allowed to hook-up.
Don't let Whole Foods Know...
Yesterday, Lori Mason got some attention from sex freaks far and wide. allowing her chef husband to make cheese from her breast milk! According to the vice president of Murray's Cheese Shops in Manhattan, Liz Thorpe, "It was slippery, slightly crunchy and tasted like pickles...I give it a thumbs down.
Corey Haim Dead at 38
Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, has died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, according to US media reports. He was 38.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Ginger is MAD.
The actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her.
Lindsay, Lindsay... there are other girls with that name. I'm sorry you feel such anger towards these innocent talking babies.-https://us.etrade.com/e/t/jumppage/viewjumppage?PageName=etrade_super_tv_ads- I can only hope you are doing this out of anger and not because you don't have a big enough baby bucket to give birth. Thank God for those tig ol' bitties!
Monday, March 8, 2010
How to Make Granny Trees!
A 70-year-old Chinese grandmother in the central province of Hubei was beaten and buried alive by property developers eager to get their hands on her land.
Wang Cuyun was attempting to prevent a demolition team from knocking down her house when she was allegedly beaten by a worker with a wooden stick and then pushed into a ditch that had been dug around the property.
A bulldozer then covered Mrs Wang with earth, burying her alive. By the time her relatives dug her up, she was dead. The incident occurred last Wednesday in Maodian village in Huangpi district.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
More Of Burton at the Moma
March 15-20In conjunction with the exhibition Tim Burton, the Department of Film presents two special screenings: an advance look at a new documentary about the Walt Disney Animation studio (where Burton himself was once employed), and the New York premiere of a new, color version of what Film Threat called “the Citizen Kane of underground movies.”
More Details at the exhibition website-
Black Hole Sun Won't ya Come?
Winds of Change
This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. The X-ray images and spectra obtained using Chandra's High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer show that a strong wind is being driven away from the center of NGC 1068 at a rate of about a million miles per hour. This wind is likely generated as surrounding gas is accelerated and heated as it swirls toward the black hole. A portion of the gas is pulled into the black hole, but some of it is blown away. High energy X-rays produced by the gas near the black hole heat the ouflowing gas, causing it to glow at lower X-ray energies.
X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data from the Very Large Array in blue. The spiral structure of NGC 1068 is shown by the X-ray and optical data, and a jet powered by the central supermassive black hole is shown by the radio data.
This Chandra study is much deeper than previous X-ray observations. Using this data, researchers believe that each year several times the mass of our sun is being deposited out to large distances, about 3,000 light years from the black hole. The wind likely carries enough energy to heat the surrounding gas and suppress extra star formation.
These results help explain how a supermassive black hole can alter the evolution of its host galaxy. It has long been suspected that material blown away from a black hole can affect its environment, but a key question has been whether such "black hole blowback" typically delivers enough power to have a significant impact.
NGC 1068 is located about 50 million light years from Earth and contains a supermassive black hole about twice as massive as the one in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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