This NY Times article is one of many talking about how almost no women are choosing to take breast-cancer prevention drug tamoxifen. Doctors and researchers seem concerned about this and are working hard to figure out why, when the reasons seem fairly obvious.

"When the numbers were laid out for them in a way they could clearly understand, they ( Read more... )

Come on, people! "Your" is second person possessive. "You're" is a contraction of "You are". How is that anyone can fail to make this distinction?! It is yet another sign of the failure of humanity that so many people cannot tell the difference between being something and owning something.

The fabled northwest passage is open now. AND the northeast one. Our polar ice cap is, for the first time in human history, an island.

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/31/eaarctic131.xml

I thought I'd pass this along. It seems that Italy has decided to run around fingerprinting its entire Rom population:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/10/italy.eu

For five days now the landscape here has been blanketed with smoke. Nearby hills that normally stand out in crisp detail are little more than flat gray silhouettes against a whitish sky. The smell of burning vegetation is pervasive. What sunlight makes it to the ground has an unnatural pink-orange hue and barely manages to cast shadows. The ( Read more... )

And anyone else who likes a good refrain of Cartoon vs Animator:
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Gold tiger striped Desert Eagle: For when you really need to made a statement.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=83314024#PIC

This may be OFN for some, but I just saw it and had to pass it along.

What if Microsoft designed the iPod packaging?

Apparently, there is a stink going on in Dallas about the police there being subject to red light camera fines even when they are in a marked car.  The only exception comes if they have lights on, or are responding directly to an emergency call.

Most of the reactions I have seen from people on this topic are supportive of making the cops pay the ( Read more... )

Saw Grindhouse today. Zombies, guns, and car stunts presented only as Tarantino and Rodriguez can.
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