Did anyone else watch the news coverage of that steam pipe explosion in Midtown yesterday ( Read more... )

I've never realized this before, but the official name for intentionally infecting someone with HIV (that is, having unprotected sex with a person when you know you're infected but they don't) is "assault with a deadly weapon."

I dunno, I think they need a new crime that this can go under, something like "biological assault" or "epidemiological ( Read more... )

Have you guys noticed how it seems like John Edwards is never in the news, but Elizabeth is all over the place ( Read more... )

It's a meme. If you don't like it, blame ( Read more... )

My two favorite things: Pizza and porn ( Read more... )

What the fuck is up with currants?

I was recently on Long Island visiting family, and we stopped by a little roadside grocery stand to pick up 99¢/lb spinach. But they were out of 99¢/lb spinach (and with a deal like that, who can blame them), and I have a thing where once I've decided to spend money, if I then don't spend that money I feel like I ( Read more... )

So, R. Kelly has a new video out called "Same Girl" in which he and Usher are dating, well, the same girl.

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They figure this out because "Ush" calls "Kels" to say that he's in love; he's met the girl of his dreams. And then he proceeds to tell him about this chick, but he does it in sort of a weird way. He doesn't say her name (which would be the ( Read more... )

From Queerty:  "While some of his copper comrades kept mum, Officer Annamae Law told the tribunal that she heard Cappas laughing about the scenario."

I love that this woman is named Annamae Law and that she's a police officer.  It's like a Dick Tracy comic. 

My co-worker, who shares a pod (it's like a bigger cubicle) with me, is currently crying (and I mean that literally.  Tears are streaming down her face) because she doesn't think she's going to get an iPhone.  She had thought that she would be able to get one if she left here to get on line at 5:00 (ha!) because "well, they're not selling them ( Read more... )

There's been a lot that's been said about Ian Bogost recently.  He's the game developer with Persuasive games who makes quick flash games to demonstrate news articles.  You can play, for instance, Airport Security, Fatworld, or Bacteria Salad, a game which has you selling food that's just contaminated enough to save money without it being TOO ( Read more... )